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Re:Star Wars Asciimation (2015) by m-i-l on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:14PM (#24944470)
You can watch any film in ASCII with VLC and a video file[0]:

  vlc videofile.mp4 -V aa
[0] https://wiki.videolan.org/Video_Output/
Re:Star Wars Asciimation (2015) by estebank on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:49PM (#24944915)
I hope it is clear that this is not what the original link is about. VLC can output ascii art like what aalib and libcaca can produce (namely try to simulate images using terminal output), while the submission is an animated scene by scene recreation of A New Hope using ascii art.