Video.js Was Abandoned After 16 Years. Its Creator Came Back and Merged 5 Competing Players Into One.

After Brightcove was sold and Video.js was abandoned, original creator Steve Heffernan returned and merged five competing open source video players (Media Chrome, Plyr, Vidstack, Mux Player) into a single codebase. Video.js v10, now in beta, is 88% smaller than v8 through a completely modular architecture that separates UI, playback, and streaming into independent components.