diff --git a/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/captions/cc608reader.cpp b/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/captions/cc608reader.cpp
index 07f5309998b..efb9ccea849 100644
--- a/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/captions/cc608reader.cpp
+++ b/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/captions/cc608reader.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-extern "C" {
 #include "vbitext/vbi.h"
-}
 
 #include <algorithm>
 using namespace std;