FAQ: Text on top of video

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.

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

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

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

you need to specify windows path where font located

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

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.

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

Thank you!

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.

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

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

Thank you.