How to play a movie without X Window?

[carbon333]

This is rather for fun than for actual use:

mplayer -vo caca file.avi

will play a movie with color ASCII ART.

 

[hETTY]

hI

 

[jfrantz]

Ha, that's cool.

 

[scotty]

Cool, not sure how practical it is, but Ill try it out