ascii-stream

Play any video or GIF in your terminal as ASCII art, streamed frame by frame.

Bundles its own ffmpeg and ffprobe binaries via ffmpeg-static/ffprobe-static — no system install required.

By ProfessionalFlare.

Install

npm install -g ascii-stream

Quick start

stream video.mp4
stream video.gif
stream video.mp4 --ramp blocks --fps 15

Press Ctrl+C to stop.

See CLI Reference for all flags and Examples for library usage and setup notes.