vidToAscii

A CLI application to convert a video or gif into ASCII and play it in a terminal.

Example

As seen in the bottom right, the video will scale to whatever size the terminal is at the time the command is run.

example.mp4

Options

vidToAscii [flags]

Flag		Description
-h	--help	help for vidToAscii
-i filepath	--input filepath	file path of input video
-b	--background	use background colors instead of ascii characters. This makes the video look like pixel art
-s	--save	save the converted data as a txt that can be loaded with --load
-l	--load	load saved data created by --save. Must use -i to specify filepath of save

Setup

1. Install ffmpeg, ffprobe, and go

2. Download or clone repository

3. Navigate to the vidToAscii folder within the repository

4. Intstall the application. This will create an executable. On Windows it will also add the executable to the PATH variable.

go install

5. Run application

vidToAscii -i input.mp4

6. List all options

vidToAscii --help