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It is invigorating.

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[–] 8 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

I just remember running the coolest ffmpeg command many years ago, I don't remember the actual command, but it rendered th video as ascii art

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Shut. Up. That sounds amazing. Did it convert the video data into ASCII text or did it use ASCII characters to resemble the actual video?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago* (3 children)

    OK, I wanna know about the script. That sounds awesome.

    There’s a lot I could do with that

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Here you go, I think this is what you need, don't remember if it was what I used, but seem to be effectively identical:

    https://github.com/pzich/ffmpeg-ascii

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