[mythtv-users] The state of ATSC closed captioning

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 15:53:57 UTC 2009


2009/3/17 Marco Nelissen <marco.nelissen at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> says:
>>> > Does anyone know if any work is being done to improve the state of
>>> > ATSC closed captioning in Myth?
>>>
>>> Nope. They remain horribly broken.
>>>
>>> Turn off "Prefer EIA-708 over EIA-608 captions" to use VBI captions
>>> instead, which work, and work quite well.
>>
>> Thank you!  I had taken broken HD captions as a fact of life and never
>> thought of looking for a solution.  Ahhhhh.
>> For anyone looking for this: Setup->TV Setting->Playback OSD, 3rd page.
>
> I have turned off this option, but CCs are still broken in the same way (CCs
> printed on top of each other). I am using 0.21-fixes.

During playback, are you selecting the ATSC captions, or the VBI captions?


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