High quality video in terminal ???

[bebox]

can somebody tell me if you can watch high quality video in terminal?

[bebox]

please???anybody?

[stefangr1]

Can you explain what you mean by "in terminal"?

[bebox]

without x i think...without gnome or any other desktop.just with terminal....because i just managed to watch with ascii.

[terminator14]

I realize that this thread is a few months old, but since I just ran into the same problem and had to spend about an hour trying to figure it out, with no luck finding a solution online, I though I'd post my results for anyone who may be faced with this in the future.

My main computer just died so I had to take my motherboard back for warranty. Meanwhile I pulled out my old toshiba laptop, and since its video card can't handle running gnome and a movie at the same time, I was looking for how to do just that: play a movie in terminal without needing gnome...

I ended up installing mplayer with

sudo apt-get install mplayer

and through terminal I run

sudo mplayer -vo svga -ao sdl movie.avi

which seems to work just fine.

[joey-elijah]

I appreciate that it can be fun watching a movie in the terminal... but.. seriously?

if your hardware isn't up to scratch to handle gnome AND a video playing it might be time to start saving!

[binbash]

I appreciate that it can be fun watching a movie in the terminal... but.. seriously?

if your hardware isn't up to scratch to handle gnome AND a video playing it might be time to start saving!

This is not a hardware case since sometimes you may need to view a video on terminal especially when you are dealing with 10+ boxes.

[nikefalcon]

can somebody tell me if you can watch high quality video in terminal?

You could use the linux framebuffer. Try:

 mplayer -vo fbdev -fs <videofile.ext>

to play it in fullscreen mode in the console.(Alt+F[1-6])

[nothingspecial]

Please don't bump old threads to the top.

Closed.