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by tilpner 3292 days ago
I see these every so often, but they never mention Sixels, which could be used to display videos with much more detail (like with https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL ).

Sixels aren't widely supported, and the implementations I tried were lacking in stability, but they offer some interesting possibilities, like embedding images into your text browser (and not with a hack like w3m uses), or playing Battle for Wesnoth inside your terminal [ https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel ]

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Honestly, the main reason I like this is the way videos look with huge pixels.
I was looking for image libraries. I couldn't really find more than /dev/fb0. Cool, I'll look into sixel!
Update: Sixels now work. I just need to fix scaling. The image turns out REALLY small.