I built a terminal-based YouTube video player that renders videos as ASCII art in real time. To make this work, I also built a reusable image-to-ASCII rendering engine as a separate Rust crate, which the player uses to convert video frames into ASCII and stream them to stdout with basic FPS control. Projects: ASCII engine (Rust crate): https://github.com/SameerVers3/pixel2ascii Terminal YouTube player: https://github.com/SameerVers3/stdout-tv It’s mainly an experiment, but I’d ...