Cea608 (valid) padding removal is available on the input side of ccconverter
or configurable on cccombiner. cccombiner can now configure whether
valid or invalid cea608 padding is used and for valid padding, how long
after valid non-padding to keep sending valid padding.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/6300>
A payload of 0x80 0x80 means that it's padding. It's not a good idea to
throw this away though, because of the cc_valid field.
According to CEA 10-B section 25.2.1, if cc_valid is zero, the run-in
clock and start bit should not be generated. In practice, this means
that any closed captions will be erased and the end-user TV will show
that captions are not available for this stream. This might have
undesired consequences, e.g. we were just showing a long line of
captions and we disable it before the user has had time to read it, or
you can't enable closed captions during silence/music intervals.
We cannot reliably detect whether there's a currently-silent closed
caption stream or just nothing, but we have this information coming from
upstream, so we can at least not discard it.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/5508>
Depending on the exact output format, 0x00 may be a better default for
padding than 0x80. 0x00 is the recommended padding value when used in
CDP (and cc_data) but is not when used in s334-1a. See CTA-708-E 4.3.5
amd SMPTE 334-1-2007 5.3.2.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/4578>
