[vlc-devel] Marquee does not work without showing video title...

[Kaarlo Räihä]

29. maaliskuuta 2012 0.03 Peter Tap <ptrtap at yahoo.com> kirjoitti:

> Folks,
>
> There is a bug in vlc and I am trying to narrow down and understand how to
> fix it.
>
> When the following command is run, the marquee text is displayed as
> expected:
>
> vlc --sub-source="marq" --video-title-show myfile.mp4
>
> However, if video title is not shown, the marquee does not get displayed:
>
> vlc --sub-source="marq" --no-video-title-show myfile.mp4
>

I can confirm this. --no-video-title-show makes marq text vanish.


>
> Essentially, something gets triggered when the video title is shown.
>

Only thing I found that uses video-title-show is ThreadDisplayOsdTitle
function in src\video_output\video_output.c, and only part of code that
uses ThreadDisplayOsdTitle is switch case in line 1521


>
> I am wondering what could be going on. What would be a good place to
> examine this? I put beakpoints in freetypc.c. The font is indeed getting
> created. I don't understand why the text is not getting displayed.
>
> To overcome this problem, I am currently running marq as sub-source as
> well as sub-filter:
>
> vlc --sub-source="marq" --sub-filter="marq" --no-video-title-show
> myfile.mp4
>
> Although the terminal output says that marq could  be loaded as a filter,
> at least the subtitle gets displayed even when video title is not getting
> shown.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
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