@meta-sam/react

@meta-sam/react provides Canvas-only React bindings for Mediabunny playback and SAM 3 video segmentation. Video owns a media player and segmentation renderer; useMediaPlayer connects the same player to a caller-owned canvas. The package ships no global CSS.

Installation

npm install @meta-sam/react @meta-sam/parser react react-dom

React and React DOM >=18.2 <20 are peer dependencies. Applications that import parser or video types directly should also declare those packages as direct dependencies.

Video quick start

Video renders one canvas inside a wrapper. It accepts a URL string, URL, or Blob, discovers exact packet metadata through Mediabunny, and composites the decoded frame and segmentation into that canvas.

'use client';

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { Video, type VideoRef } from '@meta-sam/react';
import type { VideoSegmentationResult } from '@meta-sam/parser';

declare const result: VideoSegmentationResult;

export function SegmentedVideo() {
  const videoRef = useRef<VideoRef>(null);

  return (
    <div>
      <button type="button" onClick={() => void videoRef.current?.play()}>
        Play
      </button>
      <button type="button" onClick={() => videoRef.current?.pause()}>
        Pause
      </button>
      <button type="button" onClick={() => void videoRef.current?.seekToFrame(10)}>
        Go to frame 10
      </button>

      <Video
        ref={videoRef}
        src="/media/clip.webm"
        result={result}
        objectFit="contain"
        devicePixelRatio={() => window.devicePixelRatio || 1}
        volume={0.8}
        style={{ width: 640 }}
        canvasProps={{ 'aria-label': 'Segmented video' }}
        onTimeChange={(time) => console.log('time', time)}
        onError={(error) => console.error('Video failed', error)}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

result accepts either a cumulative VideoSegmentationSnapshot while parsing is in progress or the final VideoSegmentationResult. Updating result, hiddenIds, boxLabel, objectFit, or devicePixelRatio recomposes the retained decoded frame without replacing the player or reopening the source.

Props

| Prop | Behavior | | ----------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | src | Required media source: string, URL, or Blob. A new value replaces the source on the existing player. | | result | Cumulative video segmentation snapshot or final result. Image results are rejected at runtime. | | renderer | Optional caller-owned SegmentationRenderer. When omitted, Video creates and disposes one. | | hiddenIds | Object IDs omitted from the composition without changing retained segmentation state. | | boxLabel | Text shown before the object ID in box labels, when the renderer was created with boxLabels: true. | | objectFit | contain (default), cover, or fill for both frame and overlay geometry. | | devicePixelRatio | Positive number or function read while sizing and rendering the canvas. | | loop, playbackRate, volume, muted | Controlled playback and audio settings. | | initialSeekTime | Initial time used when each new source opens. Changing it alone does not reopen or seek the current source. | | autoPlay | Starts playback after a source opens. Browser user-activation policy still applies. | | playerOptions | Construction-only MediaPlayerOptions for advanced audio configuration. | | className, style | Configure the wrapper. The default wrapper is positioned, clipped, and full width. | | canvasProps | Canvas attributes and styles except ref, children, and backing width/height, which the component owns. |

The wrapper adopts the decoded video's aspect ratio after metadata loads unless style.aspectRatio overrides it. The canvas backing dimensions track its CSS size and DPR. A ResizeObserver is used when available.

autoPlay runs after asynchronous source initialization and therefore cannot preserve a caller's user-activation token. Browsers may block Web Audio startup and the player will report the fallback through onAudioWarning. For reliable audible playback, call videoRef.current?.play() directly from a trusted click or key handler.

Callbacks

Callbacks always use the newest committed prop without reconstructing the player:

• onTimeChange(time)
• onPlayingChange(playing)
• onDurationChange(duration)
• onLoadedMetadata(metadata)
• onFrame({time, frameIndex})
• onAudioStatusChange(status)
• onAudioWarning(warning)
• onError(error)
• onPlayerReady(player)

onPlayerReady reports construction, not source readiness. Use onLoadedMetadata for a successfully opened source. In development StrictMode, more than one short-lived player may be reported; each is disposed by its matching effect cleanup.

VideoRef

The imperative ref exposes the Canvas player without exposing a media-element reference:

interface VideoRef {
  play(): Promise<void>;
  pause(): void;
  seek(time: number): Promise<void>;
  seekToFrame(frameIndex: number): Promise<void>;
  nextFrame(): Promise<void>;
  previousFrame(): Promise<void>;
  getFrameIndexAtTimeExact(time: number): number;
  getTimeAtFrameIndexExact(frameIndex: number): number;
  getPacketAtTimeExact(time: number): VideoPacketMetadata;
  getVideoPackets(): VideoPacketTimeline;
  setPlaybackRate(playbackRate: number): void;
  setVolume(volume: number): void;
  setMuted(muted: boolean): void;
  setLoop(loop: boolean): void;
  forceRender(): Promise<void>;
  captureFrame(source?: 'composited' | 'raw'): HTMLCanvasElement;
  getStats(): VideoStats;
  resetStats(): void;
}

captureFrame() returns a detached canvas owned by the caller. The default captures the visible composited frame; raw captures the retained decoded frame. Canvas security rules still apply if callers later export pixels from that snapshot. getStats() forwards the player's frozen PlaybackStats snapshot, including bounded decode/overlay timings, scheduler counters, queue depths, signed A/V presentation-window error, and audio gap/underrun/drop diagnostics. resetStats() clears that measurement interval without changing playback.

Async methods (play, both seek forms, frame stepping, and forceRender) return rejected promises when called through a retained handle after unmount; they never throw before returning. Synchronous controls, lookups, capture, and stats throw when no player is mounted. React clears a normally attached ref on unmount, so prefer checking ref.current at the call site.

Caller-owned canvas with useMediaPlayer

Use the hook for custom composition or controls while retaining React lifecycle ownership:

'use client';

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { useMediaPlayer } from '@meta-sam/react';

export function CanvasPlayer({ src }: { src: string | URL | Blob }) {
  const canvasRef = useRef<HTMLCanvasElement>(null);
  const playerRef = useMediaPlayer({
    canvasRef,
    src,
    volume: 0.5,
    renderFrame({ ctx, canvas, frame }) {
      ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
      ctx.drawImage(frame, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
    },
    onError(error) {
      console.error('Playback failed', error);
    },
  });

  return (
    <div>
      <button type="button" onClick={() => void playerRef.current?.play()}>
        Play
      </button>
      <canvas ref={canvasRef} width={640} height={360} />
    </div>
  );
}

The returned RefObject<IMediaPlayer | null> is stable. The hook creates a player after the canvas is attached, replaces it only when that canvas node changes, opens a changed src on the existing player, and disposes owned players on replacement and unmount. Failed opens are retryable when the component renders that source again. renderFrame and all callbacks are read through current refs, so callback changes do not recreate the player.

The hook owns the player. Do not dispose a player received through onPlayerReady; use the component lifecycle instead.

Renderer ownership and update ordering

When renderer is omitted, every effect setup owns one renderer and disposes it exactly once. A supplied renderer always remains caller-owned and is never disposed by Video.

Accepted segmentation values are applied with {reset: true} because parser snapshots are cumulative. Result work is generation-fenced: a late update from a replaced result or renderer cannot trigger a stale redraw. Source replacement is independently generation-fenced by @meta-sam/video.

Runtime and package map

The package is ESM-only and side-effect-free. Importing it does not construct browser objects. Mounted players require Canvas 2D, Fetch for URL sources, WebCodecs for video decoding, and Web Audio for supported audio playback. Missing or unsupported audio degrades to explicit silent playback as described by onAudioStatusChange and onAudioWarning.

Only the package root is public; deep imports are unsupported.

License

The source is licensed under the SAM License. See LICENSE in this package or the repository root for the license text.