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Video closed captioning is available on desktop but not on mobile
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When watching https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tec-de-monterrey-student-activities-in-wikimedia.webm and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tec-de-monterrey-student-activities-in-wikimedia.webm, the button for closed captioning appears on the desktop interface but is missing from the mobile interface.

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Our subtitles are SRT, which is not supported by native HTML5 players, which is what we are using on those platforms.

As part of T100106, i'm looking into converting the subtitles to standard HTML5 VTT subtitles.

This too is fixed with videoJS, but we need to be careful with changes due to T246035

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Fixed with VideoJS