DVB @ Subtitles

[eb]

@ McPoodle,

As for today we have 2 good programs to record DVB sat TV channels as complete packages (video+ up to 16 audios + subtitles from teletext)
ie. SkyView and ALT-DVB (BTW both programs can record up to 4 such packages simultaniously as seperate .TS files).
This programs can work and record only with SS2 cards.

So far I was using ProjectX to demux video,audio, and subtitles, but I am looking for program that can demux subtitles only.

Can I upload to you on yahoo sample of such record, and in meantime more detaily study your programs.
I know that on yahoo it is possible to upload up to 5MB file to the FILES section of particular group.

Sample record can be from Astra 19,2 (video+ 2audio+ subtitles)

eb

[McPoodle]

Well, I can try, but the methods used by the PAL world are a lot more complicated (and sophisticated) than the Closed Captioning used in North America. I'll have to see if I can find some sort of document on how to isolate the different channels and get the subtitles out. Go ahead and post, I guess, and I'll get back to you.

[eb]

McPoodle,

Thank you for your answer.

I hope that sample is already in your mailbox.
Some additional info:

Video: PID 0xA9
Audio: PIDs 0x40(fre),0x41(eng) working both
TEXT : 0x3D(fre_s859fre_i889, eng_s754eng_i784)

{80}{147}Tu ne devineras jamais|où je suis.
{167}{192}Au Mexique...
{210}{239}...assis au...

English text is empty.

Use VLC player to play .TS stream

Greetings
eb

[dvb.matt]

So far I was using ProjectX to demux video,audio, and subtitles, but I am looking for program that can demux subtitles only
even it does that, too..

just type_in the PID or ID of the ST stream you want to extract, after calling the special/cut dialog.
this will only process the selected ID(s) ignoring any other stream content on following demux.

[unixfs]

Originally posted by McPoodle
Well, I can try, but the methods used by the PAL world are a lot more complicated (and sophisticated) than the Closed Captioning used in North America. I'll have to see if I can find some sort of document on how to isolate the different channels and get the subtitles out. Go ahead and post, I guess, and I'll get back to you.

Teletext subtitles can be easily decoded (although they aren't easy at all) with dvbtextsubs (very small program): http://www.sf.net/projects/dvbtools/.

SPU subs (not very used and much more complicated than TT subs)
should be decodable by VLC.

Both are documented by www.etsi.org