The.Matrix-ASCII is the original Matrix movie encoded in text. The finished product is an MPEG-2 file 7989979136 bytes in size, too large to fit on a DVD5. I re-encoded the ASCII movie to fit on a standard DVDR. The two samples are from the larger file and are higher quality. The DVDR is available through BitTorrent. If you wish to download the final movie or either of the samples using BitTorrent with Java installed, I suggest Azureus: otherwise TheSHADOW's BitTorrent Client should work well. You will need a media player that can play MPEG-2 videos to watch either sample and a DVD player to watch the movie.
Below the downloads is a text box that allows you to see any frame of the movie and its ASCII equivalent. Just click in the text box and hit enter. The images are stored on an external drive and may or may not be available.
| Jan | 16th 2004 05:00:00 UTC | - Initial Release. |
| Apr | 5th 2004 10:54:13 UTC | - 1000th completed download. |
| Jul | 29th 2004 00:04:52 UTC | - 2000th completed download. |
| Sep | 15th 2004 12:14:xx UTC | - Hardware failure. |
| Nov | 10th 2004 13:39:38 UTC | - 3000th completed download. |
| Jan | 16th 2005 05:00:00 UTC | - 1 Year Anniversary, 10 downloads per day. |
| Feb | 13th 2005 06:35:38 UTC | - Hardware restored - DNS changed. |
| Mar | 10th 2005 04:43:47 UTC | - 4000th completed download. |
How?
Click to view the process.
Why?
Because I love this movie.
This was the first thing I thought of when I first saw AA-Lib with MPlayer. I have to admit I did not
think of it when I saw ttyquake. After I watched
The Matrix with MPlayer on a Linux console I wanted it to be green and I
wanted to be able to watch it anywhere.
Who?
Contact me: jack@onyx.chattanoogastate.edu
or go to The.Matrix-ASCII
Forum.