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TEXTp saves YouTube bandwidth, money

• dryicerx 17y ago
  That's pretty awesome that the conversion and rendering of video to text is actually done in client side within flash (initially I thought 'oh man, what a rape it must be on their servers doing the conversions'). Well played Youtube, well played. relavant: aaxine and cacaxine (if you want to watch own movies at home in ascii art, even stream them over a ssh terminal)
  • psawaya 17y ago
    Agreed. This is the first April Fool's Day "feature" on the web I've seen that's actually a feature.
• aston 17y ago
  Looks like the fill characters spell out "LOL" a good chunk of the time [1]. Awesome. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xVXQCrPxQ&feature=featured&textp=fool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xVXQCrPxQ&feature=featu...
• CWIZO 17y ago
  I have the latest Chrome&Flash and it's not working for me.
• shin_lao 17y ago
  This reminds me of the libcaca library: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
• xenophanes 17y ago
  TEXTp is awesome. i'm watching starcraft in it. i hope they leave it as an option you can somehow access after april first.
• Roridge 17y ago
  Good old Google, never let us down. I actually want Google to acquire my company for this day alone.