ByteArk Player Container for React

• ByteArk Player Container for React
  • Demo
  • Features
  • Installation
  • Usage
  • Basic Props
    • Source Object
  • Callback Props
  • Advanced Props
  • Advanced Usages
    • Controlling Players
    • Using VideoJS Plugins
    • Request Media/Encryption with credentials
  • License

Demo

You can try on the demo page.

Features

• Remote player updates. No need to update your code for minor improvements.
• Using placeholder to maintain page's layout before the player ready.
• Controls basic behaviours via props.
• Custom advance behaviours via callbacks to access ByteArk Player/VideoJS instance directly.
• Supported TypeScript

Installation

This library is distributed via NPM. You may install from NPM or Yarn.

# For NPM
npm install --save byteark-player-react
# For Yarn
yarn add byteark-player-react
# For pnpm
pnpm add byteark-player-react

Usage

Include ByteArkPlayerContainer component into your component.

import React from 'react'
import { render } from 'react-dom'
import { ByteArkPlayerContainer } from 'byteark-player-react'
import type { ByteArkPlayerContainerProps } from 'byteark-player-react'

const App = () => {
  const playerOptions: ByteArkPlayerContainerProps = {
    autoplay: 'any',
    fluid: true,
    aspectRatio: '16:9',
    poster: 'https://stream-image.byteark.com/image/video-cover-480p/7/K/7KPloVWgN.png',
    sources: [
      {
        src: 'https://byteark-playertzxedwv.stream-playlist.byteark.com/streams/ToIkm61TMn4Q/playlist.m3u8',
        type: 'application/x-mpegURL',
        title: 'Big Buck Bunny',
        videoId: 'ToIkm61TMn4Q',
        poster: 'https://stream-image.byteark.com/image/video-cover-480p/7/K/7KPloVWgN.png'
      }
    ]
  }
  return <ByteArkPlayerContainer {...playerOptions} />
}

render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'))

If the video will be displayed on the fixed-size container, you may want to use fill mode instead.

import React from 'react'
import { render } from 'react-dom'
import { ByteArkPlayerContainer } from 'byteark-player-react'
import type { ByteArkPlayerContainerProps } from 'byteark-player-react'

const App = () => {
  const playerOptions: ByteArkPlayerContainerProps = {
    autoplay: 'any',
    fill: true,
    poster: 'https://stream-image.byteark.com/image/video-cover-480p/7/K/7KPloVWgN.png',
    sources: [
      {
        src: 'https://byteark-playertzxedwv.stream-playlist.byteark.com/streams/ToIkm61TMn4Q/playlist.m3u8',
        type: 'application/x-mpegURL',
        title: 'Big Buck Bunny',
        videoId: 'ToIkm61TMn4Q',
        poster: 'https://stream-image.byteark.com/image/video-cover-480p/7/K/7KPloVWgN.png'
      }
    ]
  }

  return <ByteArkPlayerContainer {...playerOptions} />
}

render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'))

Basic Props

Following properties are the properties that can be updated to the player, without re-creating the player instance. Additional properties will be passed to player.

Name	Type	Default	Description
autoplay	Boolean/String	true	Autoplay the video after player is created. (true/false/'muted'/'play'/'any')
aspectRatio	String	-	Use with fluid layout mode, to inform expected video's aspect ratio (16:9)
controls	Boolean	true	Show/hide the controls bar.
fill	Boolean	-	Use fill layout mode.
fluid	Boolean	-	Use fluid layout mode.
loop	Boolean	-	Restart the video playback after plays to the end.
muted	Boolean	-	Play the video without sounds.
playerSlugId	String	-	SlugId of player created via api player server service
playerVersion	String	1.0	Version of the player to use.
playbackRate	Number	1.0	Playback speed. 1.0 means original speed.
playsinline	Boolean	true	Should be true so custom controls available on all platforms, including iOS.
poster	String	-	Image to be show before the video is playing.
preload	String	-	Preload the video before play. ('none'/'metadata'/'auto')
responsive	Boolean	-	Auto show/hide controls depending on the screen size.
seekButtons	Boolean	false	Show 10 seconds seek buttons and allow double-tap to seek on mobile.
sources	Array	-	Array of video source object to be played.
volume	Number	-	Video's volume, between 0 to 1.

You can also use other props not listed here, but appear as VideoJS's options. However, changing props will not effective after the player is created.

Source Object

The source object has 2 required fields, and more optional field:

Name	Type	Description
src	String	URL to the video.
type	String	Video content type.
title	String	Video title to display on the player.
videoId	String	Video's ID, usually used on Analytics.
poster	String	Poster image URL for the video.

To provide multiple version of sources, you can use array of source objects.

Callback Props

We also provide some callback properties, so you can inject some behaviours directly to the ByteArk Player, and also, to the VideoJS's instance.

Name	Type	Callback Parameters	Description
onPlayerLoaded	Function	-	Callback function to be called when loaded player's resources.
onPlayerLoadingError	Function	({error: ByteArkPlayerContainerError, originalError: ByteArkPlayerError)	Callback function to be called when there're an error about loading player.
onPlayerSetup	Function	-	Callback function to be called when player is setup.
onPlayerSetupError	Function	({error: ByteArkPlayerContainerError, originalError: ByteArkPlayerError)	Callback function to be called when there're an error when setup player.
onReady	Function	(player: ByteArkPlayer)	Callback function to be called when a player instance is ready.
onPlayerCreated	Function	(player: ByteArkPlayer)	Callback function to be called when a player instance is created.

Advanced Props

We also provide some ways to custom the appearance of the video placeholder, and some advance behaviours.

Name	Type	Description
createPlaceholderFunction	Function	Custom video placeholder. This function should return a React component.
createPlayerFunction	Function	Custom video instance. This function should return a VideoJS's player instance.
lazyload	Boolean	The player loads its asset files once it got rendered on the webpage. By passing this prop, the player then loads its asset files once the user clicked on the player instead.
playerEndpoint	String	Endpoint to the video player (without version part).
playerJsFileName	String	File name of player's JS.
playerCssFileName	String	File name of player's CSS.

import { ByteArkPlayerContainer } from 'byteark-player-react'

const App = () => {
  // An Advanced Props Example
  return
    <ByteArkPlayerContainer
      {...playerOptions}
      playerEndpoint='my-custom-endpoint'
      lazyload />
}

Advanced Usages

Controlling Players

You may access the player instance from onReady callback parameter.

// This following example allows user to play/pause the video playback
// from custom buttons outside.

import React from 'react'
import { render } from 'react-dom'
import { ByteArkPlayerContainer } from 'byteark-player-react'
import type { ByteArkPlayerContainerProps, ByteArkPlayer } from 'byteark-player-react'

const App = () => {
  const playerOptions: ByteArkPlayerContainerProps = {
    autoplay: 'any',
    fluid: true,
    sources: [
      {
        src: 'https://byteark-playertzxedwv.stream-playlist.byteark.com/streams/ToIkm61TMn4Q/playlist.m3u8',
        type: 'application/x-mpegURL',
        title: 'Big Buck Bunny',
        videoId: 'ToIkm61TMn4Q'
      }
    ]
  }

  let playerInstance = null
  const onReady = (newPlayerInstance: ByteArkPlayer) => {
    playerInstance = newPlayerInstance
  }

  return <div>
    <ByteArkPlayerContainer {...playerOptions} onReady={onReady} />
    <button onClick={() => playerInstance?.play()}>Play</button>
    <button onClick={() => playerInstance?.pause()}>Pause</button>
  </div>
}

render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'))

Using VideoJS Plugins

import React from 'react'
import { render } from 'react-dom'
import { ByteArkPlayerContainer } from 'byteark-player-react'
import type { ByteArkPlayerContainerProps, ByteArkPlayer } from 'byteark-player-react'

const App = () => {
  const playerOptions: ByteArkPlayerContainerProps = {
    autoplay: 'any',
    fluid: true,
    sources: [
      {
        src: 'https://byteark-playertzxedwv.stream-playlist.byteark.com/streams/ToIkm61TMn4Q/playlist.m3u8',
        type: 'application/x-mpegURL',
        title: 'Big Buck Bunny',
        videoId: 'ToIkm61TMn4Q'
      }
    ]
  }

  const onReady = (newPlayerInstance: ByteArkPlayer) => {
    // The player is ready! Initialize plugins here.
  }

  return <ByteArkPlayerContainer {...playerOptions} onReady={onReady} />
}

render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'))

Request Media/Encryption with credentials

import React from 'react'
import { render } from 'react-dom'
import { ByteArkPlayerContainer } from 'byteark-player-react'
import type { ByteArkPlayerContainerProps, ByteArkPlayer } from 'byteark-player-react'

const App = () => {
  const playerOptions: ByteArkPlayerContainerProps = {
    autoplay: 'any',
    fluid: true,
    sources: [
      {
        src: 'https://byteark-playertzxedwv.stream-playlist.byteark.com/streams/ToIkm61TMn4Q/playlist.m3u8',
        type: 'application/x-mpegURL',
        title: 'Big Buck Bunny',
        videoId: 'ToIkm61TMn4Q'
      }
    ],
    html5: {
      hlsjs: {
        xhrSetup: function(xhr: XMLHttpRequest, url: string) {
          xhr.withCredentials = true
        }
      }
    }
  }

  const onReady = (newPlayerInstance: ByteArkPlayer) => {
    // The player is ready! Initialize plugins here.
  }

  return <ByteArkPlayerContainer {...playerOptions} onReady={onReady} />
}

License

MIT © ByteArk Co. Ltd.