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whowillsurvive2012.com - Watch the Adam Lambert music video for the 2012 theme song. See 2012, in theaters Nov 13
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- ZentraediElite, on 10/11/2007, -8/+96This is awesome. Useless, but awesome.
- PURDooM, on 10/11/2007, -2/+77He didn't design crap. He downloaded the FLV file for the youtube video (which you could already do) and played it in mplayer with aalib (which I remember doing 6 years ago).
- TheMrEman, on 10/11/2007, -4/+67Wow! They've pioneered a way to make YouTube videos look even crappier! What a break-through!
- mikelieman, on 10/11/2007, -11/+61Not "Program", at best "Script" would apply to the integration between Lynx and Mplayer with the aalib linked in.
- insomniac8400, on 10/11/2007, -4/+51Does it convert sound to morse code so that it can be played with system beeps?
- radius7, on 10/11/2007, -4/+48Cool ,
So , wht's next ? "HDTV ASCII Video" ? - stormgren, on 10/11/2007, -2/+45The example video sucked. Did we have to see him typing out the URL and watch the download progress for a full minute or two just to get to the actual point?
- Gunde, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28Wow, a video of a guy using five minutes to download a .flv file in Lynx and play it with MPlayer. Buried as nonsense.
- jordan314, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24Yeah, not even a script, he does it all manually including saving the video by hand, retyping URLs and launching mplayer manually. Boy, that was easy.
- zovres, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23he's using mplayer which has been rendering videos in ascii for years. nothing new here.
- robdiggity, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23Agreed. And my man in the video needs to install him some gpm and learn to cut and paste. Swear to god more than half of the video was him retyping youtube video_ids and session hashes BY HAND.
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -6/+24lol, too geek for words. Cool
- Rupan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19if this had audio with it (it might just video silent) I would be going "***** yeah this is the *****" right now. But just ***** ascii video for all those commands with no sound ehh.... Even as a novelty it ranks low. But big mother ***** kudos for basically doing nothing but downloading a .flv from youtube playing it with mplayers established ascii playback mode (VLC has this too btw) and getting some blog to consider it a hack lol
- endlessfight, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18And who wouldn't want to have to manually enter a ridiculously long URL to watch a video?
- weizbox, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18yea! lets digg him down for stating facts! rawr! ;)
- GTPilot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15skip ahead five minutes.
- ashchristopher, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Buried as inaccurate!
Warren Harding didn't create a program to watch Youtube videos on the command line in ASCII; he just downloaded the .flv video and opened it in Mplayer. It isn't really that impressive unfortunately. - Fratm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14"People like that are why I quit using Linux."
You let the actions of other people decide your os for you? How sad for you.
-Fratm - c2mfj, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15That video is about 5 minutes too long. Cool though.
- Gudeldar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Dugg just for saying Linux instead of Ubuntu
- ZRamm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10*whoosh*
- JJP0223, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10No, ASCII youtube video app for your iPhone.
- paku, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8It reminds me of watching scrambled porn.
- mark13, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7...on top of that, it /does/ work even when X is running. Simply launch as:
mplayer -vo aa favoritepr0n.avi
You can even have color when you use -vo caca instead of aa. - Manhigh, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Not to mention the fact that he wasn't very good as a president either.
- OpticalLiam, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7I like how it took him a minute and a half to type in the URL
- sspirit, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7lol, i think vlc does the same, plus it works in colour ascii
- theonlyvlad, on 10/11/2007, -5/+104:30 is how long it took for the video to start playing. For a youtube video. That you can't even see all that well.
No other time has the phrase "linux is free if your time is worthless" been true-er than right now. - Takuro, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6The actual video starts at -1:26 minutes.
Just trying to save you from 4 minutes of boring command line stuff. - mattcoady, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Damn it! Asciitube.com has already been registered.
- migitalwarfare, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4yes, because command line linux is so awesome. why in the hell would you want to watch a music video, in ascii, with no sound? somebody had too much time on their hands
- cogit0, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Wow, you dont even see him load the video until about 4 minutes in. A good 2 minutes is spent just writing the video_id!!
- raptordrew, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Ironic the video posted is a Youtube video
- brstilson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The first 4 minutes of this video were pointless.
- barneygumble, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Try this on your own linux system:
1. Install Mplayer and aa-lib (on Ubuntu that's the gstreamer0.8-aa package)
2. Go to the console and run with this command: mplayer -vo aa filename.ext
Enjoy! - jplevel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3anyone remember ASCII Quake. It rendered Quake I in the same manner. Many more FPS on my 133 with ASCII quake then GL quake too :-)
- demonstar55, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3aalib actually displays quiet nicely, obviously you have never used it before.
- vap0r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3What would happen if you watched that video in the text player?
- shatdow, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3That is the slowest-typing l33t h4ck3r I've ever seen.
- gavintlgold, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It's not like linux users can't use Youtube or basically any other online video player... It's not like that's the best linux can get... That's about the worst-looking linux can get (but people might argue that it's the fastest and most useful linux can get).
- bruenig, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Man downloads video file and opens it with mplayer. Digg it up!!!!
- SenorPez, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2tl;dw
- dcoolidge, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Ya but is porn watchable?
- DoctaStooge, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Drood, this guy is a classic hacker, he is doing it, not because it makes things better, but because he wanted to try it and got it done. Also, a Linux users does not have to be a programmer. A casual user who just surfs the net can be considered a "Linux user" as long as they use a Linux operating system.
- seanmc303, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Could you just imagine how sweet the PS3 would look on that. SICK!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Our 29th President is coding? From beyond the grave? That is the most awesome thing ever!
- Hellmark, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2there are ways to have color too, like with the caca video output.
- mark13, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Google "deep ascii" before you bury parent.
Ignorants. :| - joelhardi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Agreed. Even "script" is too generous.
"mplayer -vo caca filename" uses libcaca for *color* ASCII output which is even more 1337. - EarlOfLade, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Watching porn will never be the same,.
Typing the URL to Youtube took longer than it took to watch the damn video. -
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