Re: ffmpeg6 drawtext option question

[Michael Lowery Wilson <michael.l.wilson%utu.fi@localhost>]

Hello,

Thank you very much for the heads up on this. I will go ahead and recompile.

In the meantime I read around a bit and found a work around by using ffmpeg 
instead of ffmpeg6. The necessary features for what I needed are apparently 
compiled in by default so it just works out of the box.

On 28/05/24 at 08:40P, RVP wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2024, Michael Lowery Wilson wrote:
>
> > However, I get the below result instead:
> >
> > [AVFilterGraph @ 0x7eb5fb57f580] No such filter: 'drawtext'
> > [vost#0:0/libx264 @ 0x7eb5fb53a500] Error initializing a simple filtergraph
> > Error opening output file timestamped-recording.mp4.
>
> That error message is correct; there's no `drawtext' filter compiled in:
>
> $ ffmpeg6 -filters 2>&1 | fgrep drawtext
> $
>
> > Which points toward an issue with the drawtext filter. I have 
> > checked and my version of ffmpeg6 is compiled with the 
> > --enable-libfreetype flag by default, which is required for the 
> > drawtext filter:
> >
> > https://ayosec.github.io/ffmpeg-filters-docs/3.3.9/Filters/Video/drawtext.html
>
> According to the current docs. you also need `--enable-libharfbuzz' now:
>
> https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#drawtext-1
>
> Can you recompile with libharfbuzz added, then tell the pkgsrc folks if that
> works?
>
> -RVP

Michael