WEEE!!! Color ANSCII Video!

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neverborn · Post by **neverborn** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:39 am

ok, this is so geeky, pointless and cool i just HAD to share it! You've all been amazed by ANSCII video in "aaxine". This is the exact same thing only in color! I was poking around and found the library that was designed exactly for this aplication, its called libcaca

and its in portage, so run:

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emerge libcaca

This will have you set up with the library as well as some amusing things such as "cacafire" similar to "aafire" only with color![/color!!!]
Now i poked around even more to try to find out how to play video using this library. I went to the homepage for libcaca: http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/ and i found where it said:

The libcaca patch for the VLC media player was already applied upstream

So...

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emerge vlc

Then to play video just do a...

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vlc --vout caca /path/to/video/file

stateq2 · Post by **stateq2** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:36 am

nice! i always wanted to see color acsii video....emerging now

tomk · Post by **tomk** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 4:06 pm

You have to have aalib in your USE flags and use version 0.7.1 or greater of vlc for it to work. This version is currently keywords masked, so do this:

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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" USE="aalib" emerge vlc

Just replace x86 with your arch.

Angrybob · Post by **Angrybob** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 4:52 pm

does it support cut and paste for making screenshots

?

Moofed · Post by **Moofed** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:46 am

This was just added to libsdl-1.2.7-r1 so now we can play things like frozen-bubble, pydance and advmame in a console! Just

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USE="libcaca" emerge =libsdl-1.2.7-r1
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=caca

and go to town!