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

[Jack Deslippe]

Thanks Michael,

I will try that when I get home.  Just to make sure I understand you
correctly:  You are saying that I should run those commands on the
backend right?  I guess that is the only machine with a mysql server
anyway. 

Would you mind taking a minute to explain what that command does?  Does
it change the frontends' behavior to looks for the VBI captions on the backend
instead of their own machine or something?

What I find confusing is why the captions show up fine when playing on
the dual backend/frontend machine but don't show on the standalone frontend
machines.  The option for VBI CC is in the menu, but turning on causes nothing to happen.

-Jack



Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 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
>
>