Can't load video from assets

[matthew-carroll]

I'm trying to use this video player in a presentation app, similar to Powerpoint or Keynote.

I have videos packaged with my app assets that I'd like to play in the presentation. However, VideoPlayerController.asset("...") triggers an unimplemented error when initialize()ing.

Code:

_videoPlayerController = VideoPlayerController.asset("assets/content/demo_graph-paper.mov");
await _videoPlayerController.initialize();
_videoPlayerController.play();

Error:

[ERROR:flutter/lib/ui/ui_dart_state.cc(198)] Unhandled Exception: PlatformException(video_player, not implemented, null, null)
#0      VideoPlayerApi.create (package:video_player_platform_interface/messages.dart:189:7)
<asynchronous suspension>
#1      MethodChannelVideoPlayer.create (package:video_player_platform_interface/method_channel_video_player.dart:53:37)
<asynchronous suspension>
#2      VideoPlayerController.initialize (package:video_player/video_player.dart:363:19)
<asynchronous suspension>
#3      _PresentationState._setupVideoPlayer (package:presentations/main.dart:88:5)
<asynchronous suspension>

Dependencies:

video_player_macos:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/ollydixon/flutter_macos_video_player
      path: packages/video_player/video_player_macos
  video_player:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/ollydixon/flutter_macos_video_player
      path: packages/video_player/video_player

[kekko7072]

+1

[MinuteReversal]

+1

[ollyde]

Unfortunately don’t have time to fix this. I though by now Flutter would have a video player!

open to PR requests though ☺️

[srix55]

Flutter seems to be waiting for the platform-view feature for desktop. Not sure what the progress is.

[ollyde]

They've been working on that for a long time.

[cbenhagen]

This depends on flutter/flutter#47681 which hopefully will soon be fixed by flutter/engine#37421.