[mythtv-users] Removing support for CEA-608 teletext subtitles

Jim Stichnoth stichnot at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 14:19:39 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Stefan D <raptorjr08 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> We are planning to remove MythTV support for CEA-608 based teletext
>>> captions/subtitles, as of the 0.27 release.  That is to say, 0.26 will
>>> be the last release with CEA-608 teletext support.
>>
>> How can i find out what type of subtitles i use?
>
> Very good point.  It's actually not easy in general to figure that
> out.  To help with this particular issue, I just checked in code to
> master and 0.25-fixes that adds extra logging output if this
> deprecated situation is encountered.  If you're running 0.25-fixes
> v0.25.2-8-g3256849 or later, or master v0.26-alpha-35-g7b1aef8 or
> later, you can run mythfrontend with "-v vbi" and watch
> mythfrontend.log for occurrences of DEPRECATED_608_TELETEXT during
> playback with captions enabled.  If nothing shows up, the planned
> change won't affect you.

As of 0.26-beta (which was tagged a few hours ago), this logging is
changed to show up under the much more reasonable "-v general"
logging, so you won't need any special logging options to observe the
messages.

Jim


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