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Can I play movies without X launched?

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I know that I dont need a GUI for browsing Internet (using Links) but what about doing other things like playing movies, music and pictures slide shows. Is it possible to do that in a text mode command line?

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answered 2 Years ago herfor · Accepted Answer

For playing movies have a look at MPlayer with video output devices cvidix oder directfb, see the MPlayer documentation

For music cmus or ncmpc should work

For pictures there's fbi

You need to bee a member of the video group to use graphics at the text console.