video_player_media_kit 0.0.8

this package allows video_player to work across platforms by using media_kit

Video Player Media Kit

Video Player Media Kit is a platform interface for video player using media_kit to work on Windows and Linux and macos. This interface allows you to play videos seamlessly in your flutter application.

Note: this package allows video_player to work across platforms

video_player is the package used for playing videos on Android, iOS, and web platforms.

media_kit is the package used for handling multimedia functionalities on Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms.

How to use

To use Video Player Media Kit in your application, follow the steps below:

1. Setup

Windows

Everything ready.

Linux

System shared libraries from distribution specific user-installed packages are used by-default. You can install these as follows.

Ubuntu / Debian

sudo apt install libmpv-dev mpv

Packaging

There are other ways to bundle these within your app package e.g. within Snap or Flatpak. Few examples:

• Celluloid
• VidCutter

Note: macos is not tested (if you have any problems open an issue)

macOS

Everything ready.

The minimum supported macOS version is 11.0,set MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 11.0 macos\Runner.xcodeproj\project.pbxproj

Also, during the build phase, the following warnings are not critical and cannot be silenced:

#import "Headers/media_kit_video-Swift.h"
        ^
/path/to/media_kit/media_kit_test/build/macos/Build/Products/Debug/media_kit_video/media_kit_video.framework/Headers/media_kit_video-Swift.h:270:31: warning: 'objc_ownership' only applies to Objective-C object or block pointer types; type here is 'CVPixelBufferRef' (aka 'struct __CVBuffer *')
- (CVPixelBufferRef _Nullable __unsafe_unretained)copyPixelBuffer SWIFT_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;

# 1 "<command line>" 1
 ^
<command line>:20:9: warning: 'POD_CONFIGURATION_DEBUG' macro redefined
#define POD_CONFIGURATION_DEBUG 1 DEBUG=1 
        ^
#define POD_CONFIGURATION_DEBUG 1
        ^

iOS (replace original video_player with media_kit one)

1. The minimum supported iOS version is 13.0,set IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to 13.0 in ios\Runner.xcodeproj\project.pbxproj
2. Just add this package in case you set iosUseMediaKit to true in initVideoPlayerMediaKitIfNeeded

dependencies:
  ...
  media_kit_libs_ios_video: ^1.0.4               # iOS package for video native libraries.

Android (replace original video_player with media_kit one)

dependencies:
  ...
  media_kit_libs_android_video: ^1.0.0           # Android package for video native libraries.

1. Add the Video Player Media Kit dependency in your pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  video_player_media_kit: ^0.0.5

3. Import the package in your Dart code

import 'package:video_player_dart_vlc/video_player_media_kit.dart';

4. Initialize the Video Player Media Kit interface in the main function of your app

void main() {
  initVideoPlayerMediaKitIfNeeded(); //parameter iosUseMediaKit can be used to make ios use media_kit instead of video_player
  runApp(MyApp());
}

now video_player will work on any platform.