TXT Player （视频转TXT播放器）

This project is a small script for turn a video into many txts and display them in CMD just like the origin video.

Platform

This small script is written in python 2.7, using many packages, all listed below.

• PIL : You can install PIL by executing an executable binary file from here.
• cv2 : cv2 is the openCV packages for python. You can download openCV from its official site. Also, install by pip pip install opencv-python is needed. Then, install ffmpeg. Download it from here, I suggest you chose the binary file and just install it simply. After you install cv2, numpy and matplotlib will also be installed.

Usage

Turn video into txts

Just run python2 video2txt.py <parameters>. Also, you can download the executable binary file video2txt.exe from my cloud storage: here. The parameters are:

• --file: the video you want to transform.
• --output or -o: the directory you want to store the txts, you can use absolute path or relative path.
• --frame: how many frames you want to transform.
• --color: output "colorful" txts or just black-white txts with only '#' and space? Default is black-white. If you want more chars, set --color=True.
• --interval: transform a frame between interval frames. For example, when interval is 0, the program will transform every frame. This parameter should not conflict with play.py, here, is interval is 0, then the frame parameter in play.py should be 25( if your video is 25 frames/s ), else if won't display well. Its default value is 24, it means 1 frame/s if video is 25 frames/s.
• --width: the width of txt image.
• --height: the height of txt image.
• Example: python2 video2txt.py --file=test.avi --output=pic --frame=600 --interval=0 --width=80 --height=60, this command will transform first 600 frames of test.avi into txts, these txts will be stored in ./pic, with 80x60 dpi.

Play

run python2 play.py <parameters>. Also, you can download the executable binary file play.exe from my cloud storage: here. The parameters are:

• --dir: the txts' path, the directory should only contain the txts.
• --frame: how many txts displayed per sec.
• Example: python2 play.py --dir=pic --frame=24 means display all txts in pic with 24 txts per sec.

Tips

You may find openCV for python is too hard to install. Several tips here to help you, or give you another choice.

• Cannot open video with my tool? You can add openCV\soureces\3rdparty\ffmpeg into your environment variable, or copy opencv_ffmpeg.dll and opencv_ffmpeg_64.dll from openCV\soureces\3rdparty\ffmpeg to your install directory of python2.7. Also, change their filenames. Check your opencv-python version by import cv2, cv2.__version__, for example, 3.1.0, then change opencv_ffmpeg.dll intoopencv_ffmpeg310.dll and change opencv_ffmpeg_64.dll into opencv_ffmpeg310_64.dll. Try again!
• Afraid of so confused steps? Just use ffmpeg -i foo.avi -r 1 -s WxH -f image2 foo-%03d.png to change your video into several .png images. Here WxH is your dpi, foo.avi should be replaced by your video. After that, change my code and read those images.

Update-logs

• 2016-9-22: Add this project.
• 2016-9-23: Two methods with args.
• 2016-10-7: Build repository.

License

All codes in this repository are licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.