# Why using Wowza player and not a vanilla jwPlayer ?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/why-using-wowza-player-and-not-a-vanilla-jwplayer/48550>\
**Category:** Wowza Player\
**Created:** [April 18, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/why-using-wowza-player-and-not-a-vanilla-jwplayer/48550 "2017-04-18T15:51:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sutefu\_b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sutefu\_b](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sutefu_b)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/why-using-wowza-player-and-not-a-vanilla-jwplayer/48550/1 "2017-04-18T15:51:13Z")

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Hi all,

I’m wondering what the benefits of using Wowza Player are ?

Considering it’s based (pretty sure of that) on jwPlayer, it seems to me that having Wowza team in between can only slow down releases and bug fixes – and I’m not even talking about non-free features that seems to be coming soon.

So can someone enlighten me, I may have missed something.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Suraj\_Padmasali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Suraj\_Padmasali](https://community.wowza.com/u/Suraj_Padmasali)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/why-using-wowza-player-and-not-a-vanilla-jwplayer/48550/2 "2017-04-21T07:39:01Z")

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I like its multi-screen streaming, much more accessible to anyone that wants to stream.

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**Author:** ![alan\_costello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@alan\_costello](https://community.wowza.com/u/alan_costello)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/why-using-wowza-player-and-not-a-vanilla-jwplayer/48550/3 "2017-05-26T15:13:43Z")

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I just need a good player, but I don’t want to use the jwPlayer platform. To use jwPlayer, you need to use their platform, surely?