Using Marquee to Display the Current Time-Elapsed

[frenchmonkey]

Hi,

I'm using VLC 0.96 on OSX and am trying to display the current elapsed time in the center, bottom of the movie window when I play back my videos locally. This time should be permanently displayed throughout the course of the movie.

From the research that I have done, I believe that this should be done using the marquee OSD.

In advanced preferences I have enabled OSD, and the marquee subpictures filter module.

My first test I guess would be to see if VLC will simply display the default text 'VLC' in the center of the movie, but after saving and re-starting I don't see any text displayed anywhere on the screen.

I think I can then use the format string $T in place of the 'VLC' text to then display the elapsed time, but until I can at least display a simple text message on the screen I'm a bit stuck.

Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!

P.

[frenchmonkey]

Just solved this by an hour of experimentation - apparently you need to adjust the font size form 0 to 15 or so, so that the display will actually appear.. odd.

[csync]

hello - I am also trying to do this but using the VLC plugin through its gui doesn't seem to work. is this functionality currently working in VLC 1.1.12 (using OSX 10.7.2)? if not, is there a way to do this through the command line? the suggestions in the manual don't seem to work.

thanks,
csync