Re: [Motion-user] Timestamp size on movie file

[Colin L. <cl...@gm...>]

Hmm, I have found the code (in draw.c and motion.c) but I see it is
not as simple as I had hoped. More thought is required I think.

Colin

On 2 June 2017 at 15:59, Colin Law <cl...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Joerg and Rich
>
> Thanks, I have already done that but it is not enough. the problem is
> that the resolution is 1920x1080 but when I flick through the motion
> clips to check for interesting action (I am using it for wildlife
> recording and I gets lots of false events due to moths and so on) I
> have it shrunk down to 768x432 so the whole image can be taken in
> without the eye having to wander over the whole image. The result is
> that the timestamp text is not much over a millimetre tall and very
> difficult to read.  Ideally I would like another factor of about 4 in
> size. Even better would be able to set the height in pixels, or a
> scaling factor of some sort.
>
> Colin
>
> On 2 June 2017 at 15:06, Joerg Weber <mo...@al...> wrote:
>> Hi Colin,
>>
>> you can enable text_double and see if that's large enough.
>> We'll probably need another escalation (doubledouble?) with 4K in a while...
>>
>>
>> Brgds Joerg.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. Juni 2017 15:55 Uhr, "Colin Law" <cl...@gm...> schrieb:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am using Motion 4.0.1 from trunk very successfully (many thanks to
>>> the developers for their hard work) but I have a resolution of
>>> 1920x1080 and the timestamp overlay size is too small for comfort.
>>> Their doesn't seem to be a configuration parameter to specify a size
>>> so have been trying to work out where in the code this is set. I am
>>> struggling to find it and would be very grateful if anyone can point
>>> me in the right direction.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
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