Hauppauge WinTV 1250= no closed captioning?

[impmon2]

I have a WinTV HVR 1250 model 1196 (1x PCI-e slot) and everything seems to work great except the closed captioning simply don't work. There's a button to enable/disable CC both in WinTV program and on the remote controller but pressing either doesn't do anything. The manual that came with this didn't cover any detail on closed captioning.

I could hook up my vintage 1983 era external closed caption decoder but it seems redundant to use a 25 year old hardware to fix an issue with a brand new device. Plus I don't think the tuner card can handle simultaneous ATSC signal and AV/S-Video input.

I have already downloaded the newest version I could find on Hauppauge web site and still no CC support with broadcast signal.

So how the heck do I get the CC to work? I got the WinTV card to replace my ancient ATi TV Wonder VE (which does have working CC) because it doesn't support ATSC and NTSC is expiring soon. It came down to $50 converter (-$40 coupon) to get ATSC at fixed low res 4:3 picture or replace the old tuner with newer one that can do both 4:3 and wide screen, as well as 1080i HDTV. I went with the latter.

[impmon2]

Got a response from Hauppauge:

The WinTV application currently does not support CC.

If you use the HVR 1250 on a system capable of running the Media Center application (in Windows MCE 2005 and certain versions of Vista OS’), you will be able to view CC using that application in combination with this board.

:P looks like I may have to find and rip the media software out of the MCE 2005 or Vista or set up for dual booting on my PC.

So that leaves me a question: is there a 3rd party TV software that works with this card and process CC signals? Or do I need to find a copy of MCE and rip it apart for the software?

[jman98]

This may or may not be use to you, but it is possible to make WinTV record closed captions with the Hauppauge PVR-250 and PVR-350 cards. There's a Windows registry hack that works. See
http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/pvr_reg.html
Note that this registry hack probably won't work on your model. I have the 350 and it definitely works on it. So I'm not convinced that WinTV doesn't support closed captions, but perhaps the version for your card does not. I don't know.

You might look into other recording software that supports the card. MythTV supports a lot of Hauppauge cards and it might possibly support your card and be able to display or record closed captions. Finally, note that HDTV uses a completely different type of closed captions than standard def TV currently uses. As far as I can tell, nobody at this time seems to have any idea how to do anything with HDTV closed captions.

[saunvideoga]

Hi,

I have a pvr 350 card and I'm looking for the registry hack that used to be on this website:

http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/pvr_reg.html

I used to have this program but I lost it due to a bad hard disk. Does anybody have it? Man I really need this .
I need to tweak the registry for some closed caption. If anybody can help me please let me know!

[jagabo]

Halfway down the page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080527094450/http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com/pvr_reg.html

[saunvideoga]

awesome, thank you!