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Really? (Score:2)
this is actually cool. i hope its not one of /.s April fools jokes
Re:Really? (Score:5, Informative)
They really should run everything through an aa filter today. :D
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Especially your mom.
The stench of cheap booze is only drowned, by the vomit in her beard! :D
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I just clicked "Parent" hoping to see a picture. Didn't work.
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I have to wait 10 minutes or more between posts
I’ve found that this seems to be a side effect of using the separate posting page [slashdot.org] rather than the fancy-dancy Web 2.0 comment editor.
Internet Explorer apparently doesn’t support the Web 2.0 fanciness, so you’re stuck with the other page... and the posting limit...
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I have to wait 10 minutes or more between posts
I’ve found that this seems to be a side effect of using the separate posting page [slashdot.org] rather than the fancy-dancy Web 2.0 comment editor.
Internet Explorer apparently doesn’t support the Web 2.0 fanciness, so you’re stuck with the other page... and the posting limit...
Thanks for the tip, I'll see if that helps.
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You mean like SlashRoulette?
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Adverts? What adverts? ;)
Besides, if you didn't want flaming for them then you presumably know that they're hideous or something, so why put them up?
Re:Really? (Score:5, Interesting)
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).
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A year of achievements already?
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Unfortunately, it also looks like they are pushing through the new page design which I am not a huge fan of.
I've talked to a dozen people today about the new layout, and not a single person liked it - not the laymen, not the designers, not the programmers, nobody. The words "clusterfuck", "illegible", "wanky piece of shit" and "it's an April Fools' joke, right?" had been uttered.
Judging by how this thing looks and behaves, they probably haven't done any real usability testing, and they've partly left Opera out in the cold (videos now require "click to activate" and vertical centering is off on all "buttons", whic
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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
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I know, they selected me as a beta user some time ago, and I happily deleted the cookies responsible for that monstrosity. There have been some improvements since then (most notably, URLs now look like URLs, instead of 524987-character garbage, and not everything is a playlist), but it's still garbage. If you picked a random person from the street, they would probably be able to design the page better and in a more usable way.
I honestly have no idea what they tried to accomplish with this, and why they have
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Didn't you watch the Matrix Text video that youtube put-up as an example? This is no joke. And yes the vid looked just fine. At last I watch youtube on my C=64.
BTW I've decided to quit engineering and join a convent.
Maybe then I'll finally get some sisters.
More details here ... (Score:2)
YoutTube's TEXTp Saves You Bandwidth and Money"> [slushdot.com]
apparently it will save Youtube lots of money AND allow them to do streaming 1080p videotext.
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It appears to me that it downloads exactly the same .flv as it normally would. So the claim of saving bandwidth is entirely fictional...
Not on all videos (Score:2)
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True. But since the Trololo guy [youtube.com] is one them, I can't help being very glad.
Also not in all countries... (Score:2)
It seems that it is USA-only, judging from the comments on the videos and the fact that I also can't see the TEXTp version.
I hope that THAT part is the actual joke. Though I doubt that.
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I'm currently in Taiwan and enjoying the TEXTp videos.
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You can already do it in VLC! http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/09/watch-movies-in-ascii-in-vlc-media.html [instantfundas.com]
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No, this is legitimate. If you pause the video you'll see perfectly crisp ANSI chars, and not just an encoded video of ANSI rendering. Same thing with full screen. On my HD monitor it is perfectly crisp while playing. Also, both CPU cores are literally idle playing this video.
Of course Youtube would have to pre-process and "encode" the video into ANSI first - this isn't some video rendering mode of the player, but the actual stream is ANSI. It is very doubtful Youtube will actually go to to the trouble
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HTML5 (Score:3, Insightful)
HTML 3 (Score:3, Funny)
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april fool i'm way too late
aalib (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh come on why not do it properly and port aalib to flash.
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Is this the ASCII art thing that VideoLan has as an option?
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It does? I tried it on several videos and they had no textp option. Perhaps I am doing it wrong.
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There's an even easier way of noticing it's an output filter.
The switch when clicking between your current stream and the text stream, is instant. If you switch from low to high def streams it actually reloads the stream. You can click the TEXTp to normal links as many times as you like and it's instant. They probably did effectively convert aalib to flash in some form (at the very least use the conversion tables).
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They didn't. The april fools joke is not the first video; it's that after clicking on some of the fake related videos you're actually going to believe it:P APRIL FOOLS! :D
Could have done it for real... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Could have done it for real... (Score:5, Informative)
it is on all their videos just add &textp=fool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzCZ1W_CUoI&textp=fool [youtube.com]
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Except that it doesn't work for any videos that they haven't uploaded an ascii version of...... try it on an actual random video and it does nothing.
I saw it on some very random videos earlier today (which seem extremely unlikely to be classified as "popular"...), and it was available (through the resolution-selector widget) on every video I looked at subsequently.
It seems more likely that not all servers got it at the same time or something.
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I found several where there isn't a text option. Try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVRHOhLP-aA [youtube.com]
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They only say it only works on “most” videos:
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Is there any pattern for why some videos have the textp option, and others don't?
Maybe they only did it for popular videos? Because none of my uploads have the textp option.
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That's odd. The videos people link to work, but any other video I try doesn't work. The mode isn't selectable in the selection box, and appending &textp=fool doesn't work. [shrug]
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It's possible to play Quake and Unreal Tournament in text mode also :)
Nothing beats... (Score:1, Insightful)
OMG! Ponies!
Curses! (Score:2)
Curse the corporate firewall/proxy!
what kind of company policy blocks youtube but lets facebook pass anyway?
i'll have to check this out at home tonight
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i just checked the youtube thing, quite cool!
also, fuck /. for putting sounds-producing flash in every page, i will be off till tomorrow
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nice (Score:2, Insightful)
Gotta hand it to them.
They usually manage to make their joke something entertaining rather than the boring stuff most other sites tend to come up with.
This makes life easier (Score:2)
Great! Before I had to download it and open it in VLC to do this. This cuts one step out of my day - productivity increase!
Woot! (Score:2)
This is awesome (Score:1)
Awww (Score:2)
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Indeed, I was surprised at how good it looked when shown that way.
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I'd thank you for the correction, except you had to jump in with the personal insults as well. Personally i checked YouTube right before leaving for work. I loaded several of my favorite videos and none of them were getting the fi
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Actually, you’re wrong; the YouTube blog [blogspot.com] only says that it works on “most” videos.
Don't try this at home (Score:2)
YT being slow (Score:2)
If YouTube wasn't so slow(in the past 8 months), I would chuckle. But when I'm at home(Comcast) the loading of videos is dialup-level slow. I can no longer realtime-stream videos, and Youtube's code doesn't handle stalled loading well, where you can't pause it.
It seemed a bit faster last night with the new GUI though, for how ugly it is.
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It's a comcast thing, not a youtube thing. I've been taking my netbook to the bar because their wifi is faster than comcast.
Yeah, I realize this is a joke, but... (Score:2)
I believe VLC (VideoLan) had a textmode. No kidding. I have the old version, but choose Settings/Video/Output Modules/Color ASCII art video output. And no, I'm not kidding.
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I swear I'm not kidding. But someone mentioned this too I believe.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1603426&cid=31700058 [slashdot.org]
I think http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=308695 [ubuntuforums.org] talks about it too, and the dates show that it's not a joke.
Beat me to the punch!!! (Score:1)
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I love this (Score:2)
About time! (Score:4, Funny)
Finally, YouTube for us Lynx [isc.org] users.
Are the ASCII images 7-bit clean?
Not all of us can afford 14.28% additional bits, you insensitive clods!
Not good enough (Score:3, Funny)
Done on CPU, apparently (Score:2)
You can tell because you can turn it on and off without restarting the stream, and also because it loads your CPU.
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Yes, and the .flv stream that’s downloading is the same regular .flv video that you’d usually be streaming.
Wrong debut video (Score:2)
They should have debuted their TEXTp with this video instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 [youtube.com]
ASCII Star Wars: (Score:2)
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ [asciimation.co.nz]