Adding text and graphics to a streaming video - can Windows Mediaplayer do this ?

Hello everybody,

I am capturing a live video stream off-air & encoding it to broadcast
over the Internet (or to mobile devices) and need to overlay graphics
or text upon the video stream. Does Windows Media Encoder allow me to
do this ?

If so, how do I get started ? In particular, it would be good if there
were some interface (API) which can be used to control the graphics &
text being added to the video so as to automate the service.

I'm afraid I don't even know where to start looking for this - any
pointers much much appreciated.

Thank you so much,

Heather.

 

There's a plugin for WME called instream inscriber which should do
this : http://www.broadcast.harris.com/inscriber/instream/

There are details on using plugins in the encoder SDK or the windows
media format SDK documentation, though it doesn't specifically cover
that plugin :

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa390034.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa392162.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa391542.aspx

The code samples in the downloaded WME SDK are available in C#, C++
and VB. You can grab that from here and search for "Adding Watermarks"
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f5-d62b-4303-bb22-f0c0861be25b&displaylang=en

HTH
Cheers - Neil