Passing Options to Caca

[victorhooi]

Hi,

I've just spent an afternoon of fun trying to coax VLC 0.8.1 to compile on Ubuntu...*shudder*. Anyway, I've finally got it to work - if anybody thinks they would gain anything from a small writeup of my experiences, just ask and I'll make a short summary

I used svn to checkout the latest build of libcaca-trunk, which includes a new Floyd-Steinberg ditherer (screenshots) which I'm hoping to try out. However, when I use libcaca to playback The Matrix, it seems to use the basic (very ugly) ditherer, with no anti-aliasing.

How you control what dithering mode and anti-aliasing is used when playing a movie back through VLC (skins2).

Thanks,
Victor

[Sigmund]

apperantly you can not do that right now. Don't know how much work it would be to change it though.

[Sigmund]

correction: this can be done by setting environment variables before starting vlc. Sam said he would put some docs on that online, so perhaps check the caca site some time from now.

[victorhooi]

Hi,

Sigmund: Thanks for that...guess we'll have to wait for Sam to release those docs. Development on Caca seems to have picked up again, for which I'm quite excited - sure, it's not 'useful' (whatever you define that as), but it's definitely cool .

Come to think of it - could you grab the environment variables from the caca sources? Has anybody had a look at them.

My c++ extends to about hello_world.cpp. lol.

Bye,
Victor

[Sigmund]

the docs are online now.http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/doc/index.html for the floyd steinberg dithering use "fstein"