Terminal ASCII video player: every frame packs 195,000 colored-glyph pixels
edwinarbus · x · 2026-10-03
A developer built a Claude Code mod that plays any video (with sound) in the terminal, rendered as ASCII art. Each frame contains 195,000 "pixels" — a glyph with both a foreground and background color for extra fidelity. He jokes about using it to watch the Odyssey "as Christopher Nolan intended."
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