AsciiFlix

Play videos in the terminal

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Description

• This video player uses opencv to convert frames of a video to text in real time.
• There are two threads, one to encode each frame into text, and another to display each frame at the right fps.
• It uses a std::mpsc::sync_channel to communicate between the threads.

Running

First, build the program with

cargo build --release

then run the program with

cargo run <video file>

Controls

Key	Action
Q	Quit
Left_arrow_key	Slow down by 2x
Right_arrow_key	Speed up by 2x
Space	Pause

Demo

demo1.mp4

Contributors

Kurian Jojo

Made with ❤ by GDSC-VIT