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 and gogopher command line applications.
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).
Get a shifty gopher:
curl http://zippy.gfycat.com/FlippantAccurateHaddock.gif | gotermimgMIT (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