video to ascii.

General Discussion
#1

hello. I’m looking for a programme to turn a video into an ascii.

#2

libcaca might be what you’re looking for:

http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

#3

thank you. but absolutely idea how to open and use this file.

#4

Would aalib deliver the kind of output you’re looking for? This enthusiast seems to have left a bit of a howto: AAlib ASCII video.

#5

New project, but:

#6

You can do it with VLC and caca in the command line:

vlc --vout caca somevideo.avi

https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/caca/