/video-compression

A react native library to decrease size of recorded video (only in android).

Primary LanguageJava

react-native-video-compression

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-video-compression --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-video-compression

Manual installation

iOS

  1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
  2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-video-compression and add RNVideoCompression.xcodeproj
  3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNVideoCompression.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
  4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Android

  1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java
  • Add import com.reactlibrary.RNVideoCompressionPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
  • Add new RNVideoCompressionPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method
  1. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle: 
    include ':react-native-video-compression'
project(':react-native-video-compression').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-video-compression/android')
  2. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle: 
      compile project(':react-native-video-compression')

Windows

Read it! :D

  1. In Visual Studio add the RNVideoCompression.sln in node_modules/react-native-video-compression/windows/RNVideoCompression.sln folder to their solution, reference from their app.
  2. Open up your MainPage.cs app
  • Add using Video.Compression.RNVideoCompression; to the usings at the top of the file
  • Add new RNVideoCompressionPackage() to the List<IReactPackage> returned by the Packages method

Usage

import RNVideoCompression from 'react-native-video-compression';

RNVideoCompression.getCompressedFile(videofilePath)
.then(res => console.log(res))

It will print compressed video file path.