pnk-pkv

An ASCII art video player in your terminal.

✨ Features

• Decode and play almost any video format, in your terminal
• Cross-platform
• More coming soon!

🚀 Getting started

Prerequisites

• CMake (3.10+)
• FFmpeg
• C99 compatible compiler

Building

git clone https://github.com/Hurubon/pnk-pkv
cd pnk-pkv
cmake -S . -B bin
cmake --build bin

Running

bin/pkv.exe res/demo.mp4

Make sure your terminal is in fullscreen and zoom out/lower font size if necessary.

📜 License

Distributed under the GPLv3 license.
See LICENSE for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Demo video by Matthias Groeneveld on Pixabay
• Inspired/influenced by doom-ascii on GitHub
• Inspired/influenced by ThePrimeagen on YouTube
• Influenced by Acerola on YouTube
• Influenced by Useless Game Dev on YouTube
• An amazing explanation of ANSI color escape sequences by Richard on StackOverflow
• The Together C & C++ community on Discord.

✏️ Notes

pkv is still in active development. Contributions and suggestions are welcome and wanted!

This README has been optimized for accessibility based on GitHub's blogpost "Tips for Making your GitHub Profile Page Accessible".