Cross-Platform Media Player

This can play HLS, DASH and SmoothStreaming files across all platforms.

For iOS, there are limitations:

• The URL should end with .mpd
• MPD files can not be live
• Its format should match as described in

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🙌 Inspiration & Credits

Inspired by:

• Video.js
  A powerful and extensible web video player — this project builds upon its robust playback capabilities by wrapping it for use in Kotlin Multiplatform WASM/JS.

Credits:

• Hamamas/Kotlin-Wasm-Html-Interop
  Special thanks for providing seamless HTML and DOM interop in Kotlin/WASM. This library made it possible to build this project without relying on dynamic, js(), or unsafe interop hacks.

• ShreyashKore/wonderous_compose
  Helped me figure out the trick to make it run on Kotlin/JS.

• open-ani/mediamp (mediamp-vlc)
  Thanks to this, Desktop support is now possible without requiring VLC to be installed on the system — VLC binaries are shipped with the application itself.

• MPEGDASHAVPlayerDemo
  Thanks to this, I got some idea to parse DASH files for IOS.

• A big thanks to @tinku466 and @Vikesh for helping me with the SPM setup and the sample tvOS app — couldn’t have done it this smoothly without your support!

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🎬 Demo

Web Demo:

Desktop Demo:

iOS Demo:

Android Demo:

Android Wear Demo:

Android TV Demo:

Android Automative Demo:

Android XR Demo:

Apple tv Demo:

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✅ Completed Platform Targets

• Kotlin/WASM
• Kotlin/JS
• Kotlin/Desktop (bundled VLC binaries — no external installation needed)
• Android Phone/Tablet/XR
• iOS
• Android Wear(standalone)
• Apple TV

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✅ Features Completed

• Initialization
• Play
• Pause
• Dispose
• Change media

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🔜 Pending Features

• Event tracking
• Custom UI
• Testing

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⏭️ Next Upcoming Target

• Will try for apple watch via companion app

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📦 Native Binary Packaging (Desktop)

Desktop support ships with pre-bundled VLC binaries, meaning it works even if VLC is not installed on the user’s machine.

Example folder structure:

desktopApp/
 |- appResources/
 |  |- macos-arm64/
 |  |  |- lib/
 |  |  |  |- libvlc.dylib
 |  |  |- plugins/
 |  |  |  |- xxx.dylib
 |  |- macos-x64/
 |  |  |- lib/
 |  |  |  |- libvlc.dylib
 |  |  |- plugins/
 |  |  |  |- xxx.dylib
 |  |- windows-x64/
 |  |  |- lib/
 |  |  |  |- libvlc.dll
 |  |  |  |- plugins/
 |  |- linux-x64/
 |  |  |- lib/
 |  |  |  |- libvlc.so
 |- src/
 |- build.gradle.kts

Notes:

• It is in very early stage, so mostly for development purposes. Once all platforms are integrated, we’ll deep dive into proper functionality.
• Currently, macOS binaries are included. You can extend this to other platforms by adding respective VLC builds.
• On the first run, VLC may take ~2 minutes to cache/generate plugins.dat.
  From the second run onward, startup time reduces to ~7–10 seconds.