Termux-packages: Package Request: mplayer

[flipflop97]

Would it be possible to add mplayer to the termux repo? Since X isn't supported this would be with only aa (ASCII art) and caca (colored ASCII art) video output.

[its-pointless]

mpv is that basically...

[jyf007]

it can't play on android N

[tigran123]

The alternative is to ask for mpv to be recompiled with caca video output driver. Note that libcaca/libcaca-dev are included in Termux.

[Neo-Oli]

@tigran123 I opened a pull request for just that a few days ago. #499

[tigran123]

@Neo-Oli Oh, I see. I didn't notice --- I only learned that such a thing as "libcaca" exists yesterday :)

[arno01]

Looks like it was dropped shortly after it was added :/ https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/commit/fd2b34d8467327bb416c9e9f7fd81f5d10f42ade#diff-31e775d74abd763b7da5eda9f8ce14d4L22

It says:

Drop libcaca as dependency as mpv now has built in terminal output.

But I can't figure what's the flag to use the terminal output?
cc @fornwall

[xeffyr]

@arno01 You need to edit configuration file of mpv.
Make sure it looks like this:

[~]:$ cat $PREFIX/etc/mpv/mpv.conf 
ao=opensles
vid=tct

And then mpv -vo tct yourvideo.mp4

[arno01]

@xeffyr thanks a lot! I've been trying mpv --vo=tct video.mp4 but apparently I was missing vid=tct in my mpv.conf. Still makes me wonder why the latter would be required if I passed --vo=tct with the argument.