AsciiVid is an ASCII video codec and player. Just something I made for fun.
This project is unfinished. It was only meant to be a curses test but I guess I went overboard :-)
But as a result, there are many bugs and quite a few features are missing. For instance, the encoder can only encode from PNG files, using them as separate frames. Or the player using the same framebuffer to draw UI elements and the actual video frames, leading to several issues. I won't be updating this but if you're willing to fix those for me, hit me up with a pull request.
Grab a prebuilt binary over at the releases page or compile it yourself using the instructions below.
Make sure to have some common development tools and a curses library installed.
Run these commands in a terminal:
git clone https://github.com/LeadRDRK/AsciiVid.git
cd AsciiVid
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
makeUsing a Unix-like environment with MinGW-w64 is recommended. The procedure is exactly the same as Linux as described above. As for the curses library, PDCurses with wincon is recommended.
Example: Encoding a video from *.png files with audio
asciienc -i path/to/frames_folder -ifmt png -f 30 -a audio.ogg output.asv
Example: Play a video
asciiplay video.asv
More information can found by executing the programs with the --help option.
Please note that the user interface for asciiplay is incomplete and buggy. It can be disabled using the -disableui option.
As usual, here's the classic Bad Apple!!
