# running text display

**URL:** <https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/running-text-display/5121>\
**Category:** Archived\
**Tags:** roku-developer-program\
**Created:** [January 27, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/running-text-display/5121 "2015-01-27T16:46:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![nithyaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cdc98d/32.png) [@nithyaak](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/nithyaak)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/running-text-display/5121/1 "2015-01-27T16:46:43Z")

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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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**Author:** ![dcrandall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dcrandall](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/dcrandall)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/running-text-display/5121/2 "2015-01-27T17:56:25Z")

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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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**Author:** ![nithyaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cdc98d/32.png) [@nithyaak](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/nithyaak)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/running-text-display/5121/3 "2015-01-27T22:07:32Z")

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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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**Author:** ![TheEndless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@TheEndless](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/TheEndless)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/running-text-display/5121/4 "2015-01-27T22:34:00Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Komag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5fc32e/32.png) [@Komag](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/Komag)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/running-text-display/5121/5 "2015-01-27T23:55:22Z")

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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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**Author:** ![nithyaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cdc98d/32.png) [@nithyaak](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/nithyaak)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/running-text-display/5121/6 "2015-01-28T19:56:00Z")

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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.