[mythtv-users] Transcoding and DVB Closed Captioning

[Niels Dybdahl]

On 5/23/06, Robin Neatherway <robthebob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A tool that could "burn" the subtitles into the video would solve the
> > problems.
>
> If you mean making the subtitles actually part of the video stream,
> that wouldn't be a very good solution in the general case surely, as
> you dont always want the subtitles. For foreign language with native
> subtitles this would be acceptable, but they are often already part of
> the video. Or am I misunderstanding your intentions?


Foreign movies sent via DVB-T in Denmark only have subtitles via a separate
DVB-stream.
So making the subtitles part of the video stream would definitely make it
easier for me: MythBurn would still work, Transcoding would still work.
But I have not found any tools capable of burning the subtitles into the
videostream.
There are tools that can demultiplex (ProjectX) the subtitles into a .sup
format which some dvd-authoring applications can accept, and maybe
MythArchive will handle converting to DVD-format, but transcoding is still a
problem.
I was looking forward to DVB-T because I thought it would make transcoding
better (less noise). But now I can only use transcoding for native shows.
Actually I have started to force foreign shows to my analog card, so that I
still can transcode them.

Best regards
Niels Dybdahl
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