Choose a file from your computer or paste a link to play or test any video right in your browser. MP4, MOV, MKV, HLS/M3U8, DASH. Free, no signup, nothing leaves your device.
Your video plays right here. Paste a link or choose a file above Testing a live stream instead? Try the HLS player (.m3u8) or the DASH player (.mpd).
This mp4 media player plays any public video link instantly, and shows what's actually happening underneath: active bitrate, resolution, buffer health, and dropped frames, the same signals engineers check on Akamai's own reference player. Use it to play video online from any URL, or to test a stream before showtime. No signup, no install. When you're ready to go live, run your stream on Livepush's Akamai-powered CDN instead of an enterprise-only contract.
Teams from local stations, global networks, sports organisations, and Fortune 500 companies test and run their streams with Livepush.
An MP4 player streams a single video file directly, no manifest, no bitrate ladder, just a progressive download that starts playing before the whole file arrives. Every phone, browser, and Smart TV can play an MP4 natively, which makes it the simplest format to fall back on.
Most people land here simply to play a video online: paste a link, press Play, done. The same player doubles as a pre-flight check. Testing an MP4 file before you point real viewers at it catches the problems you can't see from a file listing, a server that doesn't support byte-range seeking, a bitrate too high for mobile connections, or a CDN edge dropping requests under load. Play it here first and you'll know whether the file or the delivery is the problem.
No downloads, no browser extensions, no account. Paste a public video URL and it plays right here in your browser, an mp4 player online built on the same Video.js and adaptive streaming engine that powers production players across the web.
?src= query parameter // Paste a video link and play, no setup https://cdn.example.com/clip.mp4 https://live.example.com/stream/index.m3u8 https://cdn.example.com/channel/manifest.mpd
Most free MP4 players just play the video. This one also shows you what's happening underneath: the active bitrate, resolution, buffer health, and dropped frames, the same panel-style diagnostics you'd find on Akamai's own hlsjs test player.
Point it at an HLS or DASH manifest and the player lists every rendition with its resolution and bitrate, highlighting the one currently playing, the fastest way to confirm your adaptive bitrate setup is producing the renditions you configured. A plain MP4 file shows its single encoded quality instead.
Whether you're playing a one-off MP4 clip or testing a full adaptive stream, delivery decides how it holds up under real viewers. When you're ready to host your own video, Livepush delivers it over Akamai's global edge network, the same infrastructure behind BBC, NBCUniversal, and Al Jazeera, packaged into self-serve plans instead of an enterprise sales contract.
A video that plays here plays everywhere. Because the player runs standards-compliant MP4, HLS, and DASH, the same URL behaves identically in Video.js, hls.js, JW Player, Bitmovin, ExoPlayer, or AVPlayer. No proprietary format, no vendor lock-in.
From someone who just needs to play a video link to broadcast engineers checking streams before they go live.
Confirm an MP4 file or adaptive manifest plays correctly before wiring the URL into a custom player, app, or SDK.
Debug buffering, dropped frames, or bitrate issues by isolating whether the fault is the file, the CDN, or the player.
Play the same video from Akamai, AWS, Cloudflare, or Livepush and compare playback health before committing to one provider.
Play video online without downloading anything, paste an .mp4 URL from a CDN, cloud bucket, or chat and watch it right here.
Reproduce a viewer's playback complaint by playing the exact video URL they reported.
Sanity-check a client's video files or CDN configuration before launch day, nothing to install.
No credit card. No time limit.
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