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Follow along as we explore how we're making Video.js v10 and how you'll fall back in love with your video player.

Vidstack, Mux Player, Plyr, and Media Chrome building into Video.js

Published on January 27, 2026

Five players, one future: How we're building Video.js v10

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan5 min readProductVideo.js

Video.js v10 brings together the engineers behind Media Chrome, Plyr, Vidstack, and Mux Player to rebuild the web's most-used video player from scratch. Fifteen years of production insights from the web's most important player projects, now being combined into a single architecture.

Mux Player and VideoJS logos

Published on January 21, 2026 (7 days ago)

Mux Player: Five years of learning, now evolving into Video.js v10

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan6 min readProductVideo.js

Mux Player made video effortless by tightly coupling to Mux infrastructure — drop in a playback ID and thumbnails, captions, and security just worked. Five years of production insights are now shaping Video.js v10 to deliver the same simplicity with greater flexibility.

Videstack and Video.js logo

Published on January 15, 2026 (13 days ago)

6 Years Building Video Players. 9 Billion Requests. Starting Over.

Rahim Alwer
By Rahim Alwer12 min readProductVideo.js

Vidstack brought Radix-like composition and framework-native components to video players. Now its developer experience and API design principles are helping to shape Video.js v10.

Plyr and Video.js logo

Published on November 18, 2025 (2 months ago)

Sweating the pixels: How Plyr’s design philosophy is shaping Video.js v10

Sam Potts
By Sam Potts8 min readProductVideo.js

Plyr creator Sam Potts shares what made Plyr hit 30K GitHub stars and how he's bringing polished design and ease of use to Video.js v10.

Media Chrome and Video.js logo

Published on November 11, 2025 (3 months ago)

From Media Chrome to Video.js v10: The evolution of HTML-first video players

Wesley Luyten
By Wesley Luyten8 min readProductVideo.js

Media Chrome made custom video players as simple as writing HTML. Now its web component architecture and design principles shape Video.js v10.

Video.js wordmark

Published on October 30, 2025 (3 months ago)

Video.js gets a reboot: Introducing Video.js v10

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan7 min readProductVideo.js

After 15 years, Video.js is getting rebuilt from the ground up — framework-native, composable, and designed for the modern web.