Export to asciinema video

[Jonathan-Zollinger]

Itd be nice imo to be able to export VHS tape as asciinema videos since these videos can be played in the terminal. I feel it has some great potential for tui integrations, embracing asciinema compatibility

[taigrr]

Seconded, but note this is a heavier lift, as we can't just include an asciinema library, asciinema is a python application. Would require writing a new version of asciinema in go to pull from.

[Jonathan-Zollinger]

woof, that's a big undertaking.

[Jonathan-Zollinger]

I see there's a really old golang branch in asciinema's repo. it's not compatible with the current golang version - I'm new to Go, but what better way to learn than throwing yourself head first into foreign code that doesn't work?

[bashbunni]

This is a really interesting idea. I agree it would be great to have an output option that can be viewed in the terminal 💭

[garbas]

I don't think it would be that hard to provide asciinema outpout since the format specification is pretty straightforward -> https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/blob/develop/doc/asciicast-v2.md

I'd do it myself, but I'm not so familiar (yet) with the vhs codebase.

[drupol]

Hello, is there any progress on this feature?

[drupol]

Hello,

I have used your patch and added it in a Nix Hands On tutorial.

https://github.com/drupol/nix-hands-on Check step 17.

I will now make some tests with it.

Question: have you already tried to submit this patch upstream ?

[drupol]

Here's the result:

• Asciinema output: https://asciinema.org/a/XKdxhbm5Y4cgZ27Z
• Gif output:

Script:

Output demo.cast
Output demo.gif

Set Shell fish

Type "nix run nixpkgs#cowsay -- vhs with asciinema output is cool !"

Sleep 500ms

Enter

Sleep 2s

[taigrr]

no i havent. @meowgorithm is that something you'd be interested in having upstreamed?

[meowgorithm]

Yes!

[taigrr]

pr #706