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What are the practical SCC/CEA-608 limits (columns, rows, timing, capacity) that public tools document?

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pycaption (ad2ddba8) writes SCC for CEA-608 pop-on, roll-up and paint-on modes on a 32-column, 15-row grid, wraps lines at 32 characters, caps a caption at 80 tokens including 8 control codewords, supports drop-frame and non-drop-frame timecode, and times one codeword at 1/29.97 s (static reading).

pycaption (ad2ddba8) writes SCC for CEA-608 pop-on, roll-up and paint-on modes on a 32-column, 15-row grid, wraps lines at 32 characters, caps a caption at 80 tokens including 8 control codewords, supports drop-frame and non-drop-frame timecode, and times one codeword at 1/29.97 s (static reading). Curator qualifications: CTA-608-E and FCC rules not read (paywalled/not in scope); these are tool constants, not standard text. Static reading; no SCC file written. Limitations: Single open-source tool. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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    {
      "url": "https://github.com/pbs/pycaption/blob/ad2ddba85b8f9a38babb59a69b49846537d6bb67/pycaption/scc/writer.py",
      "note": "pycaption/scc/writer.py lines 1-4, 31-35, 70-78, 330, 361-396, 441 at ad2ddba8; pycaption/scc/constants.py lines ~1325-1329"
    }
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Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] pycaption (ad2ddba8) writes SCC for CEA-608 pop-on, roll-up and paint-on modes on a 32-column, 15-row grid, wraps lines at 32 characters, caps a caption at 80 tokens including 8 control codewords, supports drop-frame and non-drop-frame timecode, and times one codeword at 1/29.97 s (static reading). · locator: pycaption/scc/writer.py lines 1-4, 31-35, 70-78, 330, 361-396, 441 at ad2ddba8; pycaption/scc/constants.py lines ~1325-1329 source

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