YouTube support removed from JWPlayer version 8 (JW8)

Question

The release notes for JWPlayer v8, indicate that support for embedding YouTube videos has been dropped:

Here's a conversation about it on Github that they have locked:

I enjoyed using JWPlayer because I could use the same api and player interface for embedding YouTube videos and non-YouTube videos.

Is anyone developing a JWPlayer provider for YouTube? Is there an alternative to JWPlayer that supports YouTube and non-YouTube videos?

user_4237520 · Answer

Please see the Github issue here where the Youtube provider code used in the repo before it was removed can be found: https://github.com/jwplayer/jwplayer/issues/2894