Subtitles for AVPlayer/MPMoviePlayerController

Question

I am using m3u8 video format for streaming the video and now I need to display subtitles for the same.

I searched in Apple Documentation and found that I can achiev

Answer 1

The WWDC 2013 iOS app uses WebVTT files for its subtitles (credit to Nicholas Riley for discovering this). For whatever reason, there are about 50 (exact number varies) for each session.

I have no idea whether WebVTT is supported at the AVFoundation or MPMoviePlayer level, or whether the app downloads and parses the subtitles files itself.

A quick search for “webvtt m3u8” turned up a reference to this HTTP Live Streaming Draft, which suggests that you may be able to make this work by simply referencing the WebVTT files in your m3u8 playlist. I don't have an example for you, though, since I wasn't able to trivially guess the m3u8 URL for a WWDC session.