# Chimeejs/chimee

a video player framework aims to bring wonderful experience on browser

Repository: https://github.com/Chimeejs/chimee
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chimee
Homepage: http://chimee.pyzy.net/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: video, framework, flv, hls, mp4, html5, html5-video, html5-video-player, video-player, h5-video, h5-video-player, players, video-element, chimee, web-video-player, advertising-plugin, videoplayer, videoplaymanager, videoplugin
Last push: 2020-06-15T08:53:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3352, "days_push": 2270, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2394, forks 198 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:43.473383+00:00)

## What it is
Chimee is an extensible, component-based HTML5 video player framework for the browser, supporting mp4, m3u8 (HLS), and flv streams. It provides a plugin system so complex video features like UI controls, advertising, and logging can be decoupled into hot-swappable plugins.

## Use cases
- play mp4, hls, and flv videos in the browser
- build a custom html5 video player with plugins
- handle cross-browser fullscreen, autoplay, and inline playback
- add overlay ads or custom UI on top of a video element
- support live streaming playback in web apps
- split complex video business logic into maintainable plugins

## When to choose
- you need a plugin-based H5 video player supporting multiple stream formats
- you must solve browser compatibility issues like fullscreen and autoplay
- you want to decouple video features such as ads, UI, and logging into plugins

## When to avoid
- you need a player with active maintenance and recent updates
- you only need simple native video playback without a framework
- you target non-browser environments like mobile native apps

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, plugin-system, video-processing, middleware
- domain: web-development, frontend, media
- platform: browser
- tags: video-player, html5-video, hls, flv, mp4, component-framework, advertising-plugin, live-streaming, video, javascript, web

## Member repositories
- Chimeejs/chimee (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:43.473383+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:34:23.499394+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Chimeejs/chimee (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:43.473383+00:00, sha 7157b40a2a13)
  - homepage: http://chimee.pyzy.net/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:15:18.153560+00:00, sha ae768a60f4e1)
  - site_page: http://chimee.pyzy.net/docs/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:15:18.155833+00:00, sha 32a8c072e8eb)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/chimee (fetched 2026-08-29T10:15:18.157698+00:00, sha c7bb91a6050a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.