posatag.blogg.se - Youtube automatic captions not working

While scrolling through your social feeds with your sound turned off ( which 85 percent of users do), most individuals will completely skip a video whose meaning is lost without sound. With some testing, I got mixed results (but am working):ġ) As of now (6/15/17), the embed video links now show the CC button and will show CC if you had previously enabled closed captioning (kept track in local storage under "yt-html5-player-modules::subtitlesModuleData::module-enabled".Ģ) If you provide documented the "cc_load_policy=1" parameter to the URL (of the iFrame embed) closed captioning will show regardless of the value in local storage.ģ) What didn't work is me loading the iframe as follows: Īnd then trying to set the CC policy in playerVars: var player = new window.YT.Captions certainly are not a new concept for videos on TV, but they are a strategy that is proving more and more effective on all platforms. Heard through the grapevine that something changed with the YouTube iFrame API yesterday (6/14/17) where CC started to work. Note: In both cases the domain was: I could only include 2 links in post.

some other goofy things that are not worth mentioning.

recreated the english closed caption (manually created a blurb at beginning).

Tried all sorts of goofy things to get things to work based on reading. When I play the video from the iframe embedded players I do not. When I play the video from a regular YouTube page, I see the captioning. Today, I happened to be working with the same video files and all of a sudden I got different behavior. I didn't even have to use the cc_load_policy=1 parameter.īUT. Once I manually created the closed captioning, everything seemed to work fine. Closed captioning was not working as the captioning was automatically generated.

Spent a better part of yesterday trying figure out why my captioning was not working when I was using the YouTube iframe embed code (generated from the Share > Embed button).Īfter much experimentation, I narrowed the problem down to what has already been identified.