Wow! I really love linux! I feel that with every minute spent inside linux my love to this OS grows up! It’s so outrageous! You can do almost everything!!!
Today, I was really shocked with the abilities of the mplayer! Here’s a short video of what I’ve done:
So, here’s a list of what I was doing with it (everything is done in tty-conole->[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F5]):
I wondered if I can watch films in console. That’s real! You just have to specify the special output driver. It’s the ASCII-Art driver: mplayer -vo aa nameOfYourFile.avi You can enjoy colour video in console, just replace aa driver with the Colour ASCII-Art driver caca!
I felt it’s not enough! So, I tried to watch my web-cam in console! Obviously, mplayer is able to do it! You just need to specify the tv:// protocol, instead of filename: mplayer tv:// -vo caca
Here’s the first problem. The output is alright, but that stats information always updates, and the video is blinking:( So, it makes impossible for you to watch your wab-cam normally. I started to investigate the mplayer’s man page: man mplayer it’s so huge! (read it if you want ) I quickly found the solution! Here is it: the parameter -really-quiet: mplayer tv:// -vo caca -really-quiet
But that was not enough! I wish I can watch the web-cam, as I look at mirror! I found the parameter -flip. But it just turns everything upside-down. The real solution for that is the video-filter Mirror! Specify it & enjoy: mplayer tv:// -vo caca -vf mirror -really-quiet
There’s one more improvement, you can do to your output. You can make it better by specifing the font. The smaller the font – the better’s the output. I usually use Uni1-VGA8: setfont Uni1-VGA8
That’s all, folks! Go and watch your favourite videos in console!
Happy New Year 2 everyone in this world! Let al your dreams come true in this 0x7DA year!!!
Right after the NY celebration I wanted to crawl the web & get in touch with my friends. I was really disappointed when I saw our local gateway down…No ping queries were successful:( I put ping 192.168.1.123 -t and returned to celebration! At 02 AM ping succeeded! The situation repeated several times…
But I really wanted to wish best wishes to my mates! So I started to investigate… The computer was overfilled with ARP-queries They changed the real MAC-address of the gateway, so the computer sent packets into wrong place.
The solution is simple:
Make your ARP table entries static! Under Windows You can do it in the following way:
Run “cmd”; [Start->Run->type "cmd" into it]
type in command line: arp -s Gateway.Or.Another.Computer It-s-MAC-Address
For instance if computer’s ip is 192.168.1.123;
It’s MAC-address is 00-11-22-33-44-55;
So you should type into command-line: arp -s 192.168.1.123 00-11-22-33-44-55
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They changed the real MAC-address of the gateway, so the computer sent packets into wrong place.