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by merraksh 2845 days ago
This will display the video as ASCII art:

  vlc -V aa <youtube link>
For color ASCII he suggests

  vlc -v caca <youtube link>
2 comments
glandium 2845 days ago
Ironically, displaying that video with this method will make it unreadable.
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sitkack 2845 days ago
Well, the OP should have posted it as https://asciinema.org/
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agumonkey 2844 days ago
does mpv have such codec out of the box ?
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