[mythtv-users] OT? No captions on The Walking Dead this season

[faginbagin]

On 11/1/2015 3:35 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
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> On Oct 30, 2015 1:36 PM, "Phil Bridges" <gravityhammer at gmail.com <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>  > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller at kernellabs.com <mailto:dheitmueller at kernellabs.com>> wrote:
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>  >> On Oct 28, 2015 10:00 PM, "Phil Bridges" <gravityhammer at gmail.com <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>  >> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>  >> >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Ozzy Lash <ozzy.lash at gmail.com <mailto:ozzy.lash at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>  >> >>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>  >> >>>> All of a sudden, this season of The Walking Dead doesn't have captions here (Comcast - Atlanta). Has anybody else experienced this?
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>  >> >>> Just checked my recording from Sunday night, and it has closed captioning.  I'm on comcast in the chicago area (Romeoville headend).
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>  >> >> Interesting.  Let me see if I can ping some others around here.
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>  >> > For grins and giggles, i ran mediainfo on the file, and came up with:
>  >> > Text #1
>  >> > ID                                       : 4268 (0x10AC)-CC1
>  >> > Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
>  >> > Format                                   : EIA-608
>  >> > Muxing mode                              : SCTE 128 / DTVCC Transport
>  >> > Muxing mode, more info                   : Muxed in Video #1
>  >> > Duration                                 : 1h 2mn
>  >> > Bit rate mode                            : Constant
>  >> > Stream size                              : 0.00 Byte (0%)
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>  >> > Text #2
>  >> > ID                                       : 4268 (0x10AC)-1
>  >> > Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
>  >> > Format                                   : EIA-708
>  >> > Muxing mode                              : SCTE 128 / DTVCC Transport
>  >> > Muxing mode, more info                   : Muxed in Video #1
>  >> > Duration                                 : 1h 2mn
>  >> > Bit rate mode                            : Constant
>  >> > Stream size                              : 0.00 Byte (0%)
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>  >> > Text #3
>  >> > ID                                       : 4268 (0x10AC)-2
>  >> > Menu ID                                  : 1 (0x1)
>  >> > Format                                   : EIA-708
>  >> > Muxing mode                              : SCTE 128 / DTVCC Transport
>  >> > Muxing mode, more info                   : Muxed in Video #1
>  >> > Duration                                 : 1h 2mn
>  >> > Bit rate mode                            : Constant
>  >> > Stream size                              : 0.00 Byte (0%)
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>  >> > Any guesses as to why my frontend doesn't detect the captions?  I see the "CC" icon on mythweb for the file.
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>  >> Just as a test, try playing the file in VLC and see if captions render ok.
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>  >> Devin
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>  > I copied the file to a network drive, and I can see the captions on VLC on my Windows PC.
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> Anybody have any guesses why I can't see the captions via MythTV?

Sounds like you should submit a ticket. You can use the DD command to extract a short clip. You want one where VLC can play the captions and where, if you put that clip into your Videos directory, you can play the clip in mythfrontend, but mythfrontend can't display the captions. If you can get the clip under 2 Mbytes, you can attach it to the ticket. But that's probably not going to give a clip that's long enough to demonstrate the problem. There are websites where you can post the clip and then reference it in your ticket. I'm not up on them, I use my own web server.

HTH,
Helen