Closed captions are typically in the same language as the audio and also display background sounds as text, but subtitles are typically in a different language and do not include background sounds.

TVSDK supports rendering these formats:

608 and 708 closed captioning, when delivered as part of the video transport stream over HLS as data packets in MPEG-2 video streams.
WebVTT caption files, which are referenced from the M3U8 manifest files as defined in the HLS specifications.

These files are automatically available as closed-caption tracks in the Primetime player.

You can do the following:

Select an available caption track to be the current track and listen for events that indicate additional available tracks.
Switch closed captioning on (visible) or off (not visible) by using the MediaPlayer interface.
Select styling options that dictate how closed captions are rendered by the underlying video engine.

Use the MediaPlayerItem interface to select formats such as the font or font color.