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Show HN: Play a Video (With Audio) in XTerm on *Nix
- OhMeadhbh 2y agoI spend most of my life in the terminal, and now I can watch videos without flipping over to a web browser. I understand that this isn't for everyone. If you enjoy using your browser or mobile phone app to view videos, I'm not recommending you stop. But it may be useful at some point in the future for you to be able to do this, so maybe keep this tool in your back pocket in case you need it in the future. The video referenced above shows options to use with the mpv video player on Debian 12 (bookworm) to render a video in an xterm using sixel graphics and a link to the local sound infrastructure. I've had problems playing YouTube videos with mpv, but Vimeo works fine. So if you want to watch this video, which shows how to render a video in the terminal, in the terminal, the following command should work (assuming you have mpv installed and your local audio infrastructure is working.) mpv --no-config --vo=sixel --profile=sw-fast \ --really-quiet --vo-sixel-reqcolors=0 --ao='pulse' \ https://vimeo.com/1048404200 And this is the command I used on Debian 12 to install mpv. It seems to have included sixel support by default. Nice! sudo apt-get install mpv I'd love to know if it works on other Unix-like systems (other Linuxes or Solaris or *BSD) or on WSL or XQuartz. Comments describing your results (whether it works, fails or anything in-between) are welcome.
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