[mythtv-users] PVR-250 and Closed Captions

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 20 September 2004 09:02 pm, Nate Carlson wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Daniel Savard wrote:
> > I haven't it work right, but just to give you some hints. Look at the
> > doc directory from the source code for ivtv for the README.vbi for
> > instructions to play with it. I did my last test few weeks ago with
> > something like ck104e. I have just gotten the latest version yesterday
> > (ck110m) with the intent to give it a second try. From the Changelog, it
> > seems VBI was broken or may has been broken at 109m and fixed somewhere
> > around 110c.
>
> I'm seeing VBI with the most recent version; however, it doesn't look like
> MythTV is even opening /dev/vbiX. Anyone know what needs to be done to get
> this working?

The VBI data needs to be inserted into the mpg stream by the ivtv driver.  I'm 
not aware if this was ever confirmed to be working for everyone.  Then, the 
ivtv driver needs to have an actual release - I don't want to have code that 
depends on a random pre-patch that's not stable.  Finally, myth would have to 
know how to parse the data out of the stream and display it appropriately.

Isaac