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Cannot Show Captions in Quicktime

I have seen this post before, but my problem was not solved with the solutions available in those posts.

I have the captions embedded with the CEA-608 standard, per quicktime guidelines.

In system preferences I have checked the checkbox saying that I "prefer closed captions and SDH," and restarted afterward.

Curious why the captions option is not showing up in the "view," tab if my captions are embedded with the 608 standard....

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Mar 15, 2018 9:12 AM

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