I installed via homebrew
:
brew install mplayer mpv libcaca aalib
to try to play videos as text in my terminal. Using mplayer
, I tried aa:
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urxk4mveLCw -o - | mplayer -cache 64000 -vo aa -
and also caca:
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urxk4mveLCw -o - | CACA_DRIVER=ncurses mplayer -cache 64000 -vo caca -
however, both give the following error:
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
Trying again with mpv
:
mpv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC83NA5tAGE" -vo caca
mpv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC83NA5tAGE" -vo aa
Which outputs:
09:00 $ mpv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC83NA5tAGE" -vo aalib
Playing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC83NA5tAGE
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264)
(+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) 'DASH audio' (opus) (external)
[vo] Video output aalib not found!
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
Video: no video
Exiting... (Errors when loading file)
ā-2 ~
When looking at the man page for mpv
, I find:
caca Color ASCII art video output driver that works on a text console.
NOTE:
This driver is a joke.
What am I doing wrong, and how can I correctly watch the youtube videos in the terminal?
Thanks.
P.S If it makes a difference, here is my screenfetch
information:
OS: 64bit Mac OS X 10.9.5 13F1603
Kernel: x86_64 Darwin 13.4.0
DE: Aqua
WM: Quartz Compositor
WM Theme: Blue
GPU: Intel Iris
Also I am using iterm2
as my terminal, but I also have xterm
via xquartz
, and the normal terminal
.
caca is not installed with mpv by default, you will need to set it as an option flag.
You can reinstall this with caca with
brew reinstall mpv --with-libcaca
or if you are installing from fresh
brew install mpv --with-libcaca
Now running
mpv --vo=help
Outputs the following
Available video outputs:
opengl : Extended OpenGL Renderer
null : Null video output
image : Write video frames to image files
caca : libcaca
opengl-hq : Extended OpenGL Renderer (high quality rendering preset)
So you can see that caca is now available to be used. Then simply run your command to play your chosen video in terminal.
mpv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC83NA5tAGE" -vo caca