Am Dienstag, 05. Februar 2008 20:54:26 schrieb Beny Spensieri Jr: > >From what I understand, the person currently responsible for the ivtv > > driver, Hans Verkuil, lives in Europe. This slows the development of > > the Closed Caption code since Europe uses a different system for > > subtitling broadcasts, as he cannot immediately test his code. > > CC has been broken in ivtv since after 0.10.1, I'm not sure what happened > but that's the last time anyone remembered it ever working.
I am using 0.10.6, and closed captions work perfectly. > As I also understand, Hans has been working on the code, which is > graciously tested by a couple of North American users, but it is still > slow. > > Although there is a standard for embedding CC's into an MPEG stream, ivtv > uses its own for some reason (as per the Tech Help at VideoReDo.com). I *think* that mpeg-ts has some specs for embedding (a) subtitles stream(s). ivtv recordings are mpeg-ps, though. > So far, I know that ccextractor.exe is able to extract the CC data to an > srt file which most video players will read if its name matches the video > file. However, if you run it through a program to remove the commercials > first (VideoReDo for me), the processing wipes out the CC data. That is why I save the closed captions before I cut out the commercials from the video and from the srt file :P -- Gruß Andreas _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
