Conversation with ChatGPT. Summary:
Question 1: What are the best tools to convert an image/screenshot to ASCII art?
Response: Popular tools for converting images to ASCII art include jp2a (command-line tool for JPEG), ImageMagick (can manipulate images with ASCII options), Aasciinator (online converter), Pillow (Python library for custom scripts), and ASCII Art Studio (Windows application).
Question 2: Is there a tool to convert a video into ASCII art video?
Response: Tools for converting videos to ASCII art include AAlib with mplayer
(real-time conversion), asciinema (for terminal sessions), VLC Media Player (ASCII output option), mpv with libcaca (displays videos in ASCII), and FFmpeg (for frame extraction and ASCII conversion). These options allow for either streaming or converting videos into ASCII format.