About av_media_player

A lightweight Flutter media player with subtitle rendering¹ and track selection, leveraging system components for seamless playback and video rendering via Flutter's Texture widget. For API documentation, please visit here.

Platform	Version	Backend
iOS	15+	AVPlayer
macOS	12+	AVPlayer
Android	8+	ExoPlayer
Windows	10+	MediaPlayer
Linux	N/A	libmpv2

Supported media formats

The supported media formats vary by platform but generally include:

Type	Formats
Video Codec	H.264, H.265(HEVC)3
Audio Codec	AAC, MP3
Container Format	MP4, TS
Subtitle Format	WebVTT4
Transfer Protocol	HTTP, HLS, LL-HLS

Footnotes

1. Only internal subtitle tracks are supported. External subtitle files are not. ↩

2. The Linux backend requires libmpv(aka mpv-libs). Developers integrating this plugin into Linux app should install libmpv-dev(aka mpv-libs-devel) instead. If unavailable in your package manager, please build libmpv from source. For details, refer to mpv-build. ↩

3. Windows user may need to install a free H.265(HEVC) decoder from Microsoft Store. ↩

4. WebVTT is supported on all platforms except Linux, where SRT and ASS formats are supported instead. ↩