The Awesomeness Behind Our Open Source Video Player

This week we released the first truly responsive open source video player. Why release another video player? Here's why: Up until now it's been difficult to find the right video player that integrates seamlessly into your site or platform. You need a player that not only works across all devices and platforms -- but also works with responsive layouts found today. As Albert Wenger explains: "playing back videos in a way that works across all devices and browsers has been tricky. Just using the HTML5 video tag means you have no control over the controls on the video and event handling is a complete cross-browser mess. Both jwplayer and video.js don't behave like standard HTML elements and are therefore hard to use in responsive modern formats."' We've decided to make it our mission to clean up the "mess". With our newly released open source player, it's now easy to integrate it into any page with a simple player tag. As Albert explains about Ziggeo's video player: "The player behaves like any other HTML tag and supports Flash fallback for older browsers and video formats. And it is highly customizable and [sic] every level from using CSS to style the controls all the way to subclassing the event loop (for example to add a pre-roll video ad)." Now you can see why we released an open source video player -- and what makes it so smart. We hope you'll give it a try. It's been released as part of BetaJS, a new open source JavaScript framework that works well with any framework you may be using. Let us know what you think at feedback@ziggeo.com