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I tried using asciienema for a blog post. I forget exactly why I gave up on it. Something about it frustrated me and didn’t work right. I ended up using OBS to make a screen capture. Now I have an MP4 that plays in a vanilla html5 video tag and will work forever.
Are there any alternatives (just want to see alternatives to find which is best for my use). Either way, looks nice! Although a bit irrelevant, like the gradient!
If you feel like using asciinema or similar on your readme - please consider using plain text instead. This fancy players: - are unfriendly to visually impaired people - are unfriendly to the many people with low bandwith in the global south - require you to watch the play instead of scanning through text with your eyes - cannot be searched for text strings easily - cannot be easily used in a terminal or without a br…
A short asciinema replay can be useful for a quick demo buy don't let that substitute your text documentation. I may watch the replay only once but I will come back to a well written documentation again and again.
Are there any alternatives (just want to see alternatives to find which is best for my use). Either way, looks nice! Although a bit irrelevant, like the gradient!
I tried using asciienema for a blog post. I forget exactly why I gave up on it. Something about it frustrated me and didn’t work right. I ended up using OBS to make a screen capture. Now I have an MP4 that plays in a vanilla html5 video tag and will work forever.
One killer feature you get with asciinema & not with an MP4 is that people watching it can copy & paste from your recording. So they don't have to type out the same command you typed, they can just copy it into their terminal directly
If you feel like using asciinema or similar on your readme - please consider using plain text instead. This fancy players: - are unfriendly to visually impaired people - are unfriendly to the many people with low bandwith in the global south - require you to watch the play instead of scanning through text with your eyes - cannot be searched for text strings easily - cannot be easily used in a terminal or without a br…
I think it makes sense in this case because one terminal "speaks" to another. I agree with your assessment about plain text - do you think there is a good way to present this kind of workflow using plain text?
If you feel like using asciinema or similar on your readme - please consider using plain text instead. This fancy players: - are unfriendly to visually impaired people - are unfriendly to the many people with low bandwith in the global south - require you to watch the play instead of scanning through text with your eyes - cannot be searched for text strings easily - cannot be easily used in a terminal or without a br…
Can you tell me if your text browser/Braille reader works well with https://github.com/csdvrx/pg_csdvrx/blob/master/pg_csdvrx.tt... ?
This is my latest recording. I removed color and unicode to be more accessible but I still have some Ansi.
ttyrec is a standard format that most people and tools understand.
And if you want something fancy that asciinema output, you can use seq2gif which support all the bells n whistles asciinema does, while allowing you to also upload the ttyrec file.
However, I would suggest not using unicode or Ansi color in your recordings.
You want to demo a feature, not show your cool terminal or the amazing gif you made. The gif is just a byproduct. Keeping to plain text as much as possible makes your recording available to people using text terminals and Braille screen readers.
My most recent example: https://github.com/csdvrx/pg_csdvrx/raw/master/pg_csdvrx.tty... and https://github.com/csdvrx/pg_csdvrx/raw/master/pg_csdvrx.gif
(in case you wonder why I'm doing a cat /dev/random into a live postgres database block file, this is to show how I can recover the database content from the raw directory. Kids, don't try this at home. Don't try it at your parents work on their production database either. In fact, just don't do that, it is only for when your database ends up in /lost+found)
Are there any alternatives (just want to see alternatives to find which is best for my use). Either way, looks nice! Although a bit irrelevant, like the gradient!
ttyrec and ttyplay This plays back in the terminal, not in something you can put on the web as easily.
I tried using asciienema for a blog post. I forget exactly why I gave up on it. Something about it frustrated me and didn’t work right. I ended up using OBS to make a screen capture. Now I have an MP4 that plays in a vanilla html5 video tag and will work forever.
One killer feature you get with asciinema & not with an MP4 is that people watching it can copy & paste from your recording. So they don't have to type out the same command you typed, they can just copy it into their terminal directly
Now, what is killer is that the recording is just a text file, so I can edit it and check it in to my source control system, rather than having to mangle some screen recording environment and check in a binary blob that's hard/impossible to edit in the future.
It's also pretty universally guaranteed to work since it doesn't demand much of the browser as far as weird javascript features go, and means I can deliver a whole screen recording in the fraction of the size of an MP4 file. It's screen resolution agnostic, making it more functional for a wider class of users than a video. I also don't have to ship a different version of the recording if I want a high contrast version for accessibility reasons.
So, yeah, plenty of reasons to use asciinema over a conventional screen recording.
