GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 748457
textoverlay: Make the shade of shaded backround configurable
Last modified: 2015-04-26 14:16:41 UTC
The property documented here (could not find as detailed docs for 1.0): http://www.freedesktop.org/software/gstreamer-sdk/data/docs/latest/gst-plugins-base-plugins-0.10/gst-plugins-base-plugins-textoverlay.html#GstTextOverlay--shaded-background is a boolean. It would be nice if it accepted a parameter (say an integer from 0 - no background to 100 - full black) that would set shade of the background. Main use case would be setting it to 100 to make the background completely black as it makes the subtitles best readable. (this was actually first requested here for the needs of an application aimed at subtitle creating where one is very much interested in the good readability of the subtitles https://gna.org/bugs/?23502) I think this could be backwards compatible, right?
Please note that the 'GStreamer SDK' and gstreamer.com are not related to the GStreamer project but completely outdated forks third parties. In GStreamer 1.x the functionality you ask for has been implemented already, if I understood your request correctly. $ gst-inspect-1.0 textoverlay shaded-background : Whether to shade the background under the text area flags: readable, writable Boolean. Default: false shading-value : Shading value to apply if shaded-background is true flags: readable, writable Unsigned Integer. Range: 1 - 255 Default: 80
Ah, thanks for the info and sorry for the noise, this is actually almost ungoogleable:-).