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Overlay

pygame.Overlay(pixeltype, [width, height]) -> Overlay Create a new video overlay object

This creates a new Overlay object. Overlays represent a basic interface for putting YUV image data into the graphics card's video overlay planes. This is a low level object intended for use by people who know what they are doing, and have pregenerated YUV image data. The pixeltype argument must be one of the pygame constants; YV12_OVERLAY, IYUV_OVERLAY, YUV2_OVERLAY, UYVY_OVERLAY, or YVYU_OVERLAY.

display	- display the yuv data
set_location	- set overlay location

display
Overlay.display(y, u, v) -> None

Display the yuv data in SDL's overlay planes. The y, u, and v arguments represents strings of byte data.

set_location
Overlay.set_location(rectstyle) -> None

Sets location for the overlay on a screen. This does not move or redraw any currently displayed data, it only sets the position for newly

display()