Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to install music player without graphic ?

[Jesús J. Guerrero Botella]

You really need to find out what you need/want.

If you want a nice GUI media player then you either need X or some
kind of solution that works on framebuffer (they exist, but they are
not straightforward to get working). Some web based players exist as
well.

Secondly, mplayer does work on command line. You don't need to do
anything special for that. However, its capabilities come limited by
the graphics capabilities of your environment. If you ware in
framebuffer and you have correctly set up it using kms, uvesafb or
something like that, then you can probably play videos and show
graphics in your ttys, if not, then you'll need X for that. In any
case, don't expect a great performance when playing high resolution
videos in a framebuffer device.

As for music, there are some very good players for command line, some
of them are strictly command-based, others (like moc) offer a nice
ncurses-based interface where you can navigate your collections and
playlists.
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Jesús Guerrero Botella