Showing subtitles (closed captions) embedded in MP4 file
Hi,
In jwPlayer 5.9 i was able to show subtitles with ClosedCaptions plugin even when they were embedded in mp4 file.
Currently for jwPlayer 6 seems that I need to have separate .VTT or .SRT file to be able to show captions (http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1407438-adding-closed-captions).
The question is how do I show subtitles embedded in mp4 file (for jwPlayer 6 Only, jwPlayer 5.9 works fine with embedded mp4 subtitles using captions plugin)?
Thanks!
4 Community Answers
Andrew
Best Answer JW Player Support Agent
I have actually gotten this backwards. I do not believe there is a way to get captions on a desktop machine from an HTML5 video. For desktops, you’ll need to set this to Flash. You will be able to get this information in iOS in fullscreen, however. (By clicking the captions button)
Do you have an example here? I believe we may only display captions in HTML5 mode in this scenario. Otherwise, a VTT file should be utilized for other instances.
Here is link to mp4 video with embedded captions https://www.dropbox.com/s/omddtif6xyeea3q/captions.mp4?dl=0
As for: "I believe we may only display captions in HTML5 mode". Html5 seems to be the default mode when rendering video. But I still don't have an idea how to enable captions in this way for jwPlayer6.
Here is the way I initialized jwPlayer 5.9 with captions enabled:
I have actually gotten this backwards. I do not believe there is a way to get captions on a desktop machine from an HTML5 video. For desktops, you’ll need to set this to Flash. You will be able to get this information in iOS in fullscreen, however. (By clicking the captions button)