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How to play a movie with mpv in your terminal window.

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This command will display an image in your terminal. Very useful for viewing images without using an external image viewer.

mpv --no-config --pause --vo=tct https://stallman.org/rms.jpg

Play a movie in your terminal window with mpv.

4.4 Thu Nov 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ mpv --no-config --vo=tct fc4.mp4
Playing a video in a terminal with mpv.
Playing a video in a terminal with mpv.

This works well, but is low quality. Even in xterm it works, but is a nice trick instead of a good way to watch a video.


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