--- title: "How To Build a Video Player in JavaScript" description: "Create your own JavaScript video player using simple methods for neat results!" url: "https://img.ly/blog/how-to-build-video-player-in-javascript/" type: "blog" date: "2022-09-27" author: "Paul" tags: ["How-To","Video Editor","Video Player","JavaScript","Web Development","Web Application","Tutorial"] --- > This is the markdown version of [How To Build a Video Player in JavaScript](https://img.ly/blog/how-to-build-video-player-in-javascript/). For all pages in one file, see [llms-full.txt](https://img.ly/llms-full.txt). For an index of all available pages, see [llms.txt](https://img.ly/llms.txt). --- Probably a decade ago, it was impossible to play video or audio inside your browser without any third-party services such as Flash or Silverlight. You needed to install a plugin and only play your media while using it, so as you can see, it was very uncomfortable, with low speed and high delays. Nowadays, we have JavaScript with the new version of HTML5. With these new technologies and tools, we can stream our video much quicker, easier, and without any latency. To do it, you will need only a simple