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HTML HTML Video and Audio (Retired) Captioning Video The Track Element

Posted by Cheng-Hao Chang
Cheng-Hao Chang
12,976 Points

after adding the track in my html file, I got a "crossorigin attribute" error when running the web page.

I check the console and it show me an error as below

Text track from origin 'file://' has been blocked from loading: Not at same origin as the document, and parent of track element does not have a 'crossorigin' attribute. Origin 'null' is therefore not allowed access.

Can someone help me out?

2 Answers

Kris Phelps
Kris Phelps
7,609 Points
Kris Phelps
Kris Phelps
7,609 Points

There are lots of security rules around accessing files from the local filesystem on your computer. This makes sense if you think about it, or else any website you went to could start trying to crawl your computer's files and access the data in them.

Have you tried uploading everything to a WorkSpace and see if you have the same problem?

Malith Senanayake
Malith Senanayake
12,488 Points
Malith Senanayake
Malith Senanayake
12,488 Points

I encountered the same problem. Follow this link "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23256830/crossorigin-errors-when-loading-vtt-file" in stackoverflow where you'll find some useful information about the nature of this problem . I followed a simple trick to overcome this situation. I saved all the files in htdocs folder of XAMPP and opened it in the browser as an XAMPP document, and subtitles appeared in the video.