[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Closed Captioning

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:36 PM, Daniel A. Segel wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>
>> I'm not seeing Closed Captioning on my PVR-350.
>> ...
>> I've turned on NTSC closed captioning in mythtv-setup (I've always
>> had it on since it was an option). And I've set the front end to
>> always display CC as well as manually select CC1 from the menu, but
>> still nothing. I even tried a different OSD theme.. just in case. No
>> joy. Any ideas?
>>
>>
> If you are using the PVR-350's native MPEG decoder (i.e. you have the
> correct box checked in Setup) then you need to use the CC decoder on
> your TV to view the captions, not the built-in decode in MythTV. If  
> you
> are using XV instead you can use Myth's CC decoder, but you need to
> specify the correct type in myth-setup before you start your frontend.
> You may or may not need to turn on CC embedding with ivtvctl prior to
> capturing video (I'm not sure if Myth turns it on for you).
>
> Daniel

Ugg. i knew that, too. Sorry for the noise. Although unimplemented,  
is there a way to store the VBI info in the MPEG stream that the OSD  
can display it or am I just dreaming of the best of both worlds? I  
think I remember reading something along those lines..