Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxx): > > Could one capture to RAM, scribble the text on top of the image, > > then encode/compress into an avi file? I don't need to display the > > image in real-time. Would the video loopback device come in handy? > > With the BTTV hardware you can mmap the buffers for capture and draw > in them before compressing. For actual viewing you can use Xv and > simply stick a text shaped X window over the top. For Xv, better to composite your text into the Y'CbCr buffer and then send that to Xv. Text without nice alpha blended antialiasing sucks. It's what we do in tvtime to get cool graphics: http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/screenshots/14-nov-02-pokemon1.png -Billy
