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

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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.