I can't quote without JS so...

@vain: The framebuffer is genuinely awkward. Sometimes it refreshes the content of the screen sometimes it doesn't, leaving the ghost of an image or video.
I've use mplayer with the fbdev2 video output and for that matter you want to spawn it away from text that refreshes frequently otherwise it'll keep flickering. As a solution/hack I've used the -geometry option, which also works in the tty, you can change the position of the window with this technique.

@z3bra: That's ok, you're still in the spirit of this holy holiday.