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		JaggerJo 60 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Movycat – A terminal movie player written in Zig How does it render pixel data to the terminal? I've stumbled over sixels [1], but movy seems to use something else that also enables color output and a higher resolution? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel EDIT: > It renders frames as ANSI half block characters.. Seems like the resolution looks better than it actually is in the screenshots. It effectively seems to be 2 vertical Pixels per character.

simonmic 60 days ago [–]

I had the same question. The demo video does not look like half blocks. More details of the terminal, font, window config used would be illuminating.

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