[PLUG] Help with My Radeon All in Wonder

[Will Andrews]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 09:08:55AM -0500, Jacoby, David wrote:
> I saw on the Crackmonkey list that someone took the closed caption
> feed from CNN during the WTC/Pentagon tragedy and piped it to IRC.
> I would love to know how that's done and what hardware/software
> I'd need.

CNN did that themselves.

chat.cnn.com #cnn_newsfeed or something like that.. it's still
running:

[...]
<CC>   CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY
<CC>      THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
<CC>        EDUCATION AND CNN
<CC>   -MEDIA CAPTIONING SERVICES-
<CC>      WWW.MEDIACAPTIONING.COM
<CC> >>> IT'S WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
<CC> 3RD.
<CC> THIS IS CNN.
<CC> I'M BILLY HEMMER, IN NEW
<CC> YORK.
<CC> GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US
<CC> THIS MORNING.
<CC> >>> WE'RE BRINGING
<CC> YOU SEVERAL DEVELOPING
<CC> STORIES THIS HOUR.
<CC> 22 DAYS AFTER THE TERRORIST
<CC> ATTACKS ON THE UNITED
<CC> STATES.
<CC> HERE'S THE LATEST:
<CC> PRESIDENT BUSH IS BACK
<CC> IN NEW YORK CITY THIS
<CC> MORNING.
<CC> SECOND VISIT SINCE 11th OF
<CC> SEPTEMBER.
[...]

Likely all you really need is to have a TV card and a decoder
that will pipe data to a text file...

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wca