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

Re:Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ... by marquis on Monday February 09, 2015 @03:05PM (#9023328)

I recently started looking into building a similar web cam project using WebRTC, except sending ascii images over the datachannel instead of encoded video. So, I was pleased to see this project making it happen. You could easily implement this with XMPP/SIP over WebRTC.

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Re:Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ... by ledzep2 on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @12:10AM (#9025489)

That's interesting. But if you already have a graphical browser which supports WebRTC, why do you still need the ascii? Or is there a terminal browser with WebRTC support?

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Re:Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ... by marquis on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @12:20AM (#9025518)

Bandwidth: I'm often in areas where bandwidth is a premium but I'd still like to video chat with family. And besides, I absolutely hate dropped frames, rebuffering etc etc: I just want to engage in a conversation with friends and I don't care that it's HD video. Applications like Skype don't let you drop the bandwidth (for reasons I don't understand) and dropping it in WebRTC makes the compression almost unreadable. As this project has shown, ASCII video can really be quite legible and probably a lot more forgiving for lower frame rates.

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