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Top Flutter Video packages
Last updated: May 18, 2026
Integrating video playback—whether streaming live events, playing local files, or integrating YouTube feeds—requires highly optimized rendering to prevent battery drain and UI stutter.
Best Practices for Video
- Platform Players: The official
video_playerpackage bridges Flutter to the highly optimized native players (ExoPlayer on Android, AVPlayer on iOS). Avoid pure-Dart implementations for video decoding. - Adaptive Bitrate Streaming: For cloud videos, do not serve static
.mp4files. Use HLS (.m3u8) or DASH formats. The video player will automatically switch to lower resolutions if the user's cellular connection drops, preventing buffering. - Lifecycle Management: Video playback consumes significant resources. You must pause the video and optionally release the controller resources when the app is backgrounded or the user navigates to another screen.
The complete list of Video Players, Video Streaming, and Video Manipulation packages is provided below.
video_player
👍 3.7K ⬇️ 2.3M
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter plugin for displaying inline video with other Flutter widgets on Android, iOS, macOS and web.
chewie
👍 2.34K ⬇️ 682K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A video player for Flutter with Cupertino and Material play controls
youtube_player_flutter
👍 1.69K ⬇️ 153.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter plugin for playing or streaming inline YouTube videos using the official iFrame player API. This plugin supports both Android and iOS.
media_kit
👍 891 ⬇️ 208.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A cross-platform video player & audio player for Flutter & Dart. Performant, stable, feature-proof & modular.
youtube_player_iframe
👍 660 ⬇️ 125.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter port of the official YouTube iFrame player API. Supports Android, iOS, macOS & Web.
video_thumbnail
👍 617 ⬇️ 131.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A flutter plugin for creating a thumbnail from a local video file or from a video URL.
youtube_explode_dart
👍 691 ⬇️ 35.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A port in dart of the youtube explode library. Supports several API functions without the need of Youtube API Key.
flick_video_player
👍 597 ⬇️ 21.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Flick Video Player is a video player for flutter. The video_player plugin gives low level access for the video playback.
flutter_vlc_player
👍 544 ⬇️ 6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A VLC-powered alternative to Flutter's video_player. Supports multiple players on one screen.
audio_video_progress_bar
👍 442 ⬇️ 34.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A progress bar widget to show or change the position of an audio or video stream.
pod_player
👍 435 ⬇️ 6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Vimeo and youtube player for flutter, Pod player provides customizable video player controls that support android, ios and web.
appinio_video_player
👍 292 ⬇️ 2.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A custom video player that builds on top of the official video_player package by flutter and adds many functionalities.
fijkplayer
👍 249 ⬇️ 918
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Video Player Flutter plugin based on ijkplayer, support most popular protocols and codecs
flutter_playout
👍 234 ⬇️ 194
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
This plugin provides audio/video playback from a URL with background audio support, lock screen controls & player events for both iOS and Android.
cached_video_player
👍 227 ⬇️ 560
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A new flutter plugin that is virtually a clone of official video_player plugin except that it supports caching( Android and iOS)
video_viewer
👍 219 ⬇️ 57
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Multiplatform minimalist video viewer with spectacular user experience.
cached_video_player_plus
👍 166 ⬇️ 48.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
The video_player plugin that went to therapy, worked on its commitment issues, and now actually remembers your videos!
ffmpeg_kit_flutter_new
👍 186 ⬇️ 22.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
FFmpeg Kit for Flutter with Full GPL and updated bindings. Supports Android, iOS and macOS platforms.
media_kit_video
👍 44 ⬇️ 192.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Native implementation for video playback in package:media_kit.
fwfh_chewie
👍 10 ⬇️ 214.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
WidgetFactory extension to render VIDEO with the chewie plugin.
fvp
👍 168 ⬇️ 12.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
video_player plugin and backend APIs. Support all desktop/mobile platforms with hardware decoders, optimal renders. Supports most formats via FFmpeg
better_player_plus
👍 162 ⬇️ 13.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Advanced video player based on video_player and Chewie. It's solves many typical use cases and it's easy to run.
video_player_media_kit
👍 107 ⬇️ 48.5K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
package:video_player support for all platforms, based on package:media_kit.
get_thumbnail_video
👍 63 ⬇️ 99.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A flutter plugin for creating a thumbnail from a local video file or from a video URL.
hmssdk_flutter
👍 138 ⬇️ 3.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Add Real Time Audio & Video calls, Interactive Live Streaming & Recording, Chat, HLS, RTMP, PiP, CallKit, VoIP, Video conferencing, Stream Player & WebRTC-based communications API
video_player_web_hls
👍 79 ⬇️ 22.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Web platform implementation of video_player and supports hls on chrome and other browsers.
native_video_player
👍 88 ⬇️ 2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter widget to play videos on iOS and Android using a native implementation.
vimeo_video_player
👍 80 ⬇️ 10.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter package to play Vimeo videos using their Video ID. Utilizes InAppWebView for smooth video playback directly in your Flutter app.
ext_video_player
👍 88 ⬇️ 39
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter plugin for displaying inline with other Flutter widgets on Android and iOS. This plugin also supports playing youtube videos & RTMP Streams
video_player_win
👍 68 ⬇️ 23.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Video player for Windows, lightweight, using Windows built-in Media Foundation API. Windows implementation of the video_player plugin.
lecle_yoyo_player
👍 86 ⬇️ 264
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Lecle YoYo Video Player is a HLS(.m3u8) video player for flutter. The YoyoPlayer is a video player that allows you to select HLS video streaming by selecting the quality.
youtube_api
👍 85 ⬇️ 89
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
YouTubeAPI is a plugin which directly interacts with YouTube server. Supports Searching video and playlist.
subtitle_wrapper_package
👍 79 ⬇️ 2.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Subtitle Wrapper package, this subtitle wrapper package displays subtitles for a video player.
flutter_video_info
👍 73 ⬇️ 8.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A flutter plugin to get basic metadata information of a video file.
omni_video_player
👍 56 ⬇️ 3.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter widget for playing videos from YouTube, Vimeo, assets, and network sources — fully customizable and easy to integrate.
flutter_video_caching
👍 56 ⬇️ 1.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Video caching, can use with video_player package. It supports formats like m3u8 and mp4, play and cache videos simultaneously, precache the video before playing.
flutter_to_airplay
👍 48 ⬇️ 11.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter plugin that offers two widgets, one to play a video for given url or file path using native AVPlayer and second with an option to airplay it on available Apple devices.
flutter_youtube_view
👍 53 ⬇️ 105
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A new Flutter plugin.
native_video_view
👍 51 ⬇️ 59
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A video player widget displayed using the platform native player (VideoView in Android and AVPlayer in iOS).
fc_native_video_thumbnail
👍 40 ⬇️ 10.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter plugin to create video thumbnails via native APIs.
double_tap_player_view
👍 45 ⬇️ 78
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
a widget to handle fast forward/rewind behavior by double tap and horizontal drag like a video player.
smooth_video_progress
👍 39 ⬇️ 1.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
An interpolated progress builder for video_player controllers
flutter_mjpeg
👍 38 ⬇️ 1.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter widget to show mjpeg stream from URL, mainly used by ip camera, stop itself when not on screen
flutter_hls_video_player
👍 38 ⬇️ 271
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A highly customizable and efficient HLS (m3u8) video player for Flutter applications. Supports adaptive bitrate, custom UI controls, and seamless streaming on Android & iOS.
subtitle
👍 37 ⬇️ 1.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A library that makes it easy to work with multiple subtitle/caption file formats, written with highly efficient code, highly customizable (90%), supports Null Safety.
river_player
👍 37 ⬇️ 378
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Same good old Better Player but it will get updated and fixed.
flutter_animated_progress_bar
👍 34 ⬇️ 886
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
An animated progress bar widget designed to be used with audio or video.
youtube_player_embed
👍 33 ⬇️ 1.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package for embedding YouTube videos with customizable options.
video_player_macos
👍 31 ⬇️ 1.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
MacOS implementation of the video_player plugin.
vimeo_player_flutter
👍 30 ⬇️ 1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Vimeo Player Flutter package for Flutter apps. Compatible with both iOS and Android platforms.
better_player_enhanced
👍 29 ⬇️ 1.9K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Advanced video player based on video_player and Chewie. Supports HLS, DASH, DRM, cache, subtitles, PiP, and much more. AndroidX Media3 powered.
youtube_shorts
👍 28 ⬇️ 66
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A vertical youtube shorts player. Show youtube shorts videos by a list of urls or the target channel name.
cached_video_preview
👍 27 ⬇️ 344
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Flutter plugin that can help you get remote or local video preview image and cache it.
y_player
👍 27 ⬇️ 191
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
YPlayer is a Flutter package that provides an easy-to-use YouTube video player widget
flutter_gpu_video_filters
👍 27 ⬇️ 146
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Image filters based on OpenGL fragment shaders with useful video preview widgets
modern_player
👍 27 ⬇️ 37
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Enhance your video playback experience with modern_player. A feature-rich Flutter package for flutter_vlc_player.
video_360
👍 26 ⬇️ 335
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Simple video 360 degree player (Android - Exoplayer, iOS - Swifty360Player)
video_js
👍 26 ⬇️ 175
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Video Library for Flutter, Easily use famuse video.js in flutter web
flutter_tencentplayer
👍 25 ⬇️ 108
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Is a native plugin for playing Tencent Cloud on-demand videos, live streaming, offline downloads, etc.
youtube_video_player
👍 25 ⬇️ 32
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A versatile Flutter package that allows you to easily integrate a YouTube player into your Flutter applications.
adaptive_video_player
👍 17 ⬇️ 139
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter video player for YouTube and direct video URLs with adaptive controls. Supports Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and Web.
teqani_youtube_player
👍 12 ⬇️ 9
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A fully custom, dependency-free video player specifically optimized for YouTube video streams on both iOS and Android.
video_preview_thumbnails
👍 8 ⬇️ 55
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Generate Video preview thumbnails using VTT files for enhanced video navigation and user experience
media_collection_previewer
👍 8 ⬇️ 23
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A versatile and user-friendly Flutter package for efficiently previewing and displaying media collections, such as images, audios and videos, with interactive features.
mjpeg_stream
👍 3 ⬇️ 95
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package for streaming MJPEG (Motion JPEG) video over HTTP
better_player
👍 1.3K ⬇️ 4K
Maintenance Status: Average
Advanced video player. It solves many typical use cases and it's easy to run.
yoyo_player
👍 125 ⬇️ 40
Maintenance Status: Poor
yoyo_player is a video player that allows you to select HLS video streaming by selecting the quality
videos_player
👍 50 ⬇️ 16
Maintenance Status: Poor
A flutter package to display list of video with help of chewie and video player
vimeoplayer
👍 49 ⬇️ 21
Maintenance Status: Poor
A new Flutter package for playing any videos from Vimeo by id.
awsome_video_player
👍 45 ⬇️ 41
Maintenance Status: Poor
This is a flutter package of video player. it's a very simple and easy to use.
iqplayer
👍 38 ⬇️ 42
Maintenance Status: Poor
Simple awesome video player with subtitle (you can load from assets, file, network, string).
flutter_torrent_streamer
👍 29 ⬇️ 19
Maintenance Status: Poor
A flutter plugin to stream videos directly from torrent/magnet links.
video_box
👍 23 ⬇️ 127
Maintenance Status: Poor
A control that plays video in flutter, I make the control as flexible as possible, can play a single video, video list on the page.
video_player_360
👍 23 ⬇️ 50
Maintenance Status: Poor
A flutter plugin to stream 360° videos on iOS and Android via a remote URL. The plugin uses the open source Google VR SDK.
video_thumbnail_generator
👍 21 ⬇️ 20
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter Plugin for creating a thumbnail from a Video URL. You can output the thumbnail as a Flutter Image Widget or Uint8List.