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Bug 667200 - Text overlay rendering is pretty rubbish
Text overlay rendering is pretty rubbish
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-plugins-base
0.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-01-03 17:35 UTC by Ross Burton
Modified: 2012-09-14 14:42 UTC
See Also:
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Screenshot (23.74 KB, image/png)
2012-01-03 17:35 UTC, Ross Burton 		Details

Description Ross Burton 2012-01-03 17:35:38 UTC 
The rendering of text in the pango text overlay is pretty rubbish when the text is small or the glyphs are complex (this was first reported to me against CJK fonts).

For example, the sample pipeline:

$ gst-launch-0.10 -v videotestsrc ! textoverlay text="Room A" valign=top halign=left ! autovideosink

Gives the result that I'm attaching.  Clearly this isn't optimal.
Comment 1 Ross Burton 2012-01-03 17:35:55 UTC 
Created attachment 204511 [details]
Screenshot
Comment 2 Vincent Penquerc'h 2012-01-17 17:57:56 UTC 
The drop shadow is here so the text will ben seen on any background (eg, full black and full white here). AFAICS, the legibility is mostly due to the colors being very similar (white against white/yellow).
What would you suggest ?
Comment 3 Akhil Laddha 2012-02-29 08:52:53 UTC 
Ross, any suggestion ?
Comment 4 Luis de Bethencourt 2012-05-21 17:21:23 UTC 
Any suggestion or should this bug be closed?
Comment 5 Tobias Mueller 2012-09-14 14:42:33 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!