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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 7 Mar 2001.
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movie making tips (particularly speed)

movie making tips (particularly speed)

alt.ascii-art · 3 messages · 7 Mar 2001 - 10 Mar 2001
I was trying to make an ascii art movie that can just be 'cat'ed
on a vt100-compatiible terminal today, but I ran into a problem.

A movie which is supposed to take a good two minutes whizzes by
in just a second on my xterm. How can I slow things down? As an
experiment I added about 100k of nulls bewteen frames but that
didn't slow it down all that much.

Elijah
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has 500 frames of an mpeg converted to ascii art (by a program)

David Riley <dav...@dmriley.demon.co.uk> ASCII art 8 Mar 2001 06:16 · permalink · report
Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us> writes:

> I was trying to make an ascii art movie that can just be 'cat'ed
> on a vt100-compatiible terminal today, but I ran into a problem.
> 
> A movie which is supposed to take a good two minutes whizzes by
> in just a second on my xterm. How can I slow things down?

If it's the type which has plain ascii frames with an ansi code
between them you could pipe it through a script which paused
before printing the ansi code.

Or you could start netscape before cat-ing the file. :)

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Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us> writes:

> I was trying to make an ascii art movie that can just be 'cat'ed on
> a vt100-compatiible terminal today, but I ran into a problem.
> 
> A movie which is supposed to take a good two minutes whizzes by in
> just a second on my xterm. How can I slow things down? As an
> experiment I added about 100k of nulls bewteen frames but that
> didn't slow it down all that much.

Perhaps you could repeat each frame several times.

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