<p>Found. Caca library is driven mostly by environment variables rather than filter params.</p>

<pre><code>export CACA_GEOMETRY=200x78
mplayer -vo caca $INPUT
</code></pre>

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<p>I'm curious how different clips would look like in ASCII art. So I'm trying <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-devices.html#toc-caca" rel="nofollow noreferrer">caca</a>.</p>

<p>To just play, I use <code>mplayer -vo caca $FILE</code>.</p>

<p>But that creates an output of quite small size.</p>

<p><strong>How can I change that size?</strong></p>

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mplayer/ffmpeg How to set caca filter's output size
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# mplayer/ffmpeg How to set caca filter's output size

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-12-10)

I'm curious how different clips would look like in ASCII art. So I'm trying [caca](https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-devices.html#toc-caca).

To just play, I use `mplayer -vo caca $FILE`.

But that creates an output of quite small size.

**How can I change that size?**

**Tags:** ffmpeg, conversion, filter


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2016-12-10. Score: 4 | Accepted answer

Found. Caca library is driven mostly by environment variables rather than filter params.
export CACA_GEOMETRY=200x78
mplayer -vo caca $INPUT


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