Compare Chrome extensions: YouTube vs Local Media Player

Stats YouTube YouTube Local Media Player Local Media Player
User count N/A 20,000+
Average rating 4.54 2.54
Rating count 98,620 76
Last updated 2015-09-24 2017-10-10
Size 20.05K 24.75K
Version 4.2.8 2
Short description
The official YouTube website Local media player lets you play your favorite media (be it video, music or audio) files without any third party software.
Full summary

The official YouTube website

Local media player as the name clearly explains allows you to play most of the media files (MP4, MKV, WEBM, OGG, MP3, H.264) without any need to download third party softwares like VLC, Windows Media PLayer etc. This is very helpful for computers with low storage space/processing power. Some video formats like .avi are not supported. If your file is not working with our media player than you are requested to convert your desired file into any of the above mention file formats of your choice using numerous free file converters (both offline as well as online).