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WebVTT API: Introduction to The Web Video Text Tracks Format

by Mozilla Contributors13mMay 13th, 2020
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Web Video Text Tracks Format (WebVTT) is a format for displaying timed text tracks (such as subtitles or captions) The primary purpose of WebVTT files is to add text overlays to a <video>. Web VTT is a text based format, which must be encoded using UTF-8. There is also a small API available to represent and manage these tracks and the data needed to perform the playback of the text at the correct times. The structure of a WebV TT consists of the following components, in this order: A blank line, an optional byte order mark (BOM) and an optional comment. Comments are intended for those reading the file.

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