Spongebob-CLI – Watch classic spongebob from the terminal

[proxycon]

bit dissapointing that it doesn't actually render video into the terminal, just launches a video player

[ginko]

Adding "--vo=tct" after "mpv" in the argument list in line 55 of spongebob-cli should do the trick (haven't tested it myself).

https://github.com/trakBan/spongebob-cli/blob/main/spongebob...

edit: yep, works. You might also want to add "--quiet" to get rid of artifacts.

[hiccuphippo]

I remember watching the soccer world cup like that years ago, just connecting with netcat. It received the "video" 5 seconds earlier than my TV.

[Zhyl]

Honestly, a terminal based search/browse with media player video would be my ideal replacement for youtube and similar

[echelon]

In ten years we'll be generating new SpongeBob cartoons from the terminal.

We can already replicate his voice:

https://fakeyou.com/tts/TM:jn4amf60mk58

TTS has lots of room for improvement, but the technology is already widely accessible and easy to deploy. We'll soon have voice conversion with dynamic control of tempo, pitch, timbre, etc.

We have GANs that can generate stills. (this{person,cat,waifu,furry,etc.}doesnotexist.com)

It won't be long before we can generate animated sequences, maintain temporal coherence, and correct for pose and posture.

Animation is going to be wild.

Anybody else working in this space? (Anybody want to be working in this space? Message me!)

[hathym]

MPV is the secret sauce: https://ubunlog.com/en/mpv-reproductor-video-terminal/

[nannal]

I'd argue megacartoons.net is the secret sauce as that's where it's fetching the video to put into mpv.

[AlexSW]

I had a quick look at the code to see how it worked and I feel like I'm being daft; where is line 28 getting the variable `soup` from?

https://github.com/trakBan/spongebob-cli/blob/eac7eded094a48...

[bobowzki]

It's introduced into the global scope on line 82. Too me this seems a bit obfuscated.

[wilj]

https://github.com/trakBan/spongebob-cli/blob/eac7eded094a48...

[swayvil]

First and second season, great. Third season, good and bad. After that, poo. And how many seasons is it? 10?

[yissp]

The original creator (Stephen Hillenburg) left after the third season. As I understand it, he wanted to end the series there, but of course Nickelodeon couldn't resist milking the cash cow.

[lostgame]

As cool as this is; I’m a bit surprised that this is trending here with its questionable legality.

I get that it’s not hosting any illegal material, but it’s linking to it, so it’s still pretty sketch.

Neat tool, though…

[capableweb]

I'm not surprised. Hackers tend to gravitate towards "interesting" or "curious" things no matter the legal status. Sci-Hub, ThePirateBay or Swartz downloading documents from JSTOR are all interesting subjects which most hackers would find interesting enough to upvote if it shows up here. If the whole "Encryption is munition" thing would have happened when HN existed, I would have expected that to circulate the frontpage weekly, if not daily.

[exciteabletom]

Awesome tool but what is the legality of this? Where is it sourcing the episodes from?

[capableweb]

> Awesome tool but what is the legality of this?

It's a client, none of the copyrighted work is stored in the software, it merely facilitates the user to load it in a media player.

> Where is it sourcing the episodes from?

The answer is in the source: https://github.com/trakBan/spongebob-cli/blob/eac7eded094a48...

TLDR: seems to be fetched from a source called "megacartoons".