Ripping captions from WTV files ignores all time stamps and commercials #208

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claunia · 2026-01-29T16:38:01Z

claunia commented

2026-01-29 16:38:01 +00:00

Originally created by @Silver-Streak on GitHub (Nov 30, 2016).

I have a HTPC I built running Windows 8Windows Media Center. I use MCEBuddy to clean up my recorded WTV files, ripping captions to SRT for my wife, who is deaf and wants to be able to watch the videos throughout the house, and creating edl (I store for later to try and tweak appropriately).

I noticed that all of a sudden all of my subtitles are WAY out of sync. Like, minutes. Doing some digging, it happened in every file I've ripped CC from since I upgrade MCEBuddy. Digging into that, I saw they updated their version of CC extractor. The previous version of MCEBuddy I had installed (2.3.5) had CCExtractor 0.66,, where as the newer version of MCEBuddy had CCExtractor 0.81.

Looking at output files, it looks like what is happening is that the newly output captioned file act like the show starts at 0:00:00, which is not true, due to commercial/channel logos. Older captured files (from 0.66, I believe) include the commercials themselves, and seem to be fully in sync. The new files don't appear to have captions at all for the commercials that have them, and timestamps are off by minutes in some cases.

I've eliminated MCEBuddy from the equation, and have been able to reproduce this behavior on a separate machine with 0.81 vs 0.66. I've attached what each version spits out. Any insight into what I'm doing wrong, or what could have changed, is greatly appreciated.

Created previously
062116 Arrow_S03E18 - Copysrt.txt

Created and recreated yesterday
112816 The Flash (2014)_S03E05 - Copysrt.txt

For reference, the first line in the video file this is ripped from doesn't start until 1 minute, 41 seconds.

Originally created by @Silver-Streak on GitHub (Nov 30, 2016). I have a HTPC I built running Windows 8Windows Media Center. I use MCEBuddy to clean up my recorded WTV files, ripping captions to SRT for my wife, who is deaf and wants to be able to watch the videos throughout the house, and creating edl (I store for later to try and tweak appropriately). I noticed that all of a sudden all of my subtitles are WAY out of sync. Like, minutes. Doing some digging, it happened in every file I've ripped CC from since I upgrade MCEBuddy. Digging into that, I saw they updated their version of CC extractor. The previous version of MCEBuddy I had installed (2.3.5) had CCExtractor 0.66,, where as the newer version of MCEBuddy had CCExtractor 0.81. Looking at output files, it looks like what is happening is that the newly output captioned file act like the show starts at 0:00:00, which is not true, due to commercial/channel logos. Older captured files (from 0.66, I believe) include the commercials themselves, and seem to be fully in sync. The new files don't appear to have captions at all for the commercials that have them, and timestamps are off by minutes in some cases. I've eliminated MCEBuddy from the equation, and have been able to reproduce this behavior on a separate machine with 0.81 vs 0.66. I've attached what each version spits out. Any insight into what I'm doing wrong, or what could have changed, is greatly appreciated. Created previously [062116 Arrow_S03E18 - Copysrt.txt](https://github.com/CCExtractor/ccextractor/files/620795/062116.Arrow_S03E18.-.Copysrt.txt) Created and recreated yesterday [112816 The Flash (2014)_S03E05 - Copysrt.txt](https://github.com/CCExtractor/ccextractor/files/620796/112816.The.Flash.2014._S03E05.-.Copysrt.txt) For reference, the first line in the video file this is ripped from doesn't start until 1 minute, 41 seconds.

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2026-01-29 16:59:08 +00:00

[PR #208] Case fix teletext #1087

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Reference: starred/ccextractor#208