Bug#982087: ITP: timg -- terminal image and video viewer
On Sat, 2021-02-06 at 14:00 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Tobias Frost (2021-02-06 13:45:07)
> > timg is a viewer that uses 24-Bit color capabilities and unicode
> > character blocks to display images in the terminal.
> >
> > It displays regular images, plays animated gifs, scrolls static images
> > and plays videos.
>
> This sounds a lot like ncplayer in Debian package notcurses-bin.
>
> Would be nice if package description could mention how this one is
> different - if still relevant at all.
The package description is WIP, so I just pasted a few lines from upstream's
README for this ITP.
I didn't see ncplayer before, thanks for pointing me into that direction, but
after some playing with it, I thinkg timg will complement ncplayer nicely and
will add value to Debian for our users.
A few things, for example, I like with timg is that it can work with pipes, it
is far less noisy in the console, keeps aspect ratio by default, and does not
block the console when executing.
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Cheers,
tobi
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