On Tuesday 23 March 2010 19:37:26 [email protected] wrote: > Yes, not sure how you'd get the stream in from Tata-Sky and > re-broadcast out -- my guess is you would need something like a TV > tuner card on the machine, get video in, composite text over, and > send it back out to a television over S-Video / VGA / HDMI . I'm > fairly certain this should be possible, if this is the setup you're > looking at. I guess pure-data should be able to do it. Another > software I'd look at is FreeJ [1] - I have done this kind of things > of putting text over videos live and playing them on a projector - > works quite good -- not sure how exactly it might interface with > the hardware you require, but I have heard of people using FreeJ > with TV tuner cards, etc. to do a lot more complex things and > performances. If you haven't bought additional hardware yet, it may > be a good idea to ask on the FreeJ list for recommended hardware, > etc for this kind of setup. > > I think FreeJ might be the best solution - the developers are also > quite helpful and run an active mailing list and IRC room. > > Saying this, it may also be possible to do this without a software > like FreeJ and just with ffmpeg or something to do text overlays. > However, if you are looking to animate the text to be scrolling, > etc. - the tool I've seen that does this really well is FreeJ (look > for details on the TextLayer .. is totally scriptable using python > or javascript [2], and can be lots of fun once you get through > possible initial hurdles of hardware compatibility / codec > compatibility, etc. :)).
Kate plugin in gstreamer does a song n dance with text. Basically karaoke. Sending KG some script junk off list ;-E > > Best've luck, > Sanjay > > [1] FreeJ Vision Mixer - http://freej.org > [2] FreeJ Scripting Documentation - > http://freej.dyne.org/docs/scripting/ -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
