[mythtv-users] The state of ATSC closed captioning

[Marco Nelissen]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Marco Nelissen <marco.nelissen at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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')
>

I did miss something, namely that you in fact have to 'enable' VBI captions
in the backend settings (mythtv-setup).
Once I did that, VBI captions showed up as an option in the menu during
playback. Another example of why I don't like how mythtv handles its
settings.
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