Re: Is this possible ?

Mike Kobb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical
Message-ID <BCF79B71.18433%[email protected]>
You can definitely overlay.  I think you can do what you're proposing as far
as a second app, also.

> --- Mike Kobb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You can absolutely do overlay of graphics onto a video stream.
>> Notice that
>> in the Photo app, when playing LiveArt, transport icons appear and so
>> on.
>> 
>> In fact, you can't even really display video without painting 100%
>> alpha
>> into the graphics layer.  If you want an overlay, just paint some
>> non-alpha
>> graphics.
> 
> Can I do reverse of what you are saying ? I want to stream some video
> to hd1000 and overlay the bottom or top portion with text, ie a ticker.
> 
> I just did a test and I able to record live tv and stream it to the
> hd1000 and play it MpegPSPlay. So my next question is can I have a
> second application also running and writing the text overlay ? I would
> like to avoid having to modify MpegPSPlay to do the overlay...actually
> I do not even have the source for the version I am using.
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