Dash Player

Dash Player is a Dash component for playing a variety of URLs, including file paths, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, SoundCloud, Streamable, Vimeo, Wistia, Mixcloud, and DailyMotion. It is wrapped around the ReactPlayer component.

For updates and more, please see the ongoing changes to this repository's issue tracker or the Dash community discussion on Dash Player.

This is a custom community component, so if your organization or company is interested in sponsoring enhancements to this project, please reach out to the Plotly Dash team.

Getting started

Here are the following steps to get started with using Dash Player in your own Dash apps

$ pip install dash-player

Documentation

Prop	Description	Default
id	The ID used to identify this component in Dash callbacks.
className	The CSS class used to identify this component in external stylesheets.
url	The url of the media to be played.
playing	Whether or not the media is currently playing. Can be set to True or False to play and pause the media, respectively.	false
loop	Whether or not the media will loop once the player reaches the end. Can be set to True or False to set looping on or off, respectively.	false
controls	Set to true or false to display native player controls. Vimeo, Twitch and Wistia player will always display controls.	false
volume	A number between 0 and 1 representing the volume of the player. If set to None, Dash Player ises default volume on all players.	null
muted	Set to true or false to mute or unmute player volume, respectively. Only works if volume is set.	false
playbackRate	Set the playback rate of the player (only supported by YouTube, Wistia, and file paths).
width	A number or string representing the pixel width of the player.	640px
height	A number or string representing the pixel height of the player.	360px
style	Optional additional CSS styles. If width or height are supplied within style, then this will override the component-level width or height.	{}
playsinline	Applies the html5 playsinline attribute where supported, which allows videos to be played inline and will not automatically enter fullscreen mode when playback begins (for iOS).	false
currentTime	Returns the number of seconds that have been played
secondsLoaded	Returns the number of seconds that have been loaded
duration	Returns the duration (in seconds) of the currently playing media
intervalCurrentTime	Interval in milliseconds at which currentTime prop is updated.	40
intervalSecondsLoaded	Interval in milliseconds at which secondsLoaded prop is updated.	500
intervalDuration	Interval in milliseconds at which duration prop is updated.	500
seekTo	Seek to the given number of seconds, or fraction if amount is between 0 and 1	null

Built With

• Dash - Main server and interactive components
• ReactPlayer - The react component that was wrapped by this

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Authors

• Xing Han - Initial Work - @xhluca
• Alex Hsu - Maintainer/Ongoing Developer - @alexshoe
• Alex Johnson - Code Review - @alexcjohnson

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details