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Window recordings are MUCH larger as they record pixel data while Asciinena records bytes on the terminal output.
by janosdebugs 3y ago
Window recordings are MUCH larger as they record pixel data while Asciinena records bytes on the terminal output.
- kazinator 3y agoAsciinema records are small, but not in a format that is handled with commonly installed software; people rely on an external website for hosting the playback. TTY screen recordings compress very well (with a proper codec, not GIF!) because many of the pixels don't change between frames, and the resolution isn't HD. The window is usually only a small fraction of 1920x1024. I'm looking at a 7 minute video I made in 2022; it takes 29 Mb. It's not small, but for this day and age, that's not large. It's likely smaller than a download required to host all the Asciinema stuff to be able to play a file, and can be streamed just by planting the file on a server somewhere. It's small enough I can casually plonk that into a Slack chat or what have you. For sending as an e-mail attachment, I might think twice. It has an audio track without which you wouldn't understand all that is going on. Like I'm hitting such and such a key to bring about such and such an effect or mode, which shows up in such and such a way that I'm indicating with the mouse pointer.