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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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