[MPlayer-G2-dev] Information about video coding

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:17:47AM -0600, Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:10:26PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > Similar topic, I've just been reminded...
> > > I've wanted to encode a video composed of lots of scrolling
> > > ascii-art text.  Anyone know of a codec that is designed for
> > > stupid things like this without insanely high bitrates?
> > > (Very simple images, but very little in common between frames.)
> > 
> > Yes, it's called "text file with ansi escapes"... :)))))
> 
> Oh, damn.  But that's my source!  :)
> 
> Thanks anyways.

Feel free to write vd_ansi.c! :) Then you can mux video (with
fourcc==ANSI :) in .avi files and play them with MPlayer.. ;)

Rich