Matt,
 

>again a pretty basic question:
>How do I place a text field with a given size at a given position in my 
>output? Best would be in mlt-xml.


A simple way to learn how to form XML is to use melt with the XML consumer.

For example, run:
    melt color:red -attach dynamictext:hello geometry="50%/50%:100%x100%:100"
And you will see a red frame with the text "hello" in it. That's becasuse the 
SDL consumer is the default for melt.

If you want to see what XML would produce that, run:
    melt color:red -attach dynamictext:hello geometry="50%/50%:100%x100%:100" 
-consumer xml:output.mlt
Adding the xml consumer will cause melt to dump the xml to file. Then, you can 
open the file to see how the properties were formed.

To prove the xml is the correct input for MLT, just run:
    melt output.mlt
and you will see the red frame with text again.

Also, it is important to understand how the geometry property works. The format 
is:
     X,Y:WxH[:mix]
where X, Y, W, H are assumed to pixel units unless they have the suffix '%',


~Brian


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