dance

Streams a video as ASCII art over HTTP. Connect with curl — no browser needed.

Usage

curl localhost

Place the video in video.mp4/video.mp4. If missing, a test pattern is generated via ffmpeg.

How it works

ffmpeg decodes frames to raw RGB24 at 160×48px, 10 FPS. Each pixel maps to an ASCII character by luma. Frames stream as chunked HTTP responses.

Run

docker compose up

Nginx proxies port 80 → Go server on 8080.

Requirements

• Docker + Docker Compose
• video.mp4 (optional — test pattern used as fallback)