Watching movies and series from the command line (lemmy.ml)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by corvus@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've been using mov-cli and lobster to watch movies and series from the command line, I installed their lastest versions but they don't seem to be working anymore. I really liked their simplicity of typing the title of a movie or series and start watching on mpv. Is there any other software that works in the same way?

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[-] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 19 hours ago

Before I discovered VLC (some 20 years ago) I used to use mplayer. Not sure if it’s still being maintained though. It could display video using text output, frambuffer as well as via an x window.

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

My bad for asumming that most subscribers know what mov-cli and lobster do. What I'm asking for is a program that takes the title of a movie or series as an input from the command line and start scrapping movie sites and when the movie or series is found it starts streaming it to mpv.