hasciicam

HasciiCam makes it possible to have live ascii video on the web. hasciicam captures video from a tv card and renders it into ascii letters, formatting the output into an html page with a refresh tag, or in a live ascii window, or in a simple text file.

It gives the possiblity to anybody that has a bttv card, a unix box and a cheap modem line to show live (h)ascii video can be viewed without any need for extra applications, plugins, java etc.

Features:

• low bandwidth live cam "streaming"
• command line settings
• customizable refresh rate
• amazing live mode
• gives you the coolest .plan you ever had
• draws nifty symbols on your face

What is new in this release:

• This release fixes correct parsing of AA-Lib options so that they can be changed from the command line.

What is new in version 1.1:

• This version adds support for even more Webcams (V4L2) and provides Debian binary packages.