How to add Caption to SVCD

[kbd]

I've been doing a lot of SVCD but when I played it on TV and want to turn on the caption, nothing appears. Is there anyway for me to do it?

[Poplar]

Probably not. I have never read any report that closed caption is added to SVCD or any guide on how to do it. SVCD supports subtitles, I'm not sure if it supports CC. There are tools that add CC to MPEG-2 stream, but they are for DVD only.

So realistically, you option is add subtitle to SVCD, if it's available. The problem is that some DVDs use CC instead of subtitle. "The Sopranos" has subtitles in the first season boxset, but subtitles disappears from second season on and CC replaces its place. Technically, it's possible to exact CC info and convert it to text and subs, but it's too complicated and time-consuming.

[snowmoon]

VCD and SVCD technically do support CC. The data is stored in an auxaurily file in the /EXT directory. I don't know of any authroing program that can actually support it though.

I've been trying for years to find out how to cap and encode CC with my discs to no avil.