Video To ASCII Art Converter

Description

I made this a while back now thought to myself huh, I wish I could do this with other videos. So I did.

The repository consists of two scripts, one that converts a video to ASCII art and the other a flask server to actually handle the curl request.

How to use

Requirements/Perquisites

1. Python 3.6+
2. ffmpeg (make sure to add it to your path)
3. A video fil (use one with green screen like this one) (you can use yt-dlp to download videos from youtube)
4. A terminal that supports ANSI escape codes (I use windows terminal)
5. ascii-image-converter

Steps

1. Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/shanTen/VideoToASCIIArt.git
2. Install the requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
3. run ConvertVideoToAsciiFramesFull.cmd <SomeVideo.ext>
4. W A I T. (not too long)
5. run python server.py
6. In another tab/window run curl localhost:7070 (or whatever port you set it to)
7. Enjoy! (optional)