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 -y
2. sudo apt install ffmpeg python3 python3-pip -y # Install python and pip
3. python3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow --break-system-packages # Recent changes to Pillow might cause this to give an error but if it works, Great
4. python3 -m pip install tqdm numpy pygame --break-system-packages # Install depedencies
5. sudo apt install git -y
6. git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Ubuntufanboy/ascii-video-player # Clone repo
7. cd ascii-video-player
8. 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 input_video_filename.mp4
3. run python3 play.py input_video_filename.asciivideo

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

I appriciate the support! 🛐