See Closed Caption but No Picture

Apple TV 1080p HD - 60Hz
Apple TV Software 5.0 (4099)
Model MD199LL/A
Worked great until yesterday. Suddenly there is no picture when I try to replay my TV episodes of "Merlin" purchased a week ago. CC is visible and sound is fine. None fo the Merlin episodes play, including the ones we watched last week.
All other feartures (Netflix, movie previews, other non-Merlin episodes etc) show video just fine.
What's up?

You did not provide any information on how far you've gone in your research of CC in principal, so here is what it is in a nutshell.
From Flash standpoint there are two distinct approaches.
1. CC can be embedded into video as cue points. You don't have to do it manually. Adobe video encoder (and other encoders) allow importing xml files at time of encoding. These XML files require certain formatting with time stamps. When imported, cue points are inserted automatically.
2. There are several established CC text file formats including xml files and flat delimited files. There is nothing special about this files - they have start times, end times, and CC text. The only advantage of using one of these formats is that the majority of tools that allow typing CC as one watches video save the work in one of these formats.
On the Flash/programming side, except for cue points, there is no native mechanism to link/sync any data with anything. This means that logic has to be written from scratch based on required use cases. It is mostly loading xml/text file --> parsing it --> listening to video playback's time --> displaying text at the moments specified in these files.
Writing these kind of functionality is a very easy task. The main challenge is to transcribe audio to get CC text and time these text blocks properly. It is time consuming as well as expensive if you don't do it yourself, which is the main reason people and even big companies ditch the idea of implementing CC. In other words, it is a total tedious manual labor unless one has speech recognition software.

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