React File Player

A lightweight React component for playing video files.

Features

• Supports playback of various video formats
• Simple API with support for basic playback controls
• Lightweight alternative focused solely on local file playback

Installation

npm install react-file-player

Usage

import React from 'react'
import ReactFilePlayer from 'react-file-player'

// Render a video player
<ReactFilePlayer url='path/to/video.mp4' />

Props

Prop | Description | Default ---- | ----------- | ------- url | The url of a video or audio file to play playing | Set to true or false to pause or play the media | false controls | Set to true or false to display native player controls | false volume | Set the volume of the player, between 0 and 1 | 1 muted | Mutes the player | false width | Set the width of the player | 640px height | Set the height of the player | 360px

Callback Props

Prop | Description ---- | ----------- onReady | Called when media is loaded and ready to play onStart | Called when media starts playing onPlay | Called when media starts or resumes playing after pausing or buffering onPause | Called when media is paused onEnded | Called when media finishes playing onError | Called when an error occurs whilst attempting to play media

Methods

Method | Description ------ | ----------- play() | Play the video pause() | Pause the video stop() | Stop the video seekTo(seconds) | Seek to the given number of seconds

Development

To build the library:

npm run build

License

MIT

This project is a fork of ReactPlayer, focused specifically on local file playback. It does not support streaming services or other media sources found in the original ReactPlayer.