I don't see any way to create a background color for the text using the
watermark filter.  That's why I've been using DynamicText, to set
background color/alpha and padding.  Am I missing something?

Brian,
>
> >Is it possible to force a line break in the text supplied to the
> DynamicText filter?  For example, let's say I wanted the text overlay to
> look like this.
> >
> >Line 1
> >Line 2
> >Line 3
> >
> >In some environments I could do "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3".  It appears
> that DynamicText doesn't recognize the "\n".  Is there a line break it does
> recognize?
>
>
> For what you are trying to do, you would be better served by the watermark
> filter. Here is an example:
> melt colour:red -filter watermark:"+line1~line2~line3.txt"
> composite.progressive=1 producer.align=centre composite.valign=c
> composite.halign=c producer.fgcolour=blue
>
>
> The "producer.*" properties are passed to a pango producer and the
> "composite.*" properties are passed to a composite transition.
> http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/ProducerPango
> http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/TransitionComposite
>
> ~BM
>
>


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