BLIND-REVERSE(1)

📦 version 1.1, in alpine 3.24

🎬 BLIND-REVERSE — the blind girlies' guide to playing it backwards 💅

okay so bestie, picture this: you've got a video, and you want it to run backwards. not editing-app backwards, not "upload it somewhere and pray" backwards — just, like, actual reverse. that's literally what blind-reverse does, and it does it from your terminal like an icon. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

blind-reverse [-i] file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

blind-reverse reads a video from file and prints it to stdout in reverse frame-order. that's the whole vibe. first frame you'd normally see ends up last, last ends up first, and the whole thing gets piped straight out to standard output like a good little Unix citizen. 🫶

one tiny thing, no cap: file must be a regular file. actual file on disk, not a pipe, not a device, not your cousin's weird socket. regular file or nothing, bestie. 💀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -i — reverse the file in place instead of printing it to stdout. so it edits your file rather than yeeting the result out to standard output. choose your fighter. 💅

🍓 REQUIREMENTS 🍓

kay so this is the part where you need to check your RAM before you commit, because blind-reverse needs enough free memory to load two full frames into memory if -i is used. two. full. frames. not one, two. 😭

and how big is a frame? a frame requires 32 bytes per pixel it contains. so do the math before you hit enter: pixels × 32 × 2, and that's your memory bill. don't say i didn't warn you. 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too, they're giving main character energy in their own right. iykyk ⭐

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> — the actual legend behind all of this. show some respect. 👑

and that's the whole page bestie, slay. this was blind-reverse, from blind 1.1 — no date on the footer, so don't come for me, i'm just the messenger 🎀✨💖

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