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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by corvus@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 7 points 2 days ago

By "on the command line" you mean that you type a command, it starts an X server, and starts MPV with the movie? I mean, it should be possible to just write a script for that. Scripting isn't really my forté though so I couldn't tell you exactly.

[-] ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago

no, he reads the 1's and 0's in real time. At least that's my interpretation of OP

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, in that case all OP needs is cat.

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

What mov-cli and lobster do is scrapping movie sites and start playing the movie you just typed by streaming.

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 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

I had no clue that was a thing. Sorry.

[-] palitu@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

All I see is red head

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