diff --git a/lib/media/segment_utils.js b/lib/media/segment_utils.js
index b2dd393f23..3cdb4319ed 100644
--- a/lib/media/segment_utils.js
+++ b/lib/media/segment_utils.js
@@ -417,9 +417,13 @@ shaka.media.SegmentUtils = class {
       if (initData) {
         captionParser.init(initData);
       }
-      captionParser.parseFrom(data);
-      for (const stream of captionParser.getStreams()) {
-        closedCaptions.set(stream, stream);
+      try {
+        captionParser.parseFrom(data);
+        for (const stream of captionParser.getStreams()) {
+          closedCaptions.set(stream, stream);
+        }
+      } catch (e) {
+        shaka.log.debug('Error detecting CC streams', e);
       }
       captionParser.reset();
     }