On Tuesday 21 December 2010 16:35:24 Bart wrote: > Sure, from the top of my head there are libcaca and aalib, where aalib does > grayscale and libcaca does color. An interesting note is that iirc SDL > supports libcaca, and mplayer supports both. > (this would mean the videos themselves would be 'normal' but the output > would be ascii art).
Yeah, wonderful. The meaning of "caca" in French pretty much sums up my opinion about this and the fact that those stupid libraries are a dependency of the otherwise respectable mplayer package on many distributions. For a good user experience, things like _this_ are needed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Hz8dhQw8Q Don't bother with über-nerdy and awfully looking ASCII stuff. Of course, this is harder to achieve especially if you start with the X11 handicap... Seriously, who watches their movies in ASCII :( S. _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
