[MPlayer-users] ASCII output in Windows

[Sascha Sommer]

On Sunday 12 June 2005 17:36, Mr Online wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run MPlayer ("MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre7") on Windows 98. I'm looking for a
> way to make it output video in ASCII, instead of the DirectX video window.
>
> This is what "mplayer.exe -vo help" shows here:
>
> ---
> Available video output drivers:
>  directx  Directx DDraw YUV/RGB/BGR renderer
>  gl2      X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
>  winvidix        WIN32 (VIDIX)
>  cvidix   console VIDIX
>  null     Null video output
>  mpegpes  Mpeg-PES file
>  yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
>  png      PNG file
>  jpeg     JPEG file
>  gif89a   animated GIF output
>  tga      Targa output
>  pnm      PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
>  md5sum   md5sum of each frame
>         tga      Targa output
>         pnm      PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
>         md5sum   md5sum of each frame
> ---
>
> It seems that the driver I need (aa or AALib) is missing from the list. How
> would I install it?
>

Get aalib compile it and put the libs and header so the right place so 
MPlayers configure can detect it. Check the mingw howto in 
releases/win32/contrib if you don't know how to compile MPlayer.

Sascha