How to play videos in the terminal/tty in linux?

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  • mpv

    🎥 Command line video player

    • Install mpv (git version) and install youtube-dl from pacman on Arch Linux (or from your distro's package manager, if available). Then run the command: env CACA_DRIVER=ncurses mpv -quiet -vo=caca ""

  • cage

    A Wayland kiosk

    • You could probably run mpv in cage

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