Package: vlc Version: 2.2.4-1~deb8u1 Severity: wishlist I understand that WebVTT has been adopted as the official subtitle format for WebM videos (FFmpeg also enforces this policy by not allowing other subtitle formats like SRT into a WebM file.) I have a WebM file with such subtitles embedded in them, as reported by FFmpeg:
Duration: 00:01:35.98, start: 0.007000, bitrate: 458 kb/s Stream #0:0: Video: vp9, yuv420p, 720x540, SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3, 23.98fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default) Stream #0:2(eng): Subtitle: webvtt In selecting the track from the Subtitle menu it appears that VLC does not support embedded WebVTT. The code where it was added seems more for external subtitle files. I've made a feature request to add that support, which has been added for the upcoming VLC 3.0: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ef7a61e949c2dbfd4f149a7d108a6aea05ac3e4 This change cleanly applies to the VLC 2.2 series in Debian (I've done this already on my machine and it works.) It would be nice if this change could be made for the VLC in Debian so that others can easily have access to files with these subtitles in advance of VLC 3.0.