A tool to convert a video using ffmpeg into a series of PICO-8 cartridges, represent each frame of the video. A player cartridge is also created to play the frames in PICO-8.
The video will be extracted into 128x128 JPEG frames then converted into .p8 carts. The player cartridge then loads GFX from these "frame" carts continuosly to display the video.
FFmpeg must be installed and accessible in PATH as ffmpeg
The app takes in a video and a path to an empty directory for output. If the output directory is not empty, it will prompt if you want to remove it.
video2p8 -i ./video.mp4 -o ./outputp8Some ffmpeg filters are customisable that may or may not provide a better result, such as contrast and FPS. Crop can be helpful to remove black bars in the original video.
Run with -h or --help to get a full list of flags available.
$ video2p8 -h
A tool to convert a video using ffmpeg into a series of PICO-8 cartridges, represeting each frame of the video. A player cartridge is also created to play the frames in PICO-8.
Usage:
video2p8 [flags] -i <input_video> -o <out_dir>
Examples:
video2p8 -i video.mp4 -o output_dir --contrast 1.5
Flags:
-i, --input string Input video file
-o, --output string Output directory
--autorun Autorun the player cartridge after conversion. Only works if "pico8" is in PATH
--fps float32 Frames per second (default 19.89)
--use-palette Use palette
--use-palette-dither Use palette dither
--cx int Crop X
--cy int Crop Y
--cw int Crop width
--ch int Crop height
--brightness float32 Brightness
--contrast float32 Contrast (default 1)
-h, --help help for video2p8