[illicium]

Check out libcaca[1], a image-to-ASCII library that already available as a mplayer and VLC output.

There's also a demoscene competition where entries can only use text-mode art, TMDC [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libcaca [2] http://tmdc.scene.org/

[ben174]

Also aalib. Cool demos such as aafire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib

[mrighele]

ffmpeg and mplayer support aalib and/or libcaca, so you can watch your favorite movie in ascii art, if you wish so (you can find lot of examples on youtube, though I couldn't fine one worth sharing)

[ben174]

Wow, ascii + demo scene. Two of my favorite things and I never knew the combo existed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kPMdYIbvI

[rosbrith]

I remember this one being bundled on the cover CD of one of the Amiga mags 20 years ago. Watching it blew me away at the time :)

Pouet: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=14015 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmly5dpEpvc

[khedoros1]

You might've posted a different video than you thought. At least, there's no ascii art (or video) in that at all.