YouTube, Now In Text Mode!

techmuse writes "YouTube has introduced a new, higher-resolution text mode for video. The new text mode is far more efficient than their previous high-end, high-definition offering, and should bring entirely new levels of realism to streaming web video!"

aalib

[zmooc]

Oh come on why not do it properly and port aalib to flash.

Re:Really?

[ottothecow]

Unfortunately, it also looks like they are pushing through the new page design which I am not a huge fan of.

The *glaring* problems have been fixed, but the way things are placed does not seem as smart to me...particularily the video description. It should be to the side of the video...especially on wide screen displays. Often it will have lyrics or something you want to read while the video is playing and you can not do this with a longer block of text (or with any text on a netbook screen).

Re:Really?

[jrmcferren]

Oh Please don't remind me of that, not the OMG Ponies! thing, but the fact that I was stupid on that day. For a while first posts were getting modded up, I decided to start the first post stuff as myself. Later the mods started modding the trolls as trolls and my Karma hit rock bottom. In fact I think I'm still paying for it as I have to wait 10 minutes or more between posts, then again there may have been trolls on using an open WiFi I once had.

Re:Really?

[ottothecow]

Unfortunately, it is not a new thing.

I had a computer that was stuck in their beta test (until I figured out what combination of logging out/clearing cache and cookies would get rid of it). The layout was similar although they had some even worse features. The search tried to dynamically shrink the currently playing video (to the a small box in the top left) to display the search results next to the recommended videos...this simply did not work for me (firefox on ubuntu). The first search might sort of work but after that I would have to first go to the youtube homepage (search box would become non-responsive otherwise). Also, videos would frequently refuse to load, even if the same video in embedded mode played fine (or played fine on a system not running the new layout). Another hated change was the automatic play of the next video on the right hand side--you could disable it, but only per session...leave youtube and come back and it is back to autoplay.

There were a few posts about it on the youtube blog and the comments mostly seemed to hate it (although in the youtube language of "f this crap you are all idiots who cant design shitzzz"). There was an opt-out link that didn't work (and mention of an opt out link that should be on every single page in the new layout but I could never find it). Looks like they at least fixed SOME of those problems before releasing it into the wild.

I can still see a few clear formatting bugs (firefox, winxp) but at least the videos actually play...