[MPlayer-dev-eng] Displaying an image on top of video

[compn]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:43:24 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 03:08:08PM -0300, Alexandre Amoedo Amorim wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> I'm working on a project where I display videos fullscreen on an embedded
>> linux device, without X, using VO: fbdev.
>> There's another app on the backgroup that needs to show information over
>> that video.
>> 
>> I suppose I'd neet to hack the vo_fbdev.c in order to write my
>> image/message to the fb with every frame.
>> 
>> I'd appreciate any thoughts on this... Is this the way to go, or...?
>
>I mostly think this belongs on the -users list,
>but look at DOCS/tech/slave.txt, in particular either
>osd_show_text or overlay_add

probably easier than editing code or making a filter or using
vf_overlay just to use mplayer -rootwin with a clear desktop and just
display images on top of that , easy...

-compn