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)