Built a CLI that plays video files as ASCII/ANSI art in the terminal, works well with Kitty specifically. Bun + TypeScript, FFmpeg handles decode, rest is a typed-array pipeline to the terminal. Does mono and true-color, has motion smoothing/trails, frame-drop-aware timing so long videos don't drift out of sync, and doesn't leak memory on long runs (rewrote the buffer handling so it stays flat instead of sawtoothing). ascii-video video ./clip.mp4 --color --width 120 --no-audio Repo if anyone want to check/ improve: https://github.com/ftbhabuk/ascii-video I had always seen other people made it and i finally tried it myself.😁 Anything i can improve on ?   submitted by   /u/MeaningVisual8562 [link]   [comments]