asciinema VS terminalizer

Incorrect link. Just goes to the list of open requests.

Here is a ticket which mentor the rust rewrite, perhaps this was what was intended: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/pull/579

Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, Elixir, Nix(OS), WASM, AWS

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Github: https://github.com/ku1ik

Open-source: creator of https://asciinema.org, contributor and maintainer of many other projects (see Github profile)

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20 years of professional experience. I enjoy anything backend related, e.g APIs, profiling and solving performance problems, building high performance, low-latency network solutions, among many other things.

This might be a good usecase for https://asciinema.org/

I do quite a lot of this kind of stuff for my job. Some context that may be useful.

Often the full IDE is needed. I record a lot of gifs of VSCode, where part of the gif is typing code, part is interacting with the rest of the IDE / terminal - perhaps to run the code and view the output.

For me the killer app would be one which could pre-record keystrokes (and maybe mouse actions) so that I could do them error free. I often attempt a gif 10 times before I'm happy with the outcome.

I don't personally love the transition animation. I would want the option for something that seems like it's being typed.

The closest tools I've found are:

Typewriter VSCode extesion: Allows you to copy text and then "types" it out for you. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dansilve...

Ascii Cinema: https://asciinema.org/

but it seems pretty popular for this kind of screen recording.

[1] https://asciinema.org/

github.com/faressoft/terminalizer/issues/96

Maybe another alternative for inspiration: https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer

I love it because it gives you the option to record or to prepare your file... very easy and good results.

Seems abandoned? https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer

I'm using terminalizer (https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer), however it might be a bit hard to get running, it doesn't seem to be maintained.

Check out terminalizer - I think you can record your terminal, edit out all of the backspaces, adjust the speed, etc and turn it into a GIF.

Terminalizer!

I'm looking for a terminal session recorder that is able to capture ncurses program nicely and correctly. I have tried asciinema which didn't quite work, just as terminalizer didn't. I haven't been able to even install ttystudio.

GIF optimization is kind of a lost art. Even programs like Terminalizer, which ought to do better, still do a crappy job of GIF export. Pop the example GIF from their GitHub page open in GIMP and you'll see that they at least decimate the framerate pretty well, but the animation still includes lots of big, pointless updates. An optimized terminal recorder should be smart enough to produce optimal output in the first place: just produce a frame containing only the characters added since the last frame, or shadowing any characters removed.