Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine

6 comments

• Sharlin2 hours ago
  It’s not cross-platform if the platform is the browser… Lot of vibed nonsense in the README in general.
• notpushkin1 hour ago
  So, an aalib/libcaca, but vibe-coded?
• cocodill1 hour ago
  Why the heck you want put video into a html canvas as text?
• amarant3 hours ago
  I feel like this is only technically ASCII rendering. As far as I can tell, it&#x27;s always the same chars that are rendered, and only colouring tags change.<p>That seems to optimise for usability&#x2F;complexity ratio, while completely throwing coolness under the bus. But this is a ASCII video generator, I would&#x27;ve thought coolness was the point? I can&#x27;t imagine a practical usecase for it...
  • jy148982 hours ago
    Seems like the README is heavily vibed, as it seems to not even understand what the repo does:<p>&gt; Local AI &amp; LLM Ready: By reducing complex pixel streams into structured logical strings, ASCILINE acts as a perfect bridge for AI. Instead of feeding heavy computer vision models, lightweight LLMs can process semantic video summaries.<p>In what way is this semantic&#x2F;structured?<p>&gt; Bypassing Browser Constraints: Modern browsers aggressively throttle autoplay videos, and ad-blockers restrict traditional media frames. To the browser, ASCILINE is simply &quot;JavaScript updating a canvas&quot;—completely invisible to media restrictions.<p>So... just render the video to a canvas? What does ASCII have to do with it
  • pwagland3 hours ago
    The &quot;practical&quot; use case is to allow auto playing of videos for those users who disable it, from the &quot;Strategic Vision &amp; Core Capabilities&quot; section:<p>&gt; Bypassing Browser Constraints: Modern browsers aggressively throttle autoplay videos, and ad-blockers restrict traditional media frames. To the browser, ASCILINE is simply &quot;JavaScript updating a canvas&quot;—completely invisible to media restrictions.
    • lode2 hours ago
      While this is presented as a way to evade ad blockers, using it to serve ads is explicily prohibited in the license:<p><i>The permission granted by this license explicitly EXCLUDES the right to use this software, in whole or in part, for the purpose of serving, delivering, or displaying digital advertisements, sponsored content, or any form of commercial marketing to end-users. Any such use immediately terminates this license.</i>
      • fdupress28 minutes ago
        All this means in practice is that anyone who wants to use it for ads needs to get in touch with the devs and negotiate another set of licensing terms and an amount...
    • amarant2 hours ago
      I guess I might finally be convinced to disable JavaScript in my browser
  • xstas13 hours ago
    Video in the terminal window of course
    • _def2 hours ago
      npm install will continue after a short break from our sponsor
• ncr1001 hour ago
  This would be nice as a video-conferencing tool. All your nerdy friends in a tmux window.
  • smalltorch54 minutes ago
    Im working on this and posted here but nobody cared or it got removed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;here_forawhile&#x2F;tcom" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;here_forawhile&#x2F;tcom</a>