Google's cutting back with new, cheaper youtube video format

[ZedMan]

Text Mode

[BlackArcher101]

ARGH, just came to post it.

April fools or not, it's damn cool.

[ZedMan]

You can do it with any video you have, with VLC in preferences->video change output to "Color ASCII art video output"

[SebC]

Not quite as good as when they rickrolled us.

[calumniate]

isn't that ansi graphics?

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by calumniate

isn't that ansi graphics?

Not really. Ansi graphics used escape codes to add colour and various extended symbols and cursor control to regular text (like primitive word processing formatting codes, really)

This is using AALib, which is a high performance rendering engine that uses text symbols. You can get, for example, a complete version of Quake rendered using AALib.