[mythtv-users] VBI subtitles with ivtv cards?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 23 September 2005 10:19, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 September 2005 16:37, Isaac Richards wrote:
> >   
> >> On Thursday 22 September 2005 04:29 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Please 'scuse my ignorance, but while going through the commit 
> >>> history 
> >>> for the week that I was on vacation in August, I saw some changes 
> >>> in 
> >>> SVN related to VBI & subtitles w/ivtv-driven cards.  Does this 
> >>> mean 
> >>> that subtitles are now working/supported for these cards (assuming 
> >>> I 
> >>> have a recent enough version of ivtv)?  If so, is there anything
> >>> special I need to do besides enable it in the backend setup? 
> >>> (Note:  
> >>> I'm 
> >>> using regular TV-out, not a PVR-350).
> >>>       
> >> Only change was the ioctls enabling them are right now.  Someone 
> >> still  
> >> needs  
> >> to write a ivtv-format vbi parser.
> >>     
> >
> > So does that mean that they'll get embedded in the MPEG file, but 
> > Myth  
> > just can't parse them out yet?
> 
> 
> Yes. You can view them on your TV if you enable ivtv VBI passthrough 
> using the ivtvctl command.

Ummm... I guess maybe I could if I had a PVR-350... :-)

-JAC