Enlightenment Terminal Allows Video Playback, PDF Viewing

An anonymous reader writes "The E17 Enlightenment project has released a new version of its Terminology terminal emulator. With Terminology 0.3 comes several fancy features, including the ability to preview video files, images, and PDF files from within the terminal. There's new escape sequences, inline video playback, and other features to this terminal emulator that's only built on EFL and libc."

Comments

Can it do...

[c0lo]

Can it do all the above inside lynx? 'Cause if not, I'm going to wait a bit for the emacs module.

(grin)

(tell me again: why would someone want to do any of the above in a terminal?)

Re:Can it do...

[Ash Vince]

(tell me again: why would someone want to do any of the above in a terminal?)

After having watched the full video of its capabilities I am pretty amazed and certainly some of it will be useful.

I particularly liked things like the ability to use ls to a get a list of files but with small thumbnails next each. You were then able to select the thumbail and see a bigger preview for images and movies. I also like the ability to do things like hover over a file in a "ls" output then just click and drag it but getting a full path to the file.

Re:Can it do...

[raster]

'Because I can' ... yup.

  Seriously though it's zero extra code to handle video in a bg when it's already supported in Popups. It's the same object. It's supported in popups because it's helps people who use terminals for irc, email and more and when they have a link to a video stream they get easy one click access. Users of irssi have been singing terminology's praises for this. There are tonnes of legitimate normal uses of such features. You might not see it now or your usage of terminals is incredibly narrow, but many who live in them all day find these features a godsend.

Can it access media over ssh?

[hankwang]

I wonder whether it works if you ssh into another machine. I have been wanting something like that while logged into my media server, which doesn't have X11 applications installed. It's not mentioned in the feature list and I can't judge whether the underlying architecture would allow tunneling these functions over ssh to a box that doesn't have enlightenment installed. I'd think that a special ssh client on the client side would suffice to have simultaneous channels for command-line data and multimedia data to the host machine.

Re: Can it access media over ssh?

[raster]

it already does uri's... just provide http://blahlahblah.com/blah instead of /path/to/file and it'll fetch it. here's the catch - that;s not useful as WHO will serve it? what URL? what webserver? won't work over ssh. wont work OVER your connection. it has to work VIA it to be feasible.

now to display a thumbnail i could have tyls generate small low res thumbs itself and embed the thumbnail image inside escapes and send it down the terminal pipe, but this will only work for small thumbnails - what if i want to ... play video? then we have to stream the entire video via an escapecode... and that;s just awful! i am not ready for THAT level of evil.

btw. thanks so much for being an informed user who will bother to look at the code before rabbiting on about vague unfounded assumptions. :) i guess it's sad that i have to even say this. :) anyway - and tyls.c is ugly as. it was a quick test program i brewed to test the escapes it is not at a nice piece of code... :) it needs some love.

Re:Seems logical..

[JasterBobaMereel]

Terminal : Low bandwidth, low resources way of accessing the system often remotely by experienced technical users

This Terminal : High bandwidth, high resources way of accessing the system bad for remote access and friendly to inexperienced non-technical users ....

Who is this for ...?

Re:VERY poor choice of escape sequences

[raster]

And what is wrong with this? It's the same style as xterm title set escapes. ?