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TTML Subtitles not working without the UI Library

See original GitHub issue

Have you read the FAQ and checked for duplicate open issues? Yes

What version of Shaka Player are you using? 2.5.5

Can you reproduce the issue with our latest release version? Yes

Can you reproduce the issue with the latest code from master? Yes

Are you using the demo app or your own custom app? Custom app.

If custom app, can you reproduce the issue using our demo app? No, but I tried building a custom app with the UI library and it works as expected.

What browser and OS are you using? Ubuntu, Chrome v77

For embedded devices (smart TVs, etc.), what model and firmware version are you using?

What are the manifest and license server URIs?

What did you do?

I followed the basic usage tutorial. But we are not looking to use the UI Library.

What did you expect to happen? TTML subtitles to work without the UI Library.

What actually happened?

The subtitles doesn’t show up instead it shows a little black box as showed in the image. New Project (4)

Issue Analytics

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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joeyparrishcommented, Oct 16, 2019

Happy to help!

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damjtohcommented, Oct 16, 2019

I forked the UI textDisplayer class and it worked like a charm! Thanks for the quick response.

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