Problem Solved! I updated ffmpeg to N-80901-gfebc862 and I modified my ffmpeg command to this: ffmpeg -f v4l2 -input_format mjpeg -r 30 -video_size 1920x1080 -i /dev/video0 -override_ffserver -c:v mjpeg -r 15 -vf drawtext="text='mma':fontsize=32:fontcolor=white" http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm I can see the text in the stream now.