[REL] Só no Sertão (2024) [Brazil]

[Night457]

I think it is because of the tech involved. The closed captions are not separate but embedded in a line of the video itself as text that is not normally visible. Ffmpeg is amazing and can do most anything with video, it is just a matter of using the right commands.

[ghost]

Could be mediaInfo / bug related. Ffmpeg is more powerful/advanced I would guess.

Yes, maybe. But even MPC or MKVToolnix can't find the captions in the file. So in the future I'll use VLC more offten (I don't like this player).

[Night457]

I was surprised that MPC did not recognize them! If you don't particularly like VLC as a PLAYER you can just have it on hand to quickly verify whether or not something has CCs if you do not have other subtitles available. I myself prefer VLC and keep MPC on hand for when I need it. No exclusivity.

[David32441]

I still have some software called "Project X Portable" that could extract closed caption / subtitles from some form of TV mpeg stream files - maybe only mpeg2's. But not sure if it's the same type of subtitle encoding in the video as you're talking about . Sadly when I drop in the mkv it says "file type not supported". Maybe one of you have heard of it. I have a very old version though.

[Night457]

You had recommended that as a possibility a few years ago when I was first having problems with EIA-608:
viewtopic.php?p=91114#p91114
I think that I DID download and try it, but I do not remember whether or not it worked with the video I was fighting. Ghost vaguely recalled having used it in the olden days!