pod_player

Video player for flutter web & mobile devices, pod player supports playing video from Youtube and Vimeo

pod player is a simple and easy-to-use video player. Its video controls are similar to Youtube player (with customizable controls) and also can play videos from Youtube and Vimeo (By providing url/video_id).

This plugin built upon flutter's official video_player plugin

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PLATFORM	AVAILABLE
Android	✅
IOS	✅
WEB	✅

Features

• Play youtube videos (using video URL or ID)
• Play vimeo videos (using video ID [with ou without hash])
• Play vimeo private videos (using video ID [with ou without hash], access token)
• Video overlay similar to youtube
• Double tap to seek video.
• On video tap show/hide video overlay.
• Auto hide overlay
• Change playback speed
• Custom overlay
• Custom progress bar
• Custom labels
• Change video quality (for vimeo and youtube)
• Enable/disable full-screen player
• support for live youtube video
• [TODO] support for video playlist

Features on web

• Double tap on Video player to enable/disable full-screen

• Mute/unMute volume

• Video player integration with keyboard

  • SPACE play/pause video
  • M mute/unMute video
  • F enable/disable full-screen
  • ESC enable/disable full-screen
  • -> seek video forward
  • <- seek video backward

• Double tap on video (enable/disables full-screen)

Demo

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• Playing videos from youtube

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• Video player on web

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• Vimeo player and custom video player

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Change quality and playback speed	Control video from any where

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• Controls similar to youtube

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with overlay	without overlay (alwaysShowProgressBar = true)

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• On mobile full-screen

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• Video controls

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On Double tap	Custom progress bar

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• Video player on web

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Usage

• Installation
  • Android
  • Ios
  • Web
• How to use
• Configure pod player
• Add Thumbnail
• How to play video from youtube
• How to play video from vimeo
• How to play video from vimeo private videos
• video player Options
• Example

Installation

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In your pubspec.yaml file within your Flutter Project:

dependencies:
  pod_player: <latest_version>

Android

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If you are using network-based videos, ensure that the following permission is present in your Android Manifest file, located in <project root>/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

If you need to access videos using http (rather than https) URLs.

Located inside application tag

<application
  - - -
  - - - - - -
  android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"

Ios

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Add permissions to your app's Info.plist file,

located in <project root>/ios/Runner/Info.plist

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
  <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
  <true/>
</dict>

Web ( Not recommended in production)

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if u are using youtube or vimeo player on web, then there will be some issue with CORS only in web, so use this flutter_cors package

using flutter_cors package to enable or disable CORS

To Enable CORS (run this command )

dart pub global activate flutter_cors
fluttercors --enable

To Disable CORS (run this command )

fluttercors --disable

How to use

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import 'package:pod_player/pod_player.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class PlayVideoFromNetwork extends StatefulWidget {
  const PlayVideoFromNetwork({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  State<PlayVideoFromNetwork> createState() => _PlayVideoFromNetworkState();
}

class _PlayVideoFromNetworkState extends State<PlayVideoFromNetwork> {
  late final PodPlayerController controller;

  @override
  void initState() {
    controller = PodPlayerController(
      playVideoFrom: PlayVideoFrom.network(
        'https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ForBiggerFun.mp4',
      ),
    )..initialise();
    super.initState();
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    controller.dispose();
    super.dispose();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: PodVideoPlayer(controller: controller),
    );
  }
}

Configure pod player

  controller = PodPlayerController(
    playVideoFrom: PlayVideoFrom.youtube('https://youtu.be/A3ltMaM6noM'),
    podPlayerConfig: const PodPlayerConfig(
      autoPlay: true,
      isLooping: false,
      videoQualityPriority: [720, 360]
    )
  )..initialise();

Add Thumbnail

PodVideoPlayer(
  controller: controller,
  videoThumbnail: const DecorationImage(
    /// load from asset: AssetImage('asset_path')
    image: NetworkImage('https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1569317002804-ab77bcf1bce4?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxzZWFyY2h8MXx8dW5zcGxhc2h8ZW58MHx8MHx8&w=1000&q=80',
    ),
    fit: BoxFit.cover,
  ),
),

Add PodPlayerLabels (custom labels)

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Scaffold(
    body: PodVideoPlayer(
      controller: controller,
      podPlayerLabels: const PodPlayerLabels(
        play: "Play label customized",
        pause: "Pause label customized",
        ...
      ),
    ),
  );
}

How to play video from youtube

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import 'package:pod_player/pod_player.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class PlayVideoFromYoutube extends StatefulWidget {
  const PlayVideoFromYoutube({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  State<PlayVideoFromYoutube> createState() => _PlayVideoFromYoutubeState();
}

class _PlayVideoFromYoutubeState extends State<PlayVideoFromYoutube> {
  late final PodPlayerController controller;

  @override
  void initState() {
    controller = PodPlayerController(
      playVideoFrom: PlayVideoFrom.youtube('https://youtu.be/A3ltMaM6noM'),
    )..initialise();
    super.initState();
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    controller.dispose();
    super.dispose();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: PodVideoPlayer(controller: controller),
    );
  }
}

How to play video from vimeo

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import 'package:pod_player/pod_player.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class PlayVideoFromVimeo extends StatefulWidget {
  const PlayVideoFromVimeo({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  State<PlayVideoFromVimeo> createState() => _PlayVideoFromVimeoState();
}

class _PlayVideoFromVimeoState extends State<PlayVideoFromVimeo> {
  late final PodPlayerController controller;

  @override
  void initState() {
    controller = PodPlayerController(
      playVideoFrom: PlayVideoFrom.vimeo('518228118'),
    )..initialise();
    super.initState();
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    controller.dispose();
    super.dispose();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: PodVideoPlayer(controller: controller),
    );
  }
}

How to play video from vimeo with hash

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import 'package:pod_player/pod_player.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class PlayVideoFromVimeo extends StatefulWidget {
  const PlayVideoFromVimeo({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  State<PlayVideoFromVimeo> createState() => _PlayVideoFromVimeoState();
}

class _PlayVideoFromVimeoState extends State<PlayVideoFromVimeo> {
  late final PodPlayerController controller;

  @override
  void initState() {
    controller = PodPlayerController(
      playVideoFrom: PlayVideoFrom.vimeo('518228118', hash: '7cc595e1f8'),
    )..initialise();
    super.initState();
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    controller.dispose();
    super.dispose();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: PodVideoPlayer(controller: controller),
    );
  }
}

How to play video from vimeo private videos

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import 'package:pod_player/pod_player.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class PlayVideoFromVimeoPrivateVideo extends StatefulWidget {
  const PlayVideoFromVimeoPrivateVideo({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  State<PlayVideoFromVimeoPrivateVideo> createState() =>
          _PlayVideoFromVimeoPrivateVideoState();
}

class _PlayVideoFromVimeoPrivateVideoState
    extends State<PlayVideoFromVimeoPrivateVideo> {
  late final PodPlayerController controller;

  @override
  void initState() {
    String videoId = 'your private video id';
    String token = 'your access token';
    final Map<String, String> headers = <String, String>{};
    headers['Authorization'] = 'Bearer ${token}';

    controller = PodPlayerController(
      playVideoFrom: PlayVideoFrom.vimeoPrivateVideos(
        videoId,
        httpHeaders: headers
      ),
    )..initialise();
    super.initState();
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    controller.dispose();
    super.dispose();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: PodVideoPlayer(controller: controller),
    );
  }
}

Options

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• Options for mobile

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Normal player option	Vimeo player option	Change quality of video

Example

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Please run the app in the example/ folder to start playing!