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WebVTT

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Upload video and associated VTT files following the naming convention.

Upload video and associated VTT files following the naming convention.

Creates any number of HTML5 elements for uploaded WebVTT files for videos displayed using the [playlist] and [video] shortcodes.

The uploaded WebVTT file names must follow this convention to be recognized:
+ + + + + ‘.vtt’

With each value described as:

  • <video file name> The base file name of the video file (without it’s extension).
  • <separator> A normalized single character separator typically a dash - to match the WordPress name normalization pattern.
  • <WebVTT track kind> The kind of text track. The kind is defined by the HTML5 specification and may be one of:
    • captions
    • chapters
    • descriptions
    • metadata
    • subtitles
  • <separator> (defined above)
  • <language code> The language of the track text data. This is a lower case 2 character code that represents the language only part of a full BCP 47 language tag. Here’s a listing of available language codes for reference.
  • '.vtt' The recognized standard file extension for WebVTT files.

As an example, a video file named 'my-video.mp4' would be able to leverage uploaded track files named:

  • 'my-video-chapters-en.vtt' to add English chapters
  • 'my-video-subtitles-en.vtt' to add English subtitles
  • 'my-video-subtitles-es.vtt' to add Spanish subtitles