[mythtv-users] Question about Closed Captioning

[Andreas]

Le Dienstag, 18. September 2007, Brian L. Walter a écrit :
> Andreas wrote:
> > Le Dienstag, 18. September 2007, Brian Walter a écrit :
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> Where does Myth get the indication of closed captions?  Is it from the
> >> stream itself, for from the guide?
> >
> > If you refer to the CC indicator in the frontend, that information
> > comes from the database, which in turn gets it from the tv listings
> > source you are using.
> >
> >> I'm trying to track down why CC seems to work sometimes, and not other
> >> times.  Almost all programs indicate that they have CC, but, sometimes
> >> I can get CC and sometimes not.  When toggling 'T', it will say CC 1
> >> on...but...no captions.
> >
> > For recordings made with ivtv cards: If you use mythtranscode to, say,
> > cut out the commercials,  the vbi stream containing the closed captions
> > does not 'survive' the transcoding process.
>
> Transcoding in general? Or just transcoding to change the file in some
> way, I.E. remove comercials?

In my experience it is *any* transcoding process. I tried mythtranscode with 
lossless profile, avidemux, and mencoder. All of them transcode video & 
audio, but drop the closed captions.

> Thanks!  It's begining to make sense now:)

yvw :)

> Brian

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Gruß
Andreas