FFmpeg-SIXEL VS mermaid

Compare FFmpeg-SIXEL vs mermaid and see what are their differences.

FFmpeg-SIXEL

Experimental fork git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git (by saitoha)

mermaid

Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown (by knsv)
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FFmpeg-SIXEL mermaid
3 122
111 67,034
- 1.3%
10.0 10.0
over 6 years ago 3 days ago
C JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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FFmpeg-SIXEL

Posts with mentions or reviews of FFmpeg-SIXEL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-12.
  • A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal
    25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2023
    Also:

    https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

    contains img2sixel, which lets you dump images to the terminal. It can also do animated GIFs.

    Video:

    https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL

    GUI apps:

    https://github.com/saitoha/SDL1.2-SIXEL

    and more, linked from the libsixel repository.

  • Would it be possible to create a ascii movie player that runs entirely in the terminal?
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 20 Oct 2022
  • Using ASCII waveforms to test real-time audio code
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2021
    > I don’t see why sixels couldn’t work.

    Sixels will work: they are fast enough to allow youtube video playback !!!

    https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL/blob/sixel/README.md

    But the problem is NOT THE FORMAT, the problem is the lack of tooling. links and w3m are among the rare text browsers that can display images in the console.

    It's just a matter of the browser sending the image to something in some format, but if that hasn't be thought about as a possibility (say, for text reflow issues) it's going to be far more complicated than just adding a new format, as you will have to work both on say the text reflow issues (ex: how do you select the size of the placeholder, when expressed in characters?), and the picture display.

    Personally, I do not care much about sixels, kitty or iterm format - all I want is to see some kind of support.

    Yes, it would be better if that support was for the option that has the greatest chance of succeeding, but even that is a second concern: in the worst case, we can write transcoders to whatever format people prefer!

    But when there is no "input" to transcode, you have a much bigger problem!

    > an off the shelf ASCII plotting library probably involves less custom tooling

    With a terminal like msys2 or xterm, no custom tooling is required: just use the regular gnuplot after doing the export for the desired resolution, font, and font size.

    gnuplot is far more standard than plotting library that often require special Unicode fonts on top of requiring you to use their specific format.

mermaid

Posts with mentions or reviews of mermaid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FFmpeg-SIXEL and mermaid you can also consider the following projects:

sixel-tmux - sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics

plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description

melatonin_audio_sparklines - Sparklines For JUCE AudioBlocks

C4-PlantUML - C4-PlantUML combines the benefits of PlantUML and the C4 model for providing a simple way of describing and communicate software architectures

ttyplot - a realtime plotting utility for terminal/console with data input from stdin

aws-icons-for-plantuml - PlantUML sprites, macros, and other includes for Amazon Web Services services and resources

plotext - plotting on terminal

draw.io - draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.

Gin - A few extras for juce

d2 - D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.

SDL1.2-SIXEL - SDL 1.2 with libsixel based video driver

excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams