[mythtv-users] Closed Caption Problem

Jon Boehm boehm100 at comcast.net
Thu Oct 11 18:26:22 UTC 2007



Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/11/2007 03:07 AM, Jon Boehm wrote:
>> This is related to my last post "Sound track overwhelmingly the dialog 
>> (HD sound)."  When that problem happened I turned on closed caption to 
>> limp thru the episode. I couldn't understand what was happening.  CC 
>> seemed to be taking up 3-4 lines on the bottom of the screen but lines 
>> 1,2,and 4 where disappearing as soon as they displayed (too fast to 
>> read) and line 3 constantly was being over written without clearing the 
>> old characters making it an unreadable mess.
> 
> Use the VBI captions.  The ATSC captions still need some work (even in
> SVN trunk).  You can access the VBI captions through the menu, or you
> can change your key bindings such that "Toggle any captions" (which
> prefers ATSC captions) is unmapped and map the button you're using for
> toggling CC (probably 'T') to "Toggle VBI CC" ("TOGGLECC608").
> 
> Mike

Where is VBI captions set in the menu?  I didn't see it in the OSD menu. 
  I'm using a HDHomeRun.  There was only one CC option in the OSD menu.

Thanks,
Jon


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