How to automatic enable subtitles when video begin to play?

  • Dear develooper!

    First of all, thank you VERY much for fantastic, useful plugin! I have only one question: how I can to start showing subtitles, marked as Default? Or, just start subtitles (I have only one track .srt)

    I specified lang code (in my case – ‘ru’, russian) and marked track as Default, but when player begin video, needed manually choose subtitles – pressing button CC, etc. Not all guests have skills for this operation )))

    And, on Windows Phone 8.1 not able to choose subtitles (mmm.. look like JScript problem…), but I think, if possible enable auto-show subtitles, WP can display them too, and problem related only to choosing operation.

    Thank you in advice!
    Best regards

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  • Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    What browser and video player are you seeing this problem in? It looks like the WordPress Default player is having trouble with default subtitles. I don’t see it in Video.js but I want to verify that WordPress Default is what you’re using. It would also be helpful if you can post a link to a page on your site that demonstrates the problem.

    I don’t have any access to Windows Phone devices so I can’t provide any support for Windows Phone problems.

    Thread Starter hotpaganini

    (@hotpaganini)

    Dear Kyle, tested on latest versions of Chrome and Firefox. I using WordPress as default. In plugin settings WordPress default selected.
    Here is link with subtitled video: https://salsainrussian.ru/2017/11/19/lekciya-1-korni-populyarnyx-narodnyx-kubinskix-tancev/
    When I switch to Video.js I see – subtitles automatically selected, but not showing, nor Chrome or Firefox.
    So, other users reported to me – they cannot to choose subs BEFORE play button pressed, but I haven’t such problems. Just trying to enable autostart subtitles.

    Thank you in advance! Best regards

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by hotpaganini.
    Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    Sorry for the delay. Mediaelement.js (the WordPress Default player) doesn’t appear to use the default attribute so I’ve had to create manual work-arounds for it. WordPress recently updated the version of Mediaelement.js they were using and I didn’t notice that the way subtitle selection worked had changed, and my workaround never worked if preload was set to none. Anyway, I’m getting close to a fix and you can follow my progress on Github. Feel free to try out the development version if you want to help beta test.

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