jejones3141
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I'm configuring a system that I bought a couple of years ago, so that I can give it to my former ASL teacher, who is Deaf. I have a WinTV card in it, and so I want a program for TV viewing that will display captioning well.
Alas, that's turning out to be difficult. xawtv won't show captioning, as far as I can tell. zapping does a good job of displaying caption text in white on black background... but it seems unable to keep up, dropping a lot of text. tvtime doesn't drop text, but seems to get very behind--and it just overlays white Courier upper case with no background, and it doesn't seem to pay attention to positioning of the captions. (It also chews up a lot of CPU cycles on deinterlacing.)
So... if other Linux users out there can recommend a good TV viewing program that does captions right, I'd love to hear about it. (Sigh... Maybe I should sit down with the source to those programs and EIA 608 and see what's really going on.)
Alas, that's turning out to be difficult. xawtv won't show captioning, as far as I can tell. zapping does a good job of displaying caption text in white on black background... but it seems unable to keep up, dropping a lot of text. tvtime doesn't drop text, but seems to get very behind--and it just overlays white Courier upper case with no background, and it doesn't seem to pay attention to positioning of the captions. (It also chews up a lot of CPU cycles on deinterlacing.)
So... if other Linux users out there can recommend a good TV viewing program that does captions right, I'd love to hear about it. (Sigh... Maybe I should sit down with the source to those programs and EIA 608 and see what's really going on.)