[mythtv-users] No closed captioning for any tuner in Mythtv SVN

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/29/2007 06:39 AM, Sam Logen wrote:
> Hi everyone.  So, the problem is that I can't see
> closed captioning when I enable it for either of my
> tuner cards.  I'm testing the cards in live tv, I open
> the menu, select each type of closed captioning, but
> none of them produce any subtitles.
>
> I'm using a Dvico FusionHDTV5 RT ATSC tuner card, and
> an Avermedia M150 hardware encoder card.  I can't
> think of any misconfiguration I might have done. 
> There's so little to configure in mythtv-setup with
> cards like these.  Plus, I could get subtitles from
> them in Mythtv 20.2, but not in 21 SVN, which is what
> I'm using now.
>
> Closed captioning is really necessary for my setup. 
> There are two hard-of-hearing individuals that would
> really appreciate it if I could get the captioning to
> work.  Could anyone be of assistance?  Thanks!

You did set the "VBI format" appropriately in mythtv-setup, right?  It's
under the general/backend settings (whatever they're called) on the page
"Locale Settings."

Mike