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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