This is an interesting article by O’Reilly Hacks, which provides tips on how to watch a video stream in ASCII art. From the article:
Good ASCII art can take time and talent to look just right, but you can skip through that effort with AAlib, a library devoted to converting any image into an ASCII art equivalent. Since a movie is basically a system of moving images, MPlayer has added support for AAlib as a video output option. This means that each frame in the movie is converted to an ASCII equivalent and displayed on the screen.
Software that is used to accomplish the task includes MPlayer multimedia player built with support for the ASCII art library (aalib) and the color ASCII art library (libcaca).
Watch Videos in ASCII Art by George Notaras is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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