This work is based on previous work here. While art does only ASCII conversion for static images, movart does the same for mp4 encoded videos. Just like before, you can choose between monochrome, gray scale and color characters. Movart also supports playing the audio stream if desired using the -audio option.

Example Usage:

./movart -file video.mp4

./movart -file video.mp4 -audio

./movart -file video.mp4 -mode gray -audio

./movart -file video.mp4 -mode color -audio

./movart -file video.mp4 -alphabet "*\. " -fontfile courier_prime.ttf

Libraries used for this project:

Reisen

This project would not have been possible without reisen, a simple library to extract video and audio frames from media containers.

• https://github.com/zergon321/reisen

• https://golangrepo.com/repo/zergon321-reisen-go-video

Other useful reading:

Ebiten 2D Game Engine

• https://github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten

Disintegration Imaging Library

• https://github.com/disintegration/imaging

OpenCV 4 Computer Vision Library

• https://github.com/hybridgroup/gocv