is there working solution capturing TV with closed caption?

[cristolin]

hi, my friend has sort of a hearing problem, and rely on the closed caption a lot. he asked me to capture some history channel shows for him with closed captions, and burn them into formats like vcd or divx. basically he wants the closed captions displayed all the time, no need to turn on/off. so anyone has a working solution to address this request?

[tonsofpcs]

If you live in the UK or another PAL country, you can record TeleText with some cards, but for the US and NTSC countries, you would need to purchase a Closed Caption [Line 21/LITO] Decoder (these may be available for free from your cable company, or your cable box/vcr may be able to apply closed captions for you). A closed caption decoder basically takes video in and puts the captions on so you can view it on your older tv without a built in closed caption decoder, but you could just take its output into your video capture card/device.

[spiderman2k1]

A DVD recorder will record closed caption subtitle's. ATI AIW work differnet I think you can record them but there burned on the screen I think I do know you can save the CC to a text file.

I use a Panasonic DVD reocrder E80 capture CC fine I use my TV remote to turn them on and off.