# Live Captioning to Facebook Live stream target

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/live-captioning-to-facebook-live-stream-target/47349>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [August 3, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-captioning-to-facebook-live-stream-target/47349 "2016-08-03T09:00:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Bill\_McLaughlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bill\_McLaughlin](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bill_McLaughlin)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-captioning-to-facebook-live-stream-target/47349/1 "2016-08-03T09:00:15Z")

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I have a stream through my Wowza Streaming Engine that has live closed captions, and I wanted to show the stream on Facebook Live.

I got everything working, except the captions. Even though they are visible through JWPlayer, they don’t seem to be show up in the Facebook video player. All the tutorials I found available through Facebook only discuss uploading an SRT file for captions, which works for previously recorded videos but isn’t a solution for real-time live captioning.

Is it possible to pass live captions from Wowza to Facebook Live?

Thank you,

Bill

_(I originally posted a similar question in the “Live Streaming and Encoders” board, but have not seen a response, and I thought maybe the post is a better fit for this section)_

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Tuchler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_tuchler/32/462_2.png) [@Jason\_Tuchler](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Tuchler)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 9:34am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/live-captioning-to-facebook-live-stream-target/47349/2 "2016-08-19T09:34:24Z")

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Hello,

At this time, Facebook doesn’t support CEA-608 or onTextData captions which will be needed for Live streams.

Best,

JasonT