Watch video, use captions and chapters

Step by step

1. 1

   Press play in the player. Use its controls to pause or seek forward and backward on the timeline.

2. 2

   When captions are available, open the player caption control and choose an available option.

3. 3

   If Video chapters are available, click a chapter title or timestamp. The player seeks to that point and attempts playback.

4. 4

   If the browser does not start after selecting a chapter, press play in the player. Follow the text steps at your own pace.

5. 5

   To change the walkthrough pace, open Playback speed below the video. Choose 0.5× or 0.75× to slow down, or 1.25×, 1.5× or 2× to speed up.

6. 6

   To return to normal speed, choose 1× in the same selector.

7. 7

   With captions enabled in the player, you can also read the Video caption box below the image. It shows the current passage when a caption is available at that moment.

8. 8

   To change the text in that box, select another available caption track in the player controls. To hide it, turn captions off in the player; the box is absent when no caption track is active or no text is available at that moment.

What you need to know

• Volume, fullscreen and caption controls depend on the browser and device. Not every video has chapters or every caption option.
• When available, captions matching the Help Center language are the default option. Opening a guide does not start video automatically.
• The box below the video follows the active caption track; it is not a full transcript or an automatic translation. Its text changes with playback and clears when the video ends.
• Playback speed defaults to 1× when the player opens and resets to 1× when the video or Help Center language changes.