How to overlay image on video with desktop application

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Hello guys,
I trying to develop a desktop application which can do merge image & video like youtube now a days display banners in videos.
i am newbie in this type of apps so i don't have any idea how can i do this..any API available in any language ?
please help me or guide me what should i do ?

Posted 8-Feb-11 19:17pm

jymitra

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-02-08T19:31:00

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This is a big problem with GDI. There is a special Overlay Manager. I prefer different way, not using GDI, but pure DirectX development or, better yet, WPF (based on DirectX). With DirectX such problem does not exist. I personally tried it with WPF — all goes smoothly, no single problem at all.

—SA

Posted 8-Feb-11 19:31pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 8-Feb-11 19:33pm

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jymitra 9-Feb-11 5:27am

thank you so much

jymitra 9-Feb-11 5:32am

but what exaclty i have to do i mean directx development and WPF completly new to me and with WPF i can use C# but what is part of directx ? i hope you can understand .how to start? i dont know ?please help me

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Feb-11 16:21pm

I work with WPF in C# only, how about you?
It's actually easier than any other way I knew but very different. The minimal video sample is easy to find. Then, do a simple experiment -- modify it: add some graphic on top of video. You will see it will render smoothly, no special care needed. That was the first test I did when I tried video in WPF. The sample was few lines of code. However, a lot of WPF need learning, and graphics performance is much better. My estimate is: one faster learns WPF (you won't need it all, only a small part) the overcoming all crasy problems with overlays with video (and the result in hard to support, non-portable).
--SA