Multilingual captioning, how?

Hi,
I am creating a CD-Rom presentation, the requirements of which are Video and multi-language captioning.
I thought this would be a good opportunity to gain experience with OSMF and the Captioning Plugin.
I am an FDT user rather than Flash Builder and have rebuilt the CaptioningSample example as a Pure AS3 project, swapping Flex components for Flash CS3 components. Everything compiles and video with captioning works well.
For the next step I want to add be able to switch between various captioning languages, but I can not see how I would go about adding this functionality.
I think I am going about this the wrong way and that there is probably a simpler way of doing this, but below is what I have tried.
I presumed that I would need to load all of the DFXP documents in advance. Then when the user selects a language the captionLabel textfield is populated with the correct caption.
I thought adding a value to kvFacet might work, but this always displays the last value entered.
// adapted from CaptioningSample.mxml line 118 in the loadMedia method
kvFacet.addValue ( new ObjectIdentifier ( CaptioningPluginInfo.CAPTIONING_METADATA_KEY_URI ), CAPTION1_URL );
kvFacet.addValue ( new ObjectIdentifier ( CaptioningPluginInfo.CAPTIONING_METADATA_KEY_URI ), CAPTION2_URL );
I have also tried changing th key used in new ObjectIdentifier ( 'lang1' )but I cannot see where I would check against this new value.
Could anyone offer some assistance on this matter please?
Thanks in advance,
George

Hi Brian,
Thanks again
It is an idea but ideally I think the client would like to be able to switch at while the video is playing.
The funny thing is that I have managed to get it working with the CS3 FLVPlayback & FLVPlaybackCaptioning components by simply adding 2 instances of the FLVPlaybackCaptioning component. I did have some minor tweaks to sort but it works well.
I don't think that the current implementation of the Caption Plugin has been designed with this in mind.
It is a shame as I was quite looking forward to trying out OSMF. Maybe once it has matured some more.
If any one has any ideas then I am interested in hearing them
Thanks
George

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