# CEA-608 support for Android

**URL:** <https://community.bitmovin.com/t/cea-608-support-for-android/3118>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** bitmovin-player, android, bitmovin, subtitles, closed-captions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/cea-608-support-for-android/3118 "2024-07-17T18:55:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![victor.souza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b782af/32.png) [@victor.souza](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/victor.souza)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/cea-608-support-for-android/3118/1 "2024-07-17T18:55:34Z")

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### Question

Hello everybody,

I’m migrating from ExoPlayer to Bitmovin player in my Android app and during my testing and reading the documentation I discovered that the CEA-608 is not compatible with the Android SDK.

References: [Subtitles & Captions Support](https://developer.bitmovin.com/playback/docs/subtitles-captions)

Could you explain why only Android apps don’t have this support? Are there plans to make this feature? If not, is there another way to support CEA-608 using Bitmovin Player?

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**Author:** ![ludovic.michaud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.bitmovin.com/ludovic.michaud/32/811_2.png) [@ludovic.michaud](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/ludovic.michaud)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/cea-608-support-for-android/3118/2 "2024-07-18T16:47:33Z")

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Hi,  
As far as I know, 608/708 should work.  
To verify, I jut gave this stream a try with one of the latest versions of our player and 608/708 subtitles work as expected  
[https://livesim.dashif.org/dash/vod/testpic\_2s/cea608.mpd](https://livesim.dashif.org/dash/vod/testpic_2s/cea608.mpd)

I recommend giving it a try with your stream too if possible.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/bitmovin/original/1X/1ab86334145095b0af9c5b924fa3ae6d920b6482.png) [@system](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/cea-608-support-for-android/3118/3 "2024-07-19T15:34:37Z")

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