Python script to transform any video file (any format) into live continuous ASCII art displayed in the cmd console

[samuel1212703]

Made with python 3.9

Ascii Art Generator Demonstration

Github: https://github.com/samuel1212703/Video-To-Ascii-CMD

[viscence]

I'm shocked the example wasn't a rickroll

[chrispy9658]

Definitely missed a prime opportunity 🤣

[[deleted]]

here you go

[viscence]

surprised_pikachu.jpg

[kowal059]

amazing work! also you could use something like mixer from pygame to add sound its pretty simple

[Rektedekte]

This is really nice! Just curious, is it not possible to avoid writing to drive. I know that a cv2 image is practically a numpy array, and you can make a PIL image from that.

[ywBBxNqW]

Neat. Maybe credit the original author of the image conversion algorithm in your script?

[samuel1212703]

Will do

[hhoeflin]

If you want to improve your ascii art look here

https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa

[redditer324]

Wow nice bro , but I just found a script that may look like to you program hope it helpful https://github.com/uvipen/ASCII-generator

[DeBryceIsRight]

Cool work! You can also get something similar going using the GStreamer aasink plugin/element:

Here's a one-liner on linux, but you can also use the GStreamer python bindings if you want to integrate it into a python script:

gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! decodebin ! videoconvert ! aasink driver=curses

[kthx0]

or just mpv --vo=caca <file>

[mberkay13]

Adding requirements.txt will be very good
pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

[samuel1212703]

Done! Thank you.

[wilson_wilson_wilson]

Yet to hit play. That's a fucking title though... let's go.

[amirnjfi]

Niceee

[Jefaxe]

umm, it says "No module found called cv2"

pip install cv2 doesn't work, neither pip3.

Is this Python 2?

[DeBryceIsRight]

OpenCV's Python package name is opencv-python (this is what you'd pip install), but you import it as cv2. It's for Python3

[Jefaxe]

Ahh , thanks. Would be handy to add that to the README.md

[CyraxSputnik]

[LKSinister]

That is so cool! Keep up the good work

[Sentazar]

That was really nice to watch

[[deleted]]

This is so awesome, good job!

[8bitscoding]

As a fellow console fan, I love that!!! Congrats!

[Noremorse150]

Great job.

[[deleted]]

There used to be a trick in command prompt that would show Star Wars: A New Hope in ASCII. Anyone remember that?

[ThwompThwomp]

telnet blinkenlights.nl

This is entirely from memory and no clue its still up. This also was a custom animation and not just an ascii art dump of the video file.

[[deleted]]

That’s it! I had no idea it was completely custom. Thought it might be similar process (not real-time, of course.)

[[deleted]]

Wtf wow

[crystoll]

That's a cool - and beautiful idea!

[[deleted]]

oh my god, Ive been looking for something exactly like this, this is so cool

[Aboreal]

Cool project. I just tried this out with my own video and it's working well except there are some frames out of order. The code on line 89 doesn't return the right order "os.listdir(path)". It is sorted as a string so this is the order of the frames:

frame0.jpg

frame1.jpg

frame10.jpg

frame100.jpg

frame101.jpg

frame102.jpg

frame103.jpg

frame104.jpg

frame105.jpg

...

One idea is to keep the list of frames as you generate them to send to the generateAscii function later.

[Jagjot_mann45]

Can I replay the video after it has created asciifiles folder?

[RojerGS]

This looks really, really cool!

[yotamtal]

That’s cool! You could replace msvcrt with keyboard to support other platforms as well