ASCII animations that are viewed in the command-line?
Not really a short video but here is the most famous one: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run :
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
You can play any video as an ascii animation with the caca video driver for mplayer:
sudo apt-get install mplayer2 caca-utils
mplayer -vo caca /path/to/video
This has several output options which work better in X11 but can also work from a real terminal, even over SSH (urgh, it's horrible). It'll also sync sound in there too.
If you don't have any videos to hand, I can help you out. You wouldn't get this from any other guy. I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you understand...
sudo wget -qO /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
youtube-dl -o- "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" | mplayer -vo caca -
If you like trains, install sl
:
sudo apt-get install sl
Now you can enjoy a beautiful old steam locomotive driving through your terminal as often as you want!
Also try sl
with different parameters:
-a
: "accident" - people in the train crying for help-l
: "little" - a smaller locomotive-F
: "flying" - antigravity is cool! ;D