libcaca

libcaca is a software library that converts images into colored ASCII art. It includes the library itself, and several programs including cacaview, an image viewer that works inside a terminal emulator, and img2txt, which can convert an image to other text-based format.

libcaca
Developer(s)Sam Hocevar and Jean-Yves Lamoureux
Initial releaseNovember 22, 2003 (2003-11-22)(0.1 release)[1]
Stable release
0.9 / February 2, 2004 (2004-02-02)[2]
Preview release
0.99.beta19 / May 16, 2014 (2014-05-16)[3]
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like, Microsoft Windows, DOS, and OS X[4]
Available inEnglish
LicenseFree software: WTFPLv2[4]
Websitegithub.com/cacalabs/libcaca
An example Wikipedia logo generated using libcaca 0.99.beta18

libcaca has been used in a variety of programs, including FFmpeg, VLC media player, and MPlayer.[5][6][7]

libcaca is free software, licensed under Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License version 2.

Projects using libcaca
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See also

References
  1. Hocevar, Sam. "Release 0.1 svn log". Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  2. Hocevar, Sam. "Release 0.9 svn log". Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  3. Hocevar, Sam. "libcaca wiki edit on the announcement of 0.99.beta19". Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  4. Hocevar, Sam. "libcaca Homepage". Caca Labs. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  5. FFmpeg team. "FFmpeg 1.0 release notes". Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. VideoLAN Organization. "VLC Media Player: modules/caca". VLC Media Player documentation. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  7. MPlayer team. "libcaca – Color ASCII Art library". MPlayer documentation. 4.10. Retrieved 18 January 2013.CS1 maint: location (link)
  8. GStreamer team. "cacasink". GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0 Plugins Reference Manual. Retrieved 18 January 2013.


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