textual-video

Textual widget for playing videos in terminal UIs. Based on textual-image.

Installation

pip install textual-video

Dependencies

• textual (TUI framework)
• textual-image (image widget)
• textual-canvas (canvas widget, for displaying track)
• av (get video frames and metadata)
• numpy (av requires)

Example

from textual_video.player import VideoPlayer
from textual.app import App, ComposeResult

class ExampleApp(App):
    def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
        yield VideoPlayer(r'examples\video.mp4')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ExampleApp().run()

Image types

Textual-image provides 4 ways to display image

Member	Description
ImageType.SIXEL	Slow; Highest fidelity; requires terminal sixel support.
ImageType.TGP	? (not work in my laptop)
ImageType.HALFCELL	Fast; uses half-cell Unicode blocks.
ImageType.UNICODE	Fastest; low fidelity, widest compatibility.

Todo