Scoria is a PHP library that allows you to encode video files into ASCII art, save the recording to a file and play it in the terminal, or encode and play directly without saving.
Add these values to your composer.json then run composer update.
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://github.com/enxas/scoria"
}
],
"require": {
"enxas/scoria": "dev-main"
}Ensure that FFmpeg is installed on your system..
Example usage:
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use Enxas\Scoria;
$inputFilePath = "./big_buck_bunny_1080p_h264.mov";
$outputFilePath = "./ascii_video.amov";
$scoria = new Scoria(ffmpegPath: "C:\\tools\\ffmpeg.exe");
// Convert video and play it back (slower)
$scoria->encodeAndPlay($inputFilePath);
// OR
// Convert video to ASCII art and save converted video (faster)
$scoria->encode($inputFilePath, $outputFilePath);
// Then play back the ASCII art video
$scoria->play($outputFilePath);