Technabob » lynx http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:30:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Computer Plays Youtube Videos With Ascii Text http://technabob.com/blog/2007/06/29/computer-plays-youtube-videos-with-ascii-text/ http://technabob.com/blog/2007/06/29/computer-plays-youtube-videos-with-ascii-text/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:27:05 +0000 Technabob http://technabob.com/blog/2007/06/29/computer-plays-youtube-videos-with-ascii-text/ This cool hack takes videos from YouTube, converts each frame to ASCII text, then plays them back in all their alphanumeric glory.

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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.

Click to View Embedded Video Clip

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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