Capturing Closed Captions

[SLK001]

The driver (*.ax) can't be shared by two processes. Capping CC's is one, capping video is another. You'll essentially have to capture each one individually (RE: 2 passes). Inconvenient for sure, but it does what you want.

[chris98007]

Ok you have lost me. How are you going to capture a live feed seperatly? If either MMC is running or graphedit is, but not both togeather.

If you can explain this to me in easy terms i would be forever gratefull. I have been looking for a long time on how to capture live feeds with CC in them.

[chris98007]

This seems to me to be a lost art. I have been trying for a few weeks now and cannot get it to work. This seems like a great program, however there is little info on it which makes me think the reality of getting it to work is low.

[tgc225]

(made a new post instead of replying here)

[DeafBug]

I have ATI AIW 8500DV card just like the original poster has. I have WinXP Pro with the latest drivers from ATI. I can capture to VCR file with captioning saved to a text file (with extension .cc)

I downloaded the GraphEdit app and I read McPooles site on how to capture it. I am totally lost.

I can't get anything on the listing for GraphEdit | Connect to Remote Graph.

I just poked around with GraphEdit and I see that I can get the Line 21 decoder box to appear. I understand that I need the VBI pin to work. There is no such pin. I can't find it. What I am doing wrong? I am forgetting such things like filters or something.

I understand this post is so old. I guess I need updated stuff. Am I SOL for having WinXP like McPoole mention on his site? The compuer is AlthonXP 2400+ with 1GB RAM.

Summer is coming up, TV season is coming to an end. I want to get all the VHS tapes converted to DVD. Yes, money is an issue for me. I can't go out and get a $300 something that I need or a standalone player. I want to be able to capture with what I currently have.

[SLK001]

If you've already captured the captions to a text file, why do you want to do it again using GraphEdit?

Post a short piece of your TEXT.CC file here so that we can look at what you've got.

[DeafBug]

Like I said I am totally lost. It would be nice if there is an application that could slipstream the VCR and CC files from the ATI 8500DV capture into a single MPEG-2 file that is ready for DVD burning. But no, you have to go thru hoops to accomplish the same thing. That is what I am lost on.

Anyway, here is a copy of the CC file that I captured from the Tonight Show a while ago. It is from Jay Leno's birthday night. It is about 15 seconds long. I captured that file to start with for me to figure out how to get it to work. Before I waste time on something larger.

Thank you for helping me on this. I have gotten all the home videos on DVD when I got the ATI card now I am left with all the captioned VHS tapes to save on DVD.

tonightshow.cc

[DeafBug]

I just realized one thing. I capture the text that is scrolling from the bottom two lines on the screen. Does it matter if the caption is position by the actors like you would see on some prime shows.

[DeafBug]

Oh one more thing. I am not picky on whether the caption text becomes part of Line 21 for captions on DVD when playing or whether it becomes subtitles. As long as I could turn them off or on (either TV CC off/on or English subtitles off/on) Whichever method is easier.

[chris98007]

DeafBug,

Sorry to tell you but there is no easy way to do this as i understand. You would thinnk that will all the software out there you could simply preserve the cc info. You are heading down the right path with graphedit. You need a piece of software like sonic to enter the cc info into.

Here is what you are looking at:

record vhs tapes to mpeg.
record vhs cc info with graphedit
mix cc info and mpeg togeather
author
burn to dvd

Once you do it a few times you will hate the long process.

[bhas4]

Need help -

Which is the best TV Tuner card that will work for capturing CC? Because I see lot of cards claiming you can capture CC, but they does not seem to work when we purchase them.

-Bhaskara