Video to Chars

Convert video to character art animation.

中文说明

Install

Install video2chars:

pip install video2chars

If you're using an old version of pip, maybe you should add --prefer-binary to make things go right(or upgrade your pip first):

pip install video2chars --prefer-binary

This tool relies on imageio-ffmpeg, but only the binary version of imageio-ffmpeg contains the ffmpeg binary. if pip choose the source version, problem will occurs.

Usage

video2chars --width 120 --end 10 path/of/video_file

The command shows that the specified video will be converted to an ascii art animation with the width of 120, and only convert the first 10 seconds. you'll see a file named output.mp4 in your current directory when completes, have fun ~

p.s. it's a bit slow, turn down the width and fps, to speed up the conversion.

Check video2chars --help for more information.

Demonstration

Old version

video2chars - v0.3

1. shell version demo：

2. html version demo：

Article

Shell Version(in Chinese): 视频转字符动画-Python-60行代码

Related Projects

• Video2ASCII.jl(Julia Version): simple implementation in julia.
• video2ascii-rs(rust version): simple implementation in rust.

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