# video-react/video-react

A web video player built for the HTML5 world using React library.

Repository: https://github.com/video-react/video-react
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/video-react
Homepage: https://video-react.js.org/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: web-video-player, react-components, react-component, video-player, react-video, react-video-player
Last push: 2024-09-25T15:17:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3626, "days_push": 707, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2725, forks 392 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:15.826066+00:00)

## What it is
Video.React is a customizable HTML5 web video player built as React components, inspired by video.js. It provides a Player component with controls, styling via CSS/SCSS, and broad browser support.

## Use cases
- embed a video player in a react app
- customizable html5 video player component
- play mp4 videos with react
- replace default html5 video controls
- add video playback to a react website

## When to choose
- you need a React-native video player with customizable controls
- you want a video.js-inspired player without leaving the React ecosystem
- you need broad browser support for HTML5 video playback

## When to avoid
- you need advanced streaming features like DRM or adaptive bitrate out of the box
- you are not using React
- you need a player with active heavy development, since maintenance has transferred to Mux

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: video-processing, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, media
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: react, video-player, html5-video, react-components, media-playback, video, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- video-react/video-react (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:15.826066+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 2026-08-30T02:14:50.473452+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/video-react/video-react (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:15.826066+00:00, sha 039aad76a34f)
  - homepage: https://video-react.js.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:58:19.459004+00:00, sha 60429b2607ff)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/video-react (fetched 2026-08-29T09:58:19.467865+00:00, sha 78d17b564b0a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.