Usage

Play

All packages will install the ascii-movie binary. To watch the movie in your terminal, run:

ascii-movie play

Serve

Linux

The ASCII Movie packages will install a Systemd unit. To start it, run:

sudo systemctl start ascii-movie.service

The Systemd unit can also be enabled on boot:

sudo systemctl enable --now ascii-movie.service

The suggest configuration method is with environment variables. To set a variable, run:

sudo systemctl edit ascii-movie.service

This will open a blank override file where you can specify environment variables. Any flag can get set as an environment variable by capitalizing it, replacing - with _ and prefixing it with ASCII_MOVIE_. For example:

[Service]
Environment="ASCII_MOVIE_CONCURRENT_STREAMS=20"
Environment="ASCII_MOVIE_SSH_ADDRESS=:22"
Environment="ASCII_MOVIE_TELNET_ADDRESS=:23"

macOS

ASCII Movie can be started by running the following in a terminal:

ascii-movie serve