Re: Closed Captioning is Now required by ALL TV Statioons

I am not confusing Close-Captioning with subtitles.

The TV stations want Closed Captioning which is for deaf people and written to line 21.

All new TV sets have decoders which can read line 21 encoding and which can display that text on the screen if you choose to display it.

It is that hard to write to line 21... each non-linear editing system, Avid, Media 100, etc. starts at a different column but it is easy to read.

Take any all black quicktime file with closed captioning on it for the media 100 and open it in a BINARY editor. You can easily see where each frame begins and easily read the bytes for captioning.

What makes this tedious is that you need to translate the letters you want to write into the corresponding byte code, not for the letters, but for the retarded system some geek came up with--it would be trival if they had just used the bytes that correspond to the alphabet!

So I am slowly writing alibrary and then it should be simpel to write to line 21 starting at any colum that corresponds to a specific editing system.

I am thinking that I will give away the software for FREE because I don't believe in overcharging people when it comes to the issue of handicaped people and Apple should take the lead and publish the code since they are claiming to be so concerned about the handicaped!







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