Flex ASCII Video Player
I was inspired by a recent slashdot post that mentioned the Quicktime ASCII Movie Player. So I hacked up a quick Flex application and in no time i had what I like to call.
To quote, it’s watching movies “the way ubergeeks were truly meant to”
Basically it just samples pixels from a video and converts them to characters with a certain brightness. There are a few videos to check out, but unfortunately, due to YouTubes’ crossdomain policy, I can’t just let you choose any Youtube video to play. Here’s a screenshot
–Update: It looks like for certain versions of Flash player, the font size is really small, this makes video playback quite slow and jerky. I’ll be fixing this soon.
–Update: This has been fixed, video may still be a little laggy though. This is more of a bandwidth issue.
Posted in Flex Components | 8 Comments
May 30th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I’m looking forward to watching my movies like this all the time! :-p
Neat demo!
May 30th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
it’s either someone brushing snoopy’s fur, or porn. either way, off the hook.
June 1st, 2007 at 10:10 pm
just saw the video, last comment was about the screenshot. very sweet. suprisingly watchable. nice one bro
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:21 am
Hey dude, Ferg just showed me this. I think it is freakn awesome. Which means i think you’re freakn awesome. Nice One. Maybe in green and black?
June 29th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Awesome bro, I love this stuff.
October 21st, 2007 at 1:26 am
great blog i love
June 13th, 2008 at 12:55 am
very nice. did you use the same asciify class found at http://blog.oaxoa.com/2008/03/04/asciify-actionscript-3-as3-ascii-art-class/#comment-142? Are you going to publish the source? Very cool stuff!
January 13th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
you could use a proxy to do the loading of any possible youtube video.