Re: How to overlay video with text information programmatically?

From: Chris P. [MVP] (msdn_at_chrisnet.net)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:16:38 -0400

Roberto Rocco wrote:
> Hello Chris,
> I'm simply using the Windows Media Player 9 control, showing the
> media with the 'play'-command and setting the property to fullscreen.
> Is there a technique to overlay or blend-in something inside the
> video? Is something like alpha-blending or color-keying supported?
>
> Or is it impossible to achieve this by using the media player? If so,
> what possibilties are there?
>
> Many thanks in advance,

I'm not an expert on the WMP 9 control but I don't believe there is any way
to do overlays with it. There might be a way to trick it into showing some
text by embedding close captioning information in a format it might
recognize, but that's just a guess.

DirectShow with VMR9 can do it but it's a lot more complicated than what
your doing now.

Perhaps someone else here knows of any easy way out?

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