liquid-player

react-native-vlc-media-player

Supported RN Versions

0.59 > 0.62 and up PODs are updated to works with 0.61 and up.(Tested in 0.61.5 and 0.62 and 0.63)

Supported formats

Support for network streams, RTSP, RTP, RTMP, HLS, MMS. Play all files, in all formats, including exotic ones, like the classic VLC media player. Play MKV, multiple audio tracks (including 5.1), and subtitles tracks (including SSA!)

Add it to your project

Run

npm i liquid-player

android

Should work without any specific settings

gradle build might failed with More than one file was found with OS independent path 'lib/x86/libc++_shared.so' error. If that happens add the following block to your android/app/build.gradle

tasks.whenTaskAdded((tas -> {
    // when task is 'mergeLocalDebugNativeLibs' or 'mergeLocalReleaseNativeLibs'
    if (tas.name.contains("merge") && tas.name.contains("NativeLibs")) {
        tasks.named(tas.name) {it
            doFirst {
                java.nio.file.Path notNeededDirectory = it.externalLibNativeLibs
                        .getFiles()
                        .stream()
                        // for React Native 0.71, the file value now contains "jetified-react-android" instead of "jetified-react-native"
                        .filter(file -> file.toString().contains("jetified-react-native"))
                        .findAny()
                        .orElse(null)
                        .toPath();
                Files.walk(notNeededDirectory).forEach(file -> {
                    if (file.toString().contains("libc++_shared.so")) {
                        Files.delete(file);
                    }
                });
            }
        }
    }
}))

Explain: react-native and libvlc both import libc++_shared.so, but we cannot use packagingOptions.pickFirst to handle this case, because libvlc-all:3.6.0-eap5 will crash when using libc++_shared.so, so we have to use libc++_shared.so from libvlc, so I add a gradle script to delete libc++_shared.so from react-native to solve this.

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74258902/how-to-define-which-so-file-to-use-in-gradle-packaging-options

Explain why we have to use libvlc-all:3.6.0-eap5 instead of libvlc-all:3.2.6: libvlc-all:3.2.6 has a bug that subtitle won't display on Android 12 and 13, so we have to upgrade libvlc to support subtitle display on Android 12 and 13.

Reference: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-android/-/issues/2252

Use

import LiquidPlayer from 'liquid-player';

<LiquidPlayer
    style={[styles.video]}
    videoAspectRatio="16:9"
    source={{ uri: "https://www.radiantmediaplayer.com/media/big-buck-bunny-360p.mp4"}}
/>

LiquidPlayer Props

Prop	Description	Default
source	Object that contains the uri of a video or song to play eg {{ uri: "https://video.com/example.mkv" }}	{}
subtitleUri	local subtitle file path，if you want to hide subtitle, you can set this to an empty subtitle file，current we don't support a hide subtitle prop.
paused	Set to true or false to pause or play the media	false
repeat	Set to true or false to loop the media	false
rate	Set the playback rate of the player	1
seek	Set position to seek between 0 and 1 (0 being the start, 1 being the end , use position from the progress object )
volume	Set the volume of the player (number)
muted	Set to true or false to mute the player	false
audioTrack	Set audioTrack id (number) (see onLoad callback VideoInfo.audioTracks)
textTrack	Set textTrack(subtitle) id (number) (see onLoad callback- VideoInfo.textTracks)
playInBackground	Set to true or false to allow playing in the background	false
videoAspectRatio	Set the video aspect ratio eg "16:9"
autoAspectRatio	Set to true or false to enable auto aspect ratio	false
resizeMode	Set the behavior for the video size (fill, contain, cover, none, scale-down)	none
style	React native stylesheet styles	{}

Callback props

Callback props take a function that gets fired on various player events:

Prop	Description
onPlaying	Called when media starts playing returns eg {target: 9, duration: 99750, seekable: true}
onProgress	Callback containing position as a fraction, and duration, currentTime and remainingTime in seconds   ◦  eg { duration: 99750, position: 0.30, currentTime: 30154, remainingTime: -69594 }
onPaused	Called when media is paused
onStopped	Called when media is stoped
onBuffering	Called when media is buffering
onEnded	Called when media playing ends
onError	Called when an error occurs whilst attempting to play media
onLoad	Called when video info is loaded, Callback containing VideoInfo

VideoInfo example:

 {
    duration: 30906, 
    videoSize: {height: 240, width: 32},
    audioTracks: [
            {id: -1, name: "Disable"}, 
            {id: 1, name: "Track 1"}, 
            {id: 3, name: "Japanese Audio (2ch LC-AAC) - [Japanese]"}
    ], 
    textTracks: [
        {id: -1, name: "Disable"}, 
        {id: 4, name: "Track 1 - [English]"}, 
        {id: 5, name: "Track 2 - [Japanese]"}
    ],    
}

More formats

Container formats: 3GP, ASF, AVI, DVR-MS, FLV, Matroska (MKV), MIDI, QuickTime File Format, MP4, Ogg, OGM, WAV, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB, RM, Blu-ray, DVD-Video, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB, HEIF, AVIF Audio coding formats: AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, DV Audio, XM, FLAC, It, MACE, MOD, Monkey's Audio, MP3, Opus, PLS, QCP, QDM2/QDMC, RealAudio, Speex, Screamtracker 3/S3M, TTA, Vorbis, WavPack, WMA (WMA 1/2, WMA 3 partially). Capture devices: Video4Linux (on Linux), DirectShow (on Windows), Desktop (screencast), Digital TV (DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-S2, DVB-T2, ATSC, Clear QAM) Network protocols: FTP, HTTP, MMS, RSS/Atom, RTMP, RTP (unicast or multicast), RTSP, UDP, Sat-IP, Smooth Streaming Network streaming formats: Apple HLS, Flash RTMP, MPEG-DASH, MPEG Transport Stream, RTP/RTSP ISMA/3GPP PSS, Windows Media MMS Subtitles: Advanced SubStation Alpha, Closed Captions, DVB, DVD-Video, MPEG-4 Timed Text, MPL2, OGM, SubStation Alpha, SubRip, SVCD, Teletext, Text file, VobSub, WebVTT, TTML Video coding formats: Cinepak, Dirac, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/MPEG HEVC, AV1, HuffYUV, Indeo 3, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo 3&4, Sorenson, Theora, VC-1,[h] VP5, VP6, VP8, VP9, DNxHD, ProRes and some WMV.