[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] vf_drawtext: make x and y options parametric

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Wednesday 2011-09-21 16:51:11 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 02:51:16PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Tuesday 2011-09-20 21:44:46 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 08:30:46PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > > Address trac issue #378.
> > > > ---
> > > >  doc/filters.texi          |   68 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> > > >  libavfilter/vf_drawtext.c |  143 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > > >  2 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > ok, but please check that changing them through stdin in ffmpeg still
> > > works
> > 
> > Can you suggest a way to test it? That's all but obvious (and should
> > be documented in case this is meant to be non only an "experimental"
> > feature).
> 
> try something like:
> 
> echo -e 'Call 2 reinit fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf:text=W old:fontcolor=white\nCall 5 reinit fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf:text="Hallo Woldäüö߀":fontcolor=white'
> (i copy and pasted above from log so it should work)

pipe reading code doesn't work here with or without the patch, so
cannot test.

> 
> and pipe this into a ffmpeg with a drawtext filter.
> 
> it should shedule reinits of it with the given parameters at
> seconds 2 and 5
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