# cacasink

Displays video as color ascii art.

## Example launch line

     CACA_GEOMETRY=160x60 CACA_FONT=5x7 gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=test.avi ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! cacasink

This pipeline renders a video to ascii art into a separate window using a small font and specifying the ascii resolution.

     CACA_DRIVER=ncurses gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=test.avi ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! cacasink

This pipeline renders a video to ascii art into the current terminal.

## Hierarchy

    GObject
        ╰──GInitiallyUnowned
            ╰──GstObject
                ╰──GstElement
                    ╰──GstBaseSink
                        ╰──cacasink

## Factory details

Authors: – Zeeshan Ali <zak147@yahoo.com></zak147@yahoo.com>

Classification: – `Sink/Video`

Rank – none

Plugin – cacasink

Package – GStreamer Good Plug-ins

## Pad Templates

### `sink`

    video/x-raw:
             format: { RGB, BGR, RGBx, xRGB, BGRx, xBGR, RGB16, RGB15 }
              width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
             height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
          framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

Presence – always

Direction – sink

Object type – GstPad

## Properties

### anti-aliasing

    “anti-aliasing” gboolean

Enables Anti-Aliasing

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : true

### dither

    “dither” Cacasink-dithering *

Set type of Dither

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : none (49)

### driver

    “driver” Cacasink-driver *

The libcaca output driver.

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : x11 (0)

Since : 1.24

### screen-height

    “screen-height” gint

The height of the screen

Flags : Read

Default value : 25

### screen-width

    “screen-width” gint

The width of the screen

Flags : Read

Default value : 80

## Named constants

### Cacasink-dithering

#### Members

`none` (49) – No dithering
`2x2` (50) – Ordered 2x2 Bayer dithering
`4x4` (51) – Ordered 4x4 Bayer dithering
`8x8` (52) – Ordered 8x8 Bayer dithering
`random` (53) – Random dithering

### Cacasink-driver

Libcaca output driver.

Since : 1.24

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