Ultimate ascii geekery.
On my random surfing of nothing in particular on the interweb (while I’m supposed to be working on an essay, as usual), I found the following options for mplayer:
mplayer -vo aa <filename.avi>
This doesn’t describe very well the effect of these options. It’s the ultimate in ascii geekery. It opens the movie file, and plays it in black and white ascii. For those that don’t know, that’s just numbers, letters, symbols and so forth. Screenshot:
That’s a guy sitting on a desk, giving a lecture. No, really it is.
Update: mgdm in #ubuntu-uk alerted me to the colour version, mplayer -vo caca <filename.avi>:
Why you’d want to watch in colour is beyond my meagre comprehension.
