Package: ffmpeg Version: 7:6.1-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The FFmpeg binaries (i.e. ffplay and ffmpeg) no longer provides the drawtext filter, useful for embedding text (such as subtitles and time codes) into a video. Here's a simple test command using a legally available video. $ ffplay -i https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/videos/escape-to-freedom/videos/escape-to-freedom-720p.webm -vf "drawtext=x=20:y=20:fontsize=24:fontcolor=gold:text='%{localtime \: %T %Z%n(%F)}'" The relevant portion of stderr from this command is this: [AVFilterGraph @ 0x7f6ae4003e40] No such filter: 'drawtext' [AVFilterGraph @ 0x7f6ae4003e40] Error processing filtergraph: Filter not found A shallow search for a similar bug turns up the following link from the ArchLinux bug tracker ("drawtext filter not available", dated "Wednesday, 22 November 2023, 15:17 GMT"): https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/80327 The recommended solution is to recompile FFmpeg with the "--enable-libharfbuzz" option. There is a libharfbuzz-dev package in Debian, so this should not be a problem (assuming the ArchLinux bug report is correct). -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Versions of packages ffmpeg depends on: ii libavcodec60 7:6.1-3 ii libavdevice60 7:6.1-3 ii libavfilter9 7:6.1-3 ii libavformat60 7:6.1-3 ii libavutil58 7:6.1-3 ii libc6 2.37-12 ii libpostproc57 7:6.1-3 ii libsdl2-2.0-0 2.28.5+dfsg-2 ii libswresample4 7:6.1-3 ii libswscale7 7:6.1-3
