#Mplayer streaming install#
#Mplayer streaming code#
#Mplayer streaming series#

First, installВ it using a method appropriate for your distribution. In its simplest form, we're going to use youtube-dlВ to grab a video for playback in our terminal. There are some interesting legal opinionsВ out there about where public domain dedication fits into the open source landscape, but it's generally considered compatible with existing open source licenses even by organizations who don't recommend its use. Youtube-dlВ is licensed under a public domain dedication known as the UnlicenseВ that's similar to Creative Common's CC0.

A note: please don't use youtube-dlВ in any context that would violate the copyright laws in your jurisdiction.

#Mplayer streaming install#

You can install cava much in the same way, through: $В sudoВ dnfВ installВ mplayer Watch a videoДЇinally, let's double down on our first tool,В MPlayer, and add in one more, youtube-dl.ДЄs its name would imply, youtube-dlВ is a command-line utility for downloading YouTube videos, but it can capture video from a number of other sites as well, and it's a really quite full-featured application with thorough documentationВ to make videoВ acquisition easy. Short for 'console-based audio visualizer for ALSA' (although it supports more than just ALSA now), cava is a nice MIT-licensed terminal audio visualization tool that's fun to watch. If you want to do more than just listen, and get a visual representation of what you're listening to, try cava.

#Mplayer streaming code#

MPlayer is open source under the GPLv3, and you can find out more about the project and download source code from the project's website. I wanted to listen to the local college radio station here in Raleigh ( 88.1 WKNC В they're pretty good!), and so after grabbing the streaming URL from their website, all that took to get my radio up and running, no GUI or web player needed, was: $В mplayerВ -nocacheВ -afmВ ffmpeg MPlayer has a slew of command-line options to set depending on your situation. On Fedora, I found it in RPM FusionВ (be aware that this is not an 'official' repository for Fedora, so exercise caution as you would with any unfamiliar binary source): $В sudoВ dnfВ installВ mplayer If MPlayer is not already installed,В you can probably find it packaged for your distribution. MPlayer is a versatile multimedia player that will support just about any media format you throw at it.

#Mplayer streaming series#

I originally profiled these tools as a part of my 24 Days of Linux Toys series on a user there suggested that you might choose mpv as a suitable mplayer replacement, but I'll leave that up to the reader to explore and decide. Today we're going to look at three tools for enjoying sound and video at your Linux terminal: youtube-dl, mplayer, and cava. Some of these tools work better than others, of course, but a lot of them are worth poking around to see if they work for you. If you poke around GitHub for long enough, you can find aВ command line utility to replace the graphical front end of just about every service out there, at least those with an accessible API. We all have a tool that we begrudge having to leave the command line to use, whether it's for a web browser or a desktop GUI application. As a system administrator, you probably spend a lot of time at your terminal.