[mythtv-users] The state of ATSC closed captioning

[Marco Nelissen]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/3/17 Marco Nelissen <marco.nelissen at gmail.com>:
> > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> says:
> >>> > Does anyone know if any work is being done to improve the state of
> >>> > ATSC closed captioning in Myth?
> >>>
> >>> Nope. They remain horribly broken.
> >>>
> >>> Turn off "Prefer EIA-708 over EIA-608 captions" to use VBI captions
> >>> instead, which work, and work quite well.
> >>
> >> Thank you!  I had taken broken HD captions as a fact of life and never
> >> thought of looking for a solution.  Ahhhhh.
> >> For anyone looking for this: Setup->TV Setting->Playback OSD, 3rd page.
> >
> > I have turned off this option, but CCs are still broken in the same way
> (CCs
> > printed on top of each other). I am using 0.21-fixes.
>
> During playback, are you selecting the ATSC captions, or the VBI captions?


Unless I'm missing something, ATSC captions are the only ones available
(i.e. the menu only shows 'Select ATSC CC', and the only options in the
submenu for that are 'Toggle On/Off' and 'ATSC CC 1: English')
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