Plans for the Future

[cobyj33]

As of right now, I still love this project, but I think the code is much too tightly coupled.

Main Refactoring

• The code to create the ascii video and the code to actually playback the data should be decoupled, as well as the code to read a video and get a video frame, and the code to read audio and get audio frames.
• It should all fit together so that it can support different backends for reading video. I'll still have to work out how audio would be packaged into the ascii video but I'll get there

Another goal would be to actually create an mp4 video which emulates a terminal display and includes the audio of the original video synced.

• C programs aren't very easy to package and distribute, so I also plan to create some sort of binding to Python, Javascript, or whatnot that will allow me to distribute the program a little easier and hopefully make it a web service

asciinema is definitely a big inspiration for these new plans for making ascii recordings, and a goal may even be able to make code generated by ascii_video compatible with asciinema data

As of now, the main plan is to make ascii_video more accessible through refactoring and binding, because if I ever had to compile ffmpeg to run anything I'd just click off the website, and I'm sure other's would too (although there is a docker container :/ but that's not much better for other reasons). It'll also be my first time trying to create language bindings so it should be pretty interesting, and moving the project from C++ to C should pay off and allow me to bind more easily to other languages.

[cobyj33]

Can't believe I really considered making a language binding just for distribution -_-. It's like I wanted the project to be finished in 2033 looking back.

The asciinema idea is still a good idea though