Hello ivtv,
first, Thanks for the great work on the ivtv driver it is a key part of 
our entirely open source archive system.
I am working on an open political proceeding's archive project: 
(metavid.org)

To capture the close captions stream I have been just running the 
following via the ivtv drivers
#ivtvctl --set-vbi=cc
#cat /dev/vbi > text_file
#tail -f text_file ... take text every 30 seconds, run some clean up and 
insert it into the db.

This ofcourse never worked very well (there was gibberish and what not) 
now possibly because I updated ivtv to v0.4.4 or changed some other 
parameter its now even more gibberishy than before and not really 
working at all....

I tried using the zvbi lib to decode the raw cc stream ....running:
#zvbi-ntsc-cc -d /dev/vbi -c -p ...but it just scrolls with "read error"

Any ideas as to how to grab the ASCII close caption data in a relatively 
cleanly? Or just print ASCII close captions to the screen?

thanks for you time,
-michael

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