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I found this, it may help and has c code for the lzw too.

http://marknelson.us/1989/10/01/lzw-data-compression/

Frank

(Closed eyes) Just so you will know, This would be used for more then just a simple OSD. The OSD is a way to explain something close to what I want to do without telling the world exactly what I am really going to do.

I did not ask how to overlay two windows or overlay a transparent window on top ...

say I want to desplay the current time at the bottom left of the movie. the way that I can get it to work does not erase the time desplayed before and just writes on top of it. it does write on top of the movie, but after you write the time more then once, you can not read it.

I was thinking of ...

I have been reading the forums, searching, ... and can not find anything that seems to work.

What I want to do is play a MPG or AVI file and display text or other 2d items on the image that changes as the movie plays.

I want to create a OSD (On Screen Display) that overlays the movie.

in the ...