The popular web player JW Player now has a HTML5 version after its well-known Flash and Silverlight ones.

JW Player For HTML5 is a totally skinnable and configurable player based on the <video> tag of HTML5.

It is built with jQuery, and for any browser without HTML5 support, falls back to the JW Player for Flash automatically.

The player can be set to display a poster image before and/or after the video.

Also, it is possible to make it auto-play, auto-repeat, start with a pre-defined volume and much more.

Considering the player falls back to Flash, the formats supported are also the ones that can be played by Flash:

• H264 baseline video / AAC low-complexity audio in the MP4 or MOV container
• Theora video / Vorbis audio in the OGG container
• VP6 video / MP3 audio in the FLV container
• Spark (H263) video / MP3 audio in the FLV container

P.S. The player is currently in beta status, does not have all the features of JW players but works pretty stable.

CwVideo is a toolkit for using and controlling HTML5 video with MooTools.

By simply providing an id to the video tag and calling a function, every property of the video can be reached in a MooTools way.

It supports the methods play, pause, top, rewind, move, volume, getNetworkState and more.

Also, there are 2 custom extensions built with the Fx.Slider:

• timeline
• volume slider

that offers a good looking and user-friendly experience.

With the rise of HTML5, formats like H.264 or OGG is being used much more everyday besides the well-known FLV (and yes, there is HD too).

In order to be compatible with every device and browser, you may need to serve multiple formats of the same video (like Youtube or Vimeo does).

And, with new videos being uploaded every minute, this can be a complex situation.

Panda is an online platform that enables you to convert videos into multiple formats in the cloud.

With a REST-based API, the platform not only helps encoding the videos, but the uploading process as well.

How Does It Work?

It is actually pretty simple and you can be up & going within hours (including the uploading and encoding of them).

1. create a form on your site which includes the provided Flash file upload component
2. user starts uploading the video (Panda displays a progress bar) and, once uploaded, it is added to the encoding queue
3. Panda submits you the ID of the video being encoded and puts it to your S3 bucket + updates you back when it is completed
4. That's it, you're ready to stream.

The platform offers ready to use codes for integration like a jQuery client uploader, PHP, Python libraries and a gem for Ruby.

Rather than pricing the service on a per-video basis, Panda provides you a dedicated cloud where you can encode an unlimited number of videos.

It is currently in public beta and free during this period. After that, a dedicated cloud of any size can be chosen depending on the processing power required.

P.S. This is a sponsored post.

Kaltura, an advanced video publishing platform, is sharing a free and open source HTML5 Video & Media JavaScript Library.

The library enables you to use the HTML5 <video>  and <audio> tags today with a cross-browser and consistent player.

It is a feature-rich library that is built on jQuery and jQueryUI which makes theming, customizing and extending easier.

The player supports the open media formats ogg theora/vorbis (if you're using h.264 formats, the library supports a smooth transition with fallback to h.264 sources).

Besides the video player, there is also a compact audio player with similar features.

It can gracefully identify the best playback engine (native HTML5, Flash, VLC or Java Cortado) for your settings and video format.

The player's interface is multilingual (with the help of language files), it is already integrated with MediaWiki and can be integrated into any other platform easily.

Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), that is developed by Adobe, is a software framework for building feature-rich Flash video players and applications.

It can be integrated into custom applications using the simple API, or you can deploy the ready-to-run dynamic SWF player without compiling or writing custom scripts.

OSMF comes with standard player features such as playback controls, video navigation, buffering, and dynamic streaming.

Also, the ready-to-use plug-ins for advertising, reporting, and content delivery help extending the capabilities of the framework.

And, it has much more features like error handling, logging or buffer management that makes OSMF very promising.

OSM Player is a highly customizable and open source HTML5 media player that is built with jQuery.

It is designed to dynamically play almost any media, whether it be HTML5 video – Flash video – Audio, etc.

For any non-standard media and browsers without HTML5 support, it can fallback to Flash.

OSM Player supports playlists and offers a seamless Youtube/Vimeo integration.

The playlist can optionally be hidden and the video can be displayed in fullscreen.

Also, the player generates direct and embed links to the media which is nice for anyone willing to include the content to their web pages.

f4Player is a free and open source Flash video player that can play .fly, .f4v or .mp4 files in websites or within AS3 projects.

It is lightweight (8kb) and has a skinnable interface (few skins are included with the download).

The player supports progressive downloads (ability to play the downloaded portion of a file while the download is still in progress) and fullscreen display.

Projekktor is an open source HTML5 video player that is built with pure JavaScript but uses Flash when there is no native H.264 support..

The player supports playlists and can display the videos in full-screen.

It has a control panel which appears on-hover and can be easily customized/themed by editing a single CSS file.

For extending its capabilities, Projekktor comes with a plugin interface.

Having the great features said, we must mention that the player is not perfect yet (in alpha stage).

Considering the inconsistencies between browsers in HTML5 support, browsers may act differently while displaying the player (more details on its website). However, it is under heavy development and new features/fixes are added regularly.

Video For Everybody is a smartly created HTML code for embedding videos into websites using the HTML5 <video> element.

If HTML5 is not supported, it falls back to QuickTime & Flash as the last option automatically (actually, as the last option, it can display an image if the Flash is not supported).

It does not use any JavaScript or browser-sniffing & works in RSS readers, iPhone / iPad besides all the major browsers.

Video For Everybody requires the video to be encoded in 2 different formats:

• MP4 (Safari, Flash,  iPhone / iPad)
• OGG (Firefox 3.5+, Chrome, Opera 10.5+)

There is also a test page provided to see the compatibility it offers across browsers.

1 Bit Audio Player is a lightweight & free Flash MP3 player that can be automatically inserted into webpages with JavaScript.

It is not a feature-rich or complicated player, rather, it is so simple & ideal for offering quick in-page previews for audio files.

The player comes in flavors

• Standalone version (for implementing it into any website)
• WordPress plugin
• A bookmarklet for displaying the player besides any MP3 link on any website

1 Bit Audio Player uses its own unobtrusive JavaScript and SWFObject to embed Flash players into the pages.

It is possible to display players near every MP3 link or selected ones using CSS selectors.

The icons can be customized by simply editing the .FLA source file.