<story><title>Show HN: ASCII TV – Stream ASCII movies in your terminal with curl</title><url>https://github.com/martinraison/ascii-tv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m45t3r</author><text>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:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  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.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;XVilka&amp;#x2F;8346728&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gist.github.com&amp;#x2F;XVilka&amp;#x2F;8346728&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sw.kovidgoyal.net&amp;#x2F;kitty&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sw.kovidgoyal.net&amp;#x2F;kitty&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: ASCII TV – Stream ASCII movies in your terminal with curl</title><url>https://github.com/martinraison/ascii-tv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamiek88</author><text>Now &lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt; is hacker news!!&lt;p&gt;Ludicrous on the surface yet brilliant.&lt;p&gt;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.</text></comment>