AAFLIP(1)

✨ AAFLIP ✨ — an ASCII art video player 🎀

okay bestie, aaflip is an ASCII art video player 🦋 and it supports the fli and flc formats 💅

💖 NAME 💖

aaflip — An ASCII art video player

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

aaflip [-abcfv] [-n number] [-s delay]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the vibe check on resolution 👀: fli files are capped at 320x200 pixels 🙈, but flc files can be any resolution they want. no cap, flc is giving main character energy 👑

the default way it plays is lowkey iconic 🔥: it loads the first frame and shows it to you. then the rest of the file gets loaded into memory and the animation starts 🎬 the animation ends when you press q or ctrl-c 💀 periodt.

🍓 OPTIONS 🍓

• -a — okay so this one removes frames from memory after they're processed ✨ that leaves more memory for other processes 🫶 but the animation then depends on the buffer cache to keep going smoothly 🧠
• -b — this one processes frames the second they're loaded 🏃‍♀️ so you can see the animation without waiting for the whole file 🦋. the catch is it gets jumpy if the animation's speed is faster than how fast it's loading 😭
• -c — keeps the screen black while the animation loads 🖤. heads up, this clashes with -b, but honestly the results can be interesting 👀
• -f — switches off clock synchronization, so the animation runs as fast as possible 🔥
• -v — shows you info about the flic file 🧾
• -n number — plays the animation sequence number times 🔁
• -s delay — sets the delay between frames to delay milliseconds ⏱️ and -s 0 is literally the same thing as -f 💅

💜 BUGS 💜

bestie, important! 🚨 please report any bugs you find to Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz> 💌

🌈 LICENSE 🌈

aaflip is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL) 🫶

🦋 HISTORY 🦋

aaflip is based on the FLI Player written by John Remyn <boogyman@xs4all.hacktic.nl> ✨

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

aafire(1), aainfo(1), aasavefont(1), aatest(1), aview(1), asciiview(1), aa3d(1), aatv(1), bb(1), xaos(6) 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz> 💅

This manual page was written by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> and Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) 🫶

bestie that's the whole tea, aaflip, December 17, 2001 🌈✨ no cap, we love a vintage legend 💜 okay byeee 🫶💅