Author: Philip Rinn Description: Get textoverlay working with gstreamermm 0.10.11 --- a/src/vp/gstplayer.cc +++ b/src/vp/gstplayer.cc @@ -656,7 +656,10 @@ "Please check your GStreamer installation."), "ffmpegcolorspace")); } // textoverlay - textoverlay = Gst::ElementFactory::create_element("textoverlay", "overlay"); + // Workaround to prevent getting a NULL pointer from the + // cast_dynamic(textoverlay) call under gstreamermm 0.10.11 + textoverlay = Gst::TextOverlay::create("overlay"); + if(!textoverlay) { throw std::runtime_error(