computer plays youtube videos with ascii text
filed under: computing | hacks-mods | home entertainment | just plain fun
posted: June 29th, 2007 2 comments by technabob
This cool hack takes videos from YouTube, converts each frame to ASCII text, then plays them back in all their alphanumeric glory.
Warren Harding (Linux geek, not the 29th President) put together a script which uses the text-based Lynx web browser along with Mplayer to to render the video.
Unless you’re a real Linux geek, you’ll need to jump to about 4 minutes into the video clip to get to the good stuff.
[via Hacked Gadgets via TechEBlog]
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1. Tom Anderson | January 6th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Anyone have the actual script? As I would like to automatically try this!
Tom Anderson
2. Thewaterofthepool | February 12th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
wooow haha that’s cool
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