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Proper WebVTT timing support #2214

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Heath123 opened this issue May 20, 2021 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #2217
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Proper WebVTT timing support #2214

Heath123 opened this issue May 20, 2021 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #2217

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Heath123 commented May 20, 2021 •
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WebVTT supports displaying captions with timings that display one word at a time, which YouTube auto-generated subtitles use:

00:00:02.159 --> 00:00:03.350 align:start position:0%
okay so i received this exciting email
which<00:00:02.399><c> reads</c><00:00:02.879><c> hello</c>

Plyr doesn't support this, instead doing this:
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Here's an example from this video.
What Plyr does now is sort of hard to read
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The example above is Firefox, Chrome is similar but with an extra question mark
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OK, this is a ProcessingInstruction

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I have this working now but in a really hacky way, I'll try to clean it up and PR it

@Heath123 Heath123 linked a pull request May 21, 2021 that will close this issue
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