A python program that creates ASCII graphics from images and videos. It can also play videos with subtitle support (given a .srt file)! 😱

You have seen Music Players, Stack-overflow surfers, Hacker News portals etc. in the terminal, so it is the logical next step 😅. Besides, the terminal makes almost everything appear x10 times more cool.

The program runs using python3 The following python packages are used in the program:

• pysrt
• opencv-python
• Pillow
• numpy

These packages can be installed using any package manager for python like pip, conda, etc.

All POSIX compliant terminals should work well. If you use windows, and the program doesn't work well, try switching to WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Navigate to the directory of the python script and run the following command

python generate.py $VIDEO_FILENAME $SUBTITLE_FILENAME $OPTION

If you want to run without subtitles then

python generate.py $VIDEO_FILENAME $OPTION

Here $VIDEO_FILENAME and $SUBTITLE_FILENAME are the full path to the files and $OPTION takes values 0 for black and white output and 1 for true colour output (see if your terminal supports true colour before enabling)

• Support 3-bit RGB (8-colours)
• Support true colour (24-bit RGB) visit tc-version branch
• Support automatic resizing
• Support B&W output
• Support subtitles