Pure alpha Video + Text

[Angel Martin]

Dear all,

I want to mix (videomixer) a multimedia source (video or image) with a text
(textoverlay) with gnlcomposition to insert the text in the proper time.

1) At the beginning I used a gnloperation to insert the textoverlay inside a
bin with a textoverlay. But problems arised when I had a lot of images and
texts. It was not possible to get a desired layout. Because to get a correct
functionality the priority has to be low and unique (according to my tests).

2) So, I am trying to insert each text as a video with an alpha channel.

I achieved it with a gnlsource with a bin that contains a videotestsrc with
green pattern and an alpha element to remove the green part with an alpha
channel but in some borders of the image there is a residual line.
videotestsrc pattern=5 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! textoverlay text="HELLOWORLD" !
video/x-raw-yuv, framerate=\(fraction\)25/1, format=\(fourcc\)AYUV,
width=640, height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace

And for example in this case: textoverlay text="HELLOWORLD" color=4278255360
(0xff00ff00) The text is also "alphaed". So not completely solved yet.
Moreover, the alpha module inserts a residual line and computational waste.

3) So I want a pure alpha video with a text to mix it with an image.

This is a test pipeline where the videotestsrc has directly a 0x00000000
(ARGB value = pure alpha black = transparent) with a text overlay with color
0xff00ff00 (ARGB value = solid green).

gst-launch videomixer name=mix sink_0::zorder=3 sink_1::zorder=2 !
ffmpegcolorspace ! timeoverlay ! autovideosink videotestsrc pattern=17
foreground-color=0 ! textoverlay text="HELLOWORLD" color=4278255360
shaded-background=TRUE ! video/x-raw-yuv, framerate=\(fraction\)25/1,
format=\(fourcc\)AYUV, width=640, height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! mix.sink_0
filesrc location=~/image.jpg ! decodebin ! queue ! ffmpegcolorspace !
videoscale ! imagefreeze2 ! alpha prefer-passthrough=TRUE ! video/x-raw-yuv,
framerate=\(fraction\)25/1, format=\(fourcc\)AYUV, width=640, height=480 !
ffmpegcolorspace ! mix.sink_1

However the textoverlay plugin doesn't overwrite its alpha value and the
text doesn't appear anyplace. It seems the text inherits the alpha value of
the videotestsrc.

If a change the videotestsrc to get semitransparent color=2147483648
(0x80000000) (ARGB semitransparent black) the text appears but again It
seems the text inherits the alpha value of the videotestsrc.

gst-launch videomixer name=mix sink_0::zorder=3 sink_1::zorder=2 !
ffmpegcolorspace ! timeoverlay ! autovideosink videotestsrc pattern=17
foreground-color=2147483648 ! textoverlay text="HELLOWORLD" color=4278255360
shaded-background=TRUE ! video/x-raw-yuv, framerate=\(fraction\)25/1,
format=\(fourcc\)AYUV, width=640, height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! mix.sink_0
filesrc location=~/image.jpg ! decodebin ! queue ! ffmpegcolorspace !
videoscale ! imagefreeze2 ! alpha prefer-passthrough=TRUE ! video/x-raw-yuv,
framerate=\(fraction\)25/1, format=\(fourcc\)AYUV, width=640, height=480 !
ffmpegcolorspace ! mix.sink_1

I tryed to insert alphacolor elements and introduce different schemes of
ffmpegcolorspaces and capsfilter, and I also checked that the zorder of the
videomixer is right, but I haven't achieved the expected result.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards.

-- 

Ángel Martín Navas
Investigador / Researcher
Televisión Digital y Servicios Multimedia / Digital TV & Multimedia Services

Vicomtech - Visual Interaction Communication Technologies
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