Subtitles API

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Subtitles API is exposed on source API under subtitles namespace. Full API type definitions is available in our documentation.

Getting all of the available subtitles

We can get a list of subtitle tracks by using sourceApi.subtitles.list.

// ...
const sourceApi = player.sources.add(sourceConfig);

// ...
// Once manifest has been loaded
console.info('Subtitle tracks', sourceApi.subtitles.list);
// ...

Activating the subtitle track

This can be achieved using subtitles.activate method. This takes either a subtitle track id, or a subtitle track as first parameter, and enables the subtitle track.

// ...
const sourceApi = player.sources.add(sourceConfig);

// ...
// Once manifest has been loaded
const availableSubtitles = sourceApi.subtitles.list;
const firstSubtitleTrack = availableSubtitles[0];

if (firstSubtitleTrack) {
	sourceApi.subtitles.activate(firstSubtitleTrack);
  // This is also valid
  // sourceApi.subtitles.activate(firstSubtitleTrack.id);
}
// ...

Second parameter is optional and it defines if it should disable other subtitle tracks before enabling the passed in one (Default is true).

// ...
const sourceApi = player.sources.add(sourceConfig);

// ...
// Once manifest has been loaded
const availableSubtitles = sourceApi.subtitles.list;

// We want to disable all subtitles, and to activate track 0 and 1.
sourceApi.subtitles.activate(availableSubtitles[0], true);
sourceApi.subtitles.activate(availableSubtitles[1], false);
// ...

Deactivating the subtitle track

We can deactivate subtitle track using subtitles.deactivate method which takes either a subtitle track id or a subtitle track as parameter.

// ...
const sourceApi = player.sources.add(sourceConfig);

// ...
// Once manifest has been loaded
const availableSubtitles = sourceApi.subtitles.list;

// Activate first track
sourceApi.subtitles.activate(availableSubtitles[0]);

// Deactivate first track
sourceApi.subtitles.deactivate(availableSubtitles[0]);
// ...

Adding subtitle track

We can add external subtitle track using subtitles.add method. It takes a track object that needs to contain language, url and label and it returns created SubtitleTrack.

// ...
const sourceApi = player.sources.add(sourceConfig);

sourceApi.subtitles.add({language: 'en', label: 'English', url: 'my-web-vtt-track.vtt'});
console.info('All tracks including my external track', sourceApi.subtitles.list);
// ...

Removing subtitle track

We can remove subtitle track (at the moment only external one) using subtitles.remove method, which takes either a subtitle track id or subtitle track itself.

// ...
const sourceApi = player.sources.add(sourceConfig);

const myExternalTrack = sourceApi.subtitles.add({language: 'en', label: 'English', url: 'my-web-vtt-track.vtt'});
console.info('All tracks including my external track', sourceApi.subtitles.list);
sourceApi.subtitles.remove(myExternalTrack);
// sourceApi.subtitles.remove(myExternalTrack.id)
// ...

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