How to show on demand external subtitle in iOS bitmovin player

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Hi All,

We want to implement on demand external subtitle in iOS bitmovin player.

I am using bitmovin player with default playback controls.

The goal is to fetch external subtitles only once user selects any language from player settings. For this, we provided subtitle tracks objects with empty vtt urls and languages are already being shown on clicking player settings.

Question : How to update the VTT url of existing subtitle track objects once user selects any language from player settings so that there is no interruption in the playback.

We want to achieve this to minimise the cost because translation is being performed the moment we are hitting the VTT url

Somehow it seems it is supported on web but is it possible in iOS bitmovin player? If yes, then how we can achieve this?

Thanks

Amanpreet Singh

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Can someone from bitmovin team can confirm this behaviour at the earliest whether its possible or not?

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Hi @coolgary90,

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Best, David