Forced captions - #911
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Looks good to me!
It might be nice if there was a sample manifest with a forced track to test out in the demo or a way to see this in the styleguidist docs but this isn't a blocker.
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Related issue: #906
This PR enables parsing and auto-enabling of forced text tracks in VideoJS. Ramp uses a
forcedflag in the text-track objects it creates from the parsed information to keep track of the forced text-tracks.One of the done looks like suggests the following,
Solution implemented in this work,
The forced text track in the captions menu is displayed with the
forcedtext in the label with a tooltip. Hiding this in the captions menu will have the following implications that are not desirable,Additionally,
Demo:
demo-forced-captions.mov