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Technology developer CPC has released new software that allows iPod users to embed subtitles and captions in their videos at the flick of a button.

While the ubiquitous music players have long been able to handle multiple video formats, there has until now been no software capable of instantly embedding closed captions into the devices’ favoured QuickTime movie format.

With CPC’s new software package, however, small reference files linked to the MacCaption-coded video files are stored in your iPod’s memory, enabling it to call up subtitles and captions whenever prompted.

Previous captioning solutions have required time-consuming re-compression, but with MacCaption - which also works on the iPhone - the process is almost instantaneous. It even has the ability to retrieve and convert captions encoded by traditional Line 21 captioning method.

CPC is the world’s first simultaneous closed captioning/teleprompting software provider.