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I've also tried MKV and AVI container formats with the same result: Linux VLC can enable closed-captions, Android VLC can't. Keeping the files in TS containers isn't really a good option, since VLC can't seek/jump in TS streams. With VLC Android the closed captions don't really work great with a TS ...

I'm playing an MP4 container stream from a DLNA server that contains a closed-caption subtitle track. When using the Linux/Qt VLC (3.0.8 Vetinari) app, I can use the Subtitle/Sub_Track/Closed_captions_N menu entry and the closed-captions show up as expected. Android VLC (3.1.7) doesn't show any subt...