Subj : syncterm
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Fri Mar 03 2023 03:41 pm

>> Strip it!

> It is/was.  Here is the evidence;

OK, I guess that's the best we can do.

>> A lot of BBSs are very retro.

> You forgot to mention "hotbeds of activity".  :::wink, wink, knudge,
> knudge:::

They were at one time. When I first started BBSing that was "online". Times have changed. Significantly, but I am still a BBSer.

> telnet works okay and runs beautifully on the linux terminal along with
> framebuffered mplayer playing a full screen 4K mp4, all without requiring a
> gui.  BUT if using a gui then "mplayer -vo vdpau -fs 16penguins.mp4" is
> something to write home to mother about.

I just realized the other day that vlc has an ncurses interface but I have never tried it. I played some music with it but didn't have any movie files to try at the time.

I'm going to have to get mplayer installed and try it out on the console.

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