# SMIL for VOD with caption
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-for-vod-with-caption/49947
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [October 17, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-for-vod-with-caption/49947 "2017-10-17T07:00:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@yashar\_vasegh](https://community.wowza.com/u/yashar_vasegh)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-for-vod-with-caption/49947/1 "2017-10-17T07:00:11Z")
this is my simple smil file:
```auto
```
i use HLS.
my problem is:
1- i could not get language title in any player, it just show unknown subtitle in cc buttons
2- it only serves the first subtitle, i don’t get two subtitles
3- it only serves vtt and ttml files, if i add srt files if wont work (srt is enabled in setup)
also i have a question related to subtitle:
4- i embed subtitles to video by ffmpeg. but i cant show subtitles in players streamed by wowza, is this possible by wowza to serve subtitles embed in files?
regards.
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### Author:  [@yashar\_vasegh](https://community.wowza.com/u/yashar_vasegh)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2017, 6:13am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-for-vod-with-caption/49947/2 "2017-10-22T06:13:26Z")
there is no answer for this question? anybody?!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/smil-for-vod-with-caption/49947/3 "2017-10-22T18:03:37Z")
SMIL files are unique to each protocol. Note that subtitles are not supported with MPEG-DASH.
Please take a look at the following article for how to deliver multiple sidecar subtitle files via HTML5.
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-to-serve-caption-files-for-video-on-demand-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-to-serve-caption-files-for-video-on-demand-streaming)
SMIL files support only one textstream value. Your SMIL file is using two.
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-stream-webvtt-subtitles-to-ios-for-closed-captioning](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-stream-webvtt-subtitles-to-ios-for-closed-captioning)
From the article.
#### _To play using a SMIL file_
_To play adaptive bitrate (ABR) streams using a SMIL file, the caption info must be added to the SMIL file using a single **textstream** tag (SMIL files don’t support multiple **textstream** tags)._
If you use a SMIL file for ABR content delivery and provide more than one subtitle language track then you must use a multi-language caption file. This would be a TTML file that combines all necessary languages into one file.
We have an article on how to switch between different subtitles. I have hot linked to the format of the TTML file.
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/How-to-configure-closed-captioning-language-selection-for-video-on-demand-streaming#multiLanguage](https://www.wowza.com/docs/How-to-configure-closed-captioning-language-selection-for-video-on-demand-streaming#multiLanguage)