## Stream as ASCII to Terminal

**Tips**

- this feature works only with MJPEG codec (use transcoding)
- choose a low frame rate (FPS)
- choose the width and height to fit in your terminal
- different terminals support different numbers of colours (8, 256, rgb)
- escape text param with urlencode
- you can stream any camera or file from a disc

**go2rtc.yaml** - transcoding to MJPEG, terminal size - 210x59 (16/9), fps - 10

```yaml
streams:
  macarena: ffmpeg:macarena.mp4#video=mjpeg#hardware#width=210#height=59#raw=-r 10
```

**API params**

- `color` - foreground color, values: empty, `8`, `256`, `rgb`
- `back` - background color, values: empty, `8`, `256`, `rgb`
- `text` - character set, values: empty, one char, `block`, list of chars (in order of brightness)
  - example: `%20` (space), `block` (block elements), `ox` (two chars)

**Examples**

```bash
% curl "http://192.168.1.123:1984/api/stream.ascii?src=macarena"
% curl "http://192.168.1.123:1984/api/stream.ascii?src=macarena&color=256"
% curl "http://192.168.1.123:1984/api/stream.ascii?src=macarena&back=256&text=%20"
% curl "http://192.168.1.123:1984/api/stream.ascii?src=macarena&back=8&text=%20%20"
% curl "http://192.168.1.123:1984/api/stream.ascii?src=macarena&text=helloworld"
```