From af4372560a0316300a8a10aacb3152394a706714 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Piero Bugoni Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:36:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] small updates taken from a patch by Piero Bugoni, crboca32 yahoo com Originally committed as revision 8241 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk --- doc/hooks.texi | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/hooks.texi b/doc/hooks.texi index 15013547ca..20e8d33c2b 100644 --- a/doc/hooks.texi +++ b/doc/hooks.texi @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Modules are loaded using the -vhook option to ffmpeg. The value of this paramete is a space separated list of arguments. The first is the module name, and the rest are passed as arguments to the Configure function of the module. +The modules are dynamic libraries: They have different suffixes (.so, .dll, .dylib) +depending on your platform. And your platform dictates if they need to be +somewhere in your PATH, or in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Otherwise you will need to +specify the full path of the vhook file that you are using. + @section null.c This does nothing. Actually it converts the input image to RGB24 and then converts @@ -46,6 +51,10 @@ supports a fixed overlay or reading the text from a file. The string is passed through strftime so that it is easy to imprint the date and time onto the image. +This module depends on the external library imlib2, available on +Sourceforge, among other places, if it is not already installed on +your system. + You may also overlay an image (even semi-transparent) like TV stations do. You may move either the text or the image around your video to create scrolling credits, for example.