Ascii Video Player

ascii-video-player is simple console program that can play videos in the console as ASCII characters

Warning: Only works on windows

How to use

Build the project, run the command build\<build type>\asciiVP [options] <path_to_video>

For exmaple, build\Release\asciiVP docs\example.mp4

default.mp4

Optional parameters

-c : control which character set is used for converting, the set which more characters can result in more detail and bright image but introduce more noise to the image (default: 14) you can also set your own character set by defining it using {{<insert-characters>}}

diff_size.mp4

-f : set the font size of the console. Higher font size means the image need to be downscale -h : print the help message

How to build

1. Clone the repository
2. Download ffmpeg and extract then add it to PATH (note: download the share version)
3. Build by running build.bat

Todos

• Improve performance, for larger video it have a hard time keeping up
• The ability to play audio
• Color support (maybe, windows console only support 16 colors)