[FFmpeg-user] Alternative to Dynamic Text

[LianCheng Tan]

Thank you Michael.

For subtitles, what if the content of .srt or .ass file is being updated at every second. Will ffmpeg crash because the file is being ‘locked’ by another process that is updating it?



> On 2 Nov 2021, at 3:09 AM, Michael Koch <astroelectronic at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 01.11.2021 um 19:58 schrieb Michael Koch:
>>> Am 01.11.2021 um 16:21 schrieb LianCheng Tan:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Beside using textfile (reload=1) in drawtext for dynamic text, is there any other method to add dynamic texts onto the video stream?
>> 
>> You could use subtitles. It's described in the wiki:
>> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/WikiStart
>> 
>> There are also some examples for subtitles in my book, see chapters 2.176 and 1.177:
>> http://www.astro-electronic.de/FFmpeg_Book.pdf
> 
> sorry for the typo, I did mean 2.176 and 2.177
> 
> Michael
> 
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