Talk:Closed Captions

One of my favourite benchmarks for when to add stuff to the VDC is when I look for info and don't find any. Case in point: I just spent the entire evening wrestling with why my closed caption edits had stopped working. Did I need to use scene_flush? Did I need to restart Source and/or Steam after editing the file? Did I need to make sure I had the right spaces and carriage returns? Eventually I discovered that it was because I had stopped editing the file with Notepad and had started using Textpad instead. Simple mistake, a lot of time wasted. :)

I'm not much of a programmer, so I'm not really familiar enough with the various different ways of encoding text files (ASCII/binary/unicode/etc) to know what Textpad was doing to them that Notepad didn't. Perhaps someone with more know-how can find out and make my Note more precise?

Anyway, this week looks likely to be Learn Closed Captions Week for me, so I'll probably be back a few times to flesh out this page with a few more discoveries. --Giles 13:32, 15 May 2006 (PDT)

i've been trying to get the closed captions to work in a mod that's based off of the source sdk base... have tried using notepad, wordpad, textpad, MSdev 2005... nothing works. the caption aliases show up under cc_emit's list but calling them produces no output at all. not even the caption box. the default captions that are stored in the .gcf can be called but they're missing the last line to be printed. if you call a 1 lined caption you get the caption box but no output. if you call another 1 liner you get the previous caption's text.

- Paegus 2007/01/22 02:47 (GMT)

Captioncompiler.exe

Does someone know when this tool will be available ? Because the one given on this page keeps crashing... --NykO18 04:24, 23 Feb 2008 (PST)

It works for me. Run it from CMD (win+r, "cmd", enter) and you'll catch any error messages. --TomEdwards 04:54, 23 Feb 2008 (PST)

I'm talking about a Portal mod, under the Orange Box Engine. Basically, I already run it from CMD. Here's what it does :

C:\Jeux\Steam\steamapps\nyko18\sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin>captioncompiler.exe "C:\Jeux\Steam\steamapps\SourceMods\portal mod\resource\closecaption_english.txt"

And then :

Unhandled exception at 0x0b543c3e in captioncompiler.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00bb7580.

I have the Beta SDK installed, don't know if it can interfere. --NykO18 09:14, 23 Feb 2008 (PST)

It only works with -engine ep1 according from what I've just done. Try it.--Hurricaaane 09:15, 23 Feb 2008 (PST)