Videos in safari

Hello,
I was wondering if the videos on any website can be played in another media player like MX Player when browsing in Safari.
MX Player gives many better controls to play a video hosted on a site. Please help.
Thanks in advance.

Well that kind of depends on the website really and/or video player.
Usually the way this works is either the website offers a downloadable version of the video you can then open in the desired App,  or the Video Player App has a browser built in you can use to get to the video and play it.
For the most part videos in websites are embedded and cannot be downloaded directly (mostly due to copyright an IP legalities)
Whether you can play a particular video in the player you want will depend on the site and capabilities of the App.

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