If you’re in a kernel VT (i.e. Ctrl+Alt+F[1-7] without starting a graphical environment) MPV can also work in framebuffer mode (the default if you don’t specify a video output). It’ll show the video fullscreen at full resolution, bypassing the terminal characters.
Who need GUI to watch youtube? You can watch them directly in terminal with mpv. Try it:
mpv --vo=tct "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"If you’re in a kernel VT (i.e. Ctrl+Alt+F[1-7] without starting a graphical environment) MPV can also work in framebuffer mode (the default if you don’t specify a video output). It’ll show the video fullscreen at full resolution, bypassing the terminal characters.
Who said terminal graphics had to look bad?
I’m sure it has some uses in digital signage and whatnot, but holy cow it sounds like a dev just saying “hold my beer” one evening…
84% of FOSS software is the result of either a dare, laziness, or spite.
This is stupid and I love it
I wondered what this could possibly look like and found some examples here: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/view-media-no-graphical-env.
I was expecting ASCII art, it’s just low resolution video though. Seems like a small use case, but pretty nifty.
What does tct do?
It uses the terminal as a display output instead of a separate window