JW Player alternative: a customizable player with no licenses

A commercial player usually needs a license, plus somewhere to host the videos and a delivery setup. That’s several pieces and several bills.

On Dembed you upload the video and you have everything: storage, delivery over Cloudflare’s network, a player with your brand and an iframe to embed it. And you earn money from views.

• A player with your color, logo or watermark, and a modern look on mobile and desktop.
• Adaptive quality (HLS) when enabled, and a quality selector.
• Subtitles (.srt or .vtt), speed, picture-in-picture and “Skip intro”.
• Files up to 20 GB with multipart uploads.
• No servers to configure and no licenses to pay.

Before moving your library, compare these points on JW Player and any other option. They’re the ones that most affect your audience and your earnings:

• How much they pay and how it’s calculated: Dembed shares the real ad revenue of each month with you based on your audience’s country, with a per-country breakdown in your dashboard.
• When you start earning: on Dembed every video earns from day one, with no subscriber or watch-hour minimums.
• Payout methods and minimum: Dembed pays via PayPal, USDT (TRC20), Payoneer or bank transfer from 25 USD.
• Viewer experience: ads in the player, no recommendations from other channels; viewers who don’t want ads can go Premium (part of that subscription also goes to creators).
• Max size and uploading: files up to 20 GB uploaded straight to storage, resumable, several at a time.
• Your brand: player color, logo or watermark with a link, subtitles and a “Skip intro” button.
• Clear rules: Dembed doesn’t allow copyright-infringing content and has a report button on every video, which protects honest creators and advertisers.

Tip: if your files are MKV, upload them as MP4 (H.264 + AAC) so they have sound in every browser. Our guide to converting MKV to MP4 explains how.

1. 1Create your free Dembed account and confirm your email.
2. 2Download your original files from JW Player (or use the copies on your computer).
3. 3Drag them into the Dembed dashboard: upload several at once and organize them in folders. Thumbnails and duration are generated automatically.
4. 4Customize the player once (color, logo, subtitles) and it applies to all your videos.
5. 5Replace the old links or iframes with Dembed’s on your site, blog or socials. From then on every monetized view adds to your balance.