sixvid VS libsixel

Compare sixvid vs libsixel and see what are their differences.

sixvid

Simple script for animated GIF viewing using sixels (by hackerb9)

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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sixvid libsixel
2 1
17 106
- 3.8%
0.0 0.0
over 2 years ago 4 months ago
Shell C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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sixvid

Posts with mentions or reviews of sixvid. 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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sixvid and libsixel 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

libsixel - A SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel (https://github.com/saitoha/sixel).

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

notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

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

CuteXterm - Sensible defaults for xterm in the 21st century

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.

FluentTerminal - A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies.

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