ascvid 1.5.3

ASCII Video player.

ascvid is an ASCII video player with quite exact results. It is mostly advised to be used under Linux, but it might work on Windows too (its behavior under Mac is untested, and it will likely not work well). Here is a little showcase of what it can do:

It requires a Truecolor terminal to work like this. If you are on a stupider terminal, the results will look less realistic.The produced graphics aren’t blinking as in other ASCII video players, however, the videos might lag a bit if your terminal is zoomed out. ascvid also supports audio output and pausing your video! It’s a true video player.

Installation

python3 -m pip install ascvid

Then you can just run ascvid and you’re good to go.

CLI Options

NOTE :: –no-truecolor option lags like my brain, so if you are on a stupid terminal, you are better off using –no-color in ASCII mode. .. code-block:: console

Usage: ascvid [OPTIONS] FILE

Options:

-H, --hide-cursor

Hide the cursor while playing the video

-A, --no-audio

Don’t play audio stream

-f, --fps TEXT

Number of FPS the video’s supposed to run at. If None, it’s determined from the video. If “max”, ascvid will try its best to keep the video from lagging

-c, --char TEXT

Character to be used while rendering the video frames

-C, --no-color

Don’t color output

-a, --ascii

Use multiple ASCII characters. Best to be used with –no-truecolor

-T, --no-truecolor

Reduces color palette. Use this flag on more stupid terminals (windows).

-F, --fast

Toggles off resizing each frame individually, rather resizes the entire video. Use this if the video is lagging too much.

-d, --disable-controls

Disables pausing the video

-t, --title TEXT

Sets the title of the video. If not set, file name will be used instead

-h, --hide-title

hides the title

-n, --new-window

Opens in a new terminal window

-t, --term TEXT

Specify terminal in format ‘<terminal command> <run command switch> {}’

-o, --outfile TEXT

Specify output file

-d, --debug

Debug mode: show current/target fps

-s, --subs

Subtitle file to use

--help

Show this message and exit.