[geekmaster]

fbdev's mplayer also plays streaming video, if launched inside luigi's terminal (myts-6) using the -vo aa option. It needs other parameters too such as negative, aspect ratio, contrast and gamma. The video is rendered using characters, and looks good if you stand back aways or squint. I think with really small characters (2 point font) it would look much better. The framerate is surprisingly quick. The CPU is too slow to do a lot of realtime video filtering of action scenes, but if you pipe the output to a file and later cat that to the display it is really fast. For "talking heads" video (like from a news channel) it is usually fairly smooth video. I posted a couple of command lines to play two different video streams, in the kinamp thread.