Is closed captioning possible?

[dphirschler]

How does one encode a VCD (or SVCD) with closed captioning? Does it just happen automagically if you're capturing a closed captioned show? Will the captions appear if I enable them on my TV as they do when I am watching a VHS that is closed captioned?

My instinct tells me that it just isn't possible, but it's just gotta be possible, right?


Darryl

[Vejita-sama]

You can make a x(S)VCD with selectable subtitles, however most DVD players don't support this (it's permanant subs or nothing). IF you have a DVD player that supports selectable subtitles on x(S)VCDs the only program I know to generate them is I-author, which is pretty close to impossible to find

So yes it's possible, however it's not probable...

[gambit32]

As far as I understand it closed captioning and subtitles are two different animals in that closed captioning is done through a third party.

[Psx]

closed captioning is encoded in the video stream for a CC Decoder chip to pickup and display over the video. To put it in a x(S)VCD you would need to somehow extract the CC then re-insert them after encoding for them to be encoded correctly. Im sure there is commercial software for this...but I dont know of any.

[bvcproductions]

Where the hell can you find I-Author????????????

[dphirschler]

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On 2001-09-06 17:29:45, Psx wrote:
closed captioning is encoded in the video stream for a CC Decoder chip to pickup and display over the video. To put it in a x(S)VCD you would need to somehow extract the CC then re-insert them after encoding for them to be encoded correctly. Im sure there is commercial software for this...but I dont know of any.
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Right, this is exactly what I am talking about. I was thinking initially that it just happens, as it does on my VHS recordings. But then since it is no longer analog, and the "capturing" process probably just takes a visual snapshot of the image and audio, the the CC info is probably lost. I'd like to somehow preserve this if possible. Does anybody know of any software, freeware or commercial, that can do this?


Darryl

[vanillabox]

http://www.dvdfile.com/site/faq/caption_guide/

take a look at this link. it gives a quick description of close captioning.