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Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine

49 points by godot

by CountHackulus

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It's unclear to me why I'd want to use this over libcaca or similar? The demoscene has made really excellent ASCII rendering for decades, and this seems like it has less options and less understandable output. If this is just a fun personal project "just because" then cool! That's awesome! But for actual use cases I'd much rather use libcaca.

by mycall

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The biggest problem I see is that web browsers don't natively support .ans inside <canvas> without Ansilove.js or Xterm.js hacks.
Having a native AV format that comes from ANSI, pre-rendered via FFmpeg, is the missing link for <video> support.

by Sharlin

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It’s not cross-platform if the platform is the browser… Lot of vibed nonsense in the README in general.

by notpushkin

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by rootlocus

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What's the deal with all these projects spiking thousands of stars in a few days? I find it hard to believe people are just flocking to random obscure niche projects and starring them instead of just... vibe coding their own projects.

by amarant

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I feel like this is only technically ASCII rendering. As far as I can tell, it's always the same chars that are rendered, and only colouring tags change.
That seems to optimise for usability/complexity ratio, while completely throwing coolness under the bus. But this is a ASCII video generator, I would've thought coolness was the point? I can't imagine a practical usecase for it...

by cocodill

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by ncr100

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This would be nice as a video-conferencing tool. All your nerdy friends in a tmux window.

by Rumudiez

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lost me at the github stars chart, but "Bypassing Browser Constraints" is great. that's just what users want /s

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