[FFmpeg-user] How to use drawtext to overlay dynamic text

[Zack Thevenot]

> If you only have a small amount of changes you could also use sendcmd.
> http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#sendcmd_002c-asendcmd
>
> see examples. Here's another one:
> -vf "sendcmd=f=send.cmd,drawtext=fontsize=20:fontcolor=white:x=100:y=100:text='Hello World'"
>
> send.cmd file:
> 5.0  drawtext reinit 'text=foo';
> 10.0 drawtext reinit 'text=bar';
> 20.0 drawtext reinit 'text=';






Thanks, I'll keep this in mind.  But my text will usually change a lot, so I will try to get the subtitles working for now