Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio

This is awesome! Wonder how it compares with mine (github.com/billyeh/termchat). Would love to share notes with the maker, since audio was something I did not even consider while I was making it. The image processing part is fun, though!

Its one of the most interesting github projects that I've seen so far!

Looks very cool. Sorry for nitpicking, there seems to be off by one at "ascii_values[min((intensity + 40) / 9, sizeof(ascii_values))];" :-)

The audio part is cool!<p>I made a similar project to this (but without sound).<p><a href="https://github.com/kfei/sshcam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kfei&#x2F;sshcam</a><p>Which uses SSH connection, 256-colors, Unicode block characters and CIE94 algorithm to compute color distance when mapping colors to 256 palette.<p>Watch it in action: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAa-pGda9kY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pAa-pGda9kY</a>

&gt; p2pvc does not get around NAT, so you may need to port forward. It uses ports 55555 and 55556 for audio and video respectively.<p>Nice use case for IPv6.

It&#x27;s almost <i>too</i> high fidelity. Wow.<p>One request - what&#x27;s the bitrate? (I know it&#x27;s probably possible to measure in 1 line of shell)

Who needs skype when you&#x27;ve got ascii...

Needs ncurses headers<p>sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

Amazing. Is the image(frames of the video) converted to ascii text in the server or on the terminal?

It would be awesome if it supports XMPP&#x2F;SIP. And btw is there a image previewer for terminal?

:( Anyone get the error<p>&quot;VIDIOC_STREAMON: Invalid argument libv4l2: error turning on stream: Invalid argument<p>Can&#x27;t seem to get it to work trying anything on github etc and want to get enough around to file a real issue.

Wouldn&#x27;t something like this be easier to encrypt for transmission than normal video? Plus, in the case it comes up, &quot;that ascii representation doesn&#x27;t look anything like me and you can&#x27;t prove it was me.&quot;<p>I like it.

This would be awesome with audio. Stream audio over ssh and into a dependency like mplayer, and you have full a full, terminal chat application!

Really cool. I like the idea a lot.

Very nice!

I made something like this once. Doing it in color is pretty awesome though.

great project!!<p>I remember watching the world cup on an ASCII terminal<p>:)

WOW

That&#x27;s pretty awesome, now if I can fins a decent terminal browser that supports javascript and vim keybindings and the equivalent of chromes devtools, I can spend all of my time in the terminal (save design of course, but that wouldn&#x27;t even make any sense). It&#x27;s probably unreasonable to think that I&#x27;ll fin that, but I&#x27;ll keep looking.