react-native-text-tracks

Implementation-agnostic captions support for React Native video playback.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage

Installation

$ yarn add react-native-text-tracks

Usage

import Captions from 'react-native-text-tracks';

<Captions
  currentTime={currentTimeInMilliseconds}
  currentTextTrack={{
    source:
      'https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/sintel/subtitles/subtitles_en.vtt',
  }}
/>;

Props

• currentTime
• hasSeeked
• currentTextTrack
• containerStyle
• textStyle

currentTime

Integer with the current time. It should change every second, yes. A common use case would be having a video an setting a state with the current time as it changes.

hasSeeked

When the time is changed the Captions component should re evaluate the text track file and get the current text for the given time. You can pass a simple boolean and invert it every time the video seeked a new timestamp.

currentTextTrack

An object with the source property containing the url. You can add more properties to this object, like name or lang, to use on the frontend for changing between each one.

containerStyle

The style for the container

textStyle

The style for the text