Measured entry
hextaui-video-player
A client-side React wrapper around the native video element with custom playback, seeking, volume, keyboard, auto-hide, and fullscreen controls. It ships as shadcn registry source and uses Tailwind theme utilities, class-variance-authority, lucide-react, and a local cn helper. Radix Slot is declared by the registry but not used in the component file.
Measured
Every value below was written by the harness on the run that produced the frames above. None of it is derived from the prose.
| Build | OK |
|---|---|
| Mount | OK |
| Console errors | 0 |
| Uncaught page errors | 0 |
| Horizontal overflow | clean at 375, 768, 1440 |
| Axe critical | 0 |
| Axe serious | 0 |
| Axe moderate | 0 |
| Axe minor | 0 |
| Gzip marginal | 30.5 KB (95.9 KB build, 65.4 KB baseline) |
| Bare mode | FAIL |
| Provider required | NO |
| Demo used | written from the component source API |
What the harness recorded
BARE BUILD
✗ Build failed in 1m 15s error during build: [vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/components/ui/video-player.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'
Verdict
A credible source-owned player for shadcn-based apps, with responsive mounting and a useful control set. It needs a shadcn-style setup because the bare project cannot resolve its local utility import, so adoption elsewhere is a small integration task rather than a direct copy.
Use it if
- You want source-owned controls that can be restyled with Tailwind classes.
- Your product needs keyboard playback, seeking, volume, and fullscreen controls in one compact component.
- Your app already follows shadcn import aliases, theme tokens, and utility conventions.
Skip it if
- You need a drop-in package for a plain React project with no Tailwind or shadcn conventions.
- You require built-in caption selection, playback-speed controls, picture-in-picture, or streaming-provider integration.
- You prefer native browser controls and do not want to own custom media behavior.
Install
| Declared dependencies | @radix-ui/react-slot |
|---|---|
| Missing on install | none |
| Bare install | fails once the shadcn-style helpers are removed, so it needs that setup |
| Provider | no provider required in the harness |
In a non-shadcn project, add React, Tailwind, class-variance-authority, and lucide-react; provide the expected cn utility and import alias or rewrite that import. Map the component's theme utility classes to your design tokens. The registry also declares Radix Slot, although this source does not import it.
Source and credit
This page is a review, not a copy. The component source lives with its author and this site does not republish it. Read the license before you use anything.
Author repository
github.com/preetsuthar17/HextaUIAlternatives
Other published entries for the video-player pattern, ordered by what they measured: mounts first, then clean axe scans, then bare-mode passes, then the smaller bundle.
- kibo-video-playerminimal-flat
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- YES
- A11y
- 0
- Gzip
- 73.5KB
- Bare
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- NO
- cultui-hover-video-playerliquid-glass
- Renders
- YES
- A11y
- 0
- Gzip
- 89.8KB
- Bare
- fail
- Prov
- NO