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I was helping out a friend working on a presentation where he wants to show some videos he has taken but converted to ASCII art. I can do that quite easily with mplayer on a Linux box using aalib (-vo aa). But that only plays the movie, transcoding it live. What I would like to do is to convert those videos to ASCII art and save them in files so that they can be played in a loop on some regular video players (be that vlc, wmediaplayer, whatever).

I have played around with mplayer / mencoder trying to dump streams, videos, piping it to fifos, standard output and so on but I just can not seem to find any way of doing this.

Has any of you done this before and if yes, how?

Thanks a lot!

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+1 for using aalib! – AndrejaKo Oct 16 '11 at 14:32
:) Thanks, it rocks! – danakim Oct 16 '11 at 16:12
that would be an awesome addition to some keygens...just saying. – aking1012 Oct 22 '11 at 1:14
Sorry, don't know how to save the output. But if you wanted to play the files in ASCII mode on VLC. It already supports playing files in colour ASCII. Just select it in options under "output". – Dracs Nov 10 '11 at 13:54
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Just start your video player in xterm or any other terminal and capture this to mpgeg/avi/whatever video file using some screen recording tool. Two examples are in this post: How can I capture frames from X11 into a file?

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