Video 2 ascii art converter is a software that lets you convert video to ascii art. Within a few clicks, it will convert the video to ascii art animation and output in html format.

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Conversion process:

1. Click on the “Select video” button to select the video you want to convert.
2. Click on the “Convert” button and it will start the conversion process.
3. For more, you can also: config the palette, set the forecolor/bgcolor in the output html, and change the width/height of the result ascii art output size.
4. Open the output html file to see the animation displayed with ascii characters and you can also edit/upload the html to the website to share with your friends.

How does it work behind scene:

1. Convert the video to gray scale picture
2. and then map each pixel to the characters given in the palette by their brightness level .

Tips:

• Long length video will end up with a big output html file, it’s not efficient when playback. To be efficient, always cut the video to the size small enough to be useful, for example 1 minute, etc.
• Twist and increase the output width&height will have better looking result.

Acknowledgement:

For good palette characters, and valuable guidance:
http://www.jave.de/image2ascii/algorithms.html
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10949/ASCII-Art-Generator