TEXTp saves YouTube bandwidth, money

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)

Agreed. This is the first April Fool's Day "feature" on the web I've seen that's actually a feature.

This reminds me of the libcaca library: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

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=featu...

TEXTp is awesome. i'm watching starcraft in it. i hope they leave it as an option you can somehow access after april first.

Good old Google, never let us down.

I actually want Google to acquire my company for this day alone.

I have the latest Chrome&Flash and it's not working for me.