ASCII Video Player

A tool written in C which lets you play any video (local or with URL) as ASCII text in the terminal. Created as a project for the CSE-201 Procedural Programming in C course.

Demo

out.mp4

Usage

• Install the dependencies

  • Ubuntu/Debian:

    sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev
    

  • Arch:

    sudo pacman -S ffmpeg
    

• Compile the program gcc main.c -o player -lavformat -lavcodec -lavutil -lswscale -lm

• Then execute the player file with ./player. The program will ask for the name of the file, you can either enter the name of a video file in the same directory or feed it a URL to a video.

Note: The video will resize itself to the current dimensions of your terminal, if you wish to have a higher quality output zoom out your terminal before running the program