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Posted March 31, 2010
Anyone else seen this?
Quite frankly its goddamn awesome and I hope YouTube keep it after April Fools is over.
If you havent seen it change the resolution setting for a video, it should have a TEXTp function.
Posted March 31, 2010
indeed.
Posted March 31, 2010
YouTube won't even load for me right now. All I get is "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable". If that's what you mean by text only mode, I'm not thrilled ;-)
Curiously enough, I can still open direct links to YouTube videos and watch them (and personally I think the new interface sucks), but any attempt to access my profile is met with the same error as above.
Posted March 31, 2010
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Wishbone: YouTube won't even load for me right now. All I get is "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable". If that's what you mean by text only mode, I'm not thrilled ;-)
Curiously enough, I can still open direct links to YouTube videos and watch them (and personally I think the new interface sucks), but any attempt to access my profile is met with the same error as above.

Yeh its failing at the moment =/ but no thats no it :P its a lot cooler.
Posted March 31, 2010
This is an excellent opportunity to post this for no reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEcZtunL3yg
Posted March 31, 2010
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stonebro: This is an excellent opportunity to post this for no reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEcZtunL3yg

Everyone HAS to watch this shit RIGHT NOW.
This guy is either retarded or a genius. Can't decide which.
Posted April 01, 2010
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apexultima: Yeh its failing at the moment =/ but no thats no it :P its a lot cooler.

Well, it's back now, and either I'm just a moron, or they removed the feature again. At least I can't find it anywhere.
Posted April 01, 2010
Whoa, ASCII porn!
Posted April 01, 2010
I wish the shitty new video player was an April Fool's joke.
Posted April 01, 2010
Well, even if I can't see the ACTUAL April fool's joke (other than the blog post), at least this works.
Posted April 01, 2010
Please tell me YT's new look is an April Fools joke as well?
Posted April 01, 2010
April Fools day or not, it's a rather nifty feature. I also hope they keep it.
Posted April 01, 2010
If you use mplayer to watch videos (in Linux) you can set output to text, colour text etc.
In fact I think there is library called libaaca or something
Posted April 01, 2010
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yesterday: If you use mplayer to watch videos (in Linux) you can set output to text, colour text etc.
In fact I think there is library called libaaca or something

. It's the same library used for [url=http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/]Text Mode Quake.
Post edited April 01, 2010 by Wishbone
Posted April 01, 2010
from their blog:
You can also append &textp=fool to most video URLs to test it out.
For every person who selects TEXTp and keeps it on while you watch a video, you save YouTube $1 a second, resulting in potentially billions of dollars of savings for us. So if you care about YouTube, you’ll use TEXTp today.

So it is a nice April fools feature ;)
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