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.<p>relavant: aaxine and cacaxine (if you want to watch own movies at home in ascii art, even stream them over a ssh terminal)
Looks like the fill characters spell out "LOL" a good chunk of the time [1]. Awesome.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xVXQCrPxQ&feature=featured&textp=fool" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xVXQCrPxQ&feature=featu...</a>