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CEA-608 how to use in smil file and example of CEA-608 closed captions ?

CEA-608 how to use in smil file for sub titles and example of CEA-608 closed captions format.

i want use CEA-608 subtitle type in the video player.I want to get that subtitles in GoogleCromeCasting time. For that i am using CEA-608 subtitle type. Can i get example of CEA-608 file format and smile file example by calling CEA-608 subtitle.

Hello @satyanarayana og,

Are you working with VOD or Live streams?

We have a few articles that explain how CEA-608 captions work with Wowza Engine.

Live streams:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-closed-captioning-for-live-streaming#cea608

VOD streams:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-closed-captioning-for-video-on-demand-streaming

In both cases the captions are embedded in the stream and are not a separate file when the stream hits Wowza Engine. For the .smil file you would simply add a block that looks something like this:





Regards,

Alex C.