Closed captioning?

Closed captioning?

Posted Jan 20, 2006 9:23 UTC (Fri) by grouch (subscriber, #27289)
In reply to: Closed captioning? by bshowalter
Parent article: Building a Linux home media center (Linux.com)

Mplayer has an option [ -subcc ] that will "[d]isplay DVD Closed Caption (CC) subtitles. These are NOT the VOB subtitles, these are special ASCII subtitles for the hearing impaired encoded in the VOB userdata stream on most region 1 DVDs. CC subtitles have not been spotted on DVDs from other regions so far."

I use a Hauppauge PVR250 in my P4/2.4 GHz running Debian 'Sarge'. Being able to do 'cat /dev/video0 > somefile.mpg' is very handy for encoding home videos. I also use it with an R59 cable (75 ohm) to watch tv in a window: cat /dev/video0 | mplayer - -cache 8192

See the ivtv driver. I've been using the 0.3.7b version successfully for a long time. It includes a handy GUI for channel changing in the utils directory.

See also MythTV, which supports closed captioning.

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