Convert any video to a stream of ASCII frames

$ asc [OPTIONS] --file <FILE>

File

-f, --file <INPUT FILE>

Specify the input video file to be convertered

Output

-o, --output <OUTPUT FILE>

Optional filename for asciiframe to write rendered output to, which can be run later to display the video

Ensure opencv and pkg-config is installed!

cargo install asciiframe

Make sure ~/.cargo/bin is in your path

MacOS:

• brew install pkg-config opencv
• If you get dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libclang.dylib then run export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH="$(xcode-select --print-path)/usr/lib/" first

asciiframe is also a package on crates.io so you can use it in your own project

Once you've added it to your Cargo.toml, you can use the asciiframe::render() function, which takes an input file fin, width, height, and finally render_frame, a function with the input of a string

As asciiframe::render iterates through the video and converts each frame to a string of ASCII characters, it then calls render_frame on the string before moving onto the next video frame

As a result, you can call render and pass in a function/closure as render_frame. The function thus gets called on every frame the moment it gets rendered.

For example

asciiframe::render(fin, width, height, |frame| {
	println!("{esc}c", esc = 27 as char);
	println!("{}", frame.data);
	Ok(())
});

This function would print out the frame to stdout the moment it gets converted to ASCII.

• luke-rt(Luke T)

• prebuilt binaries
• examples

MIT License