This is a TCP server that streams colorful ASCII video in your terminal. Follow the tags to see how this asyncio application was developed step by step.
The server plays ASCII art video files created with the script bundled in convert/convert.py.
To see the videos, simply connect to the server with telnet.
This repository contains the Big Buck Bunny movie converted to ASCII art frames.
img2txt was used to convert each video frame to ASCII art. Learn more about video conversion in convert/README.md.
This project requires Python 3.5. If you don't have Python 3.5 but you have Docker installed you can use the bin/container.sh wrapper which will run our application in a Python 3.5 image in Docker.
To install all required packages run:
pip install -r requirements.txt
To run the server use this simple command:
./bin/main.py <video file>
For example:
./bin/main.py bigBuckBunny.ascii.bz2
Or, if you don't have Python 3.5 you can run our server in Docker using this wrapper:
./bin/container.sh
It has no arguments and plays the above example file.
Simply use telnet:
telnet localhost 8000