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.

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📚 Documentation & Examples

- 📖 Documentation
- 📦 Example: Free DRM Stream
- 📦 Example: Offline SDK integration

🚀 Quick Start

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``bash

Install dependencies

yarn add react-native-video

Install pods

cd ios && pod install
`

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`tsx
import Video from 'react-native-video';

export default () => (
source={{ uri: 'https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4' }}
style={{ width: '100%', aspectRatio: 16 / 9 }}
controls
/>
);
`

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🧩 Plugins





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#### Need Offline Video Playback in React Native?

If you're building a video-first app and need to download HLS streams for offline playback, you're in the right place.

#### 👉 Check Offline Video SDK for React Native

This SDK supports:
- 🎞 Offline HLS playback
- 🎧 Multi-language audio track downloads
- 💬 Subtitles support
- 🔐 DRM license handling
- 📊 Analytics & state tracking

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#### 🔑 How to get access?

- Get a free trial (no credit card required)
- Use our starter project to see it in action
- Integrates with both v6 and v7` versions

👉 Start Free Trial on the SDK Platform →

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Write your own plugins to extend library logic, attach analytics or add custom workflows - without forking the core SDK.
→ Plugin documentation

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💼 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

- 🗽 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 »

- 🛠️ Well-maintained open-source library - What does it truly mean? - Bart's talk for React Native Warsaw
Watch here »

- 📺 “Over the Top” Panel - Building Streaming Apps for Mobile, Web, and Smart TVs - Bart giving his insights on the industry
Watch here »