Watching a movie in ASCII Art
 

Hi Forum

What do i have to make to be able to watch a movie in a TTY...? :D

Yeah... that's right, there is this library called AAlib, and there is a slackbuild for it, form osuosl http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware_source/l/aalib/, but besides of this I do not know how it is done... :)

Can someone tell me how...?

BRGDS

Alex

Not at my Linux box right now, but do mplayer -vo aa or mplayer -vo caca work? How about aaxine?

If you have a working framebuffer and your version of mplayer has fbdev/fbdev2 output available, you can watch the movie normally, that is, as a regular graphic moving picture. No need for X. It definitely works with vesafb, uvesafb, and if you are using a kernel with KMS and intel graphics, the built-in inteldrmfb driver. For the last you'll need a fairly recent kernel, something since about the first release version of 2.6.32 IIRC.

Hi Alexvader,

I have only really run this from within X where it runs well enough with vlc and MPlayer. A couple of screenshots from vlc attached...

Andrew

I gotta admit, that's kinda neat looking, but who the heck puts in the time to make these things!? :D It must take a lot of *something* to make a (short?) movie out of ASCII art.

EDIT: Wait now, did I misunderstand this? Does this play "normal" movies, but through like an ASCII-art interpreter (like a filter)?? That's cool :cool: lol.

Thee aalib output of mplayer has been broken for some time (since 12.1, maybe) -- there were some command line parameters which could fix it, but I don't remember. Caca has color support but personally I find aalib's rendering(!) better.

Hi Ilgar,

Typically you could use something like:

All the considerable number of options can be seen by running:

Andrew

Thanks Andrew, yes, that was it -- the monitorpixelaspect option.

hehe, you were thinking of stuff like "Star Wars in ASCIIMATION" weren't you. :)

Heh, I really don't konw what I was thinking, nor what to make of the StarWars episode :p but it's kinda funny!

Hi


In Japan there is a very strong tradition in Ascii art :)

BRGDS

Alex

Hi

One can also use aaxine...
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it is AWESOME :) You should see "The Last Samurai" on a framebuffer of 1280x800 in tty... :D

The final Battle looks really epic !!

BRGDS

Alex