# 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://
[email protected], and the advent of multi-frame VTV can only
mean a grand future for this format.