How to setup RSS feed to support Chapters? - rss

Question

This question is regarding JWPlayer 7.3.
According to this JWPlayer article about Chapters (see very bottom), JW player has support for chapters from an RSS feed:
Chapters can also be loaded as part of RSS feeds. See the RSS Feeds Reference for more info.
https://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1407454-adding-chapter-markers
Unfortunately, there are no details on what RSS data is parsed on the RSS page. Can anyone shed some light on this issue?

Answer 1

It does not use the rss file, but the vtt file, also used for subtitles.
So you have to create a chapters.vtt file, with this example content:
WEBVTT
Chapter 1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:01:00.000
First chapter
Chapter 2
00:01:00.000 --> 00:02:00.000
Second chapter
After you can setup the player:
var playerInstance = jwplayer("container");
playerInstance.setup({
file: "video.mp4",
tracks: [{
file:'chapters.vtt',
kind:'chapters'
}],
});
The video will have chapters. That's all.
UPDATE
You can also use Chapters with playlist feeds, RRS or JSON files, this is a JSON example with 2 media files, and 2 chapters files:
setup player
var playerInstance = jwplayer("container");
playerInstance.setup({
playlist: "playlist.json"
});
playlist.json
[{
"file": "myvideo_1.mp4",
"title": "First Video",
tracks: [{
file:'chapters_1.vtt',
kind:'chapters'
}],
},
{
"file": "myvideo_2.mp4",
"title": "Second Video",
tracks: [{
file:'chapters_2.vtt',
kind:'chapters'
}],
}]
chapters_1.vtt
WEBVTT
Chapter 1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:01:00.000
First chapter first video
Chapter 2
00:01:00.000 --> 00:02:00.000
Second chapter first video
chapters_2.vtt
WEBVTT
Chapter 1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:01:30.000
First chapter second video
Chapter 2
00:01:30.000 --> 00:02:30.000
Second chapter second video