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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by qplex on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @02:19AM (#17495836)
AAlib [0] has been around for ages. But yeah, it's a cool trick to watch movies in a terminal.

However I think there is very little real use for image to text-as-image conversion.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib

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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by helb on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @03:52AM (#17496126)
Or libcaca, which even handles colors. With mpv & youtube-dl, you can do just:

    mpv -vo caca "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLzxrzFCyOs"
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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by hx2a on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @08:54AM (#17497588)
Haha, I knew I was going to be rick-rolled before running this and yet I ran it anyway.

I didn't know about this utility. Awesome it does sound too. Thanks for pointing it out.

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