# State of Live Stream Captioning on Android?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/state-of-live-stream-captioning-on-android/44991>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 23, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/state-of-live-stream-captioning-on-android/44991 "2015-03-23T19:32:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Brent\_Colflesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@Brent\_Colflesh](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brent_Colflesh)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/state-of-live-stream-captioning-on-android/44991/1 "2015-03-23T19:32:54Z")

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I know that CEA-608 embedded captions will show up in iOS HLS streams now - how about Android? Either in the native player or the JavaScript player (JWPlayer, etc)?

Anyone successful with live stream captions in a Phonegap app with an embedded player, or linking out the native player on the device?

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**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:** [March 28, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/state-of-live-stream-captioning-on-android/44991/2 "2015-03-28T15:41:27Z")

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Hi,

HLS on Android supports the use of WebVTT for subtitles/captions. iOS also supports this.

The [WebVTT guide here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-stream-webvtt-subtitles-to-ios-for-closed-captioning) shows how to enable WebVTT captions for iOS, but should also be relevant to Android 4.x

in the native player.

Daren

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**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:** [March 29, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/state-of-live-stream-captioning-on-android/44991/3 "2015-03-29T13:07:08Z")

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Hi,

Actually a correction to the above. WebVTT in HLS is only possible using the Android API (Android player SDK), so can only be done (at this time) in a developed player Application,

but ‘not’ in the native player as indicated above.

Daren