Not ASCII, however a cool hack using mpv is that it can display actual videos in a terminal emulator that supports true color output [1]. Just run the following command:<p><pre><code> mpv -vo tct video_file.mkv
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Reduce the font size to increase resolution. Also, a GPU accelerated terminal like Kitty [2] is recommended, or the video will be painfully slow.<p>[1]: <a href="https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/" rel="nofollow">https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/</a>
Now <i>this</i> is hacker news!!<p>Ludicrous on the surface yet brilliant.<p>Kudos to the creator, and it’s great that such a senior engineer with his track record and contributions still has that spirit in him.
Really like the format of the "movie" file. Very easy to work with:<p>Line 1: time.Duration<p>Lines 2-14: frameHeight (currently set to 13 lines in the code on this and the original[0])<p>Options for (1) pause/play (2) back: frame by frame (3) forward: frame by frame : could make this a pretty good presentation app, ebook tool, story-teller...<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/nitram509/ascii-telnet-server" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nitram509/ascii-telnet-server</a>