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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
by SifJar 7y ago
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
- jimws 7y agoJust provide the commands again as text. I don't have to wait for the entire asciinema to replay. I can ctrl+f what I need and copy-paste.
- awalton 7y agoNot what I'd consider a killer feature, but it's definitely one of the advantages. 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.