Using next-video player without providers

[nosovandrew]

My videos are stored in Cloudinary. Could I use just simple next-video player without any providers (like mux, vercel-blob, etc) like below:

import Video from 'next-video';

export default function Page() {
    return (
      <>
          <Video src="https://res.cloudinary.com/<pathtomp4>" />
      </>
    );
}

My next.config.mjs:

import { withNextVideo } from "next-video/process";
/** @type {import('next').NextConfig} */
const nextConfig = {
    compiler: {
        styledComponents: true,
    },
};

export default withNextVideo(nextConfig);

This method works, but I'm not sure about the rightness of this approach. I didn't find any info about this case in docs.

In addition, during compile my app generates empty file _next-video in /public folder, I don't know what is it.

[luwes]

That's a good question!

The default player supports mp4 files so it should be okay. One thing that might be less ideal is that in development mode only you might see a failed request to /api/video which tries to upload and process remote video files (see https:/muxinc/next-video#remote-videos)

The _next-video is a temporary symlink and it's gitignored, it can be ignored.
It's there to symlink /public/_next-video to the /videos folder so local videos can be temporarily played in dev mode.