Changelog

[0.1.3] - 2026-03-27

Added

• Webcam support (--webcam) — stream your webcam live as ASCII art in the terminal; no audio
• --camera — select camera index when using --webcam (default: 0)
• --flip h/v/hv — flip the webcam feed horizontally, vertically, or both (via cv2.flip)
• --invert — invert the brightness mapping for any character mode
• --highlight — render color as background for any character mode; replaces the old invert mode
• solid character mode — renders pure color blocks using background-colored spaces; most accurate color reproduction

Changed

• invert removed from CHAR_MODES — replaced by the universal --highlight flag which works with any mode
• frame_to_lines() rewritten with numpy vectorisation — brightness and character index computation is now done with matrix operations instead of per-pixel Python loops
• String concatenation in frame_to_lines() changed from += to list accumulation with "".join() — eliminates O(n²) behavior in color modes
• yt-dlp-ejs removed from install_requires
• python_requires corrected to >=3.10
• numpy added to install_requires

Fixed

• Significant rendering performance improvement in color modes at large terminal sizes