[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] allow vf_drawtext to draw framenumbers

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:44:24PM +0200, Jean First wrote:
> On Sat Apr 09 2011 02:31:49 GMT+0200 (CET), Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>> * implement a special mode, in this mode you interpret %X codes in a
>>    special way, in a similar way to that of strftime(). The problem is
>>    that it would be incompatible with strftime()-sequences.
>>
>> * implement a dynamic environment accessible through the text
>>    specification, for example:
>>    "month:${month} n:${frame_number:%04d}"
>>    Overkill?
>>
>> The problem with the #f/#F system is that it is quite limited and not
>> very extensible (for example what if you want to print 5 padded digits
>> for the frame number)?
> I prefer the second idea. But I think on the shell ${month} will also be  
> replaced with environment variables.
>
> But what do you think about splitting the text and its variables  
> completely ?
> f.ex: text="Date: %s,%cFrame: %05d%cPTS: %s",textvars="%Y %n  
> frame_number %n pts"

Theres an uncountable number of ways to do this :)
i think whats important is that the stuff is simple and yet can handle
all the expected use cases.

beyond that the one implementing should probably decide

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