# 2023-08-22 16:56:47.119146 UTC (+0000)

vtv-tools is now available!

Comrades, a new set of tools is now available:

  git://bitreich.org/vtv-tools

These are tools for working with VTV: a simple video format where each
frame consists of arbitrary terminal control codes.  The following
tools are currently implemented:

* vtv-player: play VTV videos in terminal.

* vtv-from-ff: convert farbfeld images to single-frame VTV.

* vtv-viewer: interactively browse the frames of a VTV file.

One cool property of VTV files is that they can be spliced with cat(1)
and cut apart with head(1)/tail(1) and similar.

A simple form of VTV has long been used for the advertisements on
ssh://visitor@bitreich.org, and the advent of multi-frame VTV can only
mean a grand future for this format.