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dreamer2057
Channel Surfer

WebVTT via roVideoPlayer

How can i display WebVTT Closed Captions on my custom roVideoPlayer? I Have m3u8 HLS Live stream with included webvtt subtitles in manifest.

I read it:

  1. https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Closed+Caption+Support

  2. https://blog.roku.com/developer/2014/01/16/new-closed-caption-features-for-brightscript-developers/


But it doesn't work. subtitles still didn't shown. roCaptionRendererEvent never occurs.
Sincerely, Sergey Shoshin, software developer.
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RokuJoel
Binge Watcher

Re: WebVTT via roVideoPlayer

Please send stream URL with webVTT we can test to developer (at) roku.com

Thanks,

Joel
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andyy
Visitor

Re: WebVTT via roVideoPlayer

While it's unlikely you're still hung up on this problem, I want to leave this working example here for anyone else who may run into the same issue.
https://github.com/andyyu/roku-channel- ... HLS_WebVTT

Andy
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dreamer2057
Channel Surfer

Re: WebVTT via roVideoPlayer

All examples with webVTT subtitles requires stream track number. It's variable information in our streams (sometimes 1, sometimes 9, etc.), can i ignore it in my code?

For example from doc:
subtitle_config = {
TrackName: 
"webvtt/9"
}

For example from andyy's code:

TrackIDSubtitle: "webvtt/1" ' TrackIDSubtitle property should be set to webvtt/track, where track specifies the index of the caption track to render


etc...
Sincerely, Sergey Shoshin, software developer.
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menghao
Visitor

Re: WebVTT via roVideoPlayer

Just wondering is there a way of setting a webvtt url as subtitle instead of embed it in the HLS stream?
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