[video_player] add support for content-uri based videos

packages/video_player/video_player/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 2.2.0
+
+* Add `contentUri` based VideoPlayerController.
+
 ## 2.1.15
 
 * Ensured seekTo isn't called before video player is initialized. Fixes [#89259](https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/89259).

packages/video_player/video_player/lib/video_player.dart

@@ -222,6 +222,21 @@ class VideoPlayerController extends ValueNotifier<VideoPlayerValue> {
         httpHeaders = const {},
         super(VideoPlayerValue(duration: Duration.zero));
 
+  /// Constructs a [VideoPlayerController] playing a video from a contentUri.
+  ///
+  /// This will load the video from the input content-URI.
+  /// This is supported on Android only.
+  VideoPlayerController.contentUri(Uri contentUri,
+      {this.closedCaptionFile, this.videoPlayerOptions})
+      : assert(defaultTargetPlatform == TargetPlatform.android,
+            'VideoPlayerController.contentUri is only supported on Android.'),
+        dataSource = contentUri.toString(),
+        dataSourceType = DataSourceType.contentUri,
+        package = null,
+        formatHint = null,
+        httpHeaders = const {},
+        super(VideoPlayerValue(duration: Duration.zero));
+
   /// The URI to the video file. This will be in different formats depending on
   /// the [DataSourceType] of the original video.
   final String dataSource;
@@ -298,6 +313,12 @@ class VideoPlayerController extends ValueNotifier<VideoPlayerValue> {
           uri: dataSource,
         );
         break;
+      case DataSourceType.contentUri:
+        dataSourceDescription = DataSource(
+          sourceType: DataSourceType.contentUri,
+          uri: dataSource,
+        );
+        break;
     }
 
     if (videoPlayerOptions?.mixWithOthers != null) {

packages/video_player/video_player/pubspec.yaml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ description: Flutter plugin for displaying inline video with other Flutter
   widgets on Android, iOS, and web.
 repository: https://github.com/flutter/plugins/tree/master/packages/video_player/video_player
 issue_tracker: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22p%3A+video_player%22
-version: 2.1.15
+version: 2.2.0
 
 environment:
   sdk: ">=2.12.0 <3.0.0"
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ dependencies:
   flutter:
     sdk: flutter
   meta: ^1.3.0
-  video_player_platform_interface: ^4.1.0
+  video_player_platform_interface: ^4.2.0
   # The design on https://flutter.dev/go/federated-plugins was to leave
   # this constraint as "any". We cannot do it right now as it fails pub publish
   # validation, so we set a ^ constraint. The exact value doesn't matter since

packages/video_player/video_player/test/video_player_test.dart

@@ -284,6 +284,15 @@ void main() {
       });
     });
 
+    test('contentUri', () async {
+      final VideoPlayerController controller =
+          VideoPlayerController.contentUri(Uri.parse('content://video'));
+      await controller.initialize();
+
+      expect(fakeVideoPlayerPlatform.dataSourceDescriptions[0].uri,
+          'content://video');
+    });
+
     test('dispose', () async {
       final VideoPlayerController controller = VideoPlayerController.network(
         'https://127.0.0.1',