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#1 2019-11-13 10:18:29

dartheian
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Registered: 2019-03-19
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[SOLVED] ASCII video with VLC

Hello, I'm trying to watch a video in ASCII art using VLC. My intent is to use aalib through option -V aa, but I get those errors: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58469
I manged to get ColoredASCII art (-V caca) working with the command:   

cvlc -V caca -q --no-osd -f --no-video-title-show --x11-display :1 video.mkv

Unfortunately, trying to use the same command with aalib

cvlc -V aa -q --no-osd -f --no-video-title-show --x11-display :1 video.mkv

I get again

X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
  Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
  Serial number of failed request:  7
  Current serial number in output stream:  8

Last edited by dartheian (2020-01-16 14:19:04)

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#2 2019-11-13 10:43:48

V1del
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Re: [SOLVED] ASCII video with VLC

Which xorg-font packages are set up? https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … =&flagged=

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#3 2019-11-24 23:00:16

dartheian
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Registered: 2019-03-19
Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] ASCII video with VLC

Thank you V1del, I installed

xorg-fonts-misc

and I no longer get the error. Unfortunately now the option

--x11-display :1

no longer sapawn a terminal window. I installed a lot of packages in the meantime so I don't really know what could be the cause...

UPDATE: I was missing aalib (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/aalib/)

Last edited by dartheian (2019-11-25 09:52:40)

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