alex-phillips / videojs-flash-captions

A VideoJS plugin for displaying closed captions via the flash onTextData event

VideoJS Flash Captions Plugin

This plugin takes the onTextData event triggered from the flash object an displays them as closed captions on a VideoJS player.

Usage

Inlude the plugin and its stylesheet:

<script src="http://vjs.zencdn.net/5.0.2/video.js"></script>
<script src="videojs-flash-captions.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="videojs-flash-captions.css">

Then simply activate the plugin on your video by calling its function:

myvideo.FlashClosedCaptions({});

Options

The options object passed into the plugin function can contain the following:

• numRows: Number of rows of text to display (default: 2)
• numLinesPerRow: This is the number of text lines received to display on one row of text (default: 2)
• enableCookies: This enables cookie support for auto-displaying captions for the next video when activated (default: true)