[mythtv] Should mythtranscode be preserving closed-captioning
data?
Isaac Richards
ijr at case.edu
Thu Dec 8 18:18:50 EST 2005
On Thursday 08 December 2005 18:01, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:24:47 -0500
> From: Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net>
>
> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 16:06 -0500, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 03:50:35 -0500
> > From: Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu>
> > CC data from the pvr-x50 isn't supported. These are users list
> > questions. Er, ok. So why is there a UI element mentioning it in
> > mythtv-setup?
>
> Because we record the captions or teletext so that old recordings will
> have them when in the future the frontend supports decoding them.
>
> I don't (quite) understand this, since I turned on the switch but
> the CC info wasn't saved (even after boot) until I went in directly
> w/ivtvctl and enabled it (and that took effect instantly), but
> whatever. (This is running ivitv 0.4.0 & 0.4.1-r1, btw.)
>
> [I'm recording in PS mode, since that's the default; I note that your
> patch claims that TS mode is required, but don't know if that might
> have changed the behavior above.]
ivtv's changed how it enables vbi (cc & teletext) and neglected to provide a
backwards compatability layer, so myth 0.18 can't enable it in newer versions
of the driver.
Isaac
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