[mythtv-users] Transcoding and DVB Closed Captioning

[Niels Dybdahl]

On 5/23/06, Robin Neatherway <robthebob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am thinking about solutions like:
> > - "Burning" the subtitles into the video before transcoding
> > - Splitting the DVB-subtitles (ProjectX?) from the video before
> transcoding
> > and somehow merging them afterwards. But maybe the .NUV format does not
> > support closed captioning subtitles. Could the user jobs be used for
> this?
>
> I have been playing around with this and it seems that ProjectX is the
> only tool capable of performing this extraction. It's a shame, because
> it's really clunky, but I can't find any other way. Once the .sup file
> has been output, I am then unable to actually do anything with it -
> can't find the tools for that either.


So I guess that the closed captioning are lost with MythBurn too, as
MythBurn first demultiplexes and remultiplexes the recording. I wonder if
MythArchive will do it better.
A tool that could "burn" the subtitles into the video would solve the
problems.

Niels Dybdahl
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