On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 08:22:15PM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Greetings comrades, > > I have been trying to use my new fast shell lines to play videos over > libcaca in st. I can’t seem to get libcaca to produce any working curses > picture in xterm and st. > > My command: > > CACA_DRIVER=ncurses \ > quvi --exec "mplayer -vo caca %u" \ > "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNTWokU7woo"; > > You can watch the real caca output by removing the defintion of CA‐ > CA_DRIVER. > > This only produces flickering at certain frames. Sometimes the frames > seem to be the real video content but then it all disappears. The same > happens for xterm. Urxvt produces no output at all. > > Anyone got libcaca to work in this mode in some terminal? > > > Sincerely, > > Christoph Lohmann > >
I used local file, though also video that I got from youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGp4D4uQp54), I used command: CACA_DRIVER=ncurses mplayer -vo caca mteden_daniel Works in both st (not head/tip, though 0.3 from about a month ago) and xterm, also surprisingly it seems it even is faster on st! Though I tried this on quite small terminal windows. At first I tried xterm with full screen terminal and it was insanely slow. Terminal size I used: 31 lines 95 columns; There still of course is insane flickering, but frame rate seems quite decent (on st), though it seems those frequent refreshes of st window lag wm (dwm) quite a bit, cause while it is playing dragging even other windows becomes noticeably slower; window dragging has, what I would call, sliding on ice effect.
