[mythtv-users] Closed captioning?
Bart Whiteley
bart.lists at whiteley.org
Tue Jan 5 02:28:33 UTC 2010
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK. Also check the first number that appears after the "###". This
> is the timecode for the caption to be display, in milliseconds from
> the start of the recording. If the number is ridiculously large
> (meaning corrupted), then that caption gets scheduled for display a
> long time in the future and effectively delays subsequent captions
> from being displayed. Other players like vlc may be more resilient
> against this kind of error.
>
> But, this is a long shot and doesn't sound like the problem you're
> seeing. I can just say that I have always had a good experience with
> Myth, HDHR, and closed captions, so hopefully there is just some
> misconfiguration somewhere.
With shows where CC works, I see the "###" trace lines. With shows
where CC does not work, I see no such lines. However, CC works in VLC
with these same .mpg files.
The value of "Prefer EIA-708 over EIA-608 captions" does not seem to
affect the behavior.
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