HLS Support for Video

[tslater]

Description

Skia does currently support HLS video (tested on iOS).

Here is a reference video from Apple (the inventor of the format):
https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/streaming/examples/bipbop_16x9/bipbop_16x9_variant.m3u8

[wcandillon]

Do you know if react-native supports it? This would be our go to for Videos in Skia.

[tslater]

Yes. All native video players support it and all the main video packages for react native do as a result of that. Which means react-native-video and expo-video both support it. After posting this issue I found out that @azzapp/react-native-skia-video supports it. That is an experimental package, and required some weird patching to get building, so ideally we'd be able to use it directly in react-native-skia without react-native-skia-video.

[wcandillon]

Our plan is to push people towards react-native-skia-video as we will not be able to provide the same level of support as they do. Our goal on the RN Skia side is more to make sure the foundation is there for third party packages to integrate with Skia. One thing we can do on our side is to use react-native-skia-video in our example app so we can see if something breaks for instance. You are welcome to contribute HLS support to RN Skia directly but there are other issues with our current video support (on Android, the seek/play does not work correctly).

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On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM Tyler Sl8r ***@***.***> wrote: Yes. All native video players support it and all the main video packages for react native do as a result of that. Which means react-native-video and expo-video both support it. After posting this issue I found out that @azzapp/react-native-skia-video supports it. That is an experimental package, and required some weird patching to get building, so ideally we'd be able to use it directly in react-native-skia without react-native-skia-video. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub or unsubscribe. You are receiving this email because you commented on the thread. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS or Android.

[tslater]

@wcandillon after spending some more time with this, react-native-skia-video is not a great solution. I had to patch it just to get it to work with iOS on RN 77, and it didn't work on android. We just upgraded to RN 79 and it doesn't work at all. We don't need seek but we do need HLS Support so we will consider a contribution.