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Re: Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

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Post by csdvrx » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 9:37 PM UTC

panpanna wrote: post #59

csdvrx wrote: post #18

Let me be the devil advocate: why not use ttyrec + seq2gif instead? Or check https://intoli.com/blog/terminal-recorders/ if you don't like my recommendation 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 woul…

Not sure about seq2gif but I think using ttyrec to capture data instead of asciinema has some benefits. For example, ttyrec is a 33KB standalone binary while asciinema needs python. This might be a problem if you are recording something on a remote machine with limited access or resources. You can upload ttyrec data to asciinema so nothing really changes on that front.

Unfortunately I guess only a small minority prefers 33KB binaries doing just their the job.

At least I learned about the SVG alternatives to asciinema that's both getting a better vectorial results, and saving size compared to a gif output. It is so obvious in retrospect! More kudos to the author for thinking about supporting various input formats, including asciinema.

Re: Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

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Post by csdvrx » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 9:38 PM UTC

masukomi wrote: post #49

csdvrx wrote: post #17

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Uploading ascii equivalents is a great idea! I usually do that, so I can later reconvert if needed. 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.

easy way to test if a web page sucks for blind people: Use Lynx[1] to browse it. It's not a perfect representation of what they experience but it's a very easy way to get a good impression. [1]: https://lynx.browser.org/

I was wondering more how well ttyplay was working on Braille terminals, or if they could easily edit ttyrec files.

Re: Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

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Post by nickcox » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 10:30 PM UTC

I love this tool.

For people who want to render asciicast to SVG, I can highly recommend svg-term-cli[1].

[1] https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli/

Re: Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

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Post by nickcox » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 10:32 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #37

awalton wrote: post #21

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> please consider using plain text instead You do understand this is a false dichotomy? You can have both. Some people would rather watch a video and follow along, whereas others get more out of reading text... and both fit neatly on a page right next to one another.

For double the effort, which not many people go to.

Not sure it's double the effort. Once you've written the textual version, you pretty much only need to copy and paste it into a terminal to produce the asciicast version.

That's how I did the animations for this Powershell tool.

https://github.com/nickcox/cd-extras

Re: Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

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Post by pubby » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 10:39 PM UTC

wildduck wrote: post #2

Don't know if I want to a script that records my terminal session and upload the recording to an external server. Is there a way to keep the recording local?

Check out ttyrec.

Re: Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

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Post by paulmd » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 11:08 PM UTC

cogburnd02 wrote: post #73

TallGuyShort wrote: post #64

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Still not as bad as the BlackBerry company (Research In Motion, or RIM) careers website, "RIM.jobs"

Or the old 'expertsexchange.'

Would you really want your sex change done by someone who's not an expert?

Re: Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

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Post by pattisapu » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 11:32 PM UTC

dmd wrote: post #89

ihaveajob wrote: post #85

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I love how the banner tries to undo the confusion: PENislandPENS.

Their logos are pretty great too.

"Your pen is

Our business!"

Re: Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

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Post by wrboyce » Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 11:35 PM UTC

paulmd wrote: post #96

cogburnd02 wrote: post #73

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Or the old 'expertsexchange.'

Would you really want your sex change done by someone who's not an expert?

It certainly beats a kidsexchange (which was some kind of daycare website back in the day, if memory serves).

Re: Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

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Post by ihaveajob » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 7:06 PM UTC

pattisapu wrote: post #97

dmd wrote: post #89

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Their logos are pretty great too.

"Your pen is Our business!"

"Q: Can I provide my own wood? A: In most cases we can handle your wood. We do require all shipments to be clean, free of parasites and pass all standard customs inspections."

I don't know how to interpret this now.

Re: Asciinema – Record and share terminal sessions

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 8:29 AM UTC

lvh wrote: post #86

Asciinema is great and a joy to use, but one of the coolest things about how Asciinema is made is that the web player implements a virtual terminal emulator in Clojure: https://github.com/asciinema/vt/blob/master/src/asciinema/vt... It's cljc, which means it runs on both JVM and in JS. I have no idea if they actually use the JVM bit.

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