# FLVPlaybackCaptioning

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flvplaybackcaptioning/289531
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 1, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flvplaybackcaptioning/289531 "2009-06-01T14:31:55Z")
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### Author: ![dygfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@dygfloyd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dygfloyd)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flvplaybackcaptioning/289531/1 "2009-06-01T14:31:55Z")

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to see if anyone had any insite on using the FLVPlaybackCaptioning class. I’m having an issue where I’m loading videos from a database and some of them might have subtitles. I’m getting all sorts of weird issues. I don’t think the issue is a specific code issue but more of an understanding of how the class works. So, I really just wanted to start a discussion on how the FLVPlaybackCaptioning class works and how it reacts when loading multiple videos.

I’ve found this post:  
[http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=188945](http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=188945)

…which talks about creating multiple instances of the video player. For me, I don’t know if that’s a good option because there are thousands of videos in this database and I never know how many of them are going to be. But, I might be misunderstanding how to create and remove these instances.

I’ve also found this:

[http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs\_Parts&file=00000598.html](http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000598.html)

Useful but not specific enough for what I needed.

To make them work with multiple videos, I’ve tried:

1. Updating the FLVPlaybackCaptioning.source:  
Result: Captions are not updated
2. Resetting FLVPlaybackCaptioning.showCaptions:  
Result: I was hoping it might just be a redraw issue but in hindsite, I was just shooting in the dark. It obviously didn’t work.
3. Destroying the FLVPlaybackCaptioning variable and creating a new one:  
Result: If the new video has captions, it will correct itself once a new cue point is hit. If the video does not have captions, the captions will sit there indefinitely no matter how FLVPlaybackCaptioning.showCaptions is set.

As I said, I was hoping to just create a thread where we could talk about how this class works and hopefully solve a few issues that others might be having as well.

Thanks!