useVideo Causes Hot Reload Crash On Fresh Expo App

[vinceprofeta]

Description

Hot reloading is causing an app crash with useVideo. No Error Logs. I have tried with a local asset using expo-asset still causing a crash on hot reload.

export default function HomeScreen() {
  const video = useVideo(
    'https://file-examples.com/storage/fe602ed48f677b2319947f8/2017/04/file_example_MP4_480_1_5MG.mp4',
    {
      looping: true,
    },
  )
  return <View/>
}

React Native Skia Version

^1.8.2

React Native Version

0.76.5

Using New Architecture

• Enabled

Steps to Reproduce

Fresh Expo Install
Latest RN Skia Install
Implement useVideo hook
Add a log or text to force hot reload.
Crash

Snack, Code Example, Screenshot, or Link to Repository

export default function HomeScreen() {
  const video = useVideo(
    'https://file-examples.com/storage/fe602ed48f677b2319947f8/2017/04/file_example_MP4_480_1_5MG.mp4',
    {
      looping: true,
    },
  )
  return <View/>
}

[wcandillon]

hello there 👋 react-native-skia-video might be better suited for you: https://github.com/AzzappApp/react-native-skia-video
We are aware of two strong packages that leverage Video + Skia and we think they'll do a better job at doing video than us. We might consider deprecating useVideo in the near future. I hope this helps.

[vinceprofeta]

@wcandillon Thanks!

I spent a few hours trying to understand what was going on. Please add a note to the documentation.

[wcandillon]

Yes we will consolidate the situation in the short term regarding this.

[Nipun3120]

@wcandillon any eta on this ? i'm facing the same issue

[stemyke]

@wcandillon My big problem with this is that I landed here from Expo Go also, because I want to do a screenshot of a video displayed in my app without covering the view without any extra image. My problem is that I am not only experiancing the problem on HOT reload but always and the library you mentioned is not included in Expo Go. Do you maybe have any other ideas?