[mythtv-users] OT? No captions on The Walking Dead this season

Devin Heitmueller dheitmueller at kernellabs.com
Thu Oct 29 02:09:24 UTC 2015


On Oct 28, 2015 10:00 PM, "Phil Bridges" <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Ozzy Lash <ozzy.lash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>>
>>>> All of a sudden, this season of The Walking Dead doesn't have captions
here (Comcast - Atlanta). Has anybody else experienced this?
>>>>
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>>> Just checked my recording from Sunday night, and it has closed
captioning.  I'm on comcast in the chicago area (Romeoville headend).
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>> Interesting.  Let me see if I can ping some others around here.
>>
>
> For grins and giggles, i ran mediainfo on the file, and came up with:
> Text #1
> ID                                       : 4268 (0x10AC)-CC1
> Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
> Format                                   : EIA-608
> Muxing mode                              : SCTE 128 / DTVCC Transport
> Muxing mode, more info                   : Muxed in Video #1
> Duration                                 : 1h 2mn
> Bit rate mode                            : Constant
> Stream size                              : 0.00 Byte (0%)
>
> Text #2
> ID                                       : 4268 (0x10AC)-1
> Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
> Format                                   : EIA-708
> Muxing mode                              : SCTE 128 / DTVCC Transport
> Muxing mode, more info                   : Muxed in Video #1
> Duration                                 : 1h 2mn
> Bit rate mode                            : Constant
> Stream size                              : 0.00 Byte (0%)
>
> Text #3
> ID                                       : 4268 (0x10AC)-2
> Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
> Format                                   : EIA-708
> Muxing mode                              : SCTE 128 / DTVCC Transport
> Muxing mode, more info                   : Muxed in Video #1
> Duration                                 : 1h 2mn
> Bit rate mode                            : Constant
> Stream size                              : 0.00 Byte (0%)
>
>
> Any guesses as to why my frontend doesn't detect the captions?  I see the
"CC" icon on mythweb for the file.
>

Just as a test, try playing the file in VLC and see if captions render ok.

Devin
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