CompMovieGuy said:

If hes using the Hauppauge then he wont get the CC unless its being displayed (hard coded) on the video stream at the time hes using the device.

You would need to raw capture the video in order to get the CC stream as it is part of the PIDs, the Hauppauge doesnt work this way, its not a "direct stream" capture device, its a "on the fly" re-encoding device.

Is it on a PID? I thought it was embedded in the mpeg video, just like analog TV.

I have a standalone DVR that re-encodes all video (even resize HD channels to SD) without damaging the line 21 captions.