[FFmpeg-user] Drawtext filter with date overlay is not working in git-N-29946-g27614b1

[Sebastian Arcus]

Thanks Stefano. I'll wait until you find some time to fix it.

Thanks again,

Sebastian


On 05/16/2011 03:16 PM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Monday 2011-05-16 12:32:16 +0100, Sebastian Arcus encoded:
>> I've just noticed that ffmpeg is using 98%-100% of one of the
>> processor cores. It used to take about 28%-38% on the same machine
>> doing the same work using an ffmpeg build from 8th March 2011.
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>> On 05/15/2011 11:11 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
>>> Just downloaded latest ffmpeg from git and tried the drawtext filter
>>> with date overlay. No errors on the command line, but the date on the
>>> video is completely static - it picks up the date the moment ffmpeg is
>>> started, and it doesn't change any more. The command I use is:
>>>
>>> ffmpeg -fflags +genpts -t 600 -f mjpeg -r 8 -s 640x480 \
>>> -i http://localhost:8080/?action=stream -vcodec mpeg4 \
>>> -vf drawtext="fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/TTF/mitra.ttf:x=70:y=455: \
>>> text='\%H\:\%M\:\%S | \%a \%d/\%b/\%Y | S500ATV | camera 0': \
>>> fontcolor=0xFFFFFFFF:fontsize=18: \
>>> shadowcolor=0x000000EE:shadowx=1:shadowy=1" \
>>> -b 1500000 -r 8 video_file.avi
>>>
>>> This used to work just fine only few weeks ago.
>
> Yes it was borken by a recent commit, I'll fix it soon.
>
>>> The input stream comes from mjpg-streamer, which generates it from a usb
>>> webcam - but I don't think that makes any difference.
>
>>> Anybody any suggestions?
>
> Wait...
>
>> Any recent changes that broke the drawtext filter?