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How can I watch this YouTube video using just my terminal?

• bane 8y ago
  heh, this is actually covered in the video.
• dilatedmind 8y ago
  I didn't watch the video but you could use youtubedl and then ffmpeg to display it on the framebuffer
  • pvg 8y ago
    on the framebuffer What manner newfangled luxury is that in a terminal? When I was young, we had to pick lice out of our hair and arrange them in the form of letters for others to read.
    • Fnoord 8y ago
      If you call something (watching videos/pictures or browsing in a framebuffer) which has been working since the end of '90s "new" then you've grown old. A while ago, if I might add. And the ability to use a CLI on a large say 1280x1024 resolution was nice as well, given the dots per inches on CRTs in late 90s.
      • pvg 8y ago
        Some people would kill the lice first but sophisticated users preferred live ones which enabled advanced effects like 'dynamic text' and 'escape sequences'.
        • tom_ 8y ago
          In some ways I think we were actually happier back then.
          • pvg 8y ago
            But you try and tell the young people today that, and they won't believe you.
• deleted 8y ago
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• merraksh 8y ago
  This will display the video as ASCII art: vlc -V aa <youtube link> For color ASCII he suggests vlc -v caca <youtube link>
  • glandium 8y ago
    Ironically, displaying that video with this method will make it unreadable.
    • sitkack 8y ago
      Well, the OP should have posted it as https://asciinema.org/ https://asciinema.org/
  • agumonkey 8y ago
    does mpv have such codec out of the box ?
• chewz 8y ago
  https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
• gnulinux 8y ago
  Use a framebuffer application e.g. mplayer.