Thanks for the buffering suggestion, @smilexfo and @xenobas . Found out about something called "Double Buffering". Also used ANSI escape codes to move the cursor back to the top of the buffer so I can simply overwrite the current data instead of clearing the screen. Looks so much better already.

I'm back with more "playing media in my terminal" footage! Any ideas on how to make the screen refresh not so noticeable though?

I wanted to see if I could generate ANSI images in my terminal. Quite happy with the results.