The most battle-tested open-source video player component for React Native with support for DRM, offline playback, HLS/DASH streaming, and more.
🔍 Features
- 📱 Plays all video formats natively supported by iOS/Android
- ▶️ Local and remote playback
- 🔁 Streaming: HLS • DASH • SmoothStreaming
- 🔐 DRM: Widevine & FairPlay (See free DRM stream example)
- 📴 Offline playback, video download, support for side-tracks and side-captions (via optional SDK)
- 🎚️ Fine-grained control over tracks, buffering & events
- 🧩 Expo plugin support
- 🌐 Basic Web Support
- 📱 Picture in Picture
- 📺 TV Support
✨ Project Status
| Version | State | Architecture |
|---|---|---|
| v5 and lower | ❌ End-of-life Commercial Support Available | Old Architecture |
| v6 | 🛠 Maintained (community + TWG) | Old + New (Interop Layer) |
| v7 | 🚀 Active Development | Old + New (Full Support) |
react-native-video v7 introduces full support for the new React Native architecture, unlocking better performance, improved consistency, and modern native modules.
📚 Documentation & Examples
🚀 Quick Start
Install
# Install dependencies
yarn add react-native-video
# Install pods
cd ios && pod install
Usage
import Video from 'react-native-video';
export default () => (
<Video
source={{ uri: 'https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4' }}
style={{ width: '100%', aspectRatio: 16 / 9 }}
controls
/>
);
🧩 Plugins
1 · 📥 Offline SDK
Enable offline streaming with full control over downloads, license lifecycle, secure storage, and media access.
- Track selection (bitrate, audio, subtitles)
- Pause / resume & background queueing
- Expiration & auto-cleanup
- Built for Android & iOS
- → Read the SDK Docs
2 · 🧪 Architecture
Write your own plugins to extend library logic, attach analytics or add custom workflows - without forking the core SDK.
→ Plugin documentation
💼 TWG Services & Products
| Offering | Description |
|---|---|
| Professional Support Packages | Priority bug-fixes, guaranteed SLAs, roadmap influence |
| Issue Booster | Fast-track urgent fixes with a pay‑per‑issue model |
| Offline Video SDK | Plug‑and‑play secure download solution for iOS & Android |
| Integration Support | Hands‑on help integrating video, DRM & offline into your app |
| Free DRM Token Generator | Generate Widevine / FairPlay tokens for testing |
| Ready Boilerplates | Ready-to-use apps with offline HLS/DASH DRM, video frame scrubbing, TikTok-style video feed, background uploads, Skia-based frame processor (R&D phase), and more |
| React Native Video Upgrade Guide | Common upgrade pitfalls & how to solve them |
See how TWG helped Learnn ship a world‑class player in record time - case study.
Contact us at hi@thewidlarzgroup.com
🌍 Social
- 🐦 X / Twitter - follow product & release updates
- 💬 Discord - talk to the community and us
- 💼 LinkedIn - see TWG flexing
📰 Community & Media
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🗽 React Summit US – How TWG helped Learnn boost video performance on React Native.
Watch the talk » -
🧨 v7 deep dive – Why we’re building v7 with Nitro Modules Watch on X »
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🛠️ Well-maintained open-source library - What does it truly mean? - Bart's talk for React Native Warsaw Watch here »
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📺 “Over the Top” Panel - Building Streaming Apps for Mobile, Web, and Smart TVs - Bart giving his insights on the industry Watch here »