Ascii-video-player 📺

Play video 📺 files in real time directly in your terminal.

Installation 📦

⚠️ Before all, you need to have OpenCV 4.x installed

With make - Linux 🐧

Build

# 📂 ascii-video-player/
make
# ⚙️ binary -> build/ascii-video-player

Add binary to bin folder

make install

Build from source - Linux 🐧 & Windows 🪟

Create a build folder

# 📂 ascii-video-player
mkdir build
cd build

Initialize CMake

# 📂 ascii-video-player

cmake ..

Build

# 📂 ascii-video-player
make

[ LINUX ONLY ] : Move the binary

# 📂 ascii-video-player
sudo cp ascii-video-player /usr/local/bin/

On windows the executable will be build\ascii-video-player you can move it wherever you want.

Usage 📝

Examples ✨

The two videos are provided in the repository.

And yes, all this in your terminal.

# 📂 ascii-video-player
ascii-video-player bad-apple.mp4

# 📂 ascii-video-player
ascii-video-player bad-apple-amv-colored.mp4 -b

Uninstall 🗑

With make

Run make uninstall

# 📂 ascii-video-player
make uninstall

Or

Just remove the binary

sudo rm /usr/bin/ascii-video-player

final

If you have any problem, don’t hesitate to open an issue

contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.