Support captions

[jbroberg]

My understanding is the default Chromecast receiver supports captions (WebVTT). It would be great if this plugin exposed any captions set in the track element of the video tag to the Chromecast receiver.

[pepijn809]

Any way of configuring it to work with any kind of captions/subtitles as of now?
Everything else works fine, even quality selector that i've implemented into it.

But i'm not sure how to configure this to recocnise subtitles.

All help is appreciated.

[PyRo1509]

It looks like other forks have gotten some WebVTT to work.

src: 'http://www.videojs.com/vtt/captions.vtt',
'id': 'toto',
type: 'text/vtt',
kind: 'captions',
label: 'fr',
language: 'fr',

This appears in some of their Javascript sent to the chromecast. But Alas I haven't been able to get it to work for me.

Would be nice if this was put in. Right now I'm hardcoding the subtitles :(

[DHoogland]

@PyRo1509 Could you link the fork? I am working on captions and chromecast support too. Maybe we can help each other here.

[PyRo1509]

@DHoogland https://github.com/Afrostream/videojs-chromecast

[ghost]

Still no merge of this feature ? How can I help ?

[ntamblyn]

I have managed to do this, will have a look at the code changes i have made and will get back to you.

I have also improved the session management.

[ntamblyn]

Heres my fork https://github.com/ntamblyn/videojs-chromecast

Just make sure you are not testing from a localhost as chromecast will experience CORs issues.

[ghost]

I will try your repo. This one is not active anymore ? Have you make a PR ?

[philipgiuliani]

Hi! Im the maintainer, but i dont have time to fix stuff because im very busy with other projects. If you guys want to make a PR, i'll review it of course and merge it! :)

[ntamblyn]

Made a PR

[DHoogland]

@ntamblyn Thanks for your input =) @philipgiuliani Thanks for checking this out =)

[ntamblyn]

@DHoogland happy to help i am not sure what i have done is 100% correct , i have changed a few things as to fit with the session management and subtitles. Any feedback would be much appreciated .