ascii_videos
A project that converts video to ascii characters and print them in the terminal.
Environment
Before start, make sure you have ffmpeg installed.
$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg version 4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1)
...
If not, this is a sample installation on Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt install ffmpeg
Or compile by source code:
$ wget http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-5.1.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf ffmpeg-5.1.tar.gz
$ cd ffmpeg-3.1
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ffmpeg
$ make
$ make install
Example
Load a image from remote or local path, convert rgb to gray matrix, and calculate ascii characters to instead.
// load image
img, err := LoadImage("https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/new_dyn/cd115a1ab8a69f121ac1ab740f45b12a173469252.png")
// image to ascii
bytes := image2Ascii(img)
// clear
cmd := exec.Command("clear")
cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
cmd.Run()
// print
fmt.Println(string(bytes))
