[mythtv-users] The state of ATSC closed captioning

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/17/2009 04:20 PM, kanetse wrote:
> In my opinion, this is one part of the mythfrontend interface that is
> a little confusing.  I have mapped TOGGLECC708 and TOGGLECC608 on my
> remote (via MythWeb) to two different keys.  That way, when one
> doesn't work, I flip to the other.  Generally, if a recording has ATSC
> (CC708) captions, you will see an option "Select ATSC CC" in the
> OSD-menu, and if a recording has VBI (CC608) captions, you will also
> see a second option "Select VBI CC".    If you don't see one or the
> other, it means that it isn't present in your recording.
>
> But I think those two options should really be merged together, and
> there should be one button that toggles through all available caption
> streams each time it's pressed.
>   

NEXTCC, "Next of any captions".  (And TOGGLECC, "Toggle any captions," 
is meant to turn captions on/off.)

Mike