Captions with Shaka Player

using shaka player I couldn’t add a track to player nor manually neither programmatically.

Manually

placing <track src="src" kind="subtitles" > inside <video>

Programatically

using shaka player addTextTrack(uri, language, kind, mime, opt_codecopt, opt_labelopt) method

In both ways, the vtt file is fetched from the server but it doesn’t show anything. using first method cause a cc icon appear next to the volume control but it doesn’t do anything.

[samanmohamadi]

I managed this issue by overriding textDisplayFactory of shaka-player:

shakaPlayer.configure({
   textDisplayFactory: () => {
      return {
         setTextVisibility: () => {},
         isTextVisible: () => true,
         destroy: () => { }
      }
   }
 });

[friday]

Thanks! I’ll leave this open until there’s a full example of how to use Plyr with Shaka Player and captions, or if I write one myself. I prefer not to have to dig into the Shaka Player api again.