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I’m not sure what this is describing - is it a thing that allows hires video to play on lowres displays?
by wayanon 6y ago
I’m not sure what this is describing - is it a thing that allows hires video to play on lowres displays?
- joshklein 6y agoYou are observing the video of the crab playing over an SSH connection inside PuTTY, a terminal emulator.
- daniel_iversen 6y agoI "think" it's a program that plays video (incl hi-res) on the terminal using pure text without using GPU decoding at all.
- chrisco255 6y agoHow much more space efficient is a pixelated video using pure text like this?
- bawolff 6y agoRelative to using a real codec at the same resolution? Not at all. That's not the point.
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoIsn’t the resolution greatly reduced? A low resolution text stream gzipped may turn out to be smaller I think.
- bawolff 6y agoSure, but then your comparing apples and oranges. If you take a 4k stream and turn it into 80x25 resolution (ok, its not exactly that) its of course going to be smaller. But if you compare the same resolution, the one using a video codec is going to be smaller. Even uncompressed its going to be smaller in a raw video format compared to text based escape codes (although i dont know what gzip would do compared to uncompressed video)
- e_proxus 6y agoProbably larger if you compare to full ASCII frames, but you could probably apply the same compression techniques used on video frames to the ASCII format as well. It’s just a grid of “pixels” after all.
- solotronics 6y agoThere is a lot of really funny analysis of the state of... computer science things in his description.