GifTerm

GIFs on the terminal

Gifterm demo

The terminal output is actual text

Contents

Installation

You can simply install it by running

$ make

Just make sure to have installed and setup the minimum required version of Go. You can find it in the go.mod file

Usage

Basic usage

$ gifterm <input.gif>

Flags

  • cd: Character Density. Default ".,:-=i|%O#@$X"
  • far: Font Aspect Ratio. Default 2.1
  • fps: FPS. Default 12
  • randomBlank: Set if a random character from CD should be picked for a blank pixel

The Font Aspect Ratio changes from terminal to terminal, this value works in mine, so make sure to play a round to find yours

$ gifterm -cd ".,:-=i|%O#@$X" -far 2.1 -fps 12 -randomBlank <input.gif> 

Will produce something like this

Gifterm demo

How to convert a video into a GIF

Make sure to have installed ffmpeg and imagemagick and then run

$ ffmpeg -i <input.mp4> -vf "fps=12" -c:v pam -f image2pipe - | convert - input.gif