VLC Media Player (with ASCII Output)
- VLC has an option to render video as ASCII. Go to Tools > Preferences > Video > Output and select Color ASCII Art Video Output. Then play your video, and VLC will show it in ASCII.
Caca-utils (mpv + libcaca)
mpv
andlibcaca
can display videos in ASCII format.- Command:
mpv --vo=caca video.mp4
FFmpeg (with a custom script)
- You can use FFmpeg to extract video frames and pipe them into an ASCII art script for conversion.
These tools allow you to either stream video in ASCII or convert it frame by frame into ASCII video.