The .asciivideo Codec 📺

Feature rich video player with few dependencies. Works great with tty machines 🚀

WARNING ⚠️

This project is not fully functional yet and bugs do appear quite often. This is simply a testing phase to find these bugs

Install instructions

Currently we only support debian based distros but unoffical support for Arch, OpenSUSE, and other linux distrobutions are planned

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt install ffmpeg python3 python3-pip
3. python3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow # Recent changes to Pillow might cause this to give an error but if it works, Great
4. pip3 install tqdm
5. pip3 install numpy
6. pip3 install pygame
7. sudo apt install git
8. git clone https://github.com/Ubuntufanboy/ascii-video-player
9. cd ascii-video-player
10. cd src

Usage guide

1. have an mp4 file in the same folder or be prepared to provide the full video path
2. run python3 mp4_to_asciivideo.py your_file.mp4
3. run python3 play.py the_same_video_file_but_not_mp4.asciivideo

PLEASE report any bugs to me in an issue (No such thing as a dumb question)!

I appriciate the support! 🛐