[gst-devel] Simple Overlay

[andrew]

Rene,

Thanks for the information.

Sorry about the random reply thing, I forgot it can screw up threads
etc.

Andrew

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 20:48 +0200, René Stadler wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 30.05.2007, 16:45 +0100 schrieb Andrew Armstrong:
> > High guys,
> > 
> > I am fairly new to gstreamer, but have the need to do some simple text
> > overlay into a video stream. I do not want to go the whole pango route
> > and I already have code I have used on a simple framebuffer style
> > application.
> > 
> > I basically need to find a skeleton plugin that will allow me to add my
> > contents directly to the video buffer. Is this possible?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> 
> There is the GstVideoFilter base class (trivially derived from the
> generic GstBaseTransform).  There are some elements in gst-plugins-good
> using it [1].  These should illustrate pretty well how to do it.  For
> more information, refer to the documentation of BaseTransform [2].
> 
> PS.: Please don't post to the list by replying to random topics.  This
> is highly annoying.
> 
> [1]:
> http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/gst/videofilter/
> [2]:
> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer-libs/html/GstBaseTransform.html
>