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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. Funnies in the source code by aster_ken · · Score: 5, Funny

    Read the source code to get the "Top X Tips for better ASCII QuickTime Movie Viewing". I particularly like number nine.

    1. Re:Funnies in the source code by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      /* Top X Tips for better ASCII QuickTime Movie Viewing
      10) Grow your terminal to fit the Movie
      9) Ask marketing folks if you can incorporate this code into your
      latest QuickTime product and see if they think you're serious
      8) Set your terminal to White on Black for optimal look
      7) Download your favorite movie trailer
      6) While you're at it, download some Graphics Importer sample code (why not?)
      5) Jedi mind trick your manager "...you want to send me to WWDC"
      4) Order the pizza.
      4) Dim the lights and turn up the audio
      2) Turn off terminal transparancy for fastest performance
      1) Usage [smelltheglove:/Volumes/Spock] moof% ASCIIMoviePlayer sillymovie.mov
      */

  2. Also doable with mplayer by palfrey · · Score: 5, Informative

    mplayer has had ascii output for quite a while (as long as I've known about mplayer. And as announced here mplayer just announced support for sorenson V3, so you can play quicktime (and practically every other video format under the sun...). Quite happy running on OS X (as well as most *nix'es)

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    Beware the psychokinetic mimes!
  3. sourceforge project by hayne · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a sourceforge project dedicated to improving this ASCII movie player:
    http://quickascii.sourceforge.net/
    Main differences so far seem to be command-line options.