jasciimovie

Play ASCII movies - sequences of digitized video converted into an ASCII representation - in a webbrowser via Java.

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INFO

Author: A. Schiffler, aschiffler [at] ferzkopp.net  to contact the author.
Licenced under the GPL; see the file LICENSE in the archive for details.

DEMOS

Demo 1: Short film     Demo 2: Face     Demo 3: Keyboard    

README

[ JASCIIMOVIE ]

(c) under GPL, A. Schiffler, 1999

[ Introduction ]

jasciimovie is a java program designed to play back an ascii-movie within a
browser. An ascii-movie is a plain text file of screens seperated by escape
codes for clearing the screen (in hex notation 1B 5B 48 1B 5B 4A).

These ascii-movies can get produced by the asciivideo sample program that is
included with the "libbgrab" package by me.

The movie files have to be compressed with "gzip -9" which saves incredible
amounts of space.


[ Compilation and Usage ]

- Prerequisites: JDK 1.1.x+ installed and in the path
- To compile type: make
- To test: fire up a java-capable browser with the file jasciimovie.html

See the file jasciimovie.html for how to incorporate the applet in your
webpage.

Configurable parameters are: the filename (the movie file must be in the same 
directory as the .html file), the fontsize (usable are 8,10,12,14), a flag of the
movies gets repeated at the end, the frame rate and the colors.

The program tries to center the ascii-movie within the applet. 

A copyright message is beeing displayed for 2 seconds at the beginning of
playback.

A sample movie (cfilm.txt.gz) is included - look at the file also with
"zless cfilm.txt.gz" to see the individual frames.

Keep the image files 
	back.gif
	copyright.gif
	pause.gif
	stop.gif
also in the same directory as the .html file.