[mythtv-users] VBI subtitles with ivtv cards?
Joseph A. Caputo
jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Sep 23 15:04:27 UTC 2005
On Friday 23 September 2005 10:19, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 September 2005 16:37, Isaac Richards wrote:
> >
> >> On Thursday 22 September 2005 04:29 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Please 'scuse my ignorance, but while going through the commit
> >>> history
> >>> for the week that I was on vacation in August, I saw some changes
> >>> in
> >>> SVN related to VBI & subtitles w/ivtv-driven cards. Does this
> >>> mean
> >>> that subtitles are now working/supported for these cards (assuming
> >>> I
> >>> have a recent enough version of ivtv)? If so, is there anything
> >>> special I need to do besides enable it in the backend setup?
> >>> (Note:
> >>> I'm
> >>> using regular TV-out, not a PVR-350).
> >>>
> >> Only change was the ioctls enabling them are right now. Someone
> >> still
> >> needs
> >> to write a ivtv-format vbi parser.
> >>
> >
> > So does that mean that they'll get embedded in the MPEG file, but
> > Myth
> > just can't parse them out yet?
>
>
> Yes. You can view them on your TV if you enable ivtv VBI passthrough
> using the ivtvctl command.
Ummm... I guess maybe I could if I had a PVR-350... :-)
-JAC
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