react-all-player

react-all-player is a simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable React media player that supports modern browsers.

Checkout the demo

Features

• 📼 HTML Video & Audio, YouTube & Vimeo - support for the major formats
• 💪 Accessible - full support for VTT captions and screen readers
• 🔧 Customizable - make the player look how you want with the markup you want
• 📱 Responsive - works with any screen size
• 📹 Streaming - support for hls.js, and dash.js streaming playback
• 🎛 API - toggle playback, volume, seeking, and more through a standardized API
• 🎤 Events - no messing around with Vimeo and YouTube APIs, all events are standardized across formats
• 🔎 Fullscreen - supports native fullscreen with fallback to "full window" modes
• ⌨️ **Shortcuts - supports keyboard shortcuts
• 🖥 Picture-in-Picture - supports picture-in-picture mode
• 📱 Playsinline - supports the playsinline attribute
• 🏎 Speed controls - adjust speed on the fly
• 📖 Multiple captions - support for multiple caption tracks
• 👌 Preview thumbnails - support for displaying preview thumbnails

Usage

npm install react-all-player # or yarn add react-all-player

import ReactAllPlayer from 'react-all-player';

<ReactAllPlayer
  sources={[
    {
      file: 'https://cdn.plyr.io/static/demo/View_From_A_Blue_Moon_Trailer-1080p.mp4',
      label: '1080p',
    },
    {
      file: 'https://cdn.plyr.io/static/demo/View_From_A_Blue_Moon_Trailer-720p.mp4',
      label: '720p',
    },
  ]}
  subtitles={[
    {
      lang: 'en',
      language: 'English',
      file: 'https://cdn.plyr.io/static/demo/View_From_A_Blue_Moon_Trailer-HD.en.vtt',
    },
    {
      lang: 'fr',
      language: 'French',
      file: 'https://cdn.plyr.io/static/demo/View_From_A_Blue_Moon_Trailer-HD.fr.vtt',
    },
  ]}
/>;

For NextJS

Dynamically import ReactAllPlayer to ensure it's only loaded on the client-side

import dynamic from "next/dynamic";
const ReactAllPlayer = dynamic(() => import('react-all-player'), {
  ssr: false,
});

Props

react-all-player accepts video element props and these specific props

| Prop | Type | Description | Default | Required | | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | | sources | Source[] | An array of sources contain file, label and type | null | true | | subtitles | Subtitle[] | An array of subtitles contain file, lang and language | null | false | | hlsRef | React.MutableRefObject<Hls \| null> | hls.js instance ref | React.createRef() | false | | dashRef | React.MutableRefObject<DashJS.MediaPlayerClass \| null> | dashjs instance ref | React.createRef() | false | | hlsConfig | Hls['config'] | hls.js config | {} | false | | changeSourceUrl | (currentSourceUrl: string, source: Source): string | A function that modify given source url (hls only) | () => null | false | | onHlsInit | (hls: Hls): void | A function that called after hls.js initialization | () => null | false | | onDashInit | (dash: DashJS.MediaPlayerClass): void | A function that called after dashjs initialization | () => null | false | | onInit | (videoEl: HTMLVideoElement): void | A function that called after video initialization | () => null | false | | ref | React.MutableRefObject<HTMLVideoElement \| null> | video element ref | null | false | | i18n | I18n | Translations | Default Translations | false | | hotkeys | Hotkey[] | Hotkeys (shortcuts) | Default Hotkeys | false | | components | Component[] | See Customization | Default components | false | | thumbnail | string | Thumbnails on progress bar hover | null | false |

Customization

You can customize the player by passing defined components with components props. See defined components

By passing components, the passed components will override default existing components. Allow you to customize the player how you want it to be.

Example

import ReactAllPlayer, { TimeIndicator } from 'react-all-player';

<ReactAllPlayer
  {...props}
  components={{
    Controls: () => {
      return (
        <div className="flex items-center justify-between">
          <p>A custom Controls component</p>

          <TimeIndicator />
        </div>
      );
    },
  }}
/>;

Note: use built-in hooks and components for better customization

Override structure

react-all-player use this default structure

To override it, simply pass your own structure as react-all-player's children

import ReactAllPlayer, { Controls, Player, Overlay } from 'react-all-player';

<ReactAllPlayer {...props}>
  <div>
    <div>
      <Player />
    </div>
    <div>
      <Controls />
    </div>
    <div>
      <Overlay />
    </div>
    <div>
      <p>here!</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</ReactAllPlayer>;

Methods

You can access to the video element by passing ref to react-all-player and use all its methods.

Supported formats

react-all-player supports all video element supported formats and HLS format

Contributing

See the contribution guidelines before creating a pull request.