Closed Captions in MPC

[HartleySan]

I want to watch Dexter season 1 with my wife, who is not a native English speaker. Normally, we just turn on the subtitles, but the Dexter DVDs do not have subtitles (don't ask me why). They do have closed captions though, which would suffice. However, I am at a complete loss at how it's possible to display closed captions, if at all, in MPC. Could someone please explain how to do this, if it is possible?

[DigitalDeviant]

I want to watch Dexter season 1 with my wife, who is not a native English speaker. Normally, we just turn on the subtitles, but the Dexter DVDs do not have subtitles (don't ask me why). They do have closed captions though, which would suffice. However, I am at a complete loss at how it's possible to display closed captions, if at all, in MPC. Could someone please explain how to do this, if it is possible?

Use ffdshow as the decoder and enable subtitles, making sure that closed captions is enabled in ffdshow's subtitle settings.

[Inspector.Gadget]

Using ffdshow as a decoder for DVDs can introduce a separate problem: you have to set up the Avisynth tab to handle hard telecined content correctly, whereas the MPC / MPC-HC internal decoder handles it transparently (apparently by weaving). What I've been doing is using ccextractor to dump the CC's from DVD content to a SRT file and then playing that back alongside the relevant VOB. It's not a very convenient workaround, but I'm stuck doing it until the closed captions handling in MPC-HC is fixed.

[HartleySan]

That is way, way too complicated for me. I'll just wait for MPC to natively support closed captions one of these days.

[HartleySan]

Alright, I've decided that I want to learn how to do this. DigitalDeviant, could you please walk me through the procedure for enabling CC in MPC? Thank you.

[DigitalDeviant]

Alright, I've decided that I want to learn how to do this. DigitalDeviant, could you please walk me through the procedure for enabling CC in MPC? Thank you.

Sure. This is for a recent ffdshow-tryout's version, if your running an older version the configuration may be different.

First, launch the ffdshow video decoder configuration. Then check the subtitles filter box. Then under the main subtitles configuration, just make sure Closed captions decoding is checked. I'd make sure the rest of the formats are unchecked, unless you want ffdshow to display those too.

[HartleySan]

I did what you suggested, DigitalDeviant, but the CCs are not displayed. Do I need to edit any of my MPC settings? Thanks.

By the way, is there any way for me to post screenshots? If so, it'd be easier to show you my setup than to explain it.