Watermark your video

Have you ever wanted to [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_watermarking"]watermark[/ame] your video with your name or company or whatever? I mean like how YouTube stamps its logo an all videos, it is easy that I thought. I have been working on it for a good one hour and guess what it works and its not rocket science, even I can do it.



Platform: the tools used

• platform: Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)
• media player: mplayer
• image editor: gimp
• watermarking tool: ffmpeg using the vhook library

NOTE: The default ffmpeg on the Ubuntu repository does not have vhook enabled. You may have get the source code and compile it with vhook enabled.

FULL HOWTO: Watermark your video