iOS - textTracks

[enricovittorini]

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Description

in my code:
the options for the player are:

      var options = {
           preload: 'auto',
           live: true,
           liveui: true,
           liveTracker: true,
           controls: false,
           muted: true,
           //enableLowInitialPlaylist: true,
           html5: {
               autoplay: true,
               vhs: {
                   overrideNative: true
               },
               nativeAudioTracks: false,
               nativeVideoTracks: false,
               nativeTextTracks: false
           },

       };

let tracks = player1.textTracks();
let str = tracks[0].activeCues[0].value.uri

if I alert "str" on iPad, the result is undefined. While it is working well on windows or android.

I think is the same issue as #214. any solution on this?

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[gkatsev]

It should be able to work on ipad assuming you're on a recent enough version of ipados. However, it won't work on iphones as MSE, the API that we rely on, isn't available.
Though, just tried https://videojs-http-streaming.netlify.app/ on my ipad and I don't see segment-metadata show up under player stats tab panel. Though, that page isn't overriding the text tracks.

[enricovittorini]

thanks for your answer.
is there a way to get the current played segment on iOS?

[gkatsev]

So, I think if you set the mode of the track to 'hidden' as early as possible, it should work.

const tracks = player.textTracks();
// assuming that segment-metadata is the first track, it could potentially not be
tracks[0].mode = 'hidden';

Afterwards, it should work.

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