blockish-caca

video players in the terminal with blockish (unicode blocks) over libcaca with LD_PRELOAD magic

building it

shell $ cargo build --release

using it (rust)

shell $ cargo run mplayer path/to/your/video

shell $ cargo run mpv path/to/your/video

shell $ cargo run cvlc path/to/your/video

using it (terminal)

shell $ CACA_DRIVER=raw LD_PRELOAD=target/release/libcaca_blockish.so mplayer -vo caca path/to/your/video

shell $ CACA_DRIVER=raw LD_PRELOAD=target/release/libcaca_blockish.so mplayer -vo caca path/to/your/video

shell $ DISPLAY="" CACA_DRIVER=raw LD_PRELOAD=target/release/libcaca_blockish.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcaca.so cvlc --quiet -V caca /path/to/your/video

using it (shell script)

shell $ ./mplayer path/to/your/video

shell $ ./mpv path/to/your/video

shell $ ./vlc path/to/your/video