# Example mailcap file for Reddit Terminal Viewer # https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv/ # # Copy the contents of this file to {HOME}/.mailcap, or point to it using $MAILCAPS # Then launch RTV using the --enable-media flag. All shell commands defined in # this file depend on external programs that must be installed on your system. # # HELP REQUESTED! If you come up with your own commands (especially for OS X) # and would like to share, please post an issue on the GitHub tracker and we # can get them added to this file as references. # # # Mailcap 101 # - The first entry with a matching MIME type will be executed, * is a wildcard # - %s will be replaced with the image or video url # - Add ``test=test -n "$DISPLAY"`` if your command opens a new window # - Add ``needsterminal`` for commands that use the terminal # - Add ``copiousoutput`` for commands that dump text to stdout ############################################################################### # Commands below this point will open media in a separate window without # pausing execution of RTV. ############################################################################### # Feh is a simple and effective image viewer # Note that rtv returns a list of urls for imgur albums, so we don't put quotes # around the `%s` image/x-imgur-album; feh -g 640x480 %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" image/gif; mpv '%s' --autofit 640x480 --loop=inf; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" image/*; feh -g 640x480 '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" # Youtube videos are assigned a custom mime-type, which can be streamed with # vlc or youtube-dl. # video/x-youtube; vlc '%s' --width 640 --height 480; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" video/x-youtube; mpv --ytdl-format=best '%s' --autofit 640x480; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" # Mpv is a simple and effective video streamer video/*; mpv '%s' --autofit 640x480 --loop=inf; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" ############################################################################### # Commands below this point will attempt to display media directly in the # terminal when a desktop is not available (e.g. inside of an SSH session) ############################################################################### # View images directly in your terminal with iTerm2 # curl -L https://iterm2.com/misc/install_shell_integration_and_utilities.sh | bash # image/*; curl -s %s | ~/.iterm2/imgcat && read -n 1; needsterminal # View true images in the terminal, supported by rxvt-unicode, xterm and st # Requires the w3m-img package # image/*; w3m -o 'ext_image_viewer=off' '%s'; needsterminal # Don't have a solution for albums yet image/x-imgur-album; echo # 256 color images using half-width unicode characters # Much higher quality that img2txt, but must be built from source # https://github.com/rossy/img2xterm image/*; curl -s '%s' | convert -resize 80x80 - jpg:/tmp/rtv.jpg && img2xterm /tmp/rtv.jpg; needsterminal; copiousoutput # Display images in classic ascii using img2txt and lib-caca image/*; curl -s '%s' | convert - jpg:/tmp/rtv.jpg && img2txt -f utf8 /tmp/rtv.jpg; needsterminal; copiousoutput # Full motion videos - requires a framebuffer to view video/x-youtube; mpv -vo drm -quiet '%s'; needsterminal video/*; mpv -vo drm -quiet '%s'; needsterminal # Ascii videos # video/x-youtube; youtube-dl -q -o - '%s' | mplayer -cache 8192 -vo caca -quiet -; needsterminal # video/*; wget '%s' -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 -vo caca -quiet -; needsterminal