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Re:Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System by pksebben on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @02:44AM (#29634998)
it's not exactly "all-purpose", but with laptop in hand and Linux connected to the tv...

`ssh user@host cat file.mkv | mplayer`

it's more one of those things that spark joy because of how weird it is, but I end up using it all the time.

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Re:Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System by chrisjc on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:08AM (#29636581)
waiting for a response about how you can then also transcode the video into ascii by piping in an extra command :)
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Re:Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System by hansel_der on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @08:35AM (#29637208)
no extra command but happy to ablidge: 'mplayer -vo caca'
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Re:Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System by pksebben on Friday December 24, 2021 @11:59PM (#29680567)
I recently went on a dive into libcaca. Those devs are the heroes we need.
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