The EIA-608 and EIA-708 standards define how closed captions are encoded in analog and digital television signals in the US. They are crucial for broadcast TV and cable, and understanding these can help when dealing with caption extraction or embedding in video files (e.g., in MPEG-2 or ATSC streams).
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Free open-source CEA608 / CEA708 closed-caption encoder/decoder – szatmary/libcaption
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A tool or resource for closed-captioning-subtitling-standards.
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I am currently using ffmpeg to convert videos in various formats to flv files. One request has also come up and that is to get closed caption info out o the file as well. Does anyone have any exper…
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Caption Inspector is a reference decoder for Closed Captions (CEA-608 and CEA-708). – Comcast/caption-inspector
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