Something hacked together to display images and play gifs in 256 color terminals. I have implemented something similar before , as have others...
Wrote this largely as an exercise in Go.
Install using go get:
go get github.com/moshen/gotermimg/...
Installs the gotermimg command line application.
Usage: gotermimg [-u] [-x=n] [-y=n] [-l=n|-s=n] [IMAGEFILE]
IMAGEFILE - png, gif or jpg. gif will auto-play.
Image data can be piped to stdin instead of providing IMAGEFILE.
If neither -x or -y are provided, and the image is larger than your current
terminal, it will be automatically scaled to fit.
-l=0: Loop animation n times
When -l=0 (the default), animation is looped indefinitely. Supersedes -s
Only applies to multi-frame gifs
-s=0: Loop animation n seconds
When -s=0 (the default), this option is ignored.
Only applies to multi-frame gifs
-u=false: Enable UTF8 output
-x=0: Scale to n*2 columns wide in ANSI mode, n columns wide in UTF8 mode.
When -x=0 (the default), aspect ratio is maintained.
For example if -y is provided without -x, width is scaled to
maintain aspect ratio
-y=0: Scale to n rows high in ANSI mode, n/2 rows high in UTF8 mode.
When -y=0 (the default), aspect ratio is maintained.
For example if -x is provided without -y, height is scaled to
maintain aspect ratio
While the render speed on some slower terminals might not look very good, urxvt looks amazing (click through for HQ).
MIT (unless otherwise noted), See LICENSE file
The Go gopher was designed by Renee French. (http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/) The design is licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attributions license. Read this article for more details: http://blog.golang.org/gopher