Originally Posted by Benson

OK, here's how to transcode a movie to the spec (using mplayer on your linux desktop):

Code:

mplayer -ao null -vo aa:driver=stdout:width=80:height=30 movie.avi > movie.cat

This gives you a .cat format file, which may be played with the undocumented movie-player 'cat' (from an Xterm only, unfortunately).


For audio, at least, you might try mpd & mmpc. Quite robust, and operates on directory structure.