[mythtv-users] Closed captioning?

Jim Stichnoth stichnot at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 18:05:01 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Bart Whiteley <bart.lists at whiteley.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> HDHR ATSC captions work very well.  If you haven't already, I suggest
>> unchecking the "Prefer EIA-708 over EIA-608 captions" setting.  This
>> is in the TV Settings > Playback OSD setup.
>
> I already had that unchecked.  The captions still don't appear on most shows.
> Is there anything else I can try?

Add "vbi" to the logging (e.g., "mythfrontend -v
important,general,vbi"), and the check the logs to see whether any
closed captions are even present in the recording.  Look for sequences
of lines in the log file starting with "###".

Jim


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