You can watch youtube on some terminals supporting SIXEL graphics. yaft: https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft FFmpeg-SIXEL: https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL libsixel: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel This DEMO uses 16 color DECSIXEL sequence(http://www.vt100.net/docs/vt3xx-gp/chapter14.html).