Video 2 Ascii Art

Video 2 Ascii Art is a fun tool for Windows designed to convert various types of video files into HTML pages with ASCII art. It lets you customize the foreground and background colors, along with the ASCII animation size.

Ad-supported application

When going through the installation procedure, make sure not to rush through the wizard steps, because Video 2 Ascii Art wishes to download and install additional programs made by other developers, as well as to make some modifications to your web browser. Unless you want this, you can decline the offers to make a clean setup.

Intuitive UI with rich video file support

The interface is pretty straightforward. Unfortunately, it's not explicit concerning the file types supported. According to our tests, AVI, ASF, 3GP, MP4, MKV, VOB and GIF are accepted. You should also know that batch processing is unsupported, so only one video can be turned into ASCII at a time.

Turn common videos into ASCII art

After opening a clip, you can check out the full path of the file, along with the video width, height, frames per second, and duration (in seconds). As instructed by the program, you may considering resizing the video to obtain better performance (i.e. webpage loading speed). This can be done by specifying the new width and height, while aspect ratio can be preserved or disregarded.
Moreover, you can select one of the five ASCII art palettes available, as well as pick the preferred colors for the background and foreground. Sadly, it doesn't implement an option for changing the default saving directory; all new files are automatically created in the same location as the source, and you can open the new HTML pages by clicking a button in the main frame.

Conclusion

Video 2 Ascii Art features intuitive options for quickly putting together animated ASCII art in HTML pages with content obtained from converted video clips. No previous experience with video conversion software is necessary.