BITMOVIN PLAYER SDK

HTML 5 Player for browsers

Customize and guarantee the best viewing experience for your audience with our Web SDK across all browsers.

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Also check out Stream Lab for testing your streams on real devices.

Support for all major browsers:

Built for developers:

Stream live and on-demand video seamlessly

For any use case
and industry

On any device in HLS, DASH, Smooth and Progressive

With all major video formats
fMP4, MP4, WebM, TS

How our HTML5 player compares

	Bitmovin’s Player	Open Source Players* (Shaka, Video.js, Dash.js, etc.)
Out of the box advertising integration to enable content monetization
Over 1000 player tests performed on real devices daily to ensure stability
On-demand testing for production streams on real devices with Stream Lab
Frequent releases ensuring browser, device-support and feature compatibility
SLAs and support from video experts
Mean opinion score (MOS) testing for adaptive bitrate streaming (ITU P1203) to increase QoE

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Features for every use case

Developer friendly API enabling modifications and custom workflows for every need

DRM & Client-side Watermarking

Stream protected content seamlessly across all devices with our dedicated multi-DRM support as well as pre-integrations with major DRM providers.

Dedicated
Advertising Module

Integrate Server and Client side Ad Insertion with Bitmovin’s Advertising Module or Google IMA and define the logic and configuration.

Customizable
ABR

Keep your viewers streaming the highest bitrate available on each instance, adapting the stream to give users the best possible experience.

Subtitles & Closed Captions

Thumbnails (Timeline hover previews)

Analytics

Fast channel switching

Cross platform UI with responsive design and Picture in picture

In flight request manipulation

Low Latency sub 3 seconds

Stream Meta Data handling

Module System

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Built by and for Developers

Ready to use npm packages
TypeScript support
Zero effort upgrades for platform
and browser changes
Open source examples

Fast and easy integration

Developer resources to get started quickly, APIs & documentation to integrate easily.

Low-code Player wizard

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bitmovin-player@8/bitmovinplayer.js"></script>
var source = {       
   title: 'Art of Motion',
   dash: 'https://bitmovin-a.akamaihd.net/content/ MI201109210084_1/mpds/f08e80da-bf1d-4e3d-8899-
f0f6155f6efa.mpd' };   
var player = new bitmovin.player.Player(document.getElementById('player'), conf);
player.load(source);

Made to fit your infrastructure

Launch faster with pre-built API integrations to trusted industry partners for DRM, Ads (SSAI & CSAI), Analytics and CDN.

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Trusted by startups to the world’s biggest media companies

HEALTH & FITNESS

Classpass

“Bitmovin’s Player gives us the flexibility and quality we need to continue to make ClassPass Live the best way to get fit.”

Atul Ohri Head of Engineering, ClassPass Live

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Intigral

“Bitmovin is a true technology partner with their ongoing advice and technical support, ensuring we’re delivering the best possible streaming experiences to our customers.”