btw.

Rendering images or movies on the TTY is common.

fbida: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/

mpv: https://mpv.io/

Fbida sometimes need the -d option pointing to /dev/drm/something, when using screen or tmux.

MPV required for years -vo=drm on the TTY but since some months it always works. Nice improvement :)

A display server is not needed.

It is first time I saw it today. Thanks!