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WOW I'm impressed with video quailty then old version. It look great keep it up. I have question I'm wondering if VLC will ever display CC decoder instead of using subtitle. Since Panther new DVD now able do Closed Caption. Wondering if that will be possible coming anytime in near future. Also I have Replay TV would like to read off of them so I can be able to watch it off my Mac.
Thanks
Nelson

I have looked at this and it should be a pretty easy thing to support. After 0.7.0 is finished i'll probably add it.

That would be great! I'll come back check around when you get chance.
Thanks
Nelson

Excellent! Having CC would be a great addition to VideoLan!

Looking forward to viewing captioned TV shows on my mac

Hello The DJ.
Just wondering if any progress with Closed Caption?
Nelson

No, i simply don't have time to spend on VLC, and the time i do spend i use to fix the OSX version.

I'd also like to say that CC support in VLC would be a real treat. Many region 1 only DVDs are not subtitled (particularly TV shows) and the only way to understand the dialogs is though CC. You can't decode CC on regular DVD players.
Personnally, I've got an iBook, whose DVD player cannot be made region-free. When I play region 1 DVDs, VLC is the only satisfying way for me to read them. I might have errors, I might have to try it four or five times before the disc is accepted, it's still the best solution. Supporting CC would certainly be done once and for all and it would allow me to fully enjoy a lot of DVDs.

Can I get a quick cheat sheet on how to activate this feature from the CLI?

I do believe I'm missing something, as various expressions like

--codec="zvbi" --vbi-page="100" --vbi-opaque --vbi-position="0" --vbi-text

don't seem to have any impact on 0.9.6

Also, is there a way to manipulate this feature from RC?

Which OS you use? AFAIK zvbi doesn't work on Windows.

Which OS you use? AFAIK zvbi doesn't work on Windows.

Not Yet. I am working on it.

Hi I'm trying to activate from the command-line the teletekst subtitles on a UDP stream.
I start vlc with the following command-line:

vlc --codec="zvbi" udp://@239.192.0.2 --vbi-page=888 --vbi-position=0 --vbi-opaque --no-vbi-text

the subtitles don't come, the teletekst button is stil off. when i push it, it starts with page 888 (the subtitles)...
How do I activate it from the start?
What am i missing?

Dion

I don't know if there is any command-line option to enable it automatically.
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=bl ... anager.cpp and line 790.

is this supported

I don't know if there is any command-line option to enable it automatically.
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=bl ... anager.cpp and line 790.

Is there a way for me (non programmer) to use this, on windows.... (don't hit me.... )

No. It would require some change since AFAIK only method to activate this is the GUI button.

Just for future reference or search on this subject.
vlc input_source --sub-track=0 (picks the first available subtitle, and display it automaticly.)