[mythtv-users] Closed captioning woes in 0.24?

[Mark Kendall]

On 23 November 2010 11:23, Eloy Paris <peloy at chapus.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:26:24AM -0500, Eloy Paris wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is anyone having closed captioning problems with 0.24? Closed captioning
>> has been working great for me but it is giving me problems after I
>> upgraded to 0.24. When playing back a recording the playback menu
>> sometimes does not even have a "Subtitles" submenu, and when it does,
>> turning on ATSC CC does not work (no captions are displayed). Also, my
>> recordings used to have both ATSC CC and VBI CC. Now most recordings
>> only seem to have ATSC CC, including old recordings that I am pretty
>> sure have both.
>>
>> Playing recordings with VLC does give closed captions.
>>
>> Could you share you experience with CC in 0.24?
>
> When running the frontend with -v vbi I see lots of these in the
> frontend log:
>
> 2010-11-22 22:14:06.606 VBI: Unknown descriptor: 1
> 2010-11-22 22:14:06.607 VBI: Unknown descriptor: 153
> 2010-11-22 22:14:06.607 VBI: Unknown descriptor: 1
> 2010-11-22 22:14:06.608 VBI: Unknown descriptor: 153
> 2010-11-22 22:14:06.608 VBI: Unknown descriptor: 224
> 2010-11-22 22:14:06.608 VBI: Unknown descriptor: 153
> 2010-11-22 22:14:06.608 VBI: Unknown descriptor: 241
> 2010-11-22 22:14:06.763 VBI: Unknown descriptor: 153
>
> I don't know if I had these before when CC was working since I just
> enabled -v vbi to further troubleshoot this, but closed captions have
> certainly worked for me until now.
>
> I could swear that closed captions were working for me in some of the
> 0.24 releases that I have run and if that is the case, then they stopped
> working after some 0.24-fixes upgrade that I did since nothing else in
> the system has been upgraded.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?

Try posting the output of mythfrontend -v playback,vbi somewhere.

I've just checked some test clips here and there doesn't appear to be
a problem (trunk - but nothing should have changed since 0.24)

regards

Mark