Video Players
M3U8 Player
The playlist format almost every streaming site uses. On live or replay, paste the link and it starts.
Open playerHLS Player
Built on hls.js with adaptive bitrate, M3U playlist import and favourites.
Open playerMP4 Player
Play an MP4 direct link straight in the online player — no need to download the file first.
Open playerLocal MP4 Player
Load a whole folder of local videos into one playlist. The files never leave your computer.
Open playerMPD Player
Plays .mpd manifests from the DASH protocol, adaptive bitrate included.
Open player360°/VR Player
For 360° footage: drag to change the view, or turn your head with the gyroscope on mobile.
Open playerAbout these online players
This online video player page collects six tools: an M3U8 player, an HLS player, an MP4 player, a local MP4 player, an MPD player and a 360°/VR player, covering the formats people hit most often — HLS (m3u8), DASH (mpd), MP4/WebM/MOV files and VR panoramas. It helps in very concrete situations: you have a video link that refuses to open, a downloaded course you need to scrub through again and again, an encrypted m3u8 export from a TV box that your desktop player chokes on, a DASH .mpd file with no decent local software, or a panoramic video that will not rotate in a normal player. Each web player here does exactly one job — get one format running in the browser. Paste a link or pick a file and watch. Everything runs locally: no video is uploaded to a server, no sign-up. If you deal with videos from all kinds of sources, it works both as a full set of online video players and as a stack of quick video viewers you can reach for any time.
M3U8 Player: opens the most common playlist format directly
The M3U8 player is the one people use most in this group. Addresses from video sites, live streams, online courses and TV-box exports are almost always m3u8 playlists, and the player built into your system usually errors out the moment you paste one. Put the link in the box, press play, and this online player parses the playlist and starts pulling segments within a few seconds. On demand you can drag the progress bar anywhere you want; on live streams it keeps following the newest segments. Besides a plain m3u8 URL, it also handles links with authentication parameters and nested multi-level manifests. If one bitrate starts buffering, switch to another quality in the menu or step back a level and reload. The whole process stays in the browser — neither the address nor the video is sent to our servers. Handy for watching a stream on the fly, checking whether a link is still alive, or getting out of a pinch on a computer with no player software installed at all.
HLS Player: the one to leave open for long live sessions
The HLS player shares its roots with the M3U8 player but leans toward long sessions. It runs on the hls.js engine, and beyond standard m3u8 on-demand and live it adds adaptive bitrate — when your connection changes it switches between quality levels on its own instead of freezing mid-reconnect. It also imports M3U playlists: if you have an .m3u file with several channels, load it once and flip between channels like a TV, and save the addresses you use often to favourites instead of digging through history again. For anyone who leaves a live stream running for hours or compares a pile of channels, this online video player is far less tedious than opening links one by one. As always, every stream is pulled inside your browser; close the tab and it stops — nothing on disk, no trace left behind.
MP4 Player: watch a direct link without downloading gigabytes first
The MP4 player covers the plainest case: you have a direct video link and you do not feel like downloading several gigabytes before double-clicking it. Paste the MP4 address and this web player streams while playing — you watch as far as it has buffered, and the progress bar goes wherever you drag it. Besides MP4 it takes WebM, Ogg and MOV files with codecs your browser can decode. Speed control, volume and aspect settings, picture-in-picture and fullscreen are all there, keyboard shortcuts included, so running through a recorded course at 1.5x is easy. And if a link only works with certain request headers, there are fields for custom headers to deal with hotlink protection. As a light video viewer, it is practically built for the "I just want to check what this is" moment.
Local MP4 Player: offline files never leave your machine
The local MP4 player is for fully offline use. Pick a file — or a whole folder — and the page lists every video inside as a playlist: play them in any order, and one rolls into the next automatically, no more digging through the file manager. It reads local data through the browser file APIs, so the video stays on your own computer start to finish, not a single byte uploaded. That matters for private recordings, internal company material or anything you would rather not put online. Besides MP4, common WebM and MKV containers load too, as long as the browser can decode them. Batch import plus speed control, seeking and picture-in-picture makes it comfortable to grind through an entire course — the least network-dependent tool in the group.
MPD Player: built for manifests from the DASH protocol
The MPD player targets DASH. Like HLS, DASH cuts video into small segments and describes how to reassemble them in an XML manifest — only the file ends in .mpd. A good number of streaming platforms, open-source projects and test streams at home and abroad use this format, yet finding an out-of-the-box local player for it on the desktop is not easy. Paste the mpd address and this online video player parses the segment and bitrate information in the manifest, picks a suitable rendition and starts; you can also switch up or down a quality manually in the menu. If you do streaming tests and need to verify whether a DASH stream works, it is much faster than installing another piece of software. Again, playback happens only in the current tab and leaves no downloaded files on disk.
360°/VR Player: makes panoramic video actually turn
The 360°/VR player handles panoramic footage. A normal player shows this material as a strange stretched strip you cannot watch at all; here the video is mapped onto the inside of a virtual sphere, and you see the part of it you would see standing at the centre looking outward. Drag with the mouse to pan left, right, up or down; open it on a phone or tablet and the gyroscope does the same job — turn your head, the view follows. Pair it with a simple Cardboard-style headset for a better effect. It supports the usual equirectangular panoramas, from a link or from a local file. Use it to watch a travel clip or a 360° property tour, or to check a panorama you just rendered for seam problems — lighter than installing a whole VR playback suite. As a web player focused on a single job, its goal is simply to make panoramic video spin and look right in the browser.