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Experimental fork git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2017-06-19 · latest 2023-05-26

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  1. not quite ascii art, but streaming YT to the terminal... https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL
    comment by itronitron · 2023-05-26 · in YouTube Is Killing Stories
  2. …img2sixel, which lets you dump images to the terminal. It can also do animated GIFs. Video: https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL GUI apps: https://github.com/saitoha/SDL1.2-SIXEL and more, linked from the libsixel repository.
  3. …sixels couldn’t work. Sixels will work: they are fast enough to allow youtube video playback !!! https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL/blob/sixel/README.md The problem is NOT THE FORMAT, the problem is the lack of tooling: links and w3m…
  4. …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…