Patent ID: 8528017

Claim:
Sink for presenting multimedia data including video data comprising: video display; digital media (DM) interface configured for receiving a stream of multimedia packets and closed caption (CC) packets from a source; sink processor communicating with the DM interface for receiving the stream and extracting the CC packets therefrom; the sink processor configured for decoding the multimedia packets and presenting on the display video represented by decoded multimedia packets; the sink processor, responsive to commands from a user input device, configured for selectively displaying CC text derived from the CC packets on the display along with the video, the processor being configured for determining whether to present the CC text with the video responsive to user commands input to the sink, a first number of bytes being included in a CC data structure for a first combination of multimedia frame rate and frame type, a second number of bytes being included in a CC data structure for a second combination of multimedia frame rate and frame type.