# Silverlight and Closed Captions **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [February 21, 2014, 10:09am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/silverlight-and-closed-captions/42188 "2014-02-21T10:09:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Christoph\_Krause](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@Christoph\_Krause](https://community.wowza.com/u/Christoph_Krause)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 10:09am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/silverlight-and-closed-captions/42188/1 "2014-02-21T10:09:36Z")
Has anyone managed to deliver a mp4 (live/on demand) stream with captions to a silverlight SSME Player? ---
**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/silverlight-and-closed-captions/42188/2 "2014-02-21T21:35:13Z")
Hi, Currently this is not something that cannot be supported through Wowza and the Smooth Streaming implementation. Daren ---
**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/silverlight-and-closed-captions/42188/3 "2014-02-28T21:55:24Z")
Hi Not currently, no. Daren ---
**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/silverlight-and-closed-captions/42188/4 "2014-05-15T22:34:46Z")
Hi, Currently support for closed captioning with MS Smooth Streaming is not on the road map. Darren ---
**Author:** ![Daren\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@Daren\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Daren_Johnson)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/silverlight-and-closed-captions/42188/5 "2014-05-27T12:55:12Z")
Hi, There isn’t an API that will enable you to do this. I did let our Product Management team. know about your interest in Closed Captioning functionality for Smooth streaming. They may consider this for inclusion in a future release, but no promises here. Daren ---
**Author:** ![Christoph\_Krause](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@Christoph\_Krause](https://community.wowza.com/u/Christoph_Krause)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/silverlight-and-closed-captions/42188/6 "2014-02-24T06:33:26Z")
And there is no way to insert something simple like timestamps or other metadate with a simple script stream (as its possible in IIS with Windows Media?) ---
**Author:** ![Krzysztof\_Kozio\_322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Krzysztof\_Kozio\_322](https://community.wowza.com/u/Krzysztof_Kozio_322)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/silverlight-and-closed-captions/42188/7 "2014-05-15T21:41:20Z")
Hi Daren, could you tell me when do you plan to support MS Smooth Streaming with closed caption? Krzysiek ---
**Author:** ![Krzysztof\_Kozio\_322](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Krzysztof\_Kozio\_322](https://community.wowza.com/u/Krzysztof_Kozio_322)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/silverlight-and-closed-captions/42188/8 "2014-05-27T21:35:56Z")
Hi Daren, Do you think that Wowza API is sufficient enough to make own implementation of Closed Caption for Smooth Streaming? Krzysiek ---
**Author:** ![trung\_kaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58956e/32.png) [@trung\_kaka](https://community.wowza.com/u/trung_kaka)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/silverlight-and-closed-captions/42188/9 "2015-07-15T19:06:10Z")
Current is not you