textoverlay: GStreamer Base Plugins 1.0 Plugins Reference Manual

textoverlay

Types and Values

Object Hierarchy

 GObject
 ╰── GInitiallyUnowned
 ╰── GstObject
 ╰── GstElement
 ╰── GstBaseTextOverlay
 ╰── GstTextOverlay

Description

This plugin renders text on top of a video stream. This can be either static text or text from buffers received on the text sink pad, e.g. as produced by the subparse element. If the text sink pad is not linked, the text set via the "text" property will be rendered. If the text sink pad is linked, text will be rendered as it is received on that pad, honouring and matching the buffer timestamps of both input streams.

The text can contain newline characters and text wrapping is enabled by default.

Example launch lines

gst-launch-1.0 -v videotestsrc ! textoverlay text="Room A" valignment=top halignment=left font-desc="Sans, 72" ! autovideosink

Here is a simple pipeline that displays a static text in the top left corner of the video picture

gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=subtitles.srt ! subparse ! txt. videotestsrc ! timeoverlay ! textoverlay name=txt shaded-background=yes ! autovideosink

Here is another pipeline that displays subtitles from an .srt subtitle file, centered at the bottom of the picture and with a rectangular shading around the text in the background:

If you do not have such a subtitle file, create one looking like this in a text editor:

1
00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,000
Hello? (3-5s)
2
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000
Yes, this is a subtitle. Don't
you like it? (8-13s)

3
00:00:18,826 --> 00:01:02,886
Uh? What are you talking about?
I don't understand (18-62s)

Synopsis

Element Information

plugin

pango

author

David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>, Zeeshan Ali <zeeshan.ali@nokia.com>

class

Filter/Editor/Video

Element Pads

name

text_sink

direction

sink

presence

always

details

text/x-raw, format=(string){ pango-markup, utf8 }

name

video_sink

direction

sink

presence

always

details

video/x-raw, format=(string){ BGRx, RGBx, xRGB, xBGR, RGBA, BGRA, ARGB, ABGR, RGB, BGR, I420, YV12, AYUV, YUY2, UYVY, v308, Y41B, Y42B, Y444, NV12, NV21, A420, YUV9, YVU9, IYU1, GRAY8 }, width=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], height=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], framerate=(fraction)[ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

video/x-raw(ANY), format=(string){ I420, YV12, YUY2, UYVY, AYUV, RGBx, BGRx, xRGB, xBGR, RGBA, BGRA, ARGB, ABGR, RGB, BGR, Y41B, Y42B, YVYU, Y444, v210, v216, NV12, NV21, GRAY8, GRAY16_BE, GRAY16_LE, v308, RGB16, BGR16, RGB15, BGR15, UYVP, A420, RGB8P, YUV9, YVU9, IYU1, ARGB64, AYUV64, r210, I420_10BE, I420_10LE, I422_10BE, I422_10LE, Y444_10BE, Y444_10LE, GBR, GBR_10BE, GBR_10LE, NV16, NV24, NV12_64Z32, A420_10BE, A420_10LE, A422_10BE, A422_10LE, A444_10BE, A444_10LE, NV61, P010_10BE, P010_10LE, IYU2, VYUY, GBRA, GBRA_10BE, GBRA_10LE, GBR_12BE, GBR_12LE, GBRA_12BE, GBRA_12LE, I420_12BE, I420_12LE, I422_12BE, I422_12LE, Y444_12BE, Y444_12LE, GRAY10_LE32, NV12_10LE32, NV16_10LE32 }, width=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], height=(int)[ 1, 2147483647 ], framerate=(fraction)[ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

name

src

direction

source

presence

always

details

Functions

Types and Values

struct GstTextOverlay

struct GstTextOverlay;

Opaque textoverlay data structure.

textoverlay

Types and Values

Object Hierarchy

Description

Example launch lines

Synopsis

Element Information

Element Pads

Functions

Types and Values

struct GstTextOverlay

See Also