libcaca

libcaca
Developer(s) Sam Hocevar and Jean-Yves Lamoureux
Initial release November 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]
Development status Active
Written in C
Operating system Unix-like, Microsoft Windows, DOS, and OS X[4]
Available in English
License Free software: WTFPLv2[4]
Website caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
An example Wikipedia logo generated using libcaca 0.99.beta18

libcaca is a software library that converts pixel information 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 has been used in a variety of programs, including the 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

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. 1 2 Hocevar, Sam. "libcaca Homepage". Caca Labs. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  5. 1 2 FFmpeg team. "FFmpeg 1.0 release notes". Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. 1 2 VideoLAN Organization. "VLC Media Player: modules/caca". VLC Media Player documentation. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  7. 1 2 MPlayer team. "libcaca – Color ASCII Art library". MPlayer documentation. 4.10. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  8. GStreamer team. "cacasink". GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0 Plugins Reference Manual. Retrieved 18 January 2013.

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