Video overlay is one of our most requested features among ArduSub and BlueRov2 users, and it’s been the topic of many discussions here in the past. I’m happy to leak that the first support for this feature has recently been merged into the QGroundControl development branch (not stable). The support…

New test !! If i record in MP4 and read with VLC , overlay are here !! Thanks

Can I ask if you have had any stability problems with the daily build program?

Hi. I have tryed to download daily QGC and VLC. I save the videos in mp4, but i still not got any overlay??? Check my version of QGC and VLC video files in the picture. Thanks for all help! [Picture of Qgroundcontroll version] [Screen picture of VLC video file]

@Bluerobot Do you see a subtitles (.ass) file in the folder with the video?

Is this still a feature of the daily builds? I have the daily build running, and get a .ass file generated, however, it does not seem to be recording telemetry. Only time and date are recorded in the .ass (and shown in the video on VLC). Battery,GPS,pitch, roll data are displayed in the widget, but …

Hey, it’s definitely a valuable feature, thanks for the efforts! I managed to see the the subtitles in VLC and BS.player but they are not stable, disappearing and re-appearing in a changing interval. Any clue how to solve this? Thanks.

Might be processor load on topside computer. Have had that effect when the processor chokes.

Hi Bo, thanks for your answer. I don’t think that computer resource is the issue as I checked it and restarted the computer just to verify. It has the exact same subtitles blinking, seems like it might be in the actual data, although this is somewhat of a guess.

Hi @odedezra , Try burning them to the video using Handbrake .

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