I like ASCII animations and want to view them through a terminal window.
What famous Linux programs and commands are suitable here to display ASCII animations or view videos in a terminal screen?
I like ASCII animations and want to view them through a terminal window.
What famous Linux programs and commands are suitable here to display ASCII animations or view videos in a terminal screen?
Not really a short video but here is the most famous one: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run :
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
You can play any video as an ascii animation with the caca video driver for mplayer:
sudo apt-get install mplayer2 caca-utils
mplayer -vo caca /path/to/video
This has several output options which work better in X11 but can also work from a real terminal, even over SSH (urgh, it's horrible). It'll also sync sound in there too.
If you don't have any videos to hand, I can help you out. You wouldn't get this from any other guy. I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you understand...
sudo wget -qO /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
youtube-dl -o- "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" | mplayer -vo caca -
If you like trains, install sl
:
sudo apt-get install sl
Now you can enjoy a beautiful old steam locomotive driving through your terminal as often as you want!
Also try sl
with different parameters:
-a
: "accident" - people in the train crying for help-l
: "little" - a smaller locomotive-F
: "flying" - antigravity is cool! ;Dcar
executable to be run when you misspell cat
.
ls
;)
Nov 17, 2015 at 19:59
cmatrix
, in the man sl
there is no indication
Sep 30, 2021 at 13:57
Try this command:
$ curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/movglobe.vt | pv -q -L 9600
to see animated AsciiGlobe:
More examples: http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/
What is Animated Ascii Art?: http://www.qqpr.com/ascii-art-article-2.html
Source of command line snippet: http://www.cambus.net/visualizing-progression-of-file-operations-using-pv-pipe-viewer/
This is also a great one - I haven't tried it but it looks awesome...
You can find out how to install it here.
I've just found one:
Burn your terminal:
sudo apt-get install libaa-bin
Run it with aafire
:
What 6 answers and no mention of bb?
Youtube vid at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ukhOAUseKY
if not installed:
sudo apt-get install bb
run with:
bb