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608 captions and WebRTC

There is a requirement to replicate 608 captions in HLS for WebRTC.

Is there a way to parse 608 captions and onTextData and send over a data channel ? This way all clients can receive the captions somehow.

Hello @Daniel Rossi,

Are you looking to have captions in the WebRTC stream?

If so, then at this time it is not possible to inject captions into a WebRTC stream.

The general info about caption options in Wowza Engine are outlined in the following article.

Regards,

Alex C.

Hi @Alex C, is there any news in this regard?

Never mind . WebRTC ended up being unicast , making the whole peering exercise pointless. Client chose Ramp instead. They need Dash live captions still though. Been asking years for this.

They need Dash live captions still though. Been asking years for this.

Same here … and CEA-708 (CC: @Anthony Lazaro)