From a9400ab0e3f5bfadc92f6f284bbef2e7b341004f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JonathanTGold <62672270+JonathanTGold@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:31:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(FEC-12760): Blank Transcript Box In V7 Player (#682)

solves FEC-12760

related pr:
kaltura/playkit-js-hls#183
kaltura/playkit-js-dash#219
---
 src/player.js           | 13 +++++++------
 src/track/text-track.js |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/player.js b/src/player.js
index d0ffffe9f..0440b257c 100644
--- a/src/player.js
+++ b/src/player.js
@@ -2625,18 +2625,19 @@ export default class Player extends FakeEventTarget {
    * @returns {string} - The track language to set by default.
    */
   _getLanguage<T: TextTrack | AudioTrack>(tracks: Array<T>, configuredLanguage: string, defaultTrack: ?T): string {
-    let language = configuredLanguage;
-    if (language === AUTO) {
+    let autoSelectedLanguage: string = '';
+    const defaultStreamTrack: string = tracks.find(track => track.default)?.language || '';
+    if (configuredLanguage === AUTO) {
       const localeTrack: ?T = tracks.find(track => Track.langComparer(Locale.language, track.language));
       if (localeTrack) {
-        language = localeTrack.language;
+        autoSelectedLanguage = localeTrack.language;
       } else if (defaultTrack && defaultTrack.language !== OFF) {
-        language = defaultTrack.language;
+        autoSelectedLanguage = defaultTrack.language;
       } else if (tracks && tracks.length > 0) {
-        language = tracks[0].language;
+        autoSelectedLanguage = tracks[0].language;
       }
     }
-    return language;
+    return autoSelectedLanguage || configuredLanguage || defaultStreamTrack;
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/src/track/text-track.js b/src/track/text-track.js
index ba350d52b..cb678029e 100644
--- a/src/track/text-track.js
+++ b/src/track/text-track.js
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ const TextTrack: TextTrack = class TextTrack extends Track {
     this._kind = settings.kind;
     this._external = settings.external;
     this._index = TextTrack._generateIndex();
-    this._default = this.active;
+    this._default = settings.default || false;
   }
 };