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in thread How to generate video in Perl

More specifically, I'm looking for something like SDL, where you can add objects and render them on a surface. I've searched for "generating video", "video generation", "video generator", but the social networking craze clogged out anything that might be of use, and most of CPAN's video modules are poorly documented.

OpenGL might be of use, but I'm not quite sure whether I need 3D capabilities just to write some text to a screen and render it.

If All Else Fails, there might be a C/C++ library that I could use.

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Re^3: How to generate video in Perl
by shotgunefx (Parson) on Sep 04, 2007 at 11:26 UTC
    I've been playing with SDL for awhile, but have not had much luck with video surfaces. Only thing I've been able to accomplish is a seg fault.

    I have a feeling that if you are trying to overlay or watermark video, your going to have an easier time using an off the shelf OSS solution.

    Here's one that looks promising, it actually does use SDL and V4L. I'll have to check it out myself.

    http://effectv.sourceforge.net/

    -Lee
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