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Caption streams are transmitted with many packet wrappers around them. These are the picture user data, which contains the caption data, which contains the cc_data, which contains the Caption Channel packets, which contains the Service Block, which contains the caption streams.
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This structure was designed for any digital audio or metadata that is to be synchronized with a video frame. SDI transports every eight bits in a 10-bit aligned packet and the ancillary flag bytes are replaced by 128 bit header.
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CTA-708 supports eight font tags: undefined, monospaced serif, proportional serif, monospaced sans serif, proportional sans serif, casual, cursive, and small capitals. Below are some font examples, for more see the Knowledge
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caption descriptor which indicates the language of each caption and if formatted for "easy reader" (3rd-grade level for language learners) in the PSIP EIT on a per-event basis and optionally in the
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regulation in all 13-inch (33 cm) diagonal or larger digital televisions. Further, some broadcasters are required by FCC regulations to caption a percentage of their broadcasts.
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channel that has 960 bit/s typically allocated for backward compatible "encapsulated" Line 21 captions, and 1.08 kB/s allocated for CTA-708 captions, for a total of 1.2 kB/s. The
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A cdp_timecode is used when cdp data stream is discontinuous (i.e., not padded) and the cdp_service_info is used to add extra details to the
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captions, and downloadable fonts. CTA-708 caption streams can also encapsulate EIA-608 byte pairs internally, a fairly common usage.
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active video frame or video packet. Common video packets are a picture header, a picture parameter set, and a
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and must be pre-rendered by the receiver. With the digital video frames, they also include more of the
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https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/video/pdfs/introduction_to_closed_captions.pdf
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subtitles. Unlike EIA-608 byte pairs, CTA-708 captions are not able to be modulated on an
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and DVD subtitles, CTA-708 captions are low bandwidth and textual like traditional
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broadcast metadata such as language code, easy reader, and widescreen usage.
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contains the encoding specifics. The main form of signalling is via a
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Standard for closed captioning for ATSC digital television
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CTA-708 caption decoders are required in the U.S. by
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may be too technical for most readers to understand
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CEA-708
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news
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CTA
closed captioning
ATSC
digital television
United States
Canada
Consumer Technology Association
Run-length encoding
DVB
EIA-608
Teletext

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