textoverlay

This plugin renders text on top of a video stream. This can be either static text or text from buffers received on the text sink pad, e.g. as produced by the subparse element. If the text sink pad is not linked, the text set via the "text" property will be rendered. If the text sink pad is linked, text will be rendered as it is received on that pad, honouring and matching the buffer timestamps of both input streams.

The text can contain newline characters and text wrapping is enabled by default.

Example launch lines

 gst-launch-1.0 -v videotestsrc ! textoverlay text="Room A" valignment=top halignment=left font-desc="Sans, 72" ! autovideosink

Here is a simple pipeline that displays a static text in the top left corner of the video picture

 gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=subtitles.srt ! subparse ! txt.   videotestsrc ! timeoverlay ! textoverlay name=txt shaded-background=yes ! autovideosink

Here is another pipeline that displays subtitles from an .srt subtitle file, centered at the bottom of the picture and with a rectangular shading around the text in the background:

If you do not have such a subtitle file, create one looking like this in a text editor:

 1
 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,000
 Hello? (3-5s)

 2
 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000
 Yes, this is a subtitle. Don't
 you like it? (8-13s)

 3
 00:00:18,826 --> 00:01:02,886
 Uh? What are you talking about?
 I don't understand  (18-62s)

Hierarchy

GObject
    ╰──GInitiallyUnowned
        ╰──GstObject
            ╰──GstElement
                ╰──GstBaseTextOverlay
                    ╰──textoverlay

Factory details

Authors: – David Schleef , Zeeshan Ali

Classification:Filter/Editor/Video

Rank – none

Plugin – pango

Package – GStreamer Base Plug-ins

Pad Templates

src

video/x-raw:
         format: { A444_16LE, A444_16BE, AYUV64, RGBA64_LE, ARGB64, ARGB64_LE, BGRA64_LE, ABGR64_LE, RGBA64_BE, ARGB64_BE, BGRA64_BE, ABGR64_BE, A422_16LE, A422_16BE, A420_16LE, A420_16BE, A444_12LE, GBRA_12LE, A444_12BE, GBRA_12BE, Y412_LE, Y412_BE, A422_12LE, A422_12BE, A420_12LE, A420_12BE, A444_10LE, GBRA_10LE, A444_10BE, GBRA_10BE, A422_10LE, A422_10BE, A420_10LE, A420_10BE, BGR10A2_LE, RGB10A2_LE, Y410, A444, GBRA, AYUV, VUYA, RGBA, RBGA, ARGB, BGRA, ABGR, A422, A420, AV12, Y444_16LE, GBR_16LE, Y444_16BE, GBR_16BE, v216, P016_LE, P016_BE, Y444_12LE, GBR_12LE, Y444_12BE, GBR_12BE, I422_12LE, I422_12BE, Y212_LE, Y212_BE, I420_12LE, I420_12BE, P012_LE, P012_BE, Y444_10LE, GBR_10LE, Y444_10BE, GBR_10BE, r210, I422_10LE, I422_10BE, NV16_10LE32, Y210, UYVP, v210, I420_10LE, I420_10BE, P010_10LE, NV12_10LE40, NV12_10LE32, P010_10BE, MT2110R, MT2110T, NV12_10BE_8L128, NV12_10LE40_4L4, Y444, BGRP, GBR, RGBP, NV24, v308, IYU2, RGBx, xRGB, BGRx, xBGR, RGB, BGR, Y42B, NV16, NV61, YUY2, YVYU, UYVY, VYUY, I420, YV12, NV12, NV21, NV12_16L32S, NV12_32L32, NV12_4L4, NV12_64Z32, NV12_8L128, Y41B, IYU1, YUV9, YVU9, BGR16, RGB16, BGR15, RGB15, RGB8P, GRAY16_LE, GRAY16_BE, GRAY10_LE32, GRAY8 }
          width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
         height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
      framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

video/x-raw(ANY):
         format: { A444_16LE, A444_16BE, AYUV64, RGBA64_LE, ARGB64, ARGB64_LE, BGRA64_LE, ABGR64_LE, RGBA64_BE, ARGB64_BE, BGRA64_BE, ABGR64_BE, A422_16LE, A422_16BE, A420_16LE, A420_16BE, A444_12LE, GBRA_12LE, A444_12BE, GBRA_12BE, Y412_LE, Y412_BE, A422_12LE, A422_12BE, A420_12LE, A420_12BE, A444_10LE, GBRA_10LE, A444_10BE, GBRA_10BE, A422_10LE, A422_10BE, A420_10LE, A420_10BE, BGR10A2_LE, RGB10A2_LE, Y410, A444, GBRA, AYUV, VUYA, RGBA, RBGA, ARGB, BGRA, ABGR, A422, A420, AV12, Y444_16LE, GBR_16LE, Y444_16BE, GBR_16BE, v216, P016_LE, P016_BE, Y444_12LE, GBR_12LE, Y444_12BE, GBR_12BE, I422_12LE, I422_12BE, Y212_LE, Y212_BE, I420_12LE, I420_12BE, P012_LE, P012_BE, Y444_10LE, GBR_10LE, Y444_10BE, GBR_10BE, r210, I422_10LE, I422_10BE, NV16_10LE32, Y210, UYVP, v210, I420_10LE, I420_10BE, P010_10LE, NV12_10LE40, NV12_10LE32, P010_10BE, MT2110R, MT2110T, NV12_10BE_8L128, NV12_10LE40_4L4, Y444, BGRP, GBR, RGBP, NV24, v308, IYU2, RGBx, xRGB, BGRx, xBGR, RGB, BGR, Y42B, NV16, NV61, YUY2, YVYU, UYVY, VYUY, I420, YV12, NV12, NV21, NV12_16L32S, NV12_32L32, NV12_4L4, NV12_64Z32, NV12_8L128, Y41B, IYU1, YUV9, YVU9, BGR16, RGB16, BGR15, RGB15, RGB8P, GRAY16_LE, GRAY16_BE, GRAY10_LE32, GRAY8 }
          width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
         height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
      framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

Presencealways

Directionsrc

Object typeGstPad


text_sink

text/x-raw:
         format: { pango-markup, utf8 }

Presencealways

Directionsink

Object typeGstPad


video_sink

video/x-raw:
         format: { A444_16LE, A444_16BE, AYUV64, RGBA64_LE, ARGB64, ARGB64_LE, BGRA64_LE, ABGR64_LE, RGBA64_BE, ARGB64_BE, BGRA64_BE, ABGR64_BE, A422_16LE, A422_16BE, A420_16LE, A420_16BE, A444_12LE, GBRA_12LE, A444_12BE, GBRA_12BE, Y412_LE, Y412_BE, A422_12LE, A422_12BE, A420_12LE, A420_12BE, A444_10LE, GBRA_10LE, A444_10BE, GBRA_10BE, A422_10LE, A422_10BE, A420_10LE, A420_10BE, BGR10A2_LE, RGB10A2_LE, Y410, A444, GBRA, AYUV, VUYA, RGBA, RBGA, ARGB, BGRA, ABGR, A422, A420, AV12, Y444_16LE, GBR_16LE, Y444_16BE, GBR_16BE, v216, P016_LE, P016_BE, Y444_12LE, GBR_12LE, Y444_12BE, GBR_12BE, I422_12LE, I422_12BE, Y212_LE, Y212_BE, I420_12LE, I420_12BE, P012_LE, P012_BE, Y444_10LE, GBR_10LE, Y444_10BE, GBR_10BE, r210, I422_10LE, I422_10BE, NV16_10LE32, Y210, UYVP, v210, I420_10LE, I420_10BE, P010_10LE, NV12_10LE40, NV12_10LE32, P010_10BE, MT2110R, MT2110T, NV12_10BE_8L128, NV12_10LE40_4L4, Y444, BGRP, GBR, RGBP, NV24, v308, IYU2, RGBx, xRGB, BGRx, xBGR, RGB, BGR, Y42B, NV16, NV61, YUY2, YVYU, UYVY, VYUY, I420, YV12, NV12, NV21, NV12_16L32S, NV12_32L32, NV12_4L4, NV12_64Z32, NV12_8L128, Y41B, IYU1, YUV9, YVU9, BGR16, RGB16, BGR15, RGB15, RGB8P, GRAY16_LE, GRAY16_BE, GRAY10_LE32, GRAY8 }
          width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
         height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
      framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

video/x-raw(ANY):
         format: { A444_16LE, A444_16BE, AYUV64, RGBA64_LE, ARGB64, ARGB64_LE, BGRA64_LE, ABGR64_LE, RGBA64_BE, ARGB64_BE, BGRA64_BE, ABGR64_BE, A422_16LE, A422_16BE, A420_16LE, A420_16BE, A444_12LE, GBRA_12LE, A444_12BE, GBRA_12BE, Y412_LE, Y412_BE, A422_12LE, A422_12BE, A420_12LE, A420_12BE, A444_10LE, GBRA_10LE, A444_10BE, GBRA_10BE, A422_10LE, A422_10BE, A420_10LE, A420_10BE, BGR10A2_LE, RGB10A2_LE, Y410, A444, GBRA, AYUV, VUYA, RGBA, RBGA, ARGB, BGRA, ABGR, A422, A420, AV12, Y444_16LE, GBR_16LE, Y444_16BE, GBR_16BE, v216, P016_LE, P016_BE, Y444_12LE, GBR_12LE, Y444_12BE, GBR_12BE, I422_12LE, I422_12BE, Y212_LE, Y212_BE, I420_12LE, I420_12BE, P012_LE, P012_BE, Y444_10LE, GBR_10LE, Y444_10BE, GBR_10BE, r210, I422_10LE, I422_10BE, NV16_10LE32, Y210, UYVP, v210, I420_10LE, I420_10BE, P010_10LE, NV12_10LE40, NV12_10LE32, P010_10BE, MT2110R, MT2110T, NV12_10BE_8L128, NV12_10LE40_4L4, Y444, BGRP, GBR, RGBP, NV24, v308, IYU2, RGBx, xRGB, BGRx, xBGR, RGB, BGR, Y42B, NV16, NV61, YUY2, YVYU, UYVY, VYUY, I420, YV12, NV12, NV21, NV12_16L32S, NV12_32L32, NV12_4L4, NV12_64Z32, NV12_8L128, Y41B, IYU1, YUV9, YVU9, BGR16, RGB16, BGR15, RGB15, RGB8P, GRAY16_LE, GRAY16_BE, GRAY10_LE32, GRAY8 }
          width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
         height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
      framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

Presencealways

Directionsink

Object typeGstPad


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