If you’re a Mac OS X user, then there’s a cool Movie-to-ASCII converter out there. ASCII is just a complicated way of saying text. When we’re done the output is going to look something like this:
This is from the first Seinfeld Episode.
- Download the file here.
- Go into the Finder and press Apple + Option + G, in the window that pops up type “/usr/bin”. Then press enter.
- Go into the folder you downloaded, and there should be a black rectangle icon, drag that into the /usr/bin folder.
Using the program:
- Drag the movie that you want to watch your Desktop.
- Open up Terminal which is located in Applications/Utilities.
- In the Terminal type “cd ~/Desktop” then type ASCIIMoviePlayer themovie
You’ll be able to hear the sound, and your results in terms of quality will vary.
Could make some fun competitions with this ;)
Good grief this is old news. When I was bored I even made a color version of this. I had it back in the 10.1 days…
OMG Erik Einstein, you r0xx 4 w1ld!11 You are to bright for this planet.
I didn’t know of this converter, so there this was useful knowledge to me.
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We had an article about a PC version that also did this.
Heck we had an article which had a scene from the Matrix running on a browser!
This is just ueber cool hehe! Couldn’t get it to work with some files though, you need movies with clearly defined edges for it to work well and be recognisable.