react-native-video play Vimeo and YouTube

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Hendrik picture Hendrik · Sep 1, 2016 · Viewed 12.5k times · Source

I wonder if it is at all possible to play Vimeo and YouTube via the React Native component react-native-video. My research so far points to this being virtually impossible, because react-native-video needs a direct reference to a file (or a stream?) and these references are hard/difficult to obtain for YouTube and Vimeo?

Is there any way to get react-native-video working with Vimeo & YouTube?

Answer

greg5green picture greg5green · Oct 11, 2016

react-native-video will work with Vimeo, if you subscribe to Vimeo Pro.

Vimeo Pro offers the ability to use your video own third party player, which lets you get the url for your video in 360p, 540p, 720p, or 1080p specifically or as an HTTP Live Streaming url which can choose the correct resolution/bitrate for the user's connection. react-native-video work with any of these formats!

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