Video-To-Ascii

Video-To-Ascii is a video player and YouTube downloader converted into ascii in realtime and printed in the terminal

Requirements

• Python3
• Cv2
• Pillow
• Moviepy
• Pygame (Used for audio)
• youtube-dl (for some reason Pytube download is broken)
• Pytube
• Youtube_search
• Windows ...for now

Installation

Use the package manager pip to install the needed packages.

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to use

Just run main.py

Features

• Fully working YouTube video downloader from search or url
• Video download organization in folders easily deletable
• Mp3 audio extraction from video and player
• FULLY SYNCED FRAME TIMES. Using buffering and some smart python trickery, the frames will always be in sync with the audio
• Customizable ascii characters and settings
• Last video played remembering for easy video playback

Snippets

Type hint galore

def raw_play_video(
        video: Union[str, VideoCapture],
        audio_name: str,
        width: Optional[int],
        height: Optional[int],
        ascii_chars: str,
        pixel_width: Union[int, float],
        buffer_delay: Union[float, int],
        frame_rate: Optional[Union[float, int]] = None,
    ) -> None:

Extreme logic

    selected_video = settings['lastVideo'] = (
        last_video if forced_load else forced_load
        or input("\n\n\nFILENAME, FOLDER NAME, YOUTUBE URL, OR YOUTUBE SEARCH: ")
        or last_video
    )

BUILT FOR WINDOWS 10 PYTHON 3.9.5