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ASCII QuickTime Movie Player

Posted by pudge on from the tasty-ascii-goodness dept.

EccentricAnomaly writes "Do you wish you had some more CLUI multimedia apps? Well, over at Mac OS X Hints I found this link to Apple's sample code for an ASCII QuickTime movie player. So grab some popcorn, make Terminal full screen, and watch some movie trailers the way ubergeeks were truly meant to." You can watch movies over remote login to another box, too, though the sound will come out of the host computer, not the client ...

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  1. Make the font size tiny by IRNI · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It makes the images look better. I expanded the terminal full screen, then I made the font a monotype and made it very small with the command keys to shrink the font size. Eventually I could make out butters' mom painting over his face.

  2. Why not make a 'sound pipe'? by Stonehead · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can watch movies over remote login to another box, too, though the sound will come out of the host computer, not the client..

    Can't this be fixed once and for all, by adding some sound channel to X? I'm just forgetting all the legal DRM implications for ease. Technically it's possible, just like videoconferencing in proprietary formats like Real.