[mythtv-users] close caption in ver .21

dcw dwoody1 at charter.net
Tue May 20 03:18:17 UTC 2008


On Monday 19 May 2008 7:09 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/19/2008 06:13 PM, dcw wrote:
> > When using close caption the previous text is not always removed before
> > displaying new text. I have tried both types with the same results. The
> > mail mailing list archive indicates that the 608 should work properly.
> >
> > Fedora 8 and Mythtv ver. .21
> >
> > Am I over looking a setting?
>
> If you really are using EIA-608 captions and see that behavior, it's a
> problem with the captions in the stream.  More likely, you're still
> using EIA-708 captions and only think you're using EIA-608.
>
> Make sure you bind a key to TOGGLECC608 and try using that key
> immediately upon starting playback (i.e. before attempting any other
> approach to enable captions).  Some of the caption toggles try to choose
> the best captions, so you may not get what you think you're getting if
> you don't do it right.

I had to do some research on how to do this. It seemed simpler to go into 
mysql and change the field value directly.

It now works perfectly.

Thanks for your help.
>
> Note, there's also a setting:
>
> Prefer EIA-708 over EIA-608 captions
> When enabled the new EIA-708 captions will be preferred over the old
> EIA-608 captions in ATSC streams. This is the default, but as of early
> 2008 most stations are not broadcasting useable EIA-708 captions.

I had tried toggling this and got the same display regardless. This makes 
sense now.

David
>
> that you probably want to disable for now.
>
> Mike
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