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This reminds me of libcaca [1], which anyone interested in this should check out. It's integrated in various tools, including ffmpeg, mpv, and of course VLC (Sa
by jraph 2y ago
This reminds me of libcaca [1], which anyone interested in this should check out. It's integrated in various tools, including ffmpeg, mpv, and of course VLC (Sam Hocevar, who wrote libcaca, was also a key VLC contributor at its beginnings).
The biggest difference I see (apart from the used programing language) is that libcaca outputs colored ascii art.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcaca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcaca
- jgtrosh 2y agoFor uncolored (and generally simpler) ASCII art, see the older libaa
- frankjr 2y agoI was just about to say. With mpv, you can play videos as ASCII art just by doing mpv --vo=caca <file>. Just make sure your mpv is actually built with caca support (mpv --vo=help; Arch Linux's mpv is not, Fedora's is).
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- nachomg 2y agoHaha, name made me chuckle.