termiv

It displays images on your terminal purely in text mode.

Well, actually, it only displays bitmaps. It uses ffmpeg to convert any other format into bitmaps to then display the result.

It can play videos as well, but... it was a bit of an afterthought. I noticed it wasn't much more effort to make it be able to play videos so I said "sure why not" but... it's not great.

Like, it's just a huge vector of bitmaps and it completely redraws the screen for every frame. That's not great. Maybe I'll redo the video playback thing some day.

[Watch it play Bad Apple]