I want to display captions using the HTML5 Text Tracks API (WebVTT) using the native browser implementations -- without loading audio/video.
How can that be achieved ?
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You mean just print out the text without any timing? – approxiblue Nov 18 '15 at 15:59
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Already did that actually – DannyZB Nov 18 '15 at 17:08
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Seems attaching captions to a non-active element doesn't work.. if you think there is a better way feel free to elaborate. – DannyZB Nov 18 '15 at 17:10
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No, I was gonna say the API doesn't allow it. Your workaround sounds good. – approxiblue Nov 18 '15 at 17:28
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There is no way using the native implementation.
However, the Firefox implementation of WebVTT, vtt.js, is publicly available.
All you need to do is attach a timer while a video element is playing (or just to any custom event without a video) and apply vtt.js functions to the video / captions container.
Since the Firefox VTT implementation is derived from it, this is the closest you can come to native without using the default way of attaching to a video.
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