diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 03497569a..155407105 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ <h3>Options</h3>
       <input id=minified type="checkbox">
       Minified VHS (reloads player)
     </label>
+    <label>
+      <input id=sync-workers type="checkbox">
+      Synchronous Web Workers (reloads player)
+    </label>
     <label>
       <input id=liveui type="checkbox">
       Enable the live UI (reloads player)
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 7c628fd4a..55b31d79c 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1114,12 +1114,6 @@
         "to-fast-properties": "^2.0.0"
       }
     },
-    "@gkatsev/rollup-plugin-bundle-worker": {
-      "version": "1.0.2",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@gkatsev/rollup-plugin-bundle-worker/-/rollup-plugin-bundle-worker-1.0.2.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-Jq0JfThRZvmuDn0Sx3TTi0uf2ZhIDnx08l9af4741gCMghyT26zxR/DNPoPJCGDc1QFLohYdCWsMn21XFDt46Q==",
-      "dev": true
-    },
     "@rollup/plugin-babel": {
       "version": "5.2.2",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@rollup/plugin-babel/-/plugin-babel-5.2.2.tgz",
@@ -7632,6 +7626,15 @@
         "terser": "^5.0.0"
       }
     },
+    "rollup-plugin-worker-factory": {
+      "version": "0.4.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/rollup-plugin-worker-factory/-/rollup-plugin-worker-factory-0.4.1.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-qqN1tPc2aaNrOknaN8NMwt/Ud75kx2rV4kfhdNKvnRyK8dmdVphL3mJWhM+jcD41SfKuJo/lOSp7bvSUDc0bvg==",
+      "dev": true,
+      "requires": {
+        "rollup": "^2.34.2"
+      }
+    },
     "rollup-pluginutils": {
       "version": "2.8.2",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/rollup-pluginutils/-/rollup-pluginutils-2.8.2.tgz",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 24d192f72..a3cb6d489 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@
     "video.js": "^6 || ^7"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@gkatsev/rollup-plugin-bundle-worker": "^1.0.2",
     "@rollup/plugin-replace": "^2.3.4",
     "@videojs/generator-helpers": "~2.0.1",
     "d3": "^3.4.8",
@@ -77,6 +76,7 @@
     "lodash-compat": "^3.10.0",
     "nomnoml": "^0.3.0",
     "rollup": "^2.36.1",
+    "rollup-plugin-worker-factory": "^0.4.1",
     "shelljs": "^0.8.4",
     "sinon": "^8.1.1",
     "url-toolkit": "^2.2.1",
diff --git a/scripts/index-demo-page.js b/scripts/index-demo-page.js
index c378f121c..4509ac936 100644
--- a/scripts/index-demo-page.js
+++ b/scripts/index-demo-page.js
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
     representationsEl.selectedIndex = selectedIndex;
   };
 
-  ['debug', 'autoplay', 'muted', 'minified', 'liveui', 'partial', 'url', 'type', 'keysystems', 'buffer-water', 'override-native'].forEach(function(name) {
+  ['debug', 'autoplay', 'muted', 'minified', 'sync-workers', 'liveui', 'partial', 'url', 'type', 'keysystems', 'buffer-water', 'override-native'].forEach(function(name) {
     stateEls[name] = document.getElementById(name);
   });
 
@@ -244,6 +244,13 @@
       window.player.autoplay(event.target.checked);
     });
 
+    stateEls['sync-workers'].addEventListener('change', function(event) {
+      saveState();
+
+      // reload the player and scripts
+      stateEls.minified.dispatchEvent(newEvent('change'));
+    });
+
     stateEls.debug.addEventListener('change', function(event) {
       saveState();
       window.videojs.log.level(event.target.checked ? 'debug' : 'info');
@@ -281,12 +288,17 @@
         'node_modules/video.js/dist/alt/video.core',
         'node_modules/videojs-contrib-eme/dist/videojs-contrib-eme',
         'node_modules/videojs-contrib-quality-levels/dist/videojs-contrib-quality-levels',
-        'node_modules/videojs-http-source-selector/dist/videojs-http-source-selector',
-        'dist/videojs-http-streaming'
+        'node_modules/videojs-http-source-selector/dist/videojs-http-source-selector'
       ].map(function(url) {
         return url + (event.target.checked ? '.min' : '') + '.js';
       });
 
+      if (stateEls['sync-workers'].checked) {
+        urls.push('dist/videojs-http-streaming-sync-workers.js');
+      } else {
+        urls.push('dist/videojs-http-streaming' + (event.target.checked ? '.min' : '') + '.js');
+      }
+
       saveState();
 
       if (window.player) {
diff --git a/scripts/rollup.config.js b/scripts/rollup.config.js
index a12ee47b9..d184c5f78 100644
--- a/scripts/rollup.config.js
+++ b/scripts/rollup.config.js
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 const generate = require('videojs-generate-rollup-config');
-const worker = require('@gkatsev/rollup-plugin-bundle-worker');
+const worker = require('rollup-plugin-worker-factory');
 const {terser} = require('rollup-plugin-terser');
 const createTestData = require('./create-test-data.js');
 const replace = require('@rollup/plugin-replace');
 
+let syncWorker;
 // see https://github.com/videojs/videojs-generate-rollup-config
 // for options
 const options = {
@@ -26,11 +27,13 @@ const options = {
     });
   },
   plugins(defaults) {
-    defaults.module.splice(2, 0, 'worker');
-    defaults.browser.splice(2, 0, 'worker');
-    defaults.test.splice(3, 0, 'worker');
-
-    defaults.test.splice(0, 0, 'createTestData');
+    // add worker and createTestData to the front of plugin lists
+    defaults.module.unshift('worker');
+    defaults.browser.unshift('worker');
+    // change this to `syncWorker` for syncronous web worker
+    // during unit tests
+    defaults.test.unshift('worker');
+    defaults.test.unshift('createTestData');
 
     // istanbul is only in the list for regular builds and not watch
     if (defaults.test.indexOf('istanbul') !== -1) {
@@ -41,20 +44,35 @@ const options = {
     return defaults;
   },
   primedPlugins(defaults) {
-    return Object.assign(defaults, {
+    defaults = Object.assign(defaults, {
       replace: replace({
         // single quote replace
         "require('@videojs/vhs-utils/es": "require('@videojs/vhs-utils/cjs",
         // double quote replace
         'require("@videojs/vhs-utils/es': 'require("@videojs/vhs-utils/cjs'
       }),
-      worker: worker(),
       uglify: terser({
         output: {comments: 'some'},
         compress: {passes: 2}
       }),
       createTestData: createTestData()
     });
+
+    defaults.worker = worker({type: 'browser', plugins: [
+      defaults.resolve,
+      defaults.json,
+      defaults.commonjs,
+      defaults.babel
+    ]});
+
+    defaults.syncWorker = syncWorker = worker({type: 'mock', plugins: [
+      defaults.resolve,
+      defaults.json,
+      defaults.commonjs,
+      defaults.babel
+    ]});
+
+    return defaults;
   },
   babel(defaults) {
     const presetEnvSettings = defaults.presets[0][1];
@@ -75,27 +93,19 @@ if (process.env.CI_TEST_TYPE) {
 }
 const config = generate(options);
 
+if (config.builds.browser) {
+  config.builds.syncWorkers = config.makeBuild('browser', {
+    output: {
+      name: 'httpStreaming',
+      format: 'umd',
+      file: 'dist/videojs-http-streaming-sync-workers.js'
+    }
+  });
+
+  config.builds.syncWorkers.plugins[0] = syncWorker;
+}
+
 // Add additonal builds/customization here!
 
 // export the builds to rollup
-export default [
-  config.makeBuild('browser', {
-    input: 'src/decrypter-worker.js',
-    output: {
-      format: 'iife',
-      name: 'decrypterWorker',
-      file: 'src/decrypter-worker.worker.js'
-    },
-    external: []
-  }),
-
-  config.makeBuild('browser', {
-    input: 'src/transmuxer-worker.js',
-    output: {
-      format: 'iife',
-      name: 'transmuxerWorker',
-      file: 'src/transmuxer-worker.worker.js'
-    },
-    external: []
-  })
-].concat(Object.values(config.builds));
+export default Object.values(config.builds);
diff --git a/src/decrypter-worker.js b/src/decrypter-worker.js
index 785b60403..7551594c3 100644
--- a/src/decrypter-worker.js
+++ b/src/decrypter-worker.js
@@ -6,43 +6,36 @@ import { createTransferableMessage } from './bin-utils';
  * Our web worker interface so that things can talk to aes-decrypter
  * that will be running in a web worker. the scope is passed to this by
  * webworkify.
- *
- * @param {Object} self
- *        the scope for the web worker
  */
-const DecrypterWorker = function(self) {
-  self.onmessage = function(event) {
-    const data = event.data;
-    const encrypted = new Uint8Array(
-      data.encrypted.bytes,
-      data.encrypted.byteOffset,
-      data.encrypted.byteLength
-    );
-    const key = new Uint32Array(
-      data.key.bytes,
-      data.key.byteOffset,
-      data.key.byteLength / 4
-    );
-    const iv = new Uint32Array(
-      data.iv.bytes,
-      data.iv.byteOffset,
-      data.iv.byteLength / 4
-    );
+self.onmessage = function(event) {
+  const data = event.data;
+  const encrypted = new Uint8Array(
+    data.encrypted.bytes,
+    data.encrypted.byteOffset,
+    data.encrypted.byteLength
+  );
+  const key = new Uint32Array(
+    data.key.bytes,
+    data.key.byteOffset,
+    data.key.byteLength / 4
+  );
+  const iv = new Uint32Array(
+    data.iv.bytes,
+    data.iv.byteOffset,
+    data.iv.byteLength / 4
+  );
 
-    /* eslint-disable no-new, handle-callback-err */
-    new Decrypter(
-      encrypted,
-      key,
-      iv,
-      function(err, bytes) {
-        self.postMessage(createTransferableMessage({
-          source: data.source,
-          decrypted: bytes
-        }), [bytes.buffer]);
-      }
-    );
-    /* eslint-enable */
-  };
+  /* eslint-disable no-new, handle-callback-err */
+  new Decrypter(
+    encrypted,
+    key,
+    iv,
+    function(err, bytes) {
+      self.postMessage(createTransferableMessage({
+        source: data.source,
+        decrypted: bytes
+      }), [bytes.buffer]);
+    }
+  );
+  /* eslint-enable */
 };
-
-export default new DecrypterWorker(self);
diff --git a/src/master-playlist-controller.js b/src/master-playlist-controller.js
index 58370d740..3b8048fa1 100644
--- a/src/master-playlist-controller.js
+++ b/src/master-playlist-controller.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import videojs from 'video.js';
 import { updateAdCues } from './ad-cue-tags';
 import SyncController from './sync-controller';
 import TimelineChangeController from './timeline-change-controller';
-import Decrypter from 'worker!./decrypter-worker.worker.js';
+import Decrypter from 'worker!./decrypter-worker.js';
 import Config from './config';
 import {
   parseCodecs,
diff --git a/src/segment-loader.js b/src/segment-loader.js
index ce06f688c..98de3f1d6 100644
--- a/src/segment-loader.js
+++ b/src/segment-loader.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import Config from './config';
 import window from 'global/window';
 import { initSegmentId, segmentKeyId } from './bin-utils';
 import { mediaSegmentRequest, REQUEST_ERRORS } from './media-segment-request';
-import TransmuxWorker from 'worker!./transmuxer-worker.worker.js';
+import TransmuxWorker from 'worker!./transmuxer-worker.js';
 import segmentTransmuxer from './segment-transmuxer';
 import { TIME_FUDGE_FACTOR, timeUntilRebuffer as timeUntilRebuffer_ } from './ranges';
 import { minRebufferMaxBandwidthSelector } from './playlist-selectors';
diff --git a/src/transmuxer-worker.js b/src/transmuxer-worker.js
index ca9120a6d..b483cdadb 100644
--- a/src/transmuxer-worker.js
+++ b/src/transmuxer-worker.js
@@ -435,23 +435,19 @@ class MessageHandlers {
  *
  * @param {Object} self the scope for the web worker
  */
-const TransmuxerWorker = function(self) {
-  self.onmessage = function(event) {
-    if (event.data.action === 'init' && event.data.options) {
-      this.messageHandlers = new MessageHandlers(self, event.data.options);
-      return;
-    }
+self.onmessage = function(event) {
+  if (event.data.action === 'init' && event.data.options) {
+    this.messageHandlers = new MessageHandlers(self, event.data.options);
+    return;
+  }
 
-    if (!this.messageHandlers) {
-      this.messageHandlers = new MessageHandlers(self);
-    }
+  if (!this.messageHandlers) {
+    this.messageHandlers = new MessageHandlers(self);
+  }
 
-    if (event.data && event.data.action && event.data.action !== 'init') {
-      if (this.messageHandlers[event.data.action]) {
-        this.messageHandlers[event.data.action](event.data);
-      }
+  if (event.data && event.data.action && event.data.action !== 'init') {
+    if (this.messageHandlers[event.data.action]) {
+      this.messageHandlers[event.data.action](event.data);
     }
-  };
+  }
 };
-
-export default new TransmuxerWorker(self);
diff --git a/test/loader-common.js b/test/loader-common.js
index 44cfed738..94238dd52 100644
--- a/test/loader-common.js
+++ b/test/loader-common.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { MasterPlaylistController } from '../src/master-playlist-controller';
 import SourceUpdater from '../src/source-updater';
 import SyncController from '../src/sync-controller';
 import TimelineChangeController from '../src/timeline-change-controller';
-import Decrypter from 'worker!../src/decrypter-worker.worker.js';
+import Decrypter from 'worker!../src/decrypter-worker.js';
 import window from 'global/window';
 /* eslint-disable no-unused-vars */
 // we need this so that it can register VHS with videojs
diff --git a/test/media-segment-request.test.js b/test/media-segment-request.test.js
index 3f3afd21e..2ac25f4dc 100644
--- a/test/media-segment-request.test.js
+++ b/test/media-segment-request.test.js
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ import {
   standardXHRResponse,
   downloadProgress
 } from './test-helpers';
-import TransmuxWorker from 'worker!../src/transmuxer-worker.worker.js';
-import Decrypter from 'worker!../src/decrypter-worker.worker.js';
+import TransmuxWorker from 'worker!../src/transmuxer-worker.js';
+import Decrypter from 'worker!../src/decrypter-worker.js';
 import {dispose as segmentTransmuxerDispose} from '../src/segment-transmuxer.js';
 import {
   aacWithoutId3 as aacWithoutId3Segment,
@@ -1443,4 +1443,3 @@ QUnit.skip('id3 callback does not fire if partial data has no ID3 tags', functio
   // it should be fixed to account for only partial data
   this.standardXHRResponse(request, muxedSegment());
 });
-
diff --git a/test/segment-transmuxer.test.js b/test/segment-transmuxer.test.js
index cb30298e8..3bd37d96e 100644
--- a/test/segment-transmuxer.test.js
+++ b/test/segment-transmuxer.test.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import QUnit from 'qunit';
 import sinon from 'sinon';
-import TransmuxWorker from 'worker!../src/transmuxer-worker.worker.js';
+import TransmuxWorker from 'worker!../src/transmuxer-worker.js';
 import {
   muxed as muxedSegment,
   caption as captionSegment,
diff --git a/test/transmuxer-worker.test.js b/test/transmuxer-worker.test.js
index 69a054cca..fb6f80846 100644
--- a/test/transmuxer-worker.test.js
+++ b/test/transmuxer-worker.test.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import QUnit from 'qunit';
-import TransmuxWorker from 'worker!../src/transmuxer-worker.worker.js';
+import TransmuxWorker from 'worker!../src/transmuxer-worker.js';
 import {
   mp4Captions as mp4CaptionsSegment,
   muxed as muxedSegment,