Youtube now available in text mode !

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:51 PM, David J Patrick <djp-tnsZcVQxgqO2dHQpreyxbg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/to/~3/pIJEjVMxAYg/YouTube-Now-In-Text-Mode
>
> dammit! I bit and chewed it up and almost swallowed, cli-youtube ?
> that would be AWESOME !

The thing is, it *definitely could work*!

It already does with mplayer.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/aalib.html

See also <http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/tune/>

Better still, it has actually been made to work with YouTube.

http://www.tweak3d.net/forums/showthread.php?26209-Watch-YouTube-videos-as-ASCII-text-using-aalib
http://hackedgadgets.com/2007/06/28/text-based-youtube-video-player-for-linux/

Simple matter of linking your mplayer to aalib...
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