[FFmpeg-user] Drawtext filter

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 03/27/2011 09:23 AM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Saturday 2011-03-26 22:35:20 +0000, Sebastian Arcus encoded:
>> Thanks Stefano. Any idea if the problem with the background colour
>> option not having any effect has been solved? I tried it a while ago
>> (about October-November 2010) - and the option to set a background
>> colour for the text was not working at the time.
>
> Try it and report in case of problem.

I just tried to compile ffmpeg (just pulled off the git repository 
yesterday). The drawtext filter is not enabled by default in the 
configure script. However, even when I tried to enable it with 
"--enable-filter=drawtext" - it wouldn't show up in the list of enabled 
filters. After more googling, I found out that it depends on libfreetype 
- so I had to explicitly do "--enable-libfreetype" - then it worked.

It would be really helpful if the configure file would issue a suitable 
warning if one tries to enable the drawtext filter without enabling the 
libfreetype - otherwise many people might go around in circles wondering 
why the drawtext filter is not being enabled.

Thanks,

Sebastian

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