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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:59:41 -0400, you wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> 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.

Have you noticed that the "Stream size" is reported as 0.00 bytes?  If
that is real, then there are headers saying the text streams are
there, but there is no data in those streams.  Check mediainfo on a
file that does show captions to be sure of what it is reporting.