Terminal ASCII Video

The C++ program that takes a video file and plays it in your terminal with ASCII characters
This program is built on pure C++ with the help of OpenCV (for reading video frames) and wxWidgets (for showing file dialog)
Right now works under windows only.

Usage

• Download executable.zip from Releases

• Extract all the files into the same folder and run VIDEO_SEEKER.exe like this:

  

• IMPORTANT Ensure that ASCII_VIDEO.exe and VIDEO_SEEKER.exe are in the same directory/folder because VIDEO_SEEKER.exe invokes ASCII_VIDEO.exe

• Select any video on your machine

By the way

• The console window is fully resizable during real time video playback.
• The program supports all types of fonts, so you can set a small font to increase the resolution of the ASCII video.

How to build

If you have CMake, insert this in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/martytyty2098/Terminal-ASCII-Video.git && cd Terminal-ASCII-Video && mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..

Then open the MASTER project, there will be two subprojects named ASCII_VIDEO and VIDEO_SEEKER
VIDEO_SEEKER contains the wxWidgets-dependent code that displays the file dialog and then passes path of the video to ASCII_VIDEO.exe
You will have to setup library dependencies on your own.

IMPORTANT

Even if you are not using CMake, ensure that ASCII_VIDEO.exe and VIDEO_SEEKER.exe are in the same directory/folder because VIDEO_SEEKER.exe invokes ASCII_VIDEO.exe

Known issues

• This program only works under Windows
• The program can't handle video files that are heavily compressed with codecs like AV1