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Package: aview (1.3.0rc1-8.1)

A high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player

aview is a high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player. It is especially useful with a text-based browser such as lynx, links or w3m.

It supports the pnm, pgm, pbm and ppm image formats, as well as the FLI and FLC video formats. It also supports output via stdio, (n)curses and slang and even has support for gpm.

Features 

 * High quality ASCII art rendering
 * Portable
 * Save into many formats (HTML, text, ANSI, more/less etc...)
 * Contrast, Bright, Gamma control
 * Image zooming/unzooming
 * Three dithering modes
 * Hidden "bonus" features :)
 * Inversion
 * Support for bright, dim, inverse attributes/extended character set

Tags: User Interface: Text-based Interactive, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Interface Toolkit: Ncurses TUI, Purpose: Playing Media, Data Visualization, Works with: Video and Animation

Other Packages Related to aview

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: libaa1 (>= 1.4p5)
    ascii art library
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) [not ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.7-1) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb

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Download for all available architectures
Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 29.9 kB128 kB [list of files]
armel 31.7 kB128 kB [list of files]
hppa 31.7 kB128 kB [list of files]
i386 27.6 kB88 kB [list of files]
ia64 41.1 kB164 kB [list of files]
mips 30.2 kB128 kB [list of files]
mipsel 30.3 kB128 kB [list of files]
powerpc 33.7 kB136 kB [list of files]
s390 29.5 kB124 kB [list of files]
sparc 28.4 kB124 kB [list of files]