On Thursday 24 February 2005 0:50, Max Waterman wrote: > Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > > > I don't want to come off as insensitive here, but... how about > > someone > > who was hearing impaired, and couldn't time shift programs from > > digital > > cable because they lose the subtitles embedded in the MPEG stream if > > they convert it to analog. > > My mpeg streams have subtitles embedded? That would be awesome, if > true. > How can I play them? > > My mpegs are from a ReplayTV...will they still have subtitles?
Well, MPEGs *can* have subtitle information embedded, AFAIK. Whether or not a particular content producer embeds them is another story. Right now I don't think Myth supports MPEG subtitles, but the point is the information *should* be there and accessible by standard consumer devices**... perhaps someone familiar with the Americans with Disabilities Act could shed some light. -JAC **by 'standard' devices I mean that the information needs to be accessible in a standard way, such that someone could manufacture a single device capable of reading it, regardless of who your cable provider is. Right now, with analog television/cable, that standard is to transmit the information on a certain lines of the VBI. The sensible standard for digital television would be to embed the information in the MPEG stream, which would required unencrypted access to the digital data to decode the subtitles. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
