ascii output?

[HashberryPee]

Hi,

how can I get a cam stream in ascii (local, on the RPi)?

BR
Michael

[mikerr]

Full motion ascii via mplayer caca is good fun:

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sudo apt-get install mplayer

raspivid -t 10000 -p 0,0,320,200 -w 320 -h 200  -o - |mplayer -cache 1024 -fps 30 -vo caca -

The matrix has you...

[HashberryPee]

It works, thanks a lot!

First you've posted two solutions. Remember something with '...|h'. What was that about?

[mikerr]

The first bit was just a joke, that I removed, but here it is again:

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raspivid -t 1000 -o - | tr -dc '[:print:]' |head

It does print an ascii stream ...

[HashberryPee]

I see..

Tried the very same with 'aa' instead of 'caca' but I get:

Cache not responding! [performance issue]
VO: [aa] cannot open /dev/ccsa00 for writing, so we'll use linux driver
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of ailed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 7
Parent process disappeared, exiting cache process.

Any idea?

[mikerr]

X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)

libaa want's a font it can't find. The fix would be to install that font - but it's not telling you which one ...

So I got it working using curses instead:

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raspivid -t 999999 -p 0,0,320,200 -w 320 -h 200  -o - |mplayer -cache 1024 -nosub -fps 31 -vo aa:driver=curses -quiet -monitoraspect 0.5 -

[HashberryPee]

For some reason it doesn't like the '-monitoraspect' option. Error message isn't that revealing

Unknown option on the command line: -monitoraspect=0.5
Error parsing option on the command line: -monitoraspect=0.5
MPlayer svn r34540 (Debian), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 Mplayer Team

Works without the monitoraspect option but the ascii outut is quite small then.

[mikerr]

Sorry typed that bit of the line wrong, there's no "=" after monitoraspect

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raspivid -t 999999 -p 0,0,320,200 -w 320 -h 200  -o - |mplayer -cache 1024 -nosub -fps 31 -vo aa:driver=curses -quiet -monitoraspect 0.5 -

[HashberryPee]

That's it, thanks again! You're a wizard.

Should have seen it by myself - was looking through the documentation and didn't notice.