running text display

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Hi,
is it possible to display a running text in Roku? the one similar to the news channel at the bottom that texts runs from right to left? is it doable in roku?

Thanks

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I believe there’s a customizable video player ‘roVideoPlayer’. Your best bet, I would think, is to encode that into a video stream.

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thanks. I don’t want to encode it into the video stream. basically i want to frequently query (e.g. RSS news feed) and get the latest news feed and would like to display as a rolling text. Not quite sure how can i do that?

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“nithyaak” wrote:
thanks. I don’t want to encode it into the video stream. basically i want to frequently query (e.g. RSS news feed) and get the latest news feed and would like to display as a rolling text. Not quite sure how can i do that?
As dcrandall mentioned, you’d need to write a custom video player using roVideoPlayer and roScreen. Not a small task, if you want to support onscreen controls and trick play.

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If you want to have a video and add text to the bottom of it, that’s advanced stuff. If you’re just talking about having text on some screen that is not a video screen and there no video in sight, that’s more approachable but still fully custom and not easy work.

Maybe drawText() to a very wide but short region, then gradually offset the region to a certain portion of the screen, then rinse and repeat.

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Thanks for the responses and suggestion. I will spend some time to write the custom video player as suggested and see if i can achieve what i wanted.