Closed Captions

[PixelatedFooL]

For those wondering if there's captioning in the HVR-1600, I was able to add the "Line 21 decoder 2" filter in graphedit and saw the captions just fine with VMR9 ("Line 21 Decoder" showed a blank screen and crashed graphedit). Now if there's a way to watch this without graphedit, I'd be a happy guy.

I did try VMR7, and intervideo NonCSS decoder for Hauppauge, but for some reason the captions looked garbled by nonsensical characters and appeared really fast but it's not like you were missing anything, since it was unreadable, also in graphedit, using the supplied HCW decoder, I got the same garbled captions. Using the ATI Avivo decoder and the PureVideo decoder was fine. So i'm guessing the hauppage filters are crippled

[pastro]

For those wondering if there's captioning in the HVR-1600, I was able to add the "Line 21 decoder 2" filter in graphedit and saw the captions just fine with VMR9 ("Line 21 Decoder" showed a blank screen and crashed graphedit). Now if there's a way to watch this without graphedit, I'd be a happy guy.

I did try VMR7, and intervideo NonCSS decoder for Hauppauge, but for some reason the captions looked garbled by nonsensical characters and appeared really fast but it's not like you were missing anything, since it was unreadable, also in graphedit, using the supplied HCW decoder, I got the same garbled captions. Using the ATI Avivo decoder and the PureVideo decoder was fine. So i'm guessing the hauppage filters are crippled

We are still hoping sub gets a chance to put this in someday. For now I'm using mpeg2srt and I use the srt viewer. Works ok, except you lose the position info for the subtitles.

[sub]

For those wondering if there's captioning in the HVR-1600, I was able to add the "Line 21 decoder 2" filter in graphedit and saw the captions just fine with VMR9 ("Line 21 Decoder" showed a blank screen and crashed graphedit). Now if there's a way to watch this without graphedit, I'd be a happy guy.

Thats actually something different from the subtitles being embedded in the recordings, which was the main flow of discussion in this thread. I've not seen confirmation either way that the HVR-1600 records subtitles in the MPEG2 stream. The PVR150/250/350/500 do record this.

[PixelatedFooL]

If by being recorded into the mpeg2 streams you mean in the saved files, then yes I was testing using recorded dvr-ms, mpg and ts files with 1080i and 720p content over the air and analog recordings of cable as well.

I haven't yet figured out how to live preview in graphedit on this card.

[sub]

You're not talking about the same thing. I was talking about the analog recordings encoding closed caption information into the private sections of the MPEG program stream. This is different from recording the closed caption stream with digital devices into containers like .ts and .dvr-ms.

[PixelatedFooL]

You're not talking about the same thing. I was talking about the analog recordings encoding closed caption information into the private sections of the MPEG program stream. This is different from recording the closed caption stream with digital devices into containers like .ts and .dvr-ms.

Hmm I'm a bit new at this but I did get the captions working on analog as well, and MPG2SRT extracted them too. So I'm not sure if it's just a matter of misunderstanding :confused: