Easy way to show SRT files on AVPlayerViewController

Would be great to have support for on/off subtitles & cc from the default AVPlayerViewController UI.

I'll give a try to implement it, hope is possbile.

added function showByDictionary that has input NSMutableDictionary to bypass the parsing method srt.

i use this parsing XML from youtube like this:

let subtitlesDictionary = NSMutableDictionary()
if CaptionUrl != nil {
    Alamofire.request(CaptionUrl!).response {
        response in

            let xml = SWXMLHash.parse(response.data!)

        var counter = 0
        for elem in xml["transcript"]["text"].all {
            let fromTime = Double((elem.element ? .attribute(by: "start") ? .text) !)
            let toTime = fromTime!+Double((elem.element ? .attribute(by: "dur") ? .text) !) !
            let text = elem.element ? .text

            // Create final object
            let final = NSMutableDictionary()
            final["from"] = fromTime
            final["to"] = toTime
            final["text"] = replacedText
            subtitlesDictionary[counter] = final
            counter += 1
        }
    }
}


// Add subtitles
playerViewController?.addSubtitles().showByDictionary(dictionaryContent: subtitlesDictionary)

` // Change text properties

moviePlayer.subtitleLabel?.textColor = UIColor.red moviePlayer.subtitleLabel?.backgroundColor = UIColor.black `

when using backgroundColor there is some problem when the subtitle is not active. Any idea why this is happening?

Hi , just wondering if you guys support WEBVTT subtitles as I have several videos with VTT subtitles (see attachments ) but they won't show up.

Appreciate your help :)

sample_video_subtitles.vtt.zip

I found the func parseSubRip let regexStr = "(?m)(^[0-9]+)([\s\S]*?)(?=\n\n)" let regex = try NSRegularExpression(pattern: regexStr, options: .caseInsensitive) let matches = regex.matches(in: payload, options: NSRegularExpression.MatchingOptions(rawValue: 0), range: NSMakeRange(0, payload.characters.count))

the matches will lost last lines text

defaul srt have 6 lines

but only match 5 lines

how to fix this bug?

I'm facing a problem with the iOS 11.0 and 11.1. In both cases the system totally avoid the subtitleLabel constraints, it's like none of them were been implemented. Have you guys ever faced this issue?

I am using this library to get the captions from youtube url while parsing the XML caption youtube provides. Creating a NSdictionary and using the NSDictionary in the library.

Should i make a pull request for this to be able to use a NSDictionary ?

Please help!!!

I dont want to download subtitle file to bundle and I want to get subtitle file from server (https://...)

Please help me with other way

Thank sir!!!

let subtitleFile = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "1", ofType: "srt")
subtitleURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: subtitleFile!)
parser = Subtitles(file: subtitleURL!, encoding: .utf8)

Hello, Thank you for this repo, very helpful. But I've found an issue with timestamps and your current regex. In some cases there is some differences: 00:00:00.935 --> 00:00:02.668 00:00:00,935 --> 00:00:02,668

Hey! First of all, thank you for the extension, it is really simple and adds a lot of value.

This is more of an improvement than an issue actually, but happens when you are using a custom view for the player controller that the extension may crash depending on your implementation.

One common scenario on this is when you try to keep playing videos while in background and you pick one specific solution of the two provided by Apple here

In this scenarios, the extension may crash since it uses the contentOverlayView in order to add the subtitleLabel. If the contentOverlayView is nil, the app will crash trying to figure out the superview when creating constraints with the visual format specified.

Based on this, I changed the following

    fileprivate func addSubtitleLabel() {
        
        guard let _ = subtitleLabel else {
            
           // ... label setup
            contentOverlayView?.addSubview(subtitleLabel!)
            
            // ... continue constraints
    }

with something a little bit more defensive like:

    fileprivate func addSubtitleLabel() {
        
        guard let _ = subtitleLabel else {
            
           // ... label setup
           if contentOverlayView != nil {
                contentOverlayView?.addSubview(subtitleLabel!)
            } else {
                view.addSubview(subtitleLabel!)
            }            

            // ... continue constraints
    }

Hope this helps

'scanDouble' was deprecated in iOS 13 scanString(_:into:)

  scanner.scanDouble(&h)
   scanner.scanString(":", into: nil)
   scanner.scanDouble(&m)
   scanner.scanString(":", into: nil)
   scanner.scanDouble(&s)
   scanner.scanString(",", into: nil)
     scanner.scanDouble(&c)

fixing this to doesn't show subtitles