[geeks] Re: overlaying text onto video

[Dave Fischer]

mrbill at mrbill.net writes:

>I need to overlay a copyright notice on some video footage of a yet-to-be-
>released film.  I can get the film into any format desired (right now its 
>MPEG-1 ripped from VCD, ripped from VHS), but I can do raw AVI, MPEG-2, 
>Quicktime, etc).

This isn't a sane approach, but I'd use mpeg_play to split it into
one jpg file per frame, then add the text with ghostscript, and use
ppmtompeg to stuff it back into an mpeg.

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