Suggestion - use a movie that is not too large, or reduce your terminal font very small. I can watch the Two Towers trailer on my 800x600 screen with 6 pt Courier in the Terminal.
It's all pretty useless, but neat nonetheless.
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Believe it or not, you can actually view a QuickTime movie in the Terminal, in ascii form. Get the binary from Apple's Developer Pages:ASCII Movie Player. After downloading, just make sure the file is either in a directory on your path, or run it from the download directory (with a "./" in front), and type ASCIIMoviePlayer some_movie.mov.
Suggestion - use a movie that is not too large, or reduce your terminal font very small. I can watch the Two Towers trailer on my 800x600 screen with 6 pt Courier in the Terminal. It's all pretty useless, but neat nonetheless.
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G E K K E N H U I S !!!!
wow ... the most nerdish feature i know!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the koolest geek feature i have found. I LOVE IT!!!!!
So cool
Now I can watch Invader Zim in ASCII. Here's a screenshot:
This is so cool! The code is very understandable and the license allows for modifications and redistributions. I expect there to be a number of derivatives. Some to add color, a terminal controller, and all sorts of cool stuff. This is only the beginning of a very neat app. Thank you Quicktime Engineering!
Ask and ye shall receive
Color version is available here :)
So cool
Are you using Terminal.app of GLTerm? I found the later to be fastest. Also, what settings are you using? That Zim screenshot you posted looks tight!
QT 6.0.2 Required?
Does this require QuickTime 6.0.2? I haven\'t installed it yet, but I will if it is needed for this awesome new codec!
QT 6.0.2 Required?
Nope, it works fine with QT6, don't need to update to see this :)
Newbie
Well, I'm just getting started, like today, using the Project Builder, and have NO idea what I'm doing. I was able to build the .pbproj file, but i have no idea where to go from here. My terminal doesn't recognize the ASCIIMoviePlayer command, so I'm assuming i'm missing steps. Please help! Oh, and if I don't have QT Pro, does that matter?
Newbie
You don't need QT Pro
1984!
The first file I watched was the 1984 Apple commercial, fitting I think. For large (width/height) movies I had to do some serious reconfig of terminal settings.
1984!
There's no code to handle color, it simply calculates the brightness of each character based on the color values of the pixels of the movie. It doesn't try to recreate the colors. If you want a color version, have a look here.
Neato
Works with Flash files! Probably anything that QT will run this will run.
window settings
what window settings are you guys using for best results?
Problems
I tried once it worked. Just dragging the player, then the movie, then hit enter. Now it never function again, dont know why. I have [e026:~] at the start but I thought it was more something like [bin:~] before, but as I'm not very terminal guy :/ Can someone help me around here ? Spent 1 hour on this but cant figure out what to do :/
Problems
I belive you need a space between the app and the movie. Try this: [e026:~] mato% /Users/mato/ASCIIMoviePlayerSample/ASCIIMoviePlayer /Users/mato/Documents/Bronx/deux_tours_teaser.mov Everyone should watch the Balmer video in this thing, it is one of the funniest ones I have tried. Here is a Pic
Problems
Dmmit, THE SPACE !! I've tried this for 2 hours, mooved the files everywhere, never thought of the damn space !!! Hu !! <---- SPOT THE LOONY !!
Problems
I am still having a problem.
Problems
oh, cancel that.
Watch QuickTime movies in the Terminal
you said useless..... I'm saying a "new" production tool for my videos. |
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