# Captions with Stream Publisher

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/captions-with-stream-publisher/54883>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 26, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/captions-with-stream-publisher/54883 "2020-03-26T18:04:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Hudgins1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/stephen_hudgins1/32/982_2.png) [@Stephen\_Hudgins1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Stephen_Hudgins1)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/captions-with-stream-publisher/54883/1 "2020-03-26T18:04:30Z")

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Greetings!

I’m trying to set up closed captions with stream publisher and can’t seem to find any information on how I might do that. I’ve got a SMIL file that generates the livestream from a playlist of files on “Application1”, then sends that via RTMP to “Application2” where it gets transcoded and HLSified.

Is there a way I can get closed captions inserted somewhere in the stream?

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**Author:** ![Karel\_Boek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/karel_boek/32/454_2.png) [@Karel\_Boek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Karel_Boek)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/captions-with-stream-publisher/54883/2 "2020-03-26T21:47:21Z")

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@Stephen Hudgins, where are your closed captions - embedded in the MP4 or in a separate file (e.g. WebVTT, TTML, SRT)? There’s some useful information in these articles:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-determine-the-caption-types-in-live-video-streams-moduleccdetectlivecaptions](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-determine-the-caption-types-in-live-video-streams-moduleccdetectlivecaptions)

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-closed-captioning-for-live-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-closed-captioning-for-live-streaming)

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-ingest-mpeg-ts-dvb-teletext-subtitle-data-for-closed-captioning-in-live-streams](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-ingest-mpeg-ts-dvb-teletext-subtitle-data-for-closed-captioning-in-live-streams)

If you have the captions in a separate file, then you may need to do some customization.