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FAQ: Text on top of video

Yury Udovichenko 2017-07-10 06:29:45 UTC in WMSPanel functionality

Q: How do I draw some text on top of any outgoing stream?

A: You need to use our Live Transcoder with
drawtext filter.

1. Install Live Transcoder and get a license to make it work: https://wmspanel.com/transcoder/install

2. Create a scenario with a decoder for your incoming stream. Check one of our videos as example: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRDQWjeuSAkM6itDPes-r8HrN95ub36ue

3. Add custom filter. Specify its name as drawtext, and set its value to something like:

fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: text='%{localtime\:%T}': fontcolor=white@0.8: x=7: y=700

or

fontsize=45: fontfile=/usr/share/nimble/fonts/VCR_OSD_MONO_1.001.ttf: text='%{localtime\:%F %T %Z}': fontcolor=white@0.8: x=15: y=1000: box=1: boxcolor=black@0.4

4. Add encoder for outgoing stream and save scenario.

That's it, your outgoing stream will now have text with local time of the server.

helin 2018-01-14 09:09:03 UTC 

This is an example of Linux.
How it works on Windows?

Alex Pokotilo 2018-01-14 13:30:30 UTC 

this is example for transcoder and it should work the same way for linux/windows

helin 2018-01-14 14:47:23 UTC 

There is no /usr/ share path in Windows how it works?

Alex Pokotilo 2018-01-14 22:14:07 UTC 

you need to specify windows path where font located

Ryan 2022-03-18 21:39:15 UTC 

how do i do text overlay in transcoder for windows? the draw text filter ruins the entire transcode scenario when testing

Sergei 2022-03-21 09:55:00 UTC 

Hello, Ryan.

Please open a ticket at wmspanel.com/help as we will ask you some sensitive details about your setup.
Just a guess, have you specified correct path to the font file for the drawtext filter?

Thank you.

Max 2022-04-06 21:20:26 UTC 

Also having problems running this on Windows.
Has anyone found a solution yet?

Thank you!

Sergei 2022-04-07 01:07:31 UTC 

Hello, Max.

Unfortunately the "drawtext" filter is currently not supported in the Transcoder for Windows, please use Linux version to make it work.

Thank you.

Max 2022-04-12 13:29:52 UTC 

Thank you, are there plans of supporting it in future update?

Sergei 2022-04-13 01:29:26 UTC 

Hello, Max.
Not at the moment, as it is heavily depends on linux dependencies.

Thank you.

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