Expo Video (expo-av)

A library that provides an API to implement video playback and recording in apps.

Android

iOS

tvOS

Web

Bundled version:

~16.0.8

Deprecated: The Video component from expo-av, which is documented on this page, has now been deprecated and replaced by an improved version in expo-video. Learn about expo-video.

The Video component from expo-av displays a video inline with the other UI elements in your app.

Much of Video and Audio have common APIs that are documented in AV documentation. This page covers video-specific props and APIs. We encourage you to skim through this document to get basic video working, and then move on to AV documentation for more advanced functionality. The audio experience of video (such as whether to interrupt music already playing in another app, or whether to play sound while the phone is on silent mode) can be customized using the Audio API.

Installation

Terminal

- npx expo install expo-av

If you are installing this in an existing React Native app, make sure to install expo in your project.

Usage

Here's a simple example of a video with a play/pause button.

Video

import { useState, useRef } from 'react';
import { View, StyleSheet, Button } from 'react-native';
import { Video, ResizeMode } from 'expo-av';

export default function App() {
  const video = useRef(null);
  const [status, setStatus] = useState({});
  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <Video
        ref={video}
        style={styles.video}
        source={{
          uri: 'https://d23dyxeqlo5psv.cloudfront.net/big_buck_bunny.mp4',
        }}
        useNativeControls
        resizeMode={ResizeMode.CONTAIN}
        isLooping
        onPlaybackStatusUpdate={status => setStatus(() => status)}
      />
      <View style={styles.buttons}>
        <Button
          title={status.isPlaying ? 'Pause' : 'Play'}
          onPress={() =>
            status.isPlaying ? video.current.pauseAsync() : video.current.playAsync()
          }
        />
      </View>
    </View>
  );
}

%%placeholder-start%%const styles = StyleSheet.create({ ... }); %%placeholder-end%%const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#ecf0f1',
  },
  video: {
    alignSelf: 'center',
    width: 320,
    height: 200,
  },
  buttons: {
    flexDirection: 'row',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
});

For more advanced examples, check out the Playlist example, and the custom VideoPlayer controls component that wraps <Video>, adds custom controls and use the <Video> API extensively. The VideoPlayer controls is used in this app.

API

import { Video } from 'expo-av';

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Unified API

The rest of the API on the Video component ref is the same as the API for Audio.Sound - see the AV documentation for further information.