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authorPiero Bugoni <crboca32@yahoo.com>2007-03-05 08:36:52 +0000
committerDiego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>2007-03-05 08:36:52 +0000
commitaf4372560a0316300a8a10aacb3152394a706714 (patch)
tree715e69c1efbddf1d8c718fe77de2d4055156b3f7 /doc/hooks.texi
parent7205395b683c05dbc99dc7148817f2cff74be96d (diff)
small updates taken from a patch by Piero Bugoni, crboca32 yahoo com
Originally committed as revision 8241 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Modules are loaded using the -vhook option to ffmpeg. The value of this paramete
is a space separated list of arguments. The first is the module name, and the rest
are passed as arguments to the Configure function of the module.
+The modules are dynamic libraries: They have different suffixes (.so, .dll, .dylib)
+depending on your platform. And your platform dictates if they need to be
+somewhere in your PATH, or in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Otherwise you will need to
+specify the full path of the vhook file that you are using.
+
@section null.c
This does nothing. Actually it converts the input image to RGB24 and then converts
@@ -46,6 +51,10 @@ supports a fixed overlay or reading the text from a file. The string
is passed through strftime so that it is easy to imprint the date and
time onto the image.
+This module depends on the external library imlib2, available on
+Sourceforge, among other places, if it is not already installed on
+your system.
+
You may also overlay an image (even semi-transparent) like TV stations do.
You may move either the text or the image around your video to create
scrolling credits, for example.