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How to save mplayer's output when watching in ASCII mode (with aalib)
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I was helping out a friend working on a presentation where he wants to show some videos he has taken but converted to ASCII art. I can do that quite easily with mplayer on a Linux box using aalib (-vo aa). But that only plays the movie, transcoding it live. What I would like to do is to convert tho…
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Aalib is incredible. I think the problem is that the mplayer output is in a different window making direct piping difficult. Here are a few routes you could take: One option, is to record the entire desktop. This SE link demonstrates a way to record…
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