Text & Graphics Overlay

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DirectShow filter for overlaying text and images over a video stream.

Overview

This text overlay and image mixing filter is a professional solution for almost any image and text display tasks in your multimedia application.

This product is also available as a Windows Media Encoder plugin.

Possible Uses

  • Live titling of a video stream.
  • Adding watermarks to a video stream or file.
  • Creating crawl lines.
  • Displaying on-screen information like channel number or programming information.

Text & Graphics Overlay is available with Playout SDK, DeckLink SDK, Multimedia SDK and Vision Mixer SDK.

Features

Text & Graphics Overlay features.
Text & Graphics Overlay features.

Guaranteed Performance

MediaLooks guarantees unmatched performance of this product. If you find a solution with lower processor usage, we will either tune our software or return your money.

Titling Features

  • Unlimited number of text items to mix.
  • Text font, color & background selection.
  • Alpha blending.
  • Outlined text support. Color and width of the outline can be selected.
  • Automated crawl line support.
  • Special text items for displaying current time, date, frame number, SMPTE timecode (Drop Frame / Non-Drop Frame).
  • Fade-in / fade-out.
  • Squize feature.

Image Overlay Features

  • Supported file formats: BMP, JPEG, TGA.
  • Unlimited number of images to mix.
  • Alpha blending.
  • Extended color-key support.
  • Fade-in / fade-out.

Video Features

  • HD Ready.
  • Supports and is optimized for RGB24, RGB32, YV12, YUY2, UYVY, YVYU color spaces.

Future Features

  • Support for GIF, TNG and PNG files.
  • Support for subtitle files on input.

Need a new feature? Please contact us.

Sample Applications

Downloads

Release Notes

Further Reading

See Also

Licensing

If you are interested in licensing this product please contact us.

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