Disable native text tracks by default in html5 #1865
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Chrome, and possibly some other browsers, show captions by default, which is unwanted behavior. Instead, on loadstart, change the mode of each captions or subtitles track to 'disabled'. This is done in loadstart because trying to change data of text tracks wholesale any earlier will be a no-op.
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Safari also shows captions by default, but not subtitles. There's a related Chrome bug for this. |
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Chrome, and possibly some other browsers, show captions by default, which is unwanted behavior.
Instead, on loadstart, change the mode of each captions or subtitles track to 'disabled'.
This is done in loadstart because trying to change data of text tracks
wholesale any earlier will be a no-op.
This has been tested with autoplaying videos in chrome.