karttuMay 18
Ryan Castellucci 

I have the ssh movie player back online!

This is running on a custom ssh server built using russh as the backend. To convert frames, I used the python tv package, subtitling and playback is all custom.

You'll need a terminal that supports 24 bit color.

Try it! ssh ansi.rya.nc

May 7 at 2:14pmWeb
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
bonus video available: ssh rickroll@ansi.rya.nc
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
I need to add playback controls, lol.
Show threadCaspar C. MierauMay 7
@ryanc Love the rickroll, except that it is too obvious to rickroll someone :)
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
@leitmedium the comedy option would be to have that for username root, and disable ctrl-c...
Show threadCaspar C. MierauMay 7
@ryanc Haha, yes. So many opportunities. Thanks for the great project!
Show threadAdam KatzMay 18

@ryanc @leitmedium If you set something less obvious here (say never@), I'll share it with my coworkers.

The root@ without Ctrl+C idea has legs too, as very few people know about the Enter,Tilde,Dot escape method (though they can just close their virtual terminal or kill the ssh session from another terminal).

Show threadRyan Castellucci May 18
@adamhotep @leitmedium added never@
Show threadJinxMay 7
@leitmedium @ryanc need to edit their hosts file without them noticing somehow... 🤔
Show threadCaspar C. MierauMay 7
@Jinx @ryanc an alias or ssh config file will do, too :)
Show threadJinxMay 7
@leitmedium @ryanc fair point
Show threadRob Vincent 🎙️May 7
@ryanc Glorious!!
Show threadxek (👻🏴‍☠️👻)May 7
@ryanc It's laudable that you're keeping the RealPlayer vibe alive. It just needs a scratchy, on-hold music rendition of the audio to go along with the video.
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
@xek someone suggested sending audio to e.g. pulse audio on linux via port forwarding, but it'd require more setup of the end user than I want for this demo
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
and yes, if you stay connected, it will play an entire two hour film for you
Show threadSimon RolfmoreMay 7
@ryanc What’s really fun for me is that I’m hearing snatches of the score in my head as the film plays.
Show threadChristopher SnowhillMay 18
@ryanc Awesome.
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
This uses SSH to mostly to take advantage of compression (yes, it an be enabled by the server even if you set Compression=no), but it'll make some other features easier to implement.
Show threadRoyce WilliamsMay 7
@ryanc Feature request: at the other end of the status line (right-justified), an indicator of how many simultaneous streams are currently being served 😉
Show threadzbrownMay 8
@ryanc see on one hand I've got people trying to justify that terminal apps should get direct access to the Wayland clipboard, on the other I've got you threatening features in your ssh-based streaming service…
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 8
If your client requires an explicit username, you can use sneakers or rickroll for a movie or a music video respectively.
Show thread🇺🇦 haxadecimalMay 8
@ryanc
For Windows, I use "End User", since it asks me to agree to an End User License Agreement.
Show threadPepperMay 7
@ryanc this is so cool! Definitely adding this to my "stupid things to do in a terminal on somebody else's computer" list with Star wars and nethack
Show threadVenya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦May 7
@ryanc THIS IS MARVELOUS
Show threadJorge 💾May 7
@ryanc Wow! This is impressive and very interesting. A definite upgrade to the towel.blinkenlights.nl telnet version of Star Wars I remember from my early years. Kudos!
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
@babetoduarte I could do star wars 🤔
Show threadxinit ☕May 7
@ryanc That's fantastic.
Show threadJohn DetersMay 7
@ryanc This is very cool. The frame timing is amazing, how did you do that?
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7

@targetdrone Each frame is tagged with when it should display, with the start of playback taken as T=0.

When playback starts, the current time is captured, and then for each frame the server computes the target time and sleeps until then.

There is also some code to drop frames if it gets too far behind.

Show threadJoshua BarrettoMay 7
@ryanc Very cool!
Show threadManchuckMay 7
@ryanc I love Sneakers so much. In another life, I would be a pen tester. I'm too old and too far in my career to make a change now
Show threadnicolaottomanoMay 7

@ryanc
Impressive! 😲

It does work with ssh in Windows 10, no other params needed.

Does not work with Putty on the same PC (or I'm missing something).

Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
@nicolaottomano Yeah, PuTTY is known not to work. Not sure why, but it may not like the way the server does auth.
Show threadmeMay 7
@ryanc is it still up?
Show threadArikMay 7

@ryanc Still doesn't work for me unless I disable PK authentication. I have 7 keys. It fails after the second PK offer, for some reason.

One of those keys is a certificate for signing SSH keys, maybe that gets it all twisted up.

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive,password,none
debug1: Offering public key: /home/<redacted>/.ssh/id_ed25519 ED25519-CERT SHA256:<redacted>
Connection closed by <redacted> port 22
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
@pq1r might be the certificate, idk
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
@pq1r if you tell me your IP I can check the log
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
@pq1r do you use kitty?
Show threadArikMay 7
@ryanc No idea what kitty is. I am using openssh-clients-0:9.9p1-10.fc42.x86_64
Show threadVissMay 7
@ryanc whoa this is super fucking cool!
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 7
@Viss Thanks! Will hopefully get around to posting the code and a writeup eventually.
Show threadTony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀May 7
@ryanc I just noticed they remastered Sneakers in 4k because of this so thanks (even though it’s the opposite of 4k it’s still pretty cool)
Show threadTursilionMay 8
@ryanc Okay, that's pretty fun :) The results are pretty good too!
Show threadAnyia, complicated 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈May 8
@ryanc very cool!
Show threadRichard BairwellMay 8
@ryanc Hmm just tried connecting from my Pixel 6a Android phone using JuiceSSH and Termius (had to try the rickroll username and neither would accept empty username) and both unable to establish a connection due to: Unable to exchange encryption keys
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 8
@rbairwell It only supports ed25519 and curve25519 key exchange, which your client may not support. I can enable P256 ECC which might work.
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 8
@rbairwell also sneakers@ will work as a username
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 8
@rbairwell alright, it has ecdh-p256 support now, that may help
Show threadDHeadshot's AltMay 9
@rbairwell
I got the same, but it looks like it's fundamentally a compression issue?
@ryanc
Show threadKasTasMay 8
@ryanc wihihihi, reminds me of towel.blinkenlights.nl back... in the day.
Show threadmytwobits01May 9

@ryanc
Does it use Unicode? That might be why it didn't work well for me.

Also, I wouldn't have thought ANSI supported 24-bit color. ANSI was created in the 80s, yes?

Show threadRyan Castellucci May 9

@mytwobits01 Most modern terminal emulators support 24 bit color, it's been around for at least a decade.

Yes, the service uses unicode.

Show threadRyan Castellucci May 9
@mytwobits01 https://github.com/termstandard/colors
GitHub - termstandard/colors: Color standards for terminal emulators

Color standards for terminal emulators. Contribute to termstandard/colors development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadmytwobits01May 9

@ryanc
Thanks, will peruse.

Looks like ANSI is 16 colors; something else must be at play for 24-bit.

Show threadRyan Castellucci May 9
@mytwobits01 the standards have been updated over time
Show threadKasiandra RichmondMay 11
@ryanc looks good with termux 😂
Show threadRyan Castellucci May 11
@kasiandra I tried turmux on my phone and it lagged bad, lol
Show threadKasiandra RichmondMay 11
@ryanc yes it is laggy as hell 😂 and it runs in the background cause I forget to kill the session.
Show threadRusty Broadsword 🏳️‍🌈May 18
@ryanc that is absoutely delightful
Show threadSamuelMay 18
@ryanc too cool! did not expect to watch a movie over ssh on my phone today