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Any ideas why .srt files are not playing in IE11 and Chrome. I have encoded the files as UTF8. I also added the mime type on my server to text/srt. I also get the error Text Track: Unknown MIME type. hr=8007000b. in cosole.

1 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,000 I'll teach thee Bugology, Ignatzes

2 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Something tells me

3 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Look, Ignatz, a sleeping bee

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SRT sub-title files are not supported in HTML5 out of the box.

You must include/convert it to a WebVTT file.

Then you'd use the <track> element to include it with your video source, for example:

<video id="video" controls preload="metadata">
   <source src="video/sintel-short.mp4" type="video/mp4">
   <source src="video/sintel-short.webm" type="video/webm">
   <track label="English" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" src="vtt/sintel-en.vtt" default>
   <track label="Deutsch" kind="subtitles" srclang="de" src="vtt/sintel-de.vtt">
   <track label="Español" kind="subtitles" srclang="es" src="vtt/sintel-es.vtt">
</video>

See this page for more details.

  • Thanks my client is saying that they have .srt caption files playing in IE 11 web browser from other vendors. I originally had the captions as a WebVTT file, which works fine but not acceptable to customer. – user8696041 Dec 21 '17 at 14:50