Watch Movies from the Command Line
by Wyatt WalterIn one of the geekiest (and coolest) things I’ve ever seen, How-to-Geek published a how-to on how to watch movies from a Linux command line. The trick uses mplayer to play the movie using colored text. It’s almost as cool as the ’sl’ command which is clearly just as powerful and useful 
From Ubuntu, you just do:sudo apt-get install mplayer and then run mplayer to open the file with the “caca” option: mplayer -vo caca filename
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Feb 24th, 2009
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