aalib: one of the geekiest libraries

[sanctus]

To those who have linux and mplayer, if you are lucky and have aalib already installed try from the console

mplayer -vo aa  your.movie

Otherwise install the library and try it it is really worth it! Not to spoil the surprise I don't say what you see (but maybe there is no surpirse and everybody knows it already)...

[alexander]

sanctus, actually you need to install libcaca.... it's even geekier, its colored ascii :P

i used to watch all kinds of shows in aa and caca, they are fun

[sanctus]

Alex now you spoiled the surprise to the ones who didn't know what they would get..

I tried -vo caca but it is less fun, because already too advanced (but I admit it is still impressing).

But you really watched 2h movies like this? Die you sit far away from the screen to recognize everything?

[alexander]

I watched most South Park episodes like this, as well as seasons 4 and 5 of Family guy as well as the whole Samurai Champloo series. These libs are good for high contrast animated movies (cartoons), it does not work as well on the actual movies. I gotta compile it for OS X.... i wonder if there is a VLC plug-in for it

[sanctus]

It works also for real movies as long as you sit far enough from the screen ;-)

[alexander]

I know, i like watching animated movies with it more though...