Webcam input: live ASCII mirror + camera recording#29
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'<videoN>' sources (ffmpeg camera syntax) stream to the terminal as live colorized ASCII until Ctrl-C, mirrored by default (--no-mirror), with the full mode/matrix/caption knob set; with an output file, --seconds records a wall-clock-bounded capture through the normal sinks (mp4 silent - no camera audio path). Frame conversion extracted into shared helpers reused by file, live, and record paths; recording has a hard frame cap against absurdly fast sources. Tested via a mocked reader covering the live loop (clear/hide-cursor, per-frame home, restore), mirroring, recording, and the CLI dispatch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Webcam input: live ASCII mirror + camera recording (reopens #29)
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ascii-magic video "<video0>"streams your camera to the terminal as live colorized ASCII until Ctrl-C — mirrored by default like a real mirror, with the full mode/matrix/caption knob set (--matrix= you, in the Matrix). With an output file,--seconds Nrecords a wall-clock-bounded capture through the existing GIF/mp4/frames sinks.Internals: frame conversion extracted into helpers shared by the file, live, and record paths; recordings are frame-capped against pathologically fast sources; camera mp4s are silent (no audio path from v4l2 through our mux).
Stacked on #27 (the
asciimagicrename).Test plan
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