Sunday, April 12, 2009

Watch videos in linux terminal

Ever thought of watching a video in linux terminal ? Give it a try.

mplayer -vo caca <video file>

To have a black and white output

mplayer -vo aa <video file>

Enjoy.........

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:57 AM

    It works well when playing in X, but when I go to real terminal (tty1) it plays the movie, but it doesn’t go smooth. The pictures blanks constantly and a whole image of frame is never rendered, only some some parts… wierd
    I tried this on 3 different computers and there is always the same result.

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