hzeller/timg
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A terminal image and video viewer.
13 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2017-03-18 · latest 2026-07-11
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…commandline programs to show things there. I can even show individual slides of .pdf pages via https://github.com/hzeller/timg , which is pretty cool since I can control which pdf file to show, sometimes manipulating them before showing…
comment by shevy-java · 2026-07-11 · in A love letter to flashcards -
…[1] https://yazi-rs.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/simonschoelly/KittyTerminalImages.jl [3] https://github.com/hzeller/timg
comment by ziotom78 · 2025-11-03 · in State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions -
…and heif. Might be worth it to go with GraphicsMagick instead like timg [1] which I use daily. [1] https://github.com/hzeller/timg But looks like a good minimal and portable project.
comment by coffeecoders · 2025-07-11 · in Show HN: Photo viewer, right in the terminal, cross-platform, no need for x11 -
…do; convert -resize $size% input.png output_$size.webp; timg output_$size.webp; done timg, here, is https://github.com/hzeller/timg , but you could use anything that speaks iTerm2 or kitty. This approach generalizes easily, too; you can…
comment by NoraCodes · 2024-08-28 · in Programming with ChatGPT -
Along similar lines, timg : https://github.com/hzeller/timg
comment by smcameron · 2024-06-07 · in lsix: Like "ls", but for images -
…supported, falling back to character graphics if not. The big plus is that it supports SVG images. https://github.com/hzeller/timg And it is available via brew/apt/etc.
comment by Fileformat · 2024-04-16 · in Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images -
…and images in select terminals, or ranger, a file manager with image [2] & video [3] previews! [1] https://github.com/hzeller/timg/ [2] https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Image-Previews [3] https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Video-Pre…
comment by nilespotter · 2022-08-04 · in Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework -
See also https://github.com/hzeller/timg
comment by chaz6 · 2021-11-11 · in ASCII Video Player -
…has been solved already by weird Linux programs (play Doom on a Linux console and whatnot) EDIT: https://github.com/hzeller/timg Seems like modern consoles can view very crude low-resolution images. Something like a 32x32 picture is…
comment by dragontamer · 2021-08-06 · in The Drunken Bishop Algorithm -
…would be harder. Interestingly, M. Zeller has had an open issue about this for timg since 2016. * https://github.com/hzeller/timg/issues/4
comment by JdeBP · 2017-03-19 · in Timg – Terminal Image Viewer -
…sequences at all. pixterm similarly does zero optimization, but no-one has pointed that out yet. * https://github.com/hzeller/timg/issues/13 pxl, mentioned elsewhere on this page, does optimize colour control sequences and indeed uses an…
comment by JdeBP · 2017-03-19 · in Timg – Terminal Image Viewer