plansi 0.0.4

plays videos as ansi

👾 plansi

Plays videos as ANSI, trying to keep the output as small and as castable as possible.

▶ Usage

# play to terminal
uvx plansi video.mp4

# write to asciinema file
uvx plansi video.mp4 video.cast

# with options
uvx plansi video.mp4 --fps=15 --threshold=10 --debug
uvx plansi video.mp4 --cache-position --no-cache-style

TODO - Version 0.1.0

🌐 Streaming & Input Sources

• yt-dlp integration: Auto-detect http:///https:// URLs and use yt-dlp API to get direct streaming URLs
• Fallback strategy: Try ffmpeg first, fall back to yt-dlp if that fails
• Webcam support: Add --camera flag to treat input as webcam device
  • Linux: /dev/video0 with v4l2
  • Windows: DirectShow device enumeration
  • macOS: AVFoundation device support

📺 Terminal & Display

• SIGWINCH handling: Resize video on terminal window resize during live playback
• Cast file quantization: Quantize existing .cast files

🔧 API Improvements

• File-like object support: Allow writing to BytesIO, StringIO for textual-asciinema