Edit: guys I didn't made this template, can you please calm down?
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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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"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 low resolution video though. Seems like a small use case, but pretty nifty.
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?
you can also use libsixel for that. Contour is a pretty good term that supports that.
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
What does tct do?
It uses the terminal as a display output instead of a separate window