1142673 - Subtitles For Videos Defaults To Afrikans... The First One In The List

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites Graveyard :: Master Firefox OS, defect)

Description

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Videos with subtitles enabled are defaulting to Afrikans, the first one in the list.

According to the google docs, hl should set the default track:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#hl

However this does not appear to be working.

This may or may not be related to this bug reporting cc_lang_pref is no longer working:
https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=5679

I tried using the iframe api and a few variations on embedding but could not find anything that works. It's possible this really is a bug with google and not something we can fix.

Comment 1

[Josh Mize [:jgmize]]

According to https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=5679#c29:

"The fix for cc_lang_pref went live last week. The fix for picking captions based on hl is coming soon."

Comment 2

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Since we use both cc_lang_pref and hl the fix already appears to be working. Tested ja subtitles and they correctly appear.

Resolving!