Capturing TV show with Closed Caption

[DeafCaptionViewer]

I am a hearing impaired who views TV with closed-captioning. However, I am unable to get my ATI TV Wonder VE to playback the file with Closed Caption on that I have captured. Can ATI and its Multimedia Center 7.2 software records and playback Closed-Caption TV show?

Are there any good TV tuner cards out there that can record and playback TV show with Closed-Captioned? What about those console DVD recorders like the Panasonic DVD-RAM recorder; can they record and playback with Closed-Caption? Please help me. Thanks.

-DeafCaptionViewer-

[McPoodle]

This reply is probably too late for the original originator of this thread, but it might be useful for anyone who comes across it later.

The ATI TV Wonder cards cannot record closed captions embedded in the video for playback. Multimedia Center can create a text transcript of the closed captions, but without time codes, so you end up with a sort of script of the show.

On the other hand, Hauppage/Pinnacle's WinTV-250 and related cards record in MPEG instead of AVI format, and these cards have a registry hack that will allow them to record closed captions (http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/pvr_reg.html). These embedded closed captions will be visible if you use the MPEG to create a DVD. I think that it is possible to use GraphEdit to build a player application that will display closed captions when playing the recorded files (without creating a DVD), but I don't have the card to try this out.

Finally, the Panasonic DVR-H50S, which I own, definitely records closed captions for playback, just the same as a VCR. I suspect that most other tabletop DVD recorders do as well.

Hope this helped.