Posted by Bill's News on 10/18/06 21:59

Linea Recta wrote:
> It seems there is a confusing difference between the so called DVD
> options: 'subtitles' and 'closed captioning'.
> I now have a DVD with no subtitles, but playing it on the PC I
> discovered it HAS a closed caption. I can make it visible too on PC
> using PowerDVD. However, playng the DVD in the stand alone player, I
> cannot display the closed captions, although I have the option for
> closed caption activated in the players setup menu. What a shambles
> of standards eh...?
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> mccm dot vos at hccnet dot nl

Would you mind naming the DVD? I'm finding this thread confusing in
that every DVD which I have where English is the spoken language, the
English language subtitle track appears as closed captions (in that it
contains descriptive text in addition to spoken text) and it is listed
among the subtitles.

I have a few DVDs in which I'd appreciate having a CC track, but none
has been found by examining with typical PC software tools nor playing
with typical player programs.

Since CC is an analog standard, I've no idea how it could be present
on a digital DVD without the DVD player's knowledge - how would the
info get to the blanking interval without the DVD player doing so?

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