blinkentools is a set of commandline utilities related to Blinkenlights. It includes b2b, a converter for blinkenmovies that can apply some simple effects, b2mng, which creates MNG animations from blinkenmovies, and bsend, which sends movies over the net using the Blinkenlights network protocol.
| Tags | Artistic Software |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Changes: This release enhances the blinkenproxy tool to allow hierarchical proxy setups. It adds more features to b2b and comes with the new tool b2image. b2image renders still frames from Blinkenlights Movies. The b2avi script then feeds these into mencoder to generate AVI files.


Changes: This version adds a theme mode for b2mng. Users can now create MNG animations from Blinkenlights movies using the same theme files that Blinkensim uses.


Changes: Some command-line options have been changed, and a couple of new ones have appeared. To document these changes, man-pages have been added for most tools.


Changes: This release adds support for the Win32 platform.


Changes: This release introduces bplay, a text console movie player based on blib-aa.