alt Hacker NewsYou can also use mplayer with "-fp" to play video on the frambuffer as well.
I have gone weeks at a time without using a graphical desktop at all thanks to these tools.
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I have gone 18 years for me without using a graphical desktop
yep! and ffplay will detect your situation and run on the framebuffer if that seems appropriate. I'm sure there's arguments to explicitly tell it to do that, but I've never used them :)
This is a great tip, do you have others? I've tried to ditch graphical desktop envs and failed pretty miserably on media consumption and browsing before.
Ah yes, back in 2004/2005 I got an old laptop (Pentium 200 or something like that) for free that wasn't fast enough to reliably read videos with X11, but it worked fine as a movie watching device for my children using mplayer in FB mode :)
Do you browse with framebuffer links too? :)