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Hello,

I am looking for some help to print some text on the video with new lines.
I saw in doc that we can use some varaibles like $a to print artiste name etc....and $_ new line.
Can anybody show me an example how to use $a or $_ with the filter marq (--marq-marquee).

Thank a lot .

Dorian

First, you need a development version of VLC (get a nightly on http://nightlies.videolan.org).

Once that's done, I suggest that you look at the examples on http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/marq .

If you're running Linux (or any Unix ... Mac OS X included), make sure that you using single quotes around the --marq-marquee option's value. Else the $variables will be interpreted by the Shell before VLC gets called (so you'd need to escape the $ signs).

Tell me if you need more help,

thanks for your support.

But I tested many version a nighlies vlc, marq filter with $_ works fine but I have another problem : it's that command :marq-marquee doesn't work with RC command console in 0.9.0.
But you were right, $variable work with vlc 0.9.0 so I have to waiting for new VLC version 0.9.0 and get marq-marquee command ok to change dynamically the text.

For information I would like to get a dynamic osd, so I use osdmenu to get a background picture , and I am using marq (text) to print informations.

Thanks again.

The RC interface callbacks changed in 0.9.0.
Here's how it now works:
If your version is older than last week end: it doesn't work.
If your version is newer: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/19424
When i get to commit modifications on my computer: @instancename command args (but you don't need to understand that now ... since it's not available yet)

great I am going to test it and take you aware.
Thanks a lot.

ok it seemes to work, but I could not play some video files.
I doesn't appear, I tried a ;mpg and dvdrip (.avi) but no picture are showed and the current time goes fast.

Nightlies (for windows) are a bit broken ATM i believe ... that might be your issue

that for sure .......... RIP windows

I passed to put some text on a mosaic with the new version 0.9
but i can't save in a file ... with 0.8.6 it save the file but with no text

"c:\program files\videolan\vlc_0.8.6\vlc.exe" --sub-filter "marq{marquee=Camera 1,x=25,y=0}:marq{marquee=Camera 3,x=25,y=160}:marq{marquee=Camera 2,x=185,y=0}:marq{marquee=Camera 4,x=185,y=160}" "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\vlc_0.8.6\mosaic_4_fichier_mp4v_256kb_res150x150.mpeg" :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=256,scale=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst="test.mpeg"}}

this command on the version 0.8.6 save the file but don"t display marquee
and on the version 0.9 it crash vlc ....
the syntax changed or it's not yet implemented ?

thanx
Arcturus

Sorry for jumping into this thread, but this seems to be related to something I'm having trouble with...

I have a VLM script that starts off several streams and builds a mosaic amoung other things... The problem is it appears that the "Marque" filter isn't available in the V0.8.6b release... I have been able to got it to display VLC in the upper left screen and the default format for the "Time" filter to appear in the lower left. by adding sfilter=marq or sfilter=time to the #transcode part of the output setup...

I would like to stick with VLM to avoid starting multiple copies of vlc to setup the marquee via command line. I dropped a copy of the nightly build of the windows port of VLC (vlc-0.9.0-svn-20070614-0839-win32), since other messages say that VLM in v0.9.0 will supply the new and improved Marquee filter...

I must be missing sometime be cause I can't get it to do any better than I had V0.8.6b do...

Below is a code what I finally got to load and give some indication that the Marquee filter was there... If the "sfilter..." isn't in the #transcode... I don't get any indcation the filter is active. And I get the same VLC in the Upper Left with or without the options line...

I tried to move the Marquee setting in the options line to the #transcode line but that makes VLC abort...

I got the filter to run from command line fine but it took some playing with quotes, double quotes, back slashs and upper and lower code to make it finally work... Please... I really could use some advice here...

Thanks in advance

Rob Leeson

I'm having the same problem so i'll blow some new life in this thread