react-native-subtitles

Add subtitles to any video given a current timestamp.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage

Installation

$ npm install react-native-subtitles --save

Usage

import Subtitles from 'react-native-subtitles'

<Subtitles
    {...{ currentTime, hasSeeked }}
    selectedsubtitle={{ 
      file:
        'https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/sintel/subtitles/subtitles_en.vtt',
    }} 
/>

Props

• currentTime
• hasSeeked
• selectedsubtitle
• containerStyle
• textStyle

currentTime

Integer with the current time. It should change every second, yes. A common use case would be having a video an setting a state with the current time as it changes.

hasSeeked

When the time is changed the Subtitles component should re evaluate the subtitles file and get the current text for the given time. You can pass a simple boolean and invert it every time the video seeked a new timestamp.

selectedsubtitle

An object with the file property containing the url. You can add more properties to this object, like name or lang, to use on the frontend for changing between each one.

containerStyle

The style for the container

textStyle

The style for the text