Over the last couple of years I did a number of projects where the client approached me with a question along the lines of: “Why do I get severe video stuttering and dropped frames in VLC when trying to play stream XYZ?” In some cases it was an issue specific to some feature (such as… Read More
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VideoLAN Dev Days 2014
Kernel Labs will be at VideoLan Dev Days 2014 in Dublin on September 20-21. Hence if you’re attending and want to talk about our work with Linux DVB, Video4Linux, VLC, closed captioning, ffmpeg, GStreamer, or other topics, feel free to grab me while I’m there. It will be good to finally meet some of the… Read More
Using VLC Closed Captions with the HVR-950q
I was on a call with someone a few weeks ago, and they mentioned that they had been unable to get NTSC closed captions to display within VLC on the HVR-950q. Thinking that perhaps he was not the only person who had trouble figuring it out, I figured it would be worthwhile to walk you… Read More
More on VLC closed captioning
Hey there! It’s been a while since I posted anything on the Kernel Labs blog, but we’ve been diligently working away at various projects. A few things probably worth noting: A while back I did a bunch of VLC improvements, which finally went into the upstream VLC a couple of months ago. I actually made… Read More
VLC Video4Linux VBI Support Submitted Upstream
Last year I did some work related to EIA-608 closed captioning support for VLC. This basically broke down into two projects: 1. Providing support to VLC to support reading CC data from the /dev/vbiX Video4Linux2 device node. 2. Improving the rendering of the captions to be more consistent with the official specification. While I was… Read More
HVR-1150/1120 IR support
Things continue to be busy here at KernelLabs. This week submitted a patch upstream which results in the IR receiver support starting to work on the HVR-1150 and HVR-1120 boards. This was something that several people had been mentioning to me as an issue over the last nine months. Thanks go out to Fernando Laudares… Read More
VLC and V4L2 closed captioning
Just wanted to give you all a heads up on some stuff we’ve been working on: Closed captions for the hearing impaired seems to be one of those features that is ignored all too often in Linux TV. Application support is poor, driver support is rarely present. Being a little hard-of-hearing myself, I can appreciate… Read More