Developer releases open-source ASCII video streaming engine capable of 360p at 30 FPS, raising ad-blocking concerns
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Mark Tyson
Summary
A developer released ASCILINE Engine, an open-source (MIT license) ASCII video streaming solution that renders 360p video at 30 FPS using pure text instead of traditional video tags. The technology has sparked controversy, with some commenters expressing concerns that it could enable unblockable advertisements since ad blockers typically rely on detecting video tags or known ad servers, not raw ASCII streams.
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bskyDeveloper releases open-source ASCII video streaming engine capable of 360p at 30 FPS, raising ad-blocking concernstomshardware.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledI built an unblockable video stream. It renders 360p at 30 FPS using pure text instead of tags.
ASCILINE Engine is pitched as a 'high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine' that can be used to broadcast 'an unblockable video stream.'
Some commenters are worried that this development could precipitate unblockable ads.
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