Can't get ReactPlayer to work with redirect urls

[vincentchin]

I'm not sure how to get ReactPlayer to load a url like https://domain.com/redirects/files/20.

Right now it returns a video tag in FilePlayer but no src is being set. Any ideas how to config this?

[cookpete]

This is something I've been thinking about recently, especially with the demand for supporting blob URLs and RTSP URLs. I wonder if ReactPlayer should fall back to FilePlayer if a url is provided that no other player can play. Or perhaps a more explicit solution would be a forcePlayer prop to override the type of player to use, regardless of URL, like so:

import ReactPlayer, { FilePlayer } from 'react-player'

return (
  <ReactPlayer
    url='https://domain.com/redirects/files/20'
    playing={true}
    forcePlayer={FilePlayer}
  />
)

[vincentchin]

Hmm, would it make more sense to just have ReactPlayer default to FilePlayer and not render any of the other player components unless their config is passed in? Otherwise, I think the idea you suggested is good.

[belohlavek]

Can we get some implementation of this ASAP? Later on it'd possible to decide which method is more convenient!

Thanks making this component btw 😁

[cookpete]

I've pushed a possible fix to the fileplayer-default branch, if travis build passes I'll merge it in and publish a new version. Probably should be a minor version update as we lose the static canPlay method (now that any URL can technically be "played").

[cookpete]

Fixed in 0.8.0

[SmileHub]

Bringing up, ReactPlayer doesn't seem to follow redirects, for example:
Livestream redirect
https://lb.ims-cdn.net/redirect/live/live_ims_27863_01?type=m3u8

tested with
"react-player": "^2.13.0",

also tested in demo page here:
https://cookpete.com/react-player/