VHS freezes on Windows cmd

[SickleFire]

Describe the bug
VHS freezes and unresponsive. when I enter:

vhs demo.tape

I tried it on Powershell and CMD. see screenshot below.

Setup

• Windows 11
• CMD / PS

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. open cmd
2. vhs demo.tape

Source Code

demo.tape:

# Where should we write the GIF?
Output demo.gif

# Set up a 1200x600 terminal with 46px font.
Set FontSize 46
Set Width 1200
Set Height 600

# Type a command in the terminal.
Type "echo 'Welcome to VHS!'"

# Pause for dramatic effect...
Sleep 500ms

# Run the command by pressing enter.
Enter

# Admire the output for a bit.
Sleep 5s

Expected behavior
an output of demo.gif

Screenshots

Additional context
ffmpeg version 8.1.1-full_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2026 the FFmpeg developers
ttyd version 1.7.7-40e79c7
vhs version v0.11.0 (c6af91a)

it just freezes and unresponsive. still no output while writing this issue

I hope someone can help me. and point out what I did wrong.

[hossam-houssien]

I have the same issue , with vhs version v0.11.0, when I check the task manager found 6 chrome processes start running but with 0% cpu (hang) , at the same time about 6 processes for google updater run for few minutes and then stops, but the chrome process still there till I force kill it, the issue seems to be with chrome, but not sure.