1 files changed, 9 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/video-player.js b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/video-player.js
index 3bb9124..1522539 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/video-player.js
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/video-player.js
@@ -113,7 +113,15 @@ function audioTrackLabel(track) {
 function subtitleTrackLabel(track) {
   const name = _languageName(track.lang)
     || t('video.subtitle_track_n', { n: track.i + 1 });
-  return track.title ? `${name} — ${track.title}` : name;
+  // The disposition wins over the container's title, and is translated, so a
+  // forced track reads as one in the viewer's own language rather than as the
+  // English word a muxer happened to type — or as nothing at all, which is
+  // what a forced track with no title tag looked like.
+  const kind = track.forced ? t('video.subtitles_forced')
+    : track.sdh ? t('video.subtitles_sdh')
+    : null;
+  const detail = kind || track.title;
+  return detail ? `${name} — ${detail}` : name;
 }
 
 function _mseSupported(codec) {
@@ -1159,33 +1167,6 @@ function VideoPlayer({ entry, transportRef, gekRef, onClose, onDownload }) {
                 'mode =', v.textTracks[0] && v.textTracks[0].mode,
                 'cues =', v.textTracks[0] && v.textTracks[0].cues
                   ? v.textTracks[0].cues.length : 'none');
-    if (!subtitleUrl) return;
-    // The state above is a single instant, and every part of it can be right
-    // there and wrong a second later: a re-render can replace the <track>,
-    // which resets the mode nothing would set again. What decides whether a
-    // subtitle is on screen is `activeCues`, and that is the one number no
-    // log has ever carried. Sampled for ten seconds, with the cue that ought
-    // to be showing at this instant, so "none active" and "active but not
-    // painted" stop being the same observation.
-    let n = 0;
-    const probe = setInterval(() => {
-      const tt = v.textTracks[0];
-      if (!tt) { console.log('[MeshBay] subtitle probe: the track is gone'); return; }
-      const cues = tt.cues ? Array.from(tt.cues) : [];
-      const now = v.currentTime;
-      const should = cues.find((c) => c.startTime <= now && c.endTime >= now);
-      console.log('[MeshBay] subtitle probe', ++n,
-                  't =', now.toFixed(1), 'mode =', tt.mode,
-                  'cues =', cues.length,
-                  'active =', tt.activeCues ? tt.activeCues.length : 'null',
-                  'due here =', should ? `[${should.startTime.toFixed(1)}-`
-                    + `${should.endTime.toFixed(1)}] ${should.text.slice(0, 40)}` : 'none',
-                  'first/last =', cues.length
-                    ? `${cues[0].startTime.toFixed(1)}..${cues[cues.length - 1].endTime.toFixed(1)}`
-                    : '-');
-      if (n >= 5) clearInterval(probe);
-    }, 2000);
-    return () => clearInterval(probe);
   }, [subtitleUrl]);
 
   useEffect(() => {