[mythtv-commits] Ticket #488: No Videotext Display (Switzerland and Germany)

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#488: No Videotext Display (Switzerland and Germany)
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 Reporter:  oli.henning at web.de  |       Owner:  ijr
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new
 Priority:  minor               |   Milestone:     
Component:  mythtv              |     Version:     
 Severity:  medium              |  --------------------------------+-------------------------------------------
 The Videotext-Function is completly unavailable.

 When pressing 'T' in Live-TV Mode the following is displayed for some
 seconds
 in the top-left corner: "Text ein" (german). But nothing more. I expected
 to see
 the 'Page 100' (Index-Page) of the currently selected channel (e.g. sat1,
 RTL, ARD,
 ZDF).

 I tested this with a classic Bt878-based Hauppauge WinTV-card and also
 with a modern Hauppauge PVR-350. Both cards work fine with MythTV
 (recording, shifting, channel switching etc.). But the Videotext does not
 work in both cases.
 A cross-check with aletv and nxtvepg shows a perfect-working Videotext-
 Receiving with bttv. But MythTV shows nothing.

 After reading a lot of Forums an Threads i had this 'idea': Is 'Videotext'
 a feature which is unknown in the US? There seems to be a function called
 'Closed Caption', but as i understood this is only a Text-Display for
 disabled people (People who can't hear... I don't know the english word).
 But in Germany, Switzerland and other European Countries 'Videotext' is
 much more.

 To clearify this: i'm in Switzerland. When we say 'Videotext', then we
 mean the whole Text-Infos from Page 100 (which is the Index), Page 200 ff.
 (Sports), Page 300ff (Programm-Info/Guide) up to Page 899. We choos a
 specifig Page via the TV-Remote and wait for the Page to be displayed on
 TV-Screen. Each page has 40x25 Chars (or 40x24? i don't know exactly).

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