[ILUG-Cochin.org] Graphics in console

[Mahesh Aravind]

Jos,

--- On Fri, 20/3/09, Jos Collin <joscollin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I'm able to view it using caca libraries. The following
> is the command.
> $cacaview abc.jpg
> 
> It is working but the image is not displayed properly.
> Please see the attachment.
> 
> 
> Also I have tried to play movies in the console using the
> following command.
> $mplayer -vo caca abc.flv
> 
> This also has the same problem. Is there anything I have to
> configure in caca to display the image properly?
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 

To the best of my knowledge, caca library uses 'aalib'. It is programmed to display images and video frames using ascii characters. '-vo aa' is black and white, and '-vo caca' is colour ascii chars, I guess.

To see 'real' movie in console, try enabling FrameBuffer. Then you can use the SDL lib or even fbdev to view movies or pics. I forgot, but there's some python command line utility to view images in console


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