A video player for your terminal
- 🎬 Play most video formats (uses ffmpeg under the hood)
- 🔊 Supports audio playback
- 📐 Automatically resize to the terminals current size
- 🔤 Different character sets
- 🎨
${{\large\textsf{{\color{Red}C}{\color{Orange}o}{\color{Yellow}l}{\color{Green}o}{\color{Aqua}r} {\color{Purple}s}{\color{Pink}u}{\color{Red}p}{\color{Orange}p}{\color{Yellow}o}{\color{Green}r}{\color{Aqua}t}}}}$
demo.mp4
asciiplayer video.mp4
asciiplayer animated.gif # also supports gif
asciiplayer video.mkv # ... and many other formats
asciiplayer v1.mp4 v2.mp4 v3.mp4 # play multiple videos sequentiallyasciiplayer -c video.mp4 # enable color
asciiplayer -c -ch filled video.mp4 # use unicode full blocks (█) to render colored video
asciiplayer -fps 10 video.mp4 # play video at specific fps
asciiplayer -height 20 video.mp4 # play video at a specific resolution
asciiplayer -h # show helpGet the binary from the releases tab.
You can also build the binary yourself:
git clone https://github.com/Ecasept/asciiplayer
cd asciiplayer
go build -o build/asciiplayer .
./build/asciiplayer -v # verify that it workedTo build the project, you will need to have the ffmpeg development libraries installed:
# For Fedora:
# Check which version of ffmpeg you have installed:
dnf list --installed "ffmpeg*"
# If you have `ffmpeg-free` installed:
sudo dnf install ffmpeg-free-devel
# If you have `ffmpeg` installed:
sudo dnf install ffmpeg-develThis project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.