It's also worth noting that you can use this with libcaca [1] to get a truly command-line video player, i.e. one that plays videos in an 80x20 terminal, with --

It's also worth noting that you can use this with libcaca [1] to get a truly command-line video player, i.e. one that plays videos in an 80x20 terminal, with --vo=caca. (Note that not all distributions compile this in, I guess to save space as most people probably don't actually want to watch videos via an ssh pipe...) [1] http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca