# jplayer/jPlayer

jPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

Repository: https://github.com/jplayer/jPlayer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jplayer
Homepage: http://jplayer.org/
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-11-02T18:28:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6041, "days_push": 1765, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4592, forks 1437 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:54.737343+00:00)

## What it is
jPlayer is a jQuery/Zepto plugin for playing and controlling HTML5 audio and video in web pages, with a Flash fallback for older browsers. It lets developers build fully styleable media players using HTML and CSS and control playback via a JavaScript API.

## Use cases
- add an audio player to a webpage
- play video files in the browser
- build a custom-styled media player with HTML and CSS
- support mp3 and m4a playback across browsers
- add media playback to a jQuery project
- fallback media playback for older browsers

## When to choose
- your project already uses jQuery or Zepto
- you need a customizable HTML5 media player with broad browser support including legacy Flash fallback
- you want full control over player styling via HTML/CSS

## When to avoid
- you are building a modern framework app without jQuery (consider react-jPlayer or native HTML5 media elements)
- you need actively developed features or modern streaming formats like HLS/DASH
- you want a zero-dependency vanilla JavaScript solution

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, audio-processing, video-processing
- domain: web-development, frontend, media
- platform: browser
- tags: html5-audio, html5-video, jquery-plugin, media-player, flash-fallback, javascript, jquery

## Member repositories
- jplayer/jPlayer (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:54.737343+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 2026-08-29T18:19:49.842822+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jplayer/jPlayer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:54.737343+00:00, sha 556f6f203f7f)
  - homepage: http://jplayer.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:05:04.457409+00:00, sha 8ab23b0a6a72)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.