[mythtv-users] Closed Captioning over S-Video connection?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Aug 8 02:24:24 UTC 2006


On 08/07/2006 06:06 PM, Marc Barrett wrote:

>Is it possible to have an s-video connection between a digital tuner (like with a digital cable service) and a 
>PVR-350, and still be able to get the closed captioning?  I doubt it, but I'm hoping it's possible.
>

Yes (assuming your cable box outputs them).  The captions are encoded 
within lines in the picture produced from the analog signal.  No digital 
connections required (which is how they can be transmitted in the analog 
OTA signals, too).

Mike


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