Re: text on video / user defined closed captioning?

From: The March Hare [MVP] (phil_at_ndsm.maps)
Date: 03/07/05


Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:35:58 -0700

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:59:39 +0100, Thomas Krause wrote:

> we have a small custom DirectX Video Player we use to present video films to
> our customers. Now we want to show some text on the video screen,
> occassionally, text that may be static or able to move across the video,
> somehow like closed captioning texts.
>
> Does someone know a way to make this work using DirectX?

Yes. There is a sampvid sample which shows how to do this with a custom
renderer and there are samples for the VMR7 and VMR9 that illustrate
displaying text on a video. Check the Sample Browswer in the SDK.

> Is there something like a closed captioning filter for user specific texts?

AFAIK, no.

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