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Flutter needs a way to play inline video #2319
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I thought we already had a bug on this, but I don't see one.
It is currently possible to play video fullscreen or over-the-top of other Flutter content, and there are various community-authored plugins to make that easy (e.g. https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/video_launcher)
However this bug is about making it possible to have inline video content (e.g. a video inside a scrolling ScrollView widget inside your Flutter app) properly clipped/positioned/composited with other Flutter content.
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chinmaygarde commentedon Mar 17, 2017
This is video that is part of the layer tree right? As opposed to a control that is placed by the embedder over the Flutter view. If it is the latter, the existing platform messages API should allow custom embedders to control platform widgets manually. I can take a look at introducing a custom layers type that allows us to support video within the layer tree.
abarth commentedon Mar 18, 2017
Correct.
[-]Flutter needs a way to play a video[/-][+]Flutter needs a way to play inline video[/+]mravn-google commentedon Nov 2, 2017
Fixed by texture support #12525. A demo plugin for making use of this facility for video playback is available here.
eseidelGoogle commentedon Nov 2, 2017
Exciting. :D Are there bugs tracking the remaining planned work around inline video (e.g. publishing that package, updating it's readme, possibly including an example of video playback in one of our examples, etc.)?
xster commentedon Nov 2, 2017
+1 on publishing the plugin
(nit: would it make sense to let the plugin publish a VideoPlayer widget object with a controller rather than a Texture?)
mravn-google commentedon Nov 2, 2017
@eseidelGoogle I'll add links here once there are.
@xster Yes, in fact @sigurdm and I just discussed that today.
sethladd commentedon Dec 12, 2017
People following along might also be interested in https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/chewie , a video player with platform aesthetic controls.
sethladd commentedon Dec 28, 2017
Canonical location for the video player plugin is now here: https://github.com/flutter/plugins/tree/master/packages/video_player
JohnGalt1717 commentedon Feb 27, 2018
chinmaygarde commentedon Feb 27, 2018
The plugin uses the platform's video playback mechanism. So MediaPlayer on Android and AVPlayer on iOS. This issue was related to using the textures for video feeds generated by the platform during composition of the Flutter layer tree.
I can't answer your question about support for specific features but you might find the answer in the linked documentation.
keremkusmezer commentedon Dec 12, 2018
I see they moved to exoplayer for Android
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