TermVideo: View Video Files in a Terminal

[odo1242]

https://pypi.org/project/termvideo/

[bilekas]

This is interesting but requires a true colour terminal, i was kind of hoping it would transcode to ASCII art each frame... Hmmm interesting weekend project i think.

Edit : just looking through the source, it actually looks like it is doing that.. the true colour should be optional so!

[odo1242 → bilekas]

you can use the command line argument -b ascii to use ascii (thanks for reminding me to add documentation!)

[lathiat → bilekas]

Circa 2005 mplayer supported both “aalib” and “calib” output for black and Color ascii art respectively.

[odo1242 → bilekas]

Thanks for the feedback though!

[TobTobXX]

mpv can do that too: mpv --vo=tct {file}

[goodkernel]

Why would I want to view video files in the terminal?

[jjeaff → goodkernel]

Because you can, of course.

[connectsnk]

a demo would be helpful please

[odo1242 → connectsnk]

yeah, it appears PyPi didn’t render it :( there’s one on GitHub tho: https://github.com/omduggineni/termvideo

[mrlonglong → odo1242]

Argh! It's Rick rolling me!

[odo1242 → mrlonglong]

:)

[crtasm → connectsnk]

the Homepage link there includes a demo: https://github.com/omduggineni/termvideo