Remove HLS caption handling

src/components/MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.js

@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ const MediaPlayer = ({ enableFileDownload = false, enablePIP = false }) => {
   const [isMultiCanvased, setIsMultiCanvased] = React.useState(false);
   const [lastCanvasIndex, setLastCanvasIndex] = React.useState(0);
   const [isVideo, setIsVideo] = React.useState();
-  const [isStream, setIsStream] = React.useState();
 
   const {
     canvasIndex,
@@ -132,14 +131,12 @@ const MediaPlayer = ({ enableFileDownload = false, enablePIP = false }) => {
         mediaType,
         canvas,
         error,
-        isHLS
       } = getMediaInfo({
         manifest,
         canvasIndex: canvasId,
         srcIndex,
       });
       setIsVideo(mediaType === 'video');
-      setIsStream(isHLS);
       manifestDispatch({ canvasTargets, type: 'canvasTargets' });
       manifestDispatch({
         canvasDuration: canvas.duration,
@@ -343,9 +340,9 @@ const MediaPlayer = ({ enableFileDownload = false, enablePIP = false }) => {
     sources: isMultiSource
       ? playerConfig.sources[srcIndex]
       : playerConfig.sources,
-    // Enable native text track functionality in iPhones and iPads when not using HLS streams
+    // Enable native text track functionality in iPhones and iPads
     html5: {
-      nativeTextTracks: IS_MOBILE && !isStream && !IS_ANDROID
+      nativeTextTracks: IS_MOBILE && !IS_ANDROID
     },
     // Setting this option helps to override VideoJS's default 'keydown' event handler, whenever
     // the focus is on a native VideoJS control icon (e.g. play toggle).

src/components/MediaPlayer/VideoJS/VideoJSPlayer.js

@@ -258,14 +258,28 @@ function VideoJSPlayer({
         playerDispatch({ isEnded: false, type: 'setIsEnded' });
 
         let textTracks = player.textTracks();
-        // Filter the duplicated tracks by HLS manifest, these doesn't have a src attribute
-        let duplicatedTracks = textTracks.tracks_.filter(rt => rt.src === undefined);
-        // Remove the duplicated tracks from the captions/subtitles menu
-        if (tracks.length != textTracks.length && duplicatedTracks?.length > 0) {
-          for (let i = 0; i < duplicatedTracks.length; i++) {
-            player.textTracks().removeTrack(duplicatedTracks[i]);
-          }
+        /* 
+          Filter the text track Video.js adds with an empty label and language 
+          when nativeTextTracks are enabled for iPhones and iPads.
+          Related links, Video.js => https://github.com/videojs/video.js/issues/2808 and
+          in Apple => https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1801/_index.html
+        */
+        if (IS_MOBILE && !IS_ANDROID) {
+          textTracks.on('addtrack', () => {
+            for (let i = 0; i < textTracks.length; i++) {
+              if (textTracks[i].language === '' && textTracks[i].label === '') {
+                player.textTracks().removeTrack(textTracks[i]);
+                /* 
+                  Turn off the consecutive `textTrack.change` event, 
+                  which turns off default captions in the controls
+                */
+                textTracks.off('change');
+              }
+              if (i == 0) { textTracks[i].mode = 'showing'; }
+            }
+          });
         }
+
         // Turn captions on indicator via CSS on first load, when captions are ON by default
         player.textTracks().tracks_?.map((t) => {
           if (t.mode == 'showing') {
@@ -609,6 +623,30 @@ function VideoJSPlayer({
   } else {
     videoClass = "video-js vjs-big-play-centered";
   };
+  const buildTrack = (t, index) => {
+    if (index == 0) {
+      return (
+        <track
+          key={t.key}
+          src={t.src}
+          kind={t.kind}
+          label={t.label}
+          srcLang={t.srclang}
+          default
+        />
+      );
+    } else {
+      return (
+        <track
+          key={t.key}
+          src={t.src}
+          kind={t.kind}
+          label={t.label}
+          srcLang={t.srclang}
+        />
+      );
+    }
+  };
 
   return (
     <React.Fragment>
@@ -623,14 +661,14 @@ function VideoJSPlayer({
             onTouchEnd={mobilePlayToggle}
           >
             {tracks?.length > 0 && (
-              tracks.map(t =>
+              tracks.map((t, index) =>
                 <track
                   key={t.key}
                   src={t.src}
                   kind={t.kind}
                   label={t.label}
                   srcLang={t.srclang}
-                  default
+                  default={index === 0 ? 'true' : 'false'}
                 />
               )
             )}

src/services/iiif-parser.js

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ export function getCanvasIndex(manifest, canvasId) {
  * @param {Object} obj.manifest IIIF Manifest
  * @param {Number} obj.canvasIndex Index of the current canvas in manifest
  * @param {Number} obj.srcIndex Index of the resource in active canvas
- * @returns {Object} { soures, tracks, targets, isMultiSource, error, canvas, mediaType, isHLs }
+ * @returns {Object} { soures, tracks, targets, isMultiSource, error, canvas, mediaType }
  */
 export function getMediaInfo({ manifest, canvasIndex, srcIndex = 0 }) {
   let canvas = [];
@@ -169,14 +169,6 @@ export function getMediaInfo({ manifest, canvasIndex, srcIndex = 0 }) {
     // Set default src to auto
     sources = setDefaultSrc(resources, isMultiSource, srcIndex);
 
-    /*
-      Identify the media is streaming or not by testing whether the src includes .m3u8 
-      OR media format includes HLS mime types => application/x-mpegURL or vnd.apple.mpegURL
-    */
-    const isHLS = sources
-      .map(s => (/m3u8/i).test(s.src) || (/(application\/x-mpegURL)|(vnd.apple.mpegURL)/i).test(s.type))
-      .every(f => f === true);
-
     // Read supplementing resources fom annotations
     const supplementingRes = readAnnotations({
       manifest,
@@ -210,7 +202,6 @@ export function getMediaInfo({ manifest, canvasIndex, srcIndex = 0 }) {
         ...mediaInfo,
         error: null,
         mediaType,
-        isHLS,
       };
     }
   } catch (error) {

src/services/iiif-parser.test.js

@@ -176,50 +176,6 @@ describe('iiif-parser', () => {
         expect(sources[2].selected).toBeTruthy();
       });
 
-      describe('identifies media as stream', () => {
-        it('with src ending .m3u8', () => {
-          const { isHLS } = iiifParser.getMediaInfo({
-            manifest: singleSrcManifest,
-            canvasIndex: 1,
-          });
-          expect(isHLS).toBeTruthy();
-        });
-
-        it('with src media fragment with .m3u8', () => {
-          const { isHLS } = iiifParser.getMediaInfo({
-            manifest: playlistManifest,
-            canvasIndex: 1,
-          });
-          expect(isHLS).toBeTruthy();
-        });
-
-        it('with media format as vnd.apple.mpegURL', () => {
-          const { isHLS } = iiifParser.getMediaInfo({
-            manifest: singleSrcManifest,
-            canvasIndex: 0,
-          });
-          expect(isHLS).toBeTruthy();
-        });
-      });
-
-      describe('identifies media as non-stream', () => {
-        it('with src ending .mp4', () => {
-          const { isHLS } = iiifParser.getMediaInfo({
-            manifest: lunchroomManifest,
-            canvasIndex: 0,
-          });
-          expect(isHLS).toBeFalsy();
-        });
-
-        it('with media fragment with .mp4', () => {
-          const { isHLS } = iiifParser.getMediaInfo({
-            manifest: playlistManifest,
-            canvasIndex: 2,
-          });
-          expect(isHLS).toBeFalsy();
-        });
-      });
-
       it("selects the first source when quality 'auto' is not present", () => {
         const { sources } = iiifParser.getMediaInfo({
           manifest: lunchroomManifest,

src/services/utility-helpers.js

@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ function getResourceInfo(item, motivation) {
     };
     if (motivation === 'supplementing') {
       // Set language for captions/subtitles
-      s.srclang = item.getProperty('language') || 'en';
+      s.srclang = item.getProperty('language') || 'eng';
       // Specify kind to subtitles for VTT annotations. Without this VideoJS
       // resolves the kind to metadata for subtitles file, resulting in empty
       // subtitles lists in iOS devices' native palyers