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ASCII QuickTime Movie Player
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 ...
Well, one way to do it is to run a sound server on the remote machine, and then tell the sound server on the local machine to forward the sound to the remote server. This is just about doable.
One problem is that there are several sound servers, including esd and arts. The plan originaly was to switch to arts only. (The job of a sound server mainly is to mix multiple inputs) This would mean that gnome etc uses arts..
However, the wonderful alsa ppl included many of the features of the sound server directly into the alsa stuff, so a seperate sound server is no longer needed.
I'm hoping someone will correct me, but I think the current plan is to wait for alsa to improve, then dump arts and esd. I don't know whether alsa has any capability of remotely sending and recieving sound, I doubt it tho. This could be solved by having a sound proxy, or perhaps by making the audio output device one of those network devices, (I forget what they are called - you dump text to the device, and it appears on the remote host, to be used as an input)
I would sugggest that you look at the source code (beacause that's what it is really, code to example features) and modify the code to invert the charset, which leaves spaces where it's white, thus playing nicely, with right brightness on white terms.