video-less

This project is enables playing videos in the terminal!

like less but for videos

you have full media controls with the arrow keys, you can also pause the video and resize the terminal however you wish

Building

Follow the instructions on building gstreamer, as this crate depends on it. Then just do:

cargo run --release -- demo.mp4

To download the demo video:

yt-dlp -f mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2b03Zdu4Q -o demo.mp4

you can also skip forwards and backwards the video or even pause