[HN Gopher] TermVideo: View Video Files in a Terminal
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       TermVideo: View Video Files in a Terminal
        
       Author : odo1242
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2022-09-17 16:08 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (pypi.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (pypi.org)
        
       | connectsnk wrote:
       | a demo would be helpful please
        
         | crtasm wrote:
         | the Homepage link there includes a demo:
         | https://github.com/omduggineni/termvideo
        
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         | odo1242 wrote:
         | yeah, it appears PyPi didn't render it :( there's one on GitHub
         | tho: https://github.com/omduggineni/termvideo
        
       | bilekas wrote:
       | This is interesting but requires a true colour terminal, i was
       | kind of hoping it would transcode to ASCII art each frame... Hmmm
       | interesting weekend project i think.
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       | Edit : just looking through the source, it actually looks like it
       | is doing that.. the true colour should be optional so!
        
         | odo1242 wrote:
         | you can use the command line argument -b ascii to use ascii
         | (thanks for reminding me to add documentation!)
        
         | lathiat wrote:
         | Circa 2005 mplayer supported both "aalib" and "calib" output
         | for black and Color ascii art respectively.
        
         | odo1242 wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback though!
        
       | TobTobXX wrote:
       | mpv can do that too: mpv --vo=tct {file}
        
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