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I "think" it's a program that plays video (incl hi-res) on the terminal using pure text without using GPU decoding at all.

• chrisco255 6y ago
  How much more space efficient is a pixelated video using pure text like this?
  • bawolff 6y ago
    Relative to using a real codec at the same resolution? Not at all. That's not the point.
    • faeyanpiraat 6y ago
      Isn’t the resolution greatly reduced? A low resolution text stream gzipped may turn out to be smaller I think.
      • bawolff 6y ago
        Sure, but then your comparing apples and oranges. If you take a 4k stream and turn it into 80x25 resolution (ok, its not exactly that) its of course going to be smaller. But if you compare the same resolution, the one using a video codec is going to be smaller. Even uncompressed its going to be smaller in a raw video format compared to text based escape codes (although i dont know what gzip would do compared to uncompressed video)
        • e_proxus 6y ago
          Probably larger if you compare to full ASCII frames, but you could probably apply the same compression techniques used on video frames to the ASCII format as well. It’s just a grid of “pixels” after all.