[FFmpeg-user] Weird results with drawtext

[Cecil Westerhof]

Michael Koch <astroelectronic at t-online.de> writes:

> Am 18.09.2021 um 18:07 schrieb Cecil Westerhof via ffmpeg-user:
>> I have several of the following (simplified):
>>      drawtext=
>>         enable     = 'between(t, 105, 115)':
>>         text       = 'speaker':
>>         y          = main_h - (text_h * 4),
>>      drawtext=
>>         enable     = 'between(t, 105, 115)':
>>         text       = 'subject':
>>         y          = main_h - (text_h * 2.2),
>>
>> I have been carefully tweaking to get them on the correct place.
>> But when I was satisfied and generated all eight places where I wanted
>> to have them the placement of the speaker and subject text is on
>> different heights. Sometimes one or the other is different, sometimes
>> both and sometimes they are the same.
>>
>> Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>
> The content of the variable "text_h" depends on which characters you are
> printing.
>
> If you don't use "text_h", then the characters "a" and "q" are printed
> at the same height:
> ffmpeg -f lavfi -i color=yellow -lavfi
> drawtext=text='a':x=20:y=50,drawtext=text='q':x=40:y=50 -frames 1 -y 
> out1.png

That makes sense.
But now I have to find a way to place it correctly without using
text_h.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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