# YusufB5/ASCILINE

A high-performance ASCII video rendering engine featuring real-time WebSocket binary streaming and an isolated compiler for serverless static generation. Built for low-latency 30 FPS playback on HTML5 Canvas.

Repository: https://github.com/YusufB5/ASCILINE
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/asciline
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-23T14:34:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 8
- inputs: {"age_days": 124, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, young, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2662, forks 301 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:08.714016+00:00)

## What it is
ASCILINE is a high-performance ASCII video rendering engine written in Python that converts video pixels into text-based representations. It streams frames over a low-overhead binary WebSocket protocol for real-time 30 FPS playback on an HTML5 Canvas, and includes an isolated compiler for serverless static generation.

## Use cases
- render videos as ascii art in the browser
- stream ascii video in real time over websocket
- convert mp4 to ascii animation
- play ascii video at 30fps on html5 canvas
- generate static ascii video files for serverless hosting
- build a terminal-style typographic video display

## When to choose
- you want real-time ASCII video playback in a browser with low latency
- you need binary WebSocket streaming of rendered frames
- you want both live streaming and precompiled static ASCII video output

## When to avoid
- you need actual video encoding or standard video playback
- you need a GUI desktop video player
- you need non-ASCII image-to-text conversion only

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, websocket, http-server, image-processing, graphics
- domain: media, web-development, graphics
- platform: python, cross-platform, browser
- tags: ascii-art, ascii-video, canvas-rendering, binary-streaming, fastapi, real-time-playback, real-time, web-server

## Member repositories
- YusufB5/ASCILINE (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:08.714016+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:18:21.542106+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/YusufB5/ASCILINE (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:08.714016+00:00, sha f337b1efd14a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.