TV captions
Why a TV caption preference may not affect every app
A system caption preference and a programme's supplied caption track are separate.
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TV captions
A forced subtitle track can intentionally contain only a few lines
Some subtitle tracks translate only selected dialogue or onscreen text.
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Automatically appearing text may not be a provider-supplied track
A device can display transcription or translation under supported conditions.
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A transcript is not automatically a timed-caption control
Readable programme text and synchronized onscreen captions serve related but different tasks.
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A timed-text standard name is not a player compatibility certificate
TTML and WebVTT describe timed-text formats with their own features.
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Overlapping WebVTT subtitle cues can be intentional; chapter intervals have a different rule
Two WebVTT cues active at the same moment are not automatically malformed.
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