[mythtv-users] Closed capitioning dropping characters

[David Brodbeck]

On Dec 18, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Craig Huff wrote:

>> Beny Spensieri Jr wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I've noticed that when playing back closed captioning, that  
>>> characters are being dropped during playback.
>>> It starts off well in the beginning, then is seems like the  
>>> captions can't keep up with the playback, so it drops characters  
>>> to keep up.
>>> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> FWIW, I have found that I have this problem on multiple channels
> seemingly varying from one episode to the next, even, but always on my
> PVR-350 card, not on either channel of the PVR-500 card.  My solution
> was to demote the 350 card priority by one so it doesn't get used
> unless it has to and it is the last one to be used.  Since doing this,
> I can't recall seeing closed captions corrupted.

Is the reception on the PVR-500 notably better than on the PVR-350?   
Closed captioning is very sensitive to video noise.