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State of Live Stream Captioning on Android?

I know that CEA-608 embedded captions will show up in iOS HLS streams now - how about Android? Either in the native player or the JavaScript player (JWPlayer, etc)?

Anyone successful with live stream captions in a Phonegap app with an embedded player, or linking out the native player on the device?

Hi,

HLS on Android supports the use of WebVTT for subtitles/captions. iOS also supports this.

The WebVTT guide here shows how to enable WebVTT captions for iOS, but should also be relevant to Android 4.x

in the native player.

Daren

Hi,

Actually a correction to the above. WebVTT in HLS is only possible using the Android API (Android player SDK), so can only be done (at this time) in a developed player Application,

but ‘not’ in the native player as indicated above.

Daren