cool stuff that you can do in your terminal

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warning: some of these may only work natively in the terminal and
may not be supported in multiplexers or over ssh.

video
=====

caveat emptor: random shit i found on the internet

```sh
# [1]
mpv --no-config --vo=sixel  --profile=sw-fast --really-quiet --vo-sixel-reqcolors=0 --ao='pulse' /path/to/video/file
# lower quality, but more likely to be supported since it just 
# uses unicode
mpv --no-config --vo=tct /path/to/video/file # lower quality but

# [2]
mpv --ytdl-format="bv[height<=720]+ba" <yt_video_url>
# more useful ytdl (works with ytdlp)
ytdl-format=bestvideo[height>=?1440][vcodec^=vp9]+bestaudio/bestvideo[height<=?1440][vcodec^=av0]+bestaudio/bestvideo+bestaudio/best

# installing the correct version mpv for windows (shinchiro) and
# frens
winget install -e shinchiro.mpv
winget install -e yt-dlp.yt-dlp
# ffmpeg tailored to ytdlp
winget install -e yt-dlp.FFmpeg

# finding out what xdg is going to use (app) to open a file
xdg-mime query default audio/mpeg
# set a new default app for video
xdg-mime default mpv.desktop audio/mpeg
```

additional resources
--------------------

- awesome-mpv[3] for more useful stuff
- a nice little script[4] to browse a youtube playlist using fzf,
mpv and jq
- archlinux have their own useful mpv[5] page
- a high quality mpv config that requires additional add-ons[6]
- timg's own github page[7]

miscellany
==========

```sh
# how to become root in synology
ssh <some.admin.account>@<synology.host.name>
sudo su # enter some.admin.account's password
```
 

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1258409/can-one-watch-video-in-terminal-command-line
[2] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/discussions/14469#discussioncomment-10576050
[3] https://github.com/stax76/awesome-mpv
[4] https://gist.github.com/kelvinauta/7bfd6ddc81ee4050210592c29d9e0edf
[5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mpv
[6] https://github.com/noelsimbolon/mpv-config
[7] https://github.com/hzeller/timg