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Libcaca

Summary

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 formats.

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; 20 years ago (2004-02-02)[2]
Preview release
0.99.beta20 / October 19, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-10-19)[3]
Repository
  • github.com/cacalabs/libcaca Edit this at Wikidata
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like, Microsoft Windows, DOS, and OS X[4]
Available inEnglish
LicenseFree software: WTFPLv2[4]
Websitelibcaca.zoy.org Edit this on Wikidata
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 edit

See also edit

References edit

  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. "Release libcaca v0.99.beta20 · cacalabs/libcaca · GitHub". GitHub. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b Hocevar, Sam. "libcaca Homepage". Caca Labs. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  5. ^ a b FFmpeg team. "FFmpeg 1.0 release notes". Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. ^ a b VideoLAN Organization. "VLC Media Player: modules/caca". VLC Media Player documentation. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  7. ^ a b MPlayer team. "libcaca – Color ASCII Art library". MPlayer documentation. 4.10. Retrieved 18 January 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  8. ^ GStreamer team. "cacasink". GStreamer Good Plugins 1.0 Plugins Reference Manual. Retrieved 18 January 2013.

External links edit

  • libcaca official website