The world is forgetting about closed captions on DVDs
Added 2025-05-26 16:43:01 +0000 UTCHello all!
I would have had this for you last night, but I had to re-render this video due to everybody's all-time favorite: ~copyright flags~
Honestly I'm surprised by what was caught and why. I figured having the TV running on the desk like it is wouldn't take up a large enough area of the screen to matter but apparently not! So a little post-production got done to hide what's on screen and/or break it up and now it passed the checks. There's a possibility a match will re-appear and if it does I may need to re-upload but for now all looks good.
I'll be working on captions over the next couple of hours. Kind of meta when the video itself is on closed captions. But I'll get them done ASAP.
Toodles!
Comments
It seems, based on the font changing on the ps/3 that the problem might be that they simply use spaces to position the text on screen. So for fixed width fonts (where all characters including space are equally wide) the positioning works. But when you change to a proportional font (where esp. spaces are narrow), the positioning fails. So the correct solution to these problems seems to be to use a fixed width font that is close to the size of the font used on tvs that correctly render CC.
Jonas
2025-07-31 13:31:17 +0000 UTCis it really brown or just dark orange?
adorfer
2025-07-27 14:24:39 +0000 UTCWhat’s even crazier is that in 2025 Audio Descriptions tracks aren’t required for movies
DJ
2025-06-07 17:46:31 +0000 UTCHowever much you you have edited the on-screen footage, I still have a sudden urge to watch Cocoon. It's not available on any streaming services here, only used DVDs, so the copyright owners are missing out on the royalties from this free advertising.
DrumBrakes
2025-05-31 14:16:23 +0000 UTCThis all seems a problem invented in North America because when DVD came along, they used CC for some disks instead of proper DVD subtitles. This never happened in Europe. Europe didn't have CC and when DVD came along subtitles on DVD were always via DVD subtitles. All the subtitles on European disks still work properly even in the times of HDMI and Blu-ray players.
Richard Bevan
2025-05-28 14:14:21 +0000 UTCIn the early 2000s I started importing DVDs from the US into Germany because there was just so much more available and you could have the movie on DVD before it played in the local cinemas. I was always very annoyed when the subtitles were only CC because there was no way to make them visible here. I also remember that those evil illegal DVD rips at that time had the CC subtitles converted into a textfile format like srt. So there has to be an easy way to do it.
Robert
2025-05-28 08:41:11 +0000 UTC
