How to use react-player with private video

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I’m experiencing countless issues with using the react-player with private video. Following this article I was under the impression that the api-video react-player would handle the X-Token-Session automatically. However, in practice, this does not seem to work in a SPA react app.

<ApiVideoPlayer
                video={{ id: videoId, token: token }}
                videoStyleObjectFit={'cover'}
                ref={videoRef}
                style={{
                    width: 'auto',
                    height: 300,
                    borderRadius: 4,
                    overflow: 'hidden',
                }}
 />

I am writing an app that opens a popup where the video can be played from. The first time I open the pop-up the video will plays fine, but if the popup is closed and re-opened the video is not available. Surely, I should not have to make a request for a new token each time? Are there any working examples of the react-player with private video?

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Hello Sean,

Thanks for your feedback. We have released a new version of our player that fixes this issue. It should work now on your side without you needing to update any dependencies.

Have a nice day!

Olivier