# muxinc/next-video

The easiest way to add video in your Nextjs app.

Repository: https://github.com/muxinc/next-video
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/next-video
Homepage: https://next-video.dev
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: next, nextjs, react-video, video, video-processing, video-streaming, hacktoberfest, react, video-player
Last push: 2026-06-09T05:23:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 85/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 86, release rhythm 87, longevity 81
- inputs: {"age_days": 1135, "days_push": 85, "days_rel": 86, "gap_med": 18.5, "n_releases_24m": 27}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1222, forks 69 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:02.515624+00:00)

## What it is
next-video is a React component and CLI for adding video to Next.js applications, with automatic video optimization, off-repo storage, adaptive streaming, and customizable player UI. It defaults to Mux as the video backend but supports pluggable providers.

## Use cases
- add video to a next.js app
- optimize and stream video files in react
- store large video files outside git
- add video player with timeline hover thumbnails
- auto-generate captions for videos
- prevent layout shift with video poster placeholders

## When to choose
- you're building a Next.js app and want drop-in video embedding
- you want automatic transcoding, CDN delivery, and adaptive streaming without building it yourself
- you want optional analytics and AI captions for video content

## When to avoid
- you're not using Next.js or React
- you need full control over your own video encoding pipeline
- you don't want a dependency on an external video service like Mux

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, ui-components, file-upload
- domain: web-development, frontend, media
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: nextjs, react, video-player, video-streaming, mux, adaptive-streaming, captions, video, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- muxinc/next-video (main) score 85

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:02.515624+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:15:38.843569+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/muxinc/next-video (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:02.515624+00:00, sha c4e5028c8d51)
  - homepage: https://next-video.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T12:23:59.502511+00:00, sha ef700c558bca)
  - site_page: https://next-video.dev/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T12:23:59.511511+00:00, sha 5a3ecf80a1a3)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/next-video (fetched 2026-08-29T12:23:59.513299+00:00, sha ec44aad88be9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.