Mux-Player-React vs Mux-Video-React

[jazsouf]

Hey,

I was looking into how to implement a performant video player in Next.js. I was reading through the code from the next-video library and ended up here.

I am having a hard time assessing the differences between mux-video-react and mux-player-react.

mux-video-react returns the HTML

Do the same packages still load HLS and have performance built-in? Does the mux-player-react just add a layer of styling and theming?

I will test both to see what's up but if anyone here has knowledge about this, any detail would be great to know!

[luwes]

Do the same packages still load HLS and have performance built-in? Does the mux-player-player just add a layer of styling and theming?

Indeed, this is the case. There are some other small details but generally yes mux-player-react adds the Mux themed UI on top of mux-video-react.

standalone mux-video-react is capable of loading HLS sources via the hls.js engine and also has the Mux data tracking built in.