[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #6509: Closed Captions Don't Work on Frontend Machine

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/29/2009 01:27 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

>  On 04/29/2009 01:04 PM, MythTV wrote:
>
> > #6509: Closed Captions Don't Work on Frontend Machine
> >
> > Hi. I have mythbox with a backend/frontend setup to use VBI closed
> > captions and it works great both on live tv and recordings when I
> > am watching on this machine.
> >
> > However, I have laptops that I have just frontends on and the
> > closed captions don't work. I can turn them on in the menu when
> > playing a video but nothing shows up.  I have fiddled with every
> > setting in the OSD settings, but nothing works.
>
>  What happens when you execute the following command and try again:
>
>  echo "DELETE FROM settings "\
>  "WHERE value = 'VbiFormat' "\
>  "AND hostname != NULL;" | mysql -umythtv -p mythconverg
>  mythbackend --clearcache

Sorry, that command should be:

echo "DELETE FROM settings "\
"WHERE value = 'VbiFormat' "\
"AND hostname IS NOT NULL;" | mysql -umythtv -p mythconverg
mythbackend --clearcache


>  If that doesn't work, run mythtv-setup on one of your systems and
>  (re)set the "VBI Format" appropriately, then try again.  If that
>  doesn't work, try shutting down your system (all frontend/backend
>  programs):
>
>  echo "DELETE FROM settings "\
>  "WHERE value = 'VbiFormat';" | mysql -umythtv -p mythconverg
>
>  then run mythtv-setup and set the appropriate value for "VBI Format",
>  then restart your system (all backends/frontends) and try again.
>
>  "VBI Format" is in General settings under "Locale Settings" (page 2?
>  or so).

Mike