Covert video to ASCII

[Donjonson]

There's this option in VLC to view videos in ASCII format, but when I view them it's too difficult to make out what's going on.
In the example provided by this guy (especially at the end)-
http://www.roysac.com/blog/2009/03/c...scii-text-art/

the effect is better, there are far more lines making it a lot easier to understand.... (there are also instructions to get the ASCII effect)
Anyone know how I might achieve something close to this with my own videos?
Should I just do something in far higher quality? If I shrink the screen way down it's better, could I make a large video and shrink it to normal size?
Maybe this should be in tech help? Seems to be mostly hardware over there...

[Keep]

it's too difficult to make out what's going on.

Surely that's because it's covert video.


/smartass

[DigitalSignalX]

Can you repost the link?

[pakoito]

http://www.roysac.com/blog/2009/03/c...scii-text-art/

[Donjonson]

Ah yeah, thanks :)

[Donjonson]

Well, I can get more lines with an older version of VLC but no colour... might have to do a bit of experimenting :) Oh wait, that should be :(

[Donjonson]

Just discovered ASCIImeo, it's quite nice-

http://asciimeo.com/

Now I just need something like this to convert my own videos..

Maybe I could just upload stuff to vimeo and screencapture them... seems a bit convoluted