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		chjj on April 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: NCurses Terminal Webcam It will draw an X11 window if there is an X display. Unset DISPLAY and it will render in the terminal: $ DISPLAY= mplayer ... Updated command for clarity (might want to fullscreen your terminal with this): `$ DISPLAY= mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0 -fps 15 -vo caca`

pcmonk on April 24, 2014 [–]

Sweet, I didn't realize that. Sadly, the result flashes on and off and is essentially unusable for me (either in xterm or a TTY on Slackware64 14.0). I can tell it's working, though.

This also seems to work over ssh, though, which is cool.

nitrogen on April 24, 2014 | [–]

Add the -quiet option to mplayer.

pcmonk on April 24, 2014 | | [–]

That fixed it. Thanks.

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