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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- All of us have probably experienced the horrors beyond human comprehension that come with a classic TH-cam session, so what do you say if, by taking this nigh infinite potential of the platform, while getting rid of all the fluff, we use it in the way it’s always been intended - running the entire thing from your terminal, no fancy useless UI, no fancy useless features and even no fancy useless graphics.
Watch as, by combining the powers of the official TH-cam API, the ever-dependable Python and the ingenuity (ahem) of yours truly, I try to get the entirety of the TH-cam experience running in a terminal, in such a way that no matter the environment, you'll get to experience the platform in its most adequate form.
Link to the repo: github.com/ici...
Hi everyone!
First off, I want to thank you all so much for the insane amounts of support / feedback and all around great discussions and suggestions. It's always a pleasure to read so many different opinions and ideas, especially as I try to tackle projects with many unknown factors to me, so thanks for teaching me stuff as well!
Now, I noticed a lot of you suggested adding a couple of things, and I'll go in order:
1. A requirements.txt file - I mean yeah, duhh, idk how I forgot about that one, consider it done.
2. Add support for subtitles - Also, great suggestion so I went and did just that. You can now specify if you want to use subtitles and in which language using some new flags: --subtitles, -s | --subtitles-lang, -l. If none are found, it'll try to get autogenerated ones. I hope this is a pretty satisfying solution, and maybe an alleviator for point 4.
3. Add support for RGB - Again, awesome idea (I mean they all are tbf), but for this one I had to sneak some trade-offs in, as for some reason, to this day and age, there are enough terminals that don't even support colors by default, nevermind a large palette of them. So I decided to use the basic ANSI-8 color palette (let's just embrace the vintage style ig) when rendering them, and also made it so it's disabled by default, in case your terminal doesn't support it. Also I should mention that, due to the fact that the project is based around an on-the-fly way of running, with everything rendered in real time, adding colors is quite the intensive task, so if you're set on using them, consider playing around with the frame size. You can enable this using the --colors, -c flag.
Ah, also if the basic palette is too narrow for your tastes, I made it so you can expand the ANSIConstants.COLORS dictionary - just make sure to follow the established structure, and also beware that the more colors there are to choose from, the slower the conversion.
4. And now for the final and most debated point - audio. As you might surmise from that nod in point 2, I decided against adding support for audio. I fiddled with the idea and tried some implementations, but I realized the added complexity would slow down the app, and raise a lot (and I mean a lot) of syncing problems, because, compared to other video-to-ASCII converters, this one does everything in real time, so merging the audio and video at the end into a file is out of the question.
* Also I expanded the README file so there is more info about how to use the damn thing.
** Also also fixed the color scheme (it was inverted if the background of the terminal was darker than the characters, which is pretty much the base case, so... thanks for pointing it out), allowing to specify if the color scheme should be inverted or not and also (the 3rd one) now it's possible to render using Unicode characters instead of the default ASCII ones - just make sure your terminal fonts support Unicode.
All of these are commited to the same repo: github.com/icitry/TH-camCLI
Who read
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Python has a getch() alt called input("Text: ")
Is it possible that you have your ASCII char selection reversed?
The way it is right now, black gets assigned to "$" while white gets " "
I think it should be the opposite way
When i reversed the string, things look much more accurate
@@CheatingChicken Indeed that was the case 😅 I've seen multiple people pointing it out, and addressed it in the latest commit. Can't believe I overlooked that - guess I was too focused on it actually working
i dont understand how to download and use it
great! now add full RGB support and make it 8k HDR
but 8k is so last year, 16-32k would be more in line with the standards of today tbf (also RGB is possible, just that you'd probably need a bigger terminal for it to actually be viable - just get the dominant color for each pixel group and use it for the corresponding character)
@@icitry you can print 2 blank spaces (to match the height to width) and change the background color.
@@roaringcow8163 that's exactly what I did when making the game of life and a script that shows the desktop environment display in the terminal.
you could make it colored using terminal colors. If you place the this: ESC[38;2;⟨r⟩;⟨g⟩;⟨b⟩ infront of the char it sets the foreground color and this the background: ESC[48;2;⟨r⟩;⟨g⟩;⟨b⟩. The Colors are not full 0-255 per Channel in the windows console. (ANSI_escape_codes on Wikipedia)
@@icitrybtw, you can do a lot with the half width block character by coloring foreground and background of different colors
Linux users removing bloat:
Fr lol
Wrong. It's written in p*thon
as a void linux user, i can confirm
As an arch user, I admit it 😂
As a kali Linux fanboy, I kinda agree(removing unnecessary tools)
just watched this video again using the tool. text was a bit hard to read, which is funny, because its a literal terminal made for text lmao
Well that's Inception-worthy enough. And hey, if you manage to tweak/line up the text pixel perfectly, you may actually get something readable (I, for one, prefer to keep my sanity levels in check though)
@@icitry who needs sanity when you can have neck beard. (I use arch BTW)
@@nabibunbillah1839 based
@@nabibunbillah1839😂
I wanted to create the inception D:
Literally this is a good option for dopamine detoxers
Oh, oh yeah I definitely thought about that when creating it pff (that's actually a really great idea - I'll use it when pitching it to the thousands of investors that'll come flying in any second now /s)
Wait a sec
how 💀
@@icitry i offer -50 dollars for a 20% stake in this product
@@HassanIQ777 coding
@@verizonextron
Wait a sec
how 💀
Reminds me of a decade ago when I was a kid and my only computer was a raspberry pi. It couldn't run youtube in a browser, so I installed a CLI interface for it that would let you search videos with the keyboard and then write the video directly to the framebuffer device.
Ohh that's really neat, nice one!
TTTH-cam
Average classmate in comp sci class
Dude! This is far out stuff! This reminds me of, back in 1990 when we were making "video" with ANSI characters (in color), frame by frame. I wish I had a tape drive to read these old tapes - lot's of crazy ass code we did back then (and had 2 BBSes running continually). Great times!
Ohh that sounds so cool! You should try to post them on youtube or the like, those are some real time capsules
Cool project, now play Bad Apple on it!
simple task lol
Oh it's been done already 😭
3:41, this guy is fully dedicated, he even bothered fixing the responsive issues, lmao. I totally lost it.
Now i can finally watch youtube from my Ubuntu Server
At first i thought this was just going to be some youtube-dl frontend for selecting videos to open in mpv... Holy shit this is even better :D
And spare myself from some good ol' prolonged suffering? Couldn't be me
linux users would rather make a custom JS engine than just using a web browser
Windows powershell spotted🤢
imagine having bloatware on a paid operating system
Ladybird browser: am I a joke to you?
Sriously, I rather make my own .sh file than using VSC code and setting up a project, so it is not a joke at all.
I never thought I‘d get rickrolled by a terminal. Geez
Does this support ads? If not, you better expect them coming for you over their TOS /s
This is the final boss for TH-cam in their war against ad-block lmao
Really great work btw. I'm blown away how well you got it to work.
Thank you! And guess I'll go start digging for my new anti-yt-tos bunker
Icitry, TOS, TempleOS TH-cam, is it even possible?
No, the actual usable youtube in text based environment is tty + framebuffer (fbdev) + mpv with framebuffer support + mps-youtube
Isn't that technically a graphical environment, expect insterad of using a Window Server you're using a framebuffer mate.
I use ytfzf and fbterm, way better
Dude's been rickrolling us for 15 minutes. And we're enjoying it.
Ikr
Advanced AA libs can use the shape of characters to better represent multiple pixels than just average them, which can lead to much better results.
Oh definitely, this is very much a crude approach
Icitry Python is bloat, C is the way!
@@unucellply4221C is bloat. Assembly is the way.
What about... sound?
Just tap into your synaesthetic powers... But really, I thought about whether I should also include audio, as for consistent sound quality you'd most likely want to download the audio sources - not the most ideal thing if you're actually planning to rapidly navigate through many videos, and also against my idea of it being as lightweight and portable as possible.
@@icitry --audio
Maybe the CC or transcripts can be used?
@@icitryaudio is bloat
@@icitry use the pc speaker
He just rickrolled everyone watching the video
you can get double resolution and full RGB by displaying a half block with a custom background color and foreground color.
as a side effect this also removes the stretching
and ANSI characters
Man, I wish I could find the old code we had for creating ANSI "videos" in color (1990) to share on our BBS systems (and the Internet - back when you had to be a student or professor OR pay a friggin' premium)
I remember once I've compiled player with libaa and libbb support, pretty cool
YES! I CAN FINALLY DAILY DRIVE UBUNTU SERVER! Who needs a GUI? Everyone knows terminal is op.
bro, I beg your mercy. please forgive me for breathing the same air as you are.
I feel like a simple fix that would've made the videos look so much better would've been to simply... invert the character list. Since the characters are white and the background is blue, it makes sense to use the densest character with the lighter pixels, not the darker ones.
Yep, you perfectly pointed it out, thanks for that - I fixed it in the latest commit (still can't believe I missed that)
Amazing project! You're the land's salt mate! Finally a worthy way to use yt!
😆 Thank you! I'm glad to hear people see the vision
Awesome video! Dude you put in effort and the best part is, its not like it was extreme effort but it was so much more then i would've for a youtube CLI! You totally made one better!!! Im gunna subscribe for more fun coding with different clis and apis ❤️
It is unironically batter than actual TH-cam:
1. You can watch it without ads
2. You don't have shorts all over your screen
3. Search should be functional instead of showing random videos that "you might also like"
You really have to implement sound thought speaker and \a symbol. I know it wouldn't really work(
ALSA on an ARM SBC gets weird pitch, but mpv is able to adjust this
Tf are you yapping about be fr bro
lets play the h1t1 video for the weirdest ways to play his video!
You should add support for the kitty graphical protocol, it would allow playing the video as an actual video in a terminal
too cool -- i'm even happy to subscribe, even though it was python and powershell :-D can't wait for more, thank you!
Welcome aboard, and thank you as well! :D
And ofc I've watched this on the terminal :>
Just the way I intended
1:18 I loved that part
Yeah, i'm just overwhelmed by the video quality; I've been watching every .000000000000004K video out there.
They probably are less worried about their algorithm and more about apps that can replace yt apps and in result, their premium features and can remove or replace their ads. Algorithm changes, maybe even daily and for different users is probably different anyway, but they fight with for example with yt vanced for years now. They don't want to block all functionalities, but want to make competition worse than it could be, as bad as they can.
What about... sound? Not possible?
That too, for sure, biggest giveaway was that deprecation notice from last august, which *coincidentally* overlapped with them trying to crack down on 3rd party apps, but I'g wager they also don't want outsiders to reverse engineer their algos, as it's not like they change it in major ways nowadays, more so than tweak it regularly. Also yep, sound is possible, just that I was kinda on the fence about adding it, but I'll probably add support for it as well
@@icitry Yeah, they are protective about algorithm, true. But I feel like the data from home page is not enough to reverse engineer, and you can scrape it anyway with bots. If you need the home page data at demand though, like with apps, it is much more important to have API. You probably could scrape it anyway, but I have no idea if its feasible in consumer product.
I think that "the algorithm" is neural net/ some sort of AI anyway, so it would be like trying to use chatGPT answers to reverse engineer it.
@@syriuszb8611 Oh yep, fair points across the board. Although I'd still argue it would be easier than with GPT as the "data sets" (video and user data) are much more accessible through the other endpoints in the case on YT, so it'd be easier to try to make your model output similar stuff to what a 'homepage' endpoint would generate, speeding up the process (I probably misspoke about it being reverse engineering, but moreso emulating the behavior). But really, great points all around!
Yet they fail so horribly to get rid of vanced (I'm using it). There will NEVER not be an adblocker detector bypass for TH-cam mobile and TH-cam for PC.
bro the mr beast edit lmaooooo
insane idea, excecuted brilliantly.
Terminology can do video in terminal, but API is hot spud.
Duh, im watching this video in my computer's terminal, easy stuff bro.
"...or does it?"
*vsause music starts playing*
im dying 🤣
I mean, for example for Linux at least, there is the Kitty terminal which supports images?
Yes, You can use the terminal for browsing and you have the thumbnails. Once you select what you want to watch the video launch with MPV .
We can definitely survive the apocalypse now
You are an excellent software engineer. Great video.
The amount of times I got Rick Rolled in this video is insane.
your terminal ASCII palette seems to be inversed: dark parts are light and light parts are dark
I can surely tell you you will gaze upn vsauce the whole day
No sixels? Not even colors? No audio? Windows is truly abomination
Oh you tell me, I added some of those or alternatives since then, but you can guess who the bottleneck was - again (aside from my brain ofc)
@@icitry will you post an update?
you should look into the kitty graphics protocol if you want to keep working on this
not portable
no search, iterate through all videos and compare strings
you can find everything on youtube for real.
How stallman uses the internet:
Funnily enough one bit of this, specifically the constant loop looking for inputs using getch, is actually something I’ve been trying to do in a project I’m doing but (mainly due to inexperience) I don’t know how to get it working. If you would be able to help in any way it would be much appreciated
Instead of doing ascii black and white you could've done Unicode Upper Half Block foreground and background color keycodes in the terminal
Really cool idea, props for it, but based on a user's installed fonts, the terminal might not be able to render unicode characters, so I'm kinda on the fence about this
This would be funny to do to avoid ads 😂
I genuinely want to try this!
for the love of god, the only thing this needs is rgb. that is. nice job.
This is awesome, you should try using a color library or something. Though this would likely complicate it a lot it would be worth a shot.
We now need the audio
You got something wrong:
Hipster cli tools made so that you dont have to use an official UI client and can use the terminal are written in rust, not python. Also use Linux, rice that terminal and add colors.
would it be possible to make a youtube ""fork"" that essentially acts as a picture-in-picture player + video info? like, it shows the title and another video as an option but not much else. no comments, no browser decorations, no forced fullscreen for these features, literally just a video player with a "like/dislike/see views/change video"
This was a great video! I now wanna try it in PHP as well 😬
Wouldn't a monospaced font be better to use instead of a user defined aspect ratio?
I WILL SUBSCRIBE, but please make more terminal apps, like for spotify or whatever else, i would love to have this run on a remote stream, these days theres not many people use the terminal like a genius
just use cmus or something lmfao
when i clicked this i thought "lol i wonder how wild itd be to make it ascii based" cuz i expected it to just load frames at a time... ur actually doin it. absolute madlad. im stupid so this may sound stupid but if you got it running in neovim so i could watch primeagen in neovim while he talks about neovim, i think we could achieve world peace.
Thank you, I always strive to reach the best (worst) possible solution, so ofc I had to go all the way with ascii. Also, are you sure a single text editor should be able to wield so much power? World peace is one option, but what if neovim becomes too powerful for it's opposition..
image to ascii is a solved problem, not sure why it's reinvented here.
@@avi7278 for fun and improvement. building things like this gives transferrable skills. otherwise ive seen stupid comments before ... so why are you here
@@BrentMalice have fun then?
Awesome video, your code is so clean, it appreciate the architectural design haha
Is there a repo for this? Id really like to fork it and try make it colour with some health threading abuse.
Might even pull out the c++
Oh, thank you! Yep, there's a link to the repo in the description. Go crazy, I'd actually be curios to see alternative implementations.
On 15 may, there's no "C++" forks. If you start this project, may you take some help?
y'know it'd be legit great if, when the video is of text in a code editor, I actually get the text rendered as text on my device, rather than as an image
can you add OCR ;)
Just use MPV with TH-cam-dl and use mpv’s ascii video out mode. Seems the obvious choice.
you have tyrian lannister voice
Well now that's truly something I can brag about - thank you!
please add dithering. i tried ascii stuff like this once and dithering is literally the best thing to happen to that project
Ohh, really cool idea, my only concern would be about the processing costs, I'm pretty hesitant to add any more stuff on frame renders
look into the sixel protocol and get video that actually looks good in the terminal
I may be talking bs, as I haven't delved too deep into it, but I don't think it's inbuilt to all compilers, right? I more or less wanted to make sure it's plug and play wherever you use it, but other than that, yea, better graphics would definitely be an immediate improvement (although it'd lose that beautiful barely legible style I got going rn..)
@@icitry i'm not quite sure how it works, you might be able to find a library to work with them. theres a utility called timg that allows you to play videos on disk and display images in the terminal with them but doesnt have audio or anything afaik. not all terminals have sixel support, though i know it works for kitty and i think iterm3.
@@peterc-s6423 Oh, ok gotcha, I'll look into it, but I'm gonna prioritize it being cross-platform if it comes to it. Thanks for the heads-up!
And to think I can’t even get the TH-cam app working on Android 4.0
Cool project idea! I think you could implement colors though, not really sure about how to do it in windows, but under linux I think you could play around with the terminal emulator's colorscheme
Terminals can show colors right ? I feel like there is way to make this works for real
you could maybe use some type of sound library, so that you can have sound (ex. winsound)
What music is at 3:20???
Oh that would be Moon Men by Jake Chudnow, but most know it by "the vsauce funny meme song"
Why don't you use sixels for rendering the videos?
dang the intro made me fall asleep so good
i wonder if using the braille ascii characters could increase the quality at all?
Can you make a Windows 7 Installer Joke (just harmless) in python using Tkinter
(Edit: just read your pinned comment) audio world be nice.. hopefully someone figures out a simple & efficient way to implement it some day.
I'm honestly not trolling here, I enjoyed this and it's been something on my todo list!
And I also know I've seen other command line. Terminal video players do it in the past. Although it's been years
Why not add RGB and sound support? Terminal support colors natively right?
You "Almost" mentioned my first 8th-grade teacher's name (before the switch).
This is art.
Your ascii conversion is inverted. You are making a video player but you don't care about the image at all?
Yep, long overdue.
Arch user detected ! 🗿
No shower and at least 5 TB of it detected
@@hippo4371 bro it's been 2 months I commented 💀
Implement subtitles?
And maybe acerola's ascii converter
that one is a little better I think and still performant
aint no shot i just got rick rolled in ASCII
Add audio plz
If only the ascii characters actually matched the contours of the image. Like more traditional, hand-made ascii art.
Oh yeah, that would definitely help make it more legible, and further refining the ASCII characters string would improve it, but a solution that works for all videos is, to put it lightly, quite the tall order 😅
How wonderfully unuseless!
It would be awesome to see this with Acerola's ascii renderer
👍 now add RGB and Sound Support
(I would sadly use this it had that…)
you should make the ascii colored (most cli support it) kind of like neofetch
excuse my ignorance, but for the basic idea of removing all the GUI couldnt you just run it in about:blank and paste the data into the html? this way youtube wouldnt be able to check for an adblocker? hell, you could paste the HTML of the entire youtube page and it should just *work* edit: OH YOU CHANGE IT TO ASCI! This is beyond cursed
1:08 "Running [TH-cam] exactly how its creators envisioned it"? I don't know what you've been smoking, but I want no part of it.
This is awesome
Amazing. Now implement sound.
imagine using fore for the coloration oh my that would be a shitfuck
Terminal supports color, using ansi escaoe codes. would be interesting to them used in the video
Avoiding bloat the best way possible on arch:
0:38 can anyone please tell what meme is it?
me installing this in the company's main server