[politelemon]

I will be trying this out! Are there other tools like this?

[Instantnoodl]

If you use a more modern terminal you can also use stuff like:

https://hpjansson.org/chafa/ https://github.com/BigJk/imeji

[xrd]

You can watch entire videos using gstreamer and aasink.

gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=my video.webm ! videoconvert ! aasink

This is a great way to watch videos inside your terminal.

Or, a terrible way to watch videos, I suppose, it depends on how much you like ASCII art.

[dholm]

https://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/

[lcall]

I remember VLC (the video player) having an output option for playing a video as ascii art. I could actually recognize some of the items in the scene.