hasciicam
Hasciicam makes it possible to have live ASCII video on the Web. It captures video from a TV card and renders it into ASCII, formatting the output into an HTML page with a refresh tag or in a live ASCII window or in a simple text file as well, giving anyone that has a bttv card, a Linux box, and a cheap modem line the ability to show a live asciivideo feed that can be browsable without any need for a plugin, Java, etc.
| Tags | Communications Conferencing Games/Entertainment Internet Web multimedia Video Display Text Processing Artistic Software |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 25 Jul 2006 09:37
Changes: More Webcams are supported (grabbing YUV420P).
- 25 Jul 2003 11:20
Changes: An important fix to grab code is included, resulting in support for most of the 2.4 Linux kernel drivers: grayscale is now taken from YUV422 luminance instead of RGB sampling, which should also improve performance on slower machines. The FTP code has been reimplemented with ftplib, and passive mode connection is supported to stream from behind firewalls. The code has been cleaned up a bit and aalib options directly exposed from the command line.
- 16 Jul 2001 19:22
Changes: Better software greyscale downsampling code, fixes in jpegdump and FTP code, contributed support for SGI Irix, and code cleanups.
- 27 Apr 2001 00:28
Changes: Documentation update and a new manual page, cleaned code, capabilities detection fixed and a nicer exit which catches the signals and frees all buffers.
- 08 Mar 2001 16:27
Changes: This release adds better support for USB cams and a fix for the ioctl VIDIOCGCHAN problem.
- All comments
Recent commentsApache Module
How about making an apache module that converts all
images to ASCII art for viweing in lynx, etc... ?
This would be a very cool module indeed. It could be
configured to only server up the ASCI art to browsers that
could use it (or in the ALT tage text).
subject? prcd..
hey jaromil ti serve un mirror per caso ? :)
Re: Is anyone using this?
> Sorry, the homepage is missing some
> links
> to sites which actually run the
> software.
uhm... shouldn't i say that? :)
i did'nt received any url from users to publish on the webpage, who wants to be the first?
Is anyone using this?
Sorry, the homepage is missing some links
to sites which actually run the software.
suhweet!
wish i could stay up all night playing with this one, but alas, i can't get by on caffeine alone tomorrow. well, i guess i could =)
anyone have any links to cams that're up and running?
-fleece-