<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Andreas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linuxdreas@dslextreme.com">linuxdreas@dslextreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Normally,<br>
> MythTV's cc support seems great, but there are some problems with<br>
> transcoding. When I do a lossless mpeg-2 transcode (for permanently<br>
> removing commercials), the captions are lost completely.<br>
<br>
</div>I have found that cc's in recordings from ATSC sources (or QAM) actually<br>
survive MythTV's lossless transcoding. Sadly, the same can not be said for<br>
recordings I made from analogue sources with my ivtv-cards.</blockquote><div><br>Interesting -- I've only been trying this with programs recorded from a PVR-150. I will check this out on the HDHR.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> When I transcode<br>
> from mpeg-2 to mpeg-4 with a cutlist, the captions are preserved but<br>
> delayed during playback, presumably because the cutlist is not being<br>
> applied to the captions.<br>
<br>
</div>There is a great little program out there, ccextractor, which can save closed<br>
captions to a srt file.</blockquote><div><br>Cool, thanks for the pointer.<br><br>Jim<br></div></div></div>