Video streaming integration for Flutter and TV apps.

Flutter's built-in video widget is fine for simple clips and poor for OTT. A production streaming app usually needs a player built on ExoPlayer for Android and AVPlayer for iOS, with shared controls on top.

That gives adaptive bitrate, buffering strategy, subtitle tracks, audio tracks, quality selection and the events needed for analytics.

Resume where they left off, skip intro, next episode, a loading state that shows progress, controls that hide after a few seconds, and a back button that does not accidentally exit the app. On TV, focus movement between controls is part of the experience.

These are small features that decide whether a streaming app feels professional or homemade.

Playback integrates with the CDN, transcoding and DRM provider you already use. The app consumes signed URLs or tokens from your backend, not hard-coded links, so content can be protected and revoked.

Where content is licensed, the DRM step is mandatory — I integrate the vendor SDK rather than inventing a protection scheme.

Users on metered data want lower default quality; TV users on broadband want the best available. Both should be able to choose. Concurrent stream limits and device registration keep shared accounts from becoming a revenue leak.

Playback analytics — start, buffer, error, completion — show where viewers actually drop off.