Watch Movies from the Command Line

      by Wyatt Walter

In 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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Filed under Just for Fun : Comments (0) : Feb 24th, 2009