react-native-video: Cannot read property 'Constants' of null

Question

I am trying to include a YouTube video in my react native project. Since I already tried react-native-youtube and did not work at all I tried installing react-native-video.

However, I am getting the following error:

I tried: deleting my node_modules and npm i again followed by react-native link and react-native link react-native-video. Several times.

My package.json:

Theorize

your source? <Video /> component parameters? .... from source ` const RCTVideoInstance = this.getViewManagerConfig('RCTVideo');` fails – Mcelhaney

This is happening to me on android too, any help? – Coonhound

Answer 1

For Android using Expo and EAS Build I just ran

eas build --profile development --platform android

This fixed my issue

I assume with pure React Native too you just need to rebuild the App.

Cossack

Yes Sizo in React Native with Rebuild it works! Thank you – Heerlen

Answer 2

react-native: 0.63.4: the problem is with linking, the issue got fixed by following these steps:

• -removing the Pods folder from the ios folder:
• -removing the node modules
• -removing the build using this command: rm -rf ios/build
• -running Yarn to reinstall the packages
• -installing Pods using this command: cd ios && pod install --repo-update && cd ..
• -running the ios build
• -starting react native and removing the cache with this command: yarn start --reset-cache

Tortious

Answer 3

This worked for me

• react-native link
• cd ios && pod install
• check in podfile that react-native-video is added or not.
• If not add it manually and run pod install.
• then in xcode build Phases check search video , if you found video package already added then run app and check.
• otherwise add it manually in Link Binary with Libraries.
• and run app.

Stadiometer

And for android? – Coonhound

Answer 4

for me it was closing the metro window (I switched from project with react-native-video to a project with expo-av)

Frequency

Answer 5

For me, it was downloading packages with npm. I had installed expo-CLI and was downloading packages for react-native CLI. There's some cross package error i guess however if you're using expoCLI and missed this by mistake you can clean node_modules remove package-lock.json and use expo-video. https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/video/ or https://www.npmjs.com/package/expo-video-player

npm i expo-video-player

Dubious

Answer 6

An old build was the root of my problem. Had to delete the app and reinstall with xcode. Classic rinse and repeat.

"react-native": "0.74.3", "react-native-video": "^5.2.1",

For reference: https://github.com/TheWidlarzGroup/react-native-video/issues/1738#issuecomment-533917249

Knockwurst