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I am trying to dynamically set caption style like font Size, font color, background color and font family. Following is the code snippet;

jwplayer().setCaptions({"color":"#FF0000","fontSize": 14});

This is working Chrome, but does not work on EDGE and FIREFOX. On IE11 closed caption are not displayed.

Is this a bug or is CC 608 support not uniform across different browsers?

Following are the versions:

  • JWPlayer: 7.9.3+commercial_v7-9-3.158
  • Microsoft Edge: 38.14393.0.0
  • Firefox: 52.0 (32-bit)
  • Chrome: 56.0.2924.87
  • IE: 11.953.14393.0
Elston Sa
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  • I thought currently the default for most browsers is to display `subtitles` (which per W3C spec are not styled), rather than styled CEA-608 complaint `captions`. Last time I needed to display styled captions we ended up writing our own overlay – Offbeatmammal Mar 16 '17 at 16:12

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Apparently, when not using Flash, the CEA-608 styling depends on ::cue pseudo-element. see here github.com/jwplayer/jwplayer/issues/1813

Elston Sa
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