Monolizer

A Java program to allow video playback on the command line.

A demonstration can be found here. (Note that this isn't Monolizer but Mono, another project I'm working on)

An older demonstration without instant video playback can be found here.

Notable features

• Colored video output
• Instant video playback
• Full pixel video support
• Floyd-Steinberg grayscale dithering
• Auto resizing terminal window

What doesn't work?

• Pausing a video without audio doesn't work

Controls

Space: Play/pause

C - Toggle colours

D - Toggle grayscale dithering

F - Toggle full pixel

Q - Quit

Gallery

Hollow Hunger - Ironmouse @ 1:05 with dithering enabled

Hollow Hunger - Ironmouse @ 1:05 with dithering disabled

Telecaster b boy (long ver.) - Kanata Amane @ 0:26 with full pixel and color enabled

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Java 21 JRE
• MongoDB

Playing videos

java -jar monolizer.jar

Building

Prerequisites

• Java 21 JDK
• Git

Cloning the GitHub repository

git clone https://github.com/dynmie/monolizer-java.git

Compiling

Windows:

.\gradlew.bat jar

GNU Linux:

chmod +x ./gradlew
./gradlew jar

You can find the output jar at build/libs.