[mythtv-users] MythTV, ivtv and Closed Caption - problems

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Joaquín Lago Pérez wrote:

> Hi,
> I need to see subtitles in mythtv. I use the ivtv driver -last 
> development version available -, with an PVR-250 card, configured for 
> PAL. Can see video captured, played and audio, but not subtitles.
> I can get data from /dev/vbi0, but not cc is displayed.
> From ivtv - more precise, from saa7115 - i get an error about NTSC 
> closed caption not availble with PAL (I don´t have the error text 
> here, it is something like that). I do not know who to force it PAL, 
> if possible.
> Any ideas, please?
> Does mythtv currently support showing closed caption via ivtv driver? 
> (all i have read are old posts, and very confused about this).
> Thank you very much.
>
>
1) cc (Closed Captioning) is only defined and used on NTSC systems. PAL 
does not support it. With PAL countries you can have Teletetxt pages 
that supply subtitles.

2) mythtv - to the best of my knowledge - currently does not support vbi 
from ivtv

Cheers,

Rudy