If you have never played with libcaca, you might have fun with it: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca It's a codec, essentially,

If you have never played with libcaca, you might have fun with it: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca It's a codec, essentially, and it's possible to connect it to VLC to play any video clip.