<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Kristjansson</b> <<a href="mailto:danielk@cuymedia.net">danielk@cuymedia.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 14:21 -0700, JS Boyd wrote:<br>> Captions are an issue on my current setup SVN 3181.<br>><br>> ATSC via HDHomerun captions work, but do not have black backgrounds on<br>> most channels and tend to overwrite on top of each other basically
<br>> making them pretty useless. However, there is an exception. ABC<br>> primetime programs like "Lost" seem to work properly: logically placed<br>> black backgrounded captions.<br><br>With EIA-708 the broadcaster specifies whether the captions
<br>will have a background as well as the color of the text,<br>it's background and the size and angle of the text shadow<br>and/or outlining as well as the font, location and animations.<br>At this time there is no way to override what the broadcaster
<br>specifies in MythTV, but this is in my long term plan for<br>EIA-708 caption support.<br><br>Most of the captions you are seeing are EIA-608 captions<br>that have been poorly converted into EIA-708 captions.<br>Some programs made for HD, such as "Arrested Development" and
<br>other top shelf programming have true EIA-708 captions,<br>probably because the producers expect a long syndication run.<br>"Lost" may well contain well produced EIA-708 captions,<br>or they may simply have no EIA-708 captions since "Lost"
<br>will never be rebroadcast so they want to spare the expense<br>of future proofing the program and MythTV is falling back<br>to the EIA-608 captions they do broadcast.<br><br>-- Daniel<br></blockquote></div><br>One problem I have with EIA-708 captions: they are often party "off the screen". I don't think I have that much overscan, but I obviously have enough to cause a problem.
<br><br>I, personally, rarely use closed captions, so I don't consider it much of a problem.<br><br>John<br><br><br><br>