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Date:      Sun, 26 Aug 2001 13:06:25 -0400
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: to display graphics qith ascii
Message-ID:  <20010826130625.B81961@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108261213240.256-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>; from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 12:22:42PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108261213240.256-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>

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On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 12:22:42PM +0200, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
> Saw somebody displaying movies in ascii. Dont have the URL with me,
> somewhere in desk.org. Player comes in java.

I recall people making use of the 'aa-lib'
<http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/>; for such wierdness.

> 1.) What are the possibilities of players in java in general ?
> Couldnt that work with MPEG, for example, too ?
> 
> 2.) Is there any commandline tool to display gifs etc or animated gifs,
> usually small ;-), on the console in ASCII ? Think there is something in
> the netpbm package to convert a bitmap to ascii, maybe a shellscript ?

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