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CLUSTER COMMAND-LINE-MOVIES · 11 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-08-05

Terminal-based video streaming tools

The cluster consists of command-line applications for streaming, playing, and tracking movies, TV shows, IPTV, and casting media, often tied to specific sources like The Pirate Bay, MovieBox, or M3U playlists. Entries appear intermittently from August 2016 through July 2026, with the earliest in 2016 and a more recent cluster of activity in 2024 and 2026. Traction leaders are Go2TV, moviebox-tui, and m3u-viewer, though all currently have zero stars, indicating early-stage usage.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

OCT 2016: 1DEC 2021: 1AUG 2022: 1MAY 2024: 1NOV 2024: 1JAN 2026: 1JUL 2026: 3SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
OCT 2016OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 10 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01cmdvideo1★6 days—hobbyWindows terminal utility that plays videos inside a command prompt and mirrors other applications for viewing and control.
  2. 02effy0★26 daysliveopen sourceTerminal helper that exposes common FFmpeg tasks as short commands.
  3. 03Go2TV0★1 moliveopen sourceA casting utility that streams video, audio, and image files from a computer directly to smart TVs and Chromecast devices.
  4. 04moviebox-tui0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal client that streams movies, TV shows, and anime from the MovieBox catalog.
  5. 05m3u-viewer0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that provides fast viewing and navigation of large M3U and M3U8 media playlist files.
  6. 06mov-cli0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application for streaming movies, TV shows, and other video content directly from the command line.
  7. 07mov-watch0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based tool for streaming movies and TV shows directly from the command line interface.
  8. 08mtracker0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line movie tracker that records watched movies and television series.
  9. 09termv0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based IPTV player written in bash for streaming TV channels.
  10. 10blackpearl0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal app for streaming movies and TV series from The Pirate Bay without leaving the command line.
  11. 11lobster0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal app that plays movies, web series, and shows from the command line.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.