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		bnegreve on July 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTML Canvas in the terminal With aalib, you can even render videos on the terminal. E.g. on Linux: `mplayer -vo aa video.mpg` Will use aalib to render video.mpg inside the current terminal/console. The quality is not great though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5JLjfCi0mw (Here with Vlc.)

cben on July 26, 2014 [–]

Use -vo caca for color output via libcaca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur3iEHo6rI8#t=25

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