So, an aalib/libcaca, but vibe-coded?
Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine
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Re: Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine
#12This would be nice as a video-conferencing tool. All your nerdy friends in a tmux window.
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#13Why the heck you want put video into a html canvas as text?
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#14This would be nice as a video-conferencing tool. All your nerdy friends in a tmux window.
Im working on this and posted here but nobody cared or it got removed.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "practical" use case is to allow auto playing of videos for those users who disable it, from the "Strategic Vision & Core Capabilities" section: > Bypassing Browser Constraints: Modern browsers aggressively throttle autoplay videos, and ad-blockers restrict traditional media frames. To the browser, ASCILINE is simply "JavaScript updating a canvas"—completely invisible to media restrictions.
While this is presented as a way to evade ad blockers, using it to serve ads is explicily prohibited in the license: The permission granted by this license explicitly EXCLUDES the right to use this software, in whole or in part, for the purpose of serving, delivering, or displaying digital advertisements, sponsored content, or any form of commercial marketing to end-users. Any such use immediately terminates this lic…
All this means in practice is that anyone who wants to use it for ads needs to get in touch with the devs and negotiate another set of licensing terms and an amount...
Re: Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine
#16I feel like this is only technically ASCII rendering. As far as I can tell, it's always the same chars that are rendered, and only colouring tags change. That seems to optimise for usability/complexity ratio, while completely throwing coolness under the bus. But this is a ASCII video generator, I would've thought coolness was the point? I can't imagine a practical usecase for it...
There's this one guy doing crazy stuff with ASCII rendering, I can't remember his name/handle/project though :(
Re: Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine
#17I feel like this is only technically ASCII rendering. As far as I can tell, it's always the same chars that are rendered, and only colouring tags change. That seems to optimise for usability/complexity ratio, while completely throwing coolness under the bus. But this is a ASCII video generator, I would've thought coolness was the point? I can't imagine a practical usecase for it...
There's this one guy doing crazy stuff with ASCII rendering, I can't remember his name/handle/project though :(
Peter Brittain? https://asciinema.org/~peterbrittain
Re: Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine
#18Why the heck you want put video into a html canvas as text?
Yeah, asking the same question.
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#19What's the deal with all these projects spiking thousands of stars in a few days? I find it hard to believe people are just flocking to random obscure niche projects and starring them instead of just... vibe coding their own projects.
Re: Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine
#20It's unclear to me why I'd want to use this over libcaca or similar? The demoscene has made really excellent ASCII rendering for decades, and this seems like it has less options and less understandable output.
If this is just a fun personal project "just because" then cool! That's awesome! But for actual use cases I'd much rather use libcaca.