Package com.brightcove.player.captioning

Class WebVTTParser

java.lang.Object

com.brightcove.player.captioning.WebVTTParser

public class WebVTTParser
extends Object

Implementation of a parser for WebVTT style captions. This parser is not complete, and is loosely based off of the current WebVTT parser in the Google ExoPlayer project.

See Also:

• WebVTT specification

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
WebVTTParser()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static WebVTTDocument	parse(InputStream stream, String encoding)	The main parser for WebVTT cue files pre KitKat.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

WebVTTParser

public WebVTTParser()

Method Details

parse

public static WebVTTDocument parse(InputStream stream,
 String encoding)
                            throws IOException

The main parser for WebVTT cue files pre KitKat.

Parameters:

stream - the input stream containing caption data

encoding - the string encoding used, mostly UTF-8

Returns:

a populated WebVTTDocument with the caption texts.

Throws:

IOException - Things to work on in the future: X-TIMESTAMP-MAP parsing (MPEGTS parsing for HLS syncing with PES timing data) Region and Styling parsing