Currently, it is intended behavior that when you start casting the player to a Chromecast device the subtitle selection setting isn't carried over. A new player is generated with the SourceConfiguration
of the sender, but not any adjustments.
Web SDK | Android SDK | iOS SDK | tvOS SDK | Android TV SDK | Chromecast SDK |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | N/A | N/A |
You can work around the default behavior by adding the following eventListeners to the player.
The code adds an event on textTracks change
. Whenever the subtitles change, this event is called and stores the current active textTrack in currentTextTrack
by iterating over the textTracks array and checking whether .mode
is showing
. Once a Chromecast session is created, the code will check if the ID of the textTracks in the new player corresponds with the ID of the stored currentTextTrack. If so, it will activate that textTrack.
Here is how you pass the current active subtitle track to the Chromecast session:
var currentTextTrack
player.textTracks.addEventListener("change", function () {
for (var t in player.textTracks) {
if (player.textTracks[t].mode === "showing") {
currentTextTrack = player.textTracks[t]
}
}
})
player.cast.chromecast.addEventListener("statechange", (event) => {
if (event.state === "connected") {
player.addEventListener("playing", function () {
for (var tt in player.textTracks) {
if (player.textTracks[tt].id === currentTextTrack.id) {
player.textTracks[tt].mode = "showing"
}
}
})
}
})
TO BE TESTED
var currentTextTrack: TextTrack?
self.theoplayer.textTracks.addEventListener(type: TextTrackListEventTypes.CHANGE) { (result) in
for i in 0..<self.theoplayer.textTracks.count {
if self.theoplayer.textTracks[i].mode == .showing {
currentTextTrack = self.theoplayer.textTracks[i]
}
}
}
self.theoplayer.cast?.chromecast?.addEventListener(type: ChromecastEventTypes.STATE_CHANGE, listener: { (result) in
if result.state == .connected {
self.theoplayer.addEventListener(type: PlayerEventTypes.PLAYING) { (result) in
for i in 0..<self.theoplayer.textTracks.count {
var tt = self.theoplayer.textTracks[i]
if tt.id == currentTextTrack?.id {
tt.mode = .showing
}
}
}
}
})
}
TO BE TESTED
final TextTrack currentTextTrack;
tpv.getPlayer().getTextTracks().addEventListener(TextTrackListEventTypes.TRACKLISTCHANGE, new EventListener<TrackListChangeEvent>() {
@Override
public void handleEvent(TrackListChangeEvent trackListChangeEvent) {
for (TextTrack t : tpv.getPlayer().getTextTracks()) {
if (t.getMode() == TextTrackMode.SHOWING) {
currentTextTrack = t;
}
}
}
});
tpv.getCast().getChromecast().addEventListener(ChromecastEventTypes.STATECHANGE, new EventListener<CastStateChangeEvent>() {
@Override
public void handleEvent(CastStateChangeEvent castStateChangeEvent) {
if (tpv.getCast().getChromecast().getState() == PlayerCastState.CONNECTED) {
tpv.getPlayer().addEventListener(PlayerEventTypes.PLAYING, new EventListener<PlayingEvent>() {
@Override
public void handleEvent(PlayingEvent playingEvent) {
for (TextTrack t : tpv.getPlayer().getTextTracks()) {
if (t.getId() == currentTextTrack.getId()) {
t.setMode(TextTrackMode.SHOWING);
}
}
}
});
}
}
});