Video

BigVideo.js makes it easy to add fit-to-fill background video to websites. It can play silent ambient background video (or series of videos). Or use it as a player to show video playlist. BigVideo.js can also show big background images, which is nice to have for showing big background images for devices that don’t have autoplay for ambient video.  

YoxView is a free Lightbox-type media and image viewer jQuery plugin. It's easy to use and feature-rich.   YoxView - Features: FREE to use under the MIT license and open-sourced. Extremely easy to integrate.  Supported content: images, video, inline content, iframes, Flash and more.  On-line Video support - play YouTube/Vimeo/Hulu/etc. Content is resized to fit inside the browser's window. Plugins to display images from Flickr/Picasa and video galleries from YouTube. Skins available to

Simple Modal is a small plugin to create modal windows. It can be used to generate alert or confirm messages with few lines of code. Confirm configuration involves the use of callbacks to be applied to affirmative action; it can work in asynchronous mode and retrieve content from external pages or getting the inline content. Simple Modal is not a lightbox although the possibility to hide parts of its layout may partially make it similar.  

FlexSlider is a free responsive jQuery slider toolkit. Supported in all major browsers with custom navigation options and touch swipe support.   FlexSlider - Features: An awesome, fully responsive jQuery slider toolkit. Simple, semantic markup Supported in all major browsers Horizontal/vertical slide and fade animations Multiple slider support, Callback API, and more Hardware accelerated touch swipe support Custom navigation options Compatible with the latest version of jQuery  

Photobox is a lightweight image gallery modal window script which uses only CSS3 for silky-smooth animations and transitions, utilizes GPU rending, which can be completely controlled and themed directly from the CSS.   Benefits: Lightweight! Both script & CSS are no more than 10k each (minified, no gzip) Silky-smooth, hardware accelerated, CSS3 transitions and animations (for better performance) Support videos via iframe embedding Stunning UI and user-friendly UX Built so everything c

Acorn Media Player is a HTML5 media player with a focus on accessibility and customization.     Acorn Media Player - Features: Accessibility Acorn Media Player is built with accessibility in mind. It provides full keyboard control using standard tab-based navigation, screen-reader (and other AT) support, accessible themes, and other accessibility tweaks. Closed-Captions This is yet no native support for closed captioning on HTML5 , but that shouldn't stop you from providing them. It sup

Panzoom is a progressive plugin to create panning and zooming functionality for an element. Panzoom supports the same browsers as jQuery 2.0 and can be used with jQuery 1.9.0+ or jQuery 2.0+.   Rather than setting width and height on an image tag, Panzoom uses CSS transforms and matrix functions to take advantage of hardware/GPU acceleration in the browser, which means the element can be anything: an image, a video, an iframe, a canvas, text, WHATEVER. IE<=8 is not supported, but this plug

blueimp Gallery is a touch-enabled, responsive and customizable image & video gallery, carousel and lightbox, optimized for both mobile and desktop web browsers. It features swipe, mouse and keyboard navigation, transition effects, slideshow functionality, fullscreen support and on-demand content loading and can be extended to display additional content types.    

jQuery Singalong is an annotate plugin for html5 <audio> and <video>. This singalong plugin is responsible for showing the annotations at desired start and stop times, it can add full HTML annotations to HTML5 <video> or <audio> elements.   It uses the HTML5 media elements API and can be used for: lyrics sing-alongs (woo!) rich text callouts captions youtube-style video annotations (useful for video podcasts)    

Fresco is a beautiful responsive lightbox.  It can be used to create stunning overlays that work great at any screen size, in all browsers on every device. To make things even more awesome Fresco comes with fullscreen zoom, retina-ready skins, support for swipe events, Youtube and Vimeo integration for HTML5 video and a powerful Javascript API.