[gst-devel] video overlay plugin

[gjc at inescporto.pt]

Quoting Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas at urgent.rug.ac.be>:

> Hi Gustavo,
> 
> >   I'm sorry to post it like this in attachment, but I don't have
> > anywhere to put it, at the moment.
> > 
> >   Change your videosink to textoverlay ! xvideosink to test.
> > 
> >   It still has some problems due to my little understanding of YUV.  If
> > anyone can help out, I'd be glad.
> > 
> >   My idea is for this to be used to display subtitles in gst-player. 
> > Any volunteers for that?  Should be fairly simple to do the rest.  We
> > only have to insert textoverlay in the pipeline, read a subtitles file,
> > and then change the 'text' attribute of the textoverlay from time to
> > time.
> 
> I've tried compiling your tarball, but failed due to some Makefile.am 
> variables that seem to be wrong to me.
> 
> So I want to ask two things:
> 
> a) would you be willing to check out gst-template module from cvs, and use 
> the gst-plugin template directory as the build structure ? If you want, I 
> can do this part for you so that is out of the way.
> 
> It makes it easier to build against both 0.6 and 0.7 and does some other 
> things in a standard way so anyone is able to compile it.

  Sure, here it is.

> 
> b) to the list in general; would it be a good idea to make a module in cvs 
> in which to co-develop new plugins like this one ? We could call it 
> "sandbox" for example, and make one directory for each plug-in we are 
> developing, and make each directory have it's own autogen.sh script.
> 
> In this sandbox module, people can co-develop plugins, help each other 
> out, and generally mature and finish the plugins until they work basically 
> and can be added to gst-plugins if wanted.
> 
> Comments ?
> 
> Thomas
> 
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