Closed Captions in Multiview

[Fofer]

Is this already possible? If so, how? Like with a remote API call or something? A candidate for vibecoding? Asking, because tonight I'm hosting an election watching party and of course Multiview's a star in the show. Everyone is impressed and asking how navigating our exact channel choices, local and national, is happening. What is this magic?

After fierce debate we landed on one primary channel, but the #1 request afterwards was if we could enable captions on the OTHER channels, and I can't figure out how.

[JCyea]

I believe we questioned that when Multiview came onboard, and from what I understand not a option.

[Fofer]

Ah OK. I found this one thread.

Multiview captioning

Loving the new multiview feature. Just wondering if there is a way to turn on closed captioning? It would help a lot when deciding which view to focus on when etc…

<<crickets>>

Anyway, just putting it out there.

[hal9000]

Multiview feels like an outsource.

[Fofer]

Whatever it is, it's great. This feels like a no-brainer of a feature request that would make it even greater.

At least now it's got a real-world use case to consider, that would lower a lot of friction, in an otherwise politically-divided room.

But people with hearing issues should be able to enjoy multiview in normal circumstances too.

[hal9000]

@Fofer

people with hearing issues

have been neglected for a very long time. E.g. HDMI doesn't carry captions. Just turn them on at the source.

[mnwxman132]

AndroidHDMI for Channels (ah4c): A virtual channel tuner using HDMI Encoder(s) + streaming stick(s)

Just mentioning something I was playing with this morning. Channels DVR doesnt display closed captioning in Live multi view. So this morning using the PYATV commands, I was able to create a toggle for each tuners broadcast closed captioning for use in live situations. I implemented a Docker container running a lightweight Python HTTP webhook service, and leveraged the Apple TV accessibility shortcut set to closed captions. three quick menu presses toggles the built in CC Then I created a co…

It is very doable, as long as you dont mind turning on and off closed captioning at the source. Im using an HDMI encoder, so i often want to do just that anyway.

ive even got closed caption apple shortcuts running on a complication on my apple watch using this setup!.

It took me maybe 3-4 hours to set things and vibe code this with uncle Claude. I have an always on CDVR server that’s running all my tuning containers anyway. Your environment may vary, but I think you were using a mac mini at one point with a bunch of containers.