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

[Phil Bridges]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 2, 2015 12:43 PM, "faginbagin" <mythtv at hbuus.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 11/1/2015 3:35 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>> > >
>> > > On Oct 30, 2015 1:36 PM, "Phil Bridges" <gravityhammer at gmail.com
>> <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > >  >
>> > >  >
>> > >  >
>> > >  > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Devin Heitmueller <
>> dheitmueller at kernellabs.com <mailto:dheitmueller at kernellabs.com>> wrote:
>> > >  >>
>> > >  >>
>> > >  >> On Oct 28, 2015 10:00 PM, "Phil Bridges" <gravityhammer at gmail.com
>> <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > >  >> >
>> > >  >> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Phil Bridges <
>> gravityhammer at gmail.com <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > >  >> >>
>> > >  >> >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Ozzy Lash <
>> ozzy.lash at gmail.com <mailto:ozzy.lash at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > >  >> >>>
>> > >  >> >>>
>> > >  >> >>>
>> > >  >> >>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Phil Bridges <
>> gravityhammer at gmail.com <mailto:gravityhammer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > >  >> >>>>
>> > >  >> >>>> 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).
>> > >  >> >>>
>> > >  >> >>> _______________________________________________
>> > >  >> >>>
>> > >  >> >>
>> > >  >> >> Interesting.  Let me see if I can ping some others around here.
>> > >  >> >>
>> > >  >> >
>> > >  >> > 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%)
>> > >  >> >
>> > >  >> > 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%)
>> > >  >> >
>> > >  >> > 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%)
>> > >  >> >
>> > >  >> >
>> > >  >> > Any guesses as to why my frontend doesn't detect the captions?
>> I see the "CC" icon on mythweb for the file.
>> > >  >> >
>> > >  >>
>> > >  >> Just as a test, try playing the file in VLC and see if captions
>> render ok.
>> > >  >>
>> > >  >> Devin
>> > >  >
>> > >  >
>> > >  > I copied the file to a network drive, and I can see the captions
>> on VLC on my Windows PC.
>> > >  >
>> > >
>> > > 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
>> > _______________________________________________
>>
>> I haven't had an opportunity to do a file snip, but I realized something
>> - Comcast had started pushing channels to MP4 in my area. I'm guessing this
>> has happened in AMC (file size is a good bit smaller). Are the captions
>> encoded the same for MP4?
>>
> OK - I have a clipped 128MB file now as a sample (~4 minutes).  Is there a
> preferred file share website for me to upload to?
>
> It looks like this is happening on all of my MP$ channels.
>


Anybody have any suggestions?
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