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

Justin Alcorn justin at jalcorn.net
Mon Nov 16 22:19:57 UTC 2015


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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> 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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