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CloudflareVideo

Video component that plays Cloudflare Stream videos through the Stream player

Video component that plays Cloudflare Stream videos through the Stream player embed. Cloudflare’s own chrome stays hidden by default, so it drops into a player skin like any other media component; set controls to use Cloudflare’s UI instead.

Load a source

src takes a raw 32-character video UID, any cloudflarestream.com or videodelivery.net URL, or a signed token. Watch, embed, iframe, manifest, and thumbnail URLs all carry the UID in the same position, and a signed token stands in for the UID wherever one appears.

<CloudflareVideo src="https://watch.videodelivery.net/bfbd585059e33391d67b0f1d15fe6ea4" />

Signed playback

For signed URLs, pass the signed token wherever the UID would go: as the whole src, or inside a Stream URL. Keep your customer subdomain when your URLs name one. Cloudflare serves signed and access-controlled videos only from customer-<code>.cloudflarestream.com, so the element preserves that origin instead of collapsing it onto the shared host.

Behavior

A few things work differently from a native <video> element, because the Stream embed doesn’t expose them:

  • The embed owns text tracks: textTracks stays empty, and engine.cloudflare.defaultTextTrack picks the track to show.
  • Picture-in-picture is unavailable, and the player reports it as unsupported.
  • Fullscreen targets the iframe, so Cloudflare’s own chrome shows in fullscreen.
  • playsInline has no effect: the Stream embed always plays inline.

Examples

Basic Usage

import { CloudflareVideo } from '@videojs/react/media/cloudflare-video';

export default function BasicUsage() {
  return (
    <div className="cloudflare-video">
      <CloudflareVideo src="https://watch.videodelivery.net/bfbd585059e33391d67b0f1d15fe6ea4" controls />
    </div>
  );
}

API Reference

Props

Accepts these Video.js-specific props:

PropTypeDefaultDetails
autoplaybooleanfalse
controlsbooleanfalse
defaultMutedbooleanfalse
loopbooleanfalse
mutedbooleanfalse
playsInlinebooleantrue
posterstring''
preloadMediaPreloadType'metadata'
sourceCloudflareSource | nullnull
srcstring''

Engine options

source.engine.cloudflare

Pass Stream player parameters under source.engine.cloudflare, spelled exactly as Cloudflare spells them, plus anything Cloudflare adds next. They’re serialized onto the embed URL untouched, and the embed reads them once, when its URL is built. Media Sources covers how engine options fit into a structured source.

controls, autoplay, loop, muted, preload, and poster come from the props of the same name, so they have no engine.cloudflare spelling.

<CloudflareVideo
  source={{
    src: 'bfbd585059e33391d67b0f1d15fe6ea4',
    engine: { cloudflare: { primaryColor: '#f03e3e', startTime: '5m30s' } },
  }}
/>
OptionTypeDetails
ad-urlstring
defaultTextTrackstring
letterboxColorstring
primaryColorstring
referrerPolicyReferrerPolicy
startTimestring | number

Ref

Forwards its ref to the rendered <iframe>. The ref is an HTMLIFrameElement. Control playback with the component props and player APIs rather than the iframe ref.