ASCII Video Rendering

October 3, 2008 5:32 pm Tom Oh So Random, Tech and Security

So, we’ve been developing a slick cross-platform media framework to standardize or products on (proprietry, of course), and I couldn’t resist building an ASCII text renderer. It was surprisingly easy using our SDK and a free library called libcaca… seriously, that’s it’s name. It looks okay small, but of course it breaks down as you scale up. Anyways, now we can watch video using xterm via ssh… use case? Who cares!… it’s ASCII video :-)

Pelco Reference Renderer - Small Pelco ASCII Renderer - Small

Okay, now the large size (video source: D1 MPEG-4 30 fps):

Pelco Reference Renderer

Pelco ASCII Renderer

One Response

  1. software development london Says:
    October 16th, 2009 at 8:05 am

    Thta was an inspiring post,

    thanks for providing the info on libcaca but can you watch the video in full screen

    Thanks for writing, most people don’t bother.

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