[mythtv] Should mythtranscode be preserving closed-captioning data?

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Thu Dec 8 03:50:35 EST 2005


On Thursday 08 December 2005 03:48, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> In MythTV 0.18.1:
>
> Running mythtranscode -V all -c [chanid] -s [time] -p autodetect -d
> doesn't seem to copy closed-captioning data from the input stream to
> the output stream, or perhaps the xv driver that's running to send the
> data to my PVR-350's output isn't passing it through or something.
> I'm not actually sure how to tell if it's in the MPEG4 or not and
> thus where it's getting lost.
>
> Is this a bug, an oversight, a design decision, or is there something
> else I need to do?  Swapping the original MPEG2 into my recordings
> directory and playing it via Myth shows the CC just fine, but if I
> rename that file and rename mythtranscode's MPEG4 in its place, I
> get no CC data.  (And, of course, very low audio volume, as I reported
> a couple of days ago and which I still don't have a solution for.)
>
> Any clues?

CC data from the pvr-x50 isn't supported.  These are users list questions.

Isaac


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