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rev087 on April 1, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What's your favorite April Fools Joke toda...

Wow, I'd love a linux command-line tool that does something like that!

aw3c2 on April 1, 2010 | [–]

I am pretty sure you are joking but here is how to do it with mplayer. See http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML-single/en/MPlayer.html#aal... and below (on that page).

libcaca: mplayer -vo caca yourvideofile

aalib: mplayer -vo aa yourvideofile

pshc on April 1, 2010 | [–]

mplayer!

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