libsixel VS mpv

Compare libsixel vs mpv and see what are their differences.

libsixel

A C language SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation, forked from saitoha/libsixel after @saitoha vanished. Receives security patches, accepts PR's filed preferably here but also at saitoha/libsixel. (by libsixel)
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libsixel mpv
1 830
106 26,129
2.8% 2.0%
0.0 9.9
5 months ago 1 day ago
C C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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libsixel

Posts with mentions or reviews of libsixel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-05.
  • Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2021
    First, stop accusing me of being emotional.

    Second, tell me why 24 bits colors is insufficient for drawing into the terminals?

    > then we have nothing technical to discuss

    I think you may be right there.

    > starting with a baseline of a broken format that doesn't work

    Look at that https://github.com/hackerb9/sixvid and that https://github.com/libsixel/libsixel and tell me precisely what doesn't work, in your own words.

mpv

Posts with mentions or reviews of mpv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libsixel and mpv 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

GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

xserver-SIXEL - A X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals, based on @pelya's Xsdl kdrive server(https://github.com/pelya/xserver-xsdl)

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

sixvid - Simple script for animated GIF viewing using sixels

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

mosh-windows-wrappers - Windows native port of Mobile Shell (mosh).

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

termite - Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

glsl-shaders - This repo is for glsl shaders converted by hand from libretro's common-shaders repo, since some don't play nicely with the cg2glsl script.

indent-rainbow

VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/