FV Player vs. Presto Player – Feature Comparison List

A comparison list of the features of FV Player vs. Presto Player.

If you want to see the FV Player integrations list, you’ll find it here.

Features	FV Player	Presto Player
Major
RTMP Streaming	✓	✗
HLS Streaming	✓	✓
HLS URL Tokens	✓	✓
iFrame Embedding	✓	✗
DRM Text	✓	✗
Playlists	✓	✗
Interactive Transcript	✓	✗
Analytics¹	✓	✓
Lightbox	✓	✗
Video Quality Switching	✓	✗
AB Loop	✓	✗
Autoplay	✓	✓
Subtitles	✓	✓
Speed Buttons	✓	✓
Timeline Previews²	✓	✗
Sticky Video	✓	✓
Lazy Loading	✓	✓
Minor
Video Remembering Position	✓	✓
Social Sharing	✓	✓
Alignment Settings³	✓	✗
Autoplay just once	✓	✗
Scroll Autoplay	✓	✗
Muted Autoplay	✓	✓
Customizing Skin	✓	✓
Video Captions	✓	✓
Creating Video Links	✓	✗
Widgets	✓	✗
Video Custom Fields	✓	✗
Splash Image	✓	✓
Splash Text	✓	✗
Manual Shortcode Editing	✓	✗
Horizontal Flip	✓	✗
Still Watching	✓	✗
MP3 Files	✓	✗
HTML Pop-Ups	✓	✓
E-mail Subscription Form Pop-Ups	✓	✓
Video Chapters⁴	✓	✓
Custom Logo	✓	✓
Custom Start/End Time	✓	✗
Video Download Button	✓	✗
Customizing Shortcode Editor Functions	✓	✗
Keyboard Shortcuts	✓	✓
Profile Videos	✓	✗
Play Inline⁵	✓	✓
Ads
VAST/VPAID Ads⁶	✓	✗
Google AdSense	✓	✗
Google Text Ads	✓	✗
Overlays/Ads	✓	✗

FV Player is integrated with Google Analytics, Matomo and will have self-hosted view stats in FV Player 7.5.↩︎
Timeline previews/preview thumbnails, are small compressed pictures that pop up when you hover over the timeline, showing you what is in the exact moment of the video.↩︎
Alignment feature allows you to set up custom alignment of your video player to: Default, Left and Right.↩︎
FV Player supports VTT Chapters to navigate through its parts both as a list under a video and directly in the player bar timeline.↩︎
On mobile browsers, you can play the video on the page instead of opening it up fullscreen.↩︎
Available only as a paid add-on.↩︎

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