alt Hacker NewsI would also be interested in this. Subtitle presentation is something where browsers are still generally very bad at out of the box, so having good subtitle rendering support built directly into the library would make a lot of sense to me. As someone with a lot of knowledge on this subject, I would be very much willing to help at least draft design documents for something like this, if not more.
Hey there, core contributor here! This came up during our beta effort. We very likely will be having an opt-in, non-native subtitles rendering implementation. I know at least a few team members that really want it, which adds to the likelihood that we'll add it eventually. The short version of why we started with native subtitles - bundle size and legal compliance, with a dash of prioritization and a sprinkle of hope that some looming laws will motivate browser owners to prioritize improvements. If you want to see our design decision artifact on the topic, we try to make a lot of them public (also to help the robots these days) - https://github.com/videojs/v10/blob/main/internal/decisions/...