# VideoManager
The MediaManager plugin allow to play audio and video with Xamarin. Using this VideoManager, you can create a dedicated view to render a video in your fabulous application.
MediaManager has been created by Martijn van Dijk and its original project can be found on [its github repository](https://github.com/martijn00/XamarinMediaManager).
The nuget [`Fabulous.XamarinForms.VideoManager`](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Fabulous.VideoManager) implements a view component for the type [VideoView](https://github.com/martijn00/XamarinMediaManager).
To use `Fabulous.XamarinForms.VideoView`, you must
1. Add a reference to `Plugin.MediaManager` and `Plugin.MediaManager.Forms` across your whole solution. This will add appropriate references to your platform-specific Android and iOS projects too.
2. Next add a reference to `Fabulous.XamarinForms.VideoManager` across your whole solution.
After these steps you can use VideoView in your view function. Here is a simple example of using VideoView to display a video player of Big Buck Bunny:
```fsharp
open Fabulous.XamarinForms
View.VideoView(
source = "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4",
showControls = false,
heightRequest = 500.,
widthRequest = 200.)
```
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