weex-kdp

Kaltura Dynamic Player implementation as Weex Components

Installing the plugin in your project

Using weexpack:

weex plugin add weex-kdp

Manual integration:

iOS:

pod 'WeexKdp'

Android:

Add the following line to the dependencies list in the build.gradle file for the corresponding project.

 compile '${groupId}:weexkdp:{$version}'

Note: You need to specify the groupId and $version of the project.

Web integration

 npm install weexkdp

API

Template

<weex-kdp>

Adds the weex-kdp plugin to the template. See Data: MediaEntry.

<weexKdp ref="kdp" MediaEntry="{/* MediaEntry */}"></weexKdp>

Calling methods

Use the sendNotification method to create custom notifications that instruct the player to perform an action, such as play, seek, or pause.

Example:

this.$refs.kdp.sendNotification("doSeek", 30);

Available Notifications

changeMediaEntry (ios)

Prepare for playing an entry. Play when it’s ready.

• (JSON) MediaEntry: see Data: MediaEntry.

this.$refs.kdp.sendNotification('prepare', { /* media entry */});

doPlay (iOS)

Plays the video.

this.$refs.kdp.sendNotification('doPlay')

doPause (iOS)

Pauses the video.

this.$refs.kdp.sendNotification('doPause')

doSeek (iOS)

Sets the play time of the video.

• (float) time.

this.$refs.kdp.sendNotification('doSeek',time)

changeVolume (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Changes the volume. The volume is a value between 0 and 1.

• (float) volume.

this.$refs.kdp.sendNotification('changeVolume', volume)

selectTrack (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Selects a track by trackId. See tracksAvailable(callback).

• (string) trackId.

this.$refs.kdp.sendNotification('selectTrack', trackId)

Getting player properties

Use the getProperty method to retrieve data from the plugin, such as duration, time, state, audioTrack, textTrack,

duration (iOS)

Returns the duration of the video.

• callback: fn(duration) callback returning the duration of the video.
  • (float) duration

this.$refs.kdp.getProperty('duration', duration => {
    console.log(duration)
})

time (iOS)

Returns the current play time of the video.

• callback: fn(duration) callback returning the plat time of the video.
  • (float) time: play time of the video

this.$refs.kdp.getProperty('time', time => {
    console.log(time)
})

state (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Returns the current state of the video.

• callback: fn(duration) callback returning the state of the video.
  • (string) state: the state of the video (idle, loading, ready, buffering, error)

this.$refs.kdp.getProperty('state', state => {
    console.log(state)
})

textTrack (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Returns the current text trackId. See tracksAvailable(callback).

• callback: fn(trackId)
  • (string) trackId

this.$refs.kdp.getProperty('textTrack', trackId => {
    console.log(trackId)
})

audioTrack (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Returns the current audio trackId. See tracksAvailable(callback).

• callback: fn(trackId)
  • (string) trackId

this.$refs.kdp.sendNotification('audioTrack', trackId => {
    console.log(trackId)
})

Listening to Events

Register player events with kBind and unregister events with kUnbind.

kBind(eventName, callback)

Registers an event.

• eventName: name of the event (See Event List).
• callback: fn(eventData) callback of the event.

this.$refs.kdp.kBind('onTimeChange', time => {
		// time = the player's progress time in seconds
	});

kUnbind(eventName)

Unregister an event.

• eventName: name of the event (See Event List).

this.$refs.kdp.kUnbind('onTimeChange');

Event List

timeChange (iOS)

Updates the callback each 500ms with the current time of the video.

• callback: fn(currentTime) callback returning the current time of the video.
  • (float) currentTime

this.$refs.kdp.kBind('timeChange', (currentTime) => {
    console.log(currentTime)
})

stateChange (iOS)

Dispatched when media player's state has changed.

• callback: fn(playerState)
  • (string) playerState: MediaPlayerState: uninitialized / loading / ready / playing / paused / buffering / playbackError

this.$refs.kdp.kBind('stateChange', state => {
    console.log('player state: ' + state)
})

durationChanged (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Sent when enough data is available that the media can be played, at least for a couple of frames.

• callback: fn()

this.$refs.kdp.kBind('durationChanged', newDuration => {
    console.log('Duration Changed to: ' + newDuration)
})

ended (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Sent when playback completes.

• callback: fn()

this.$refs.kdp.kBind('ended', () => {
    console.log('Ended')
})

loadedMetadata (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

The media’s metadata has finished loading; all attributes now contain as much useful information as they’re going to.

• callback: fn(metadata)
  • (object) metadata

this.$refs.kdp.kBind('loadedMetadata', metadata => {
    console.log('Loaded Metadata: ' + JSON.stringify(metadata))
})

seeking (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Sent when a seek operation begins.

• callback: fn()

this.$refs.kdp.kBind('seeking', () => {
    console.log('Seeking')
})

seeked (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Sent when a seek operation completes.

• callback: fn()

this.$refs.kdp.kBind('seeked', () => {
    console.log('Seeked')
})

tracksAvailable (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

Sent when tracks available.

• callback: fn(tracks)
  • (JSON) tracks: JSON with the available tracks in the format:

  {
    audioTracks: [
      {
        id: "id",
        title: "title",
        language: "language"
      },
      (...)
    ],
    textTracks: [
      {
        id: "id",
        title: "title",
        language: "language"
      },
      (...)
  }

this.$refs.kdp.kBind('tracksAvailable', tracks => {
    console.log('Tracks Available', tracks)
})

Data

MediaEntry

Description of the player configuration. Used in prepare and prepareNext. A media entry can have multiple sources that would be the same video in different formats. The player will choose the source more appropriate to the device.

{
    id: 'entryId',
    sources: [
      {
        contentUrl: 'url',
        mediaFormat: 'mediaFormat' // e.g. ".hls"
      }
    ]
}

Developing the plugin

See How to develop and the Plugin Development Guide.