woosh

love the idea of this, but echoing others... closed source daemon with access to all files is a 100% non-starter.

OP here, responded on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185781

I also did something in dotnet that was a half baked visual media player. Had seek, pause, dynamic resizing, and a frame buffer all implemented, but it was a super naive representation. It was neat to be able to save frames of a movie as ascii text to a text file with or without ansi escape sequences to even view later on a machine without the app.