Asciinema CLI 3.0 Rewritten in Rust, Adds Live Streaming, Upgrades File Format

No idea if it does this already though.

And at very high bitrates nvenc quality is just fine. It's mostly at the lower bitrates x264 really shines.

Of course for livestreaming there are different constraints.

You can see this effect in long streamathons/subathons as twitch automatically kills long streams so you’ll see multiday streams get cut up either manually by streamers or automatically by twitch every 24h or so, and the viewer count drops significantly and takes quite some time (many hours) to recover.

Also this video has some 6 million views now: https://youtu.be/xC5uEe5OzNQ?si=GOvwOTHV-RVQnxWv . I remember watching it and being awed by the cube effect.

I'm not a big vim user, but anywhere you can run a shell command, you should be able to run TTE. As long as ANSI control sequences are respected, the animation should play. TTE will accept piped text or a file input.

> How do you typically use it?

The most common invocation method is either piped text from some other command or passing a text file via command line arg. It also works as a library and can be imported into existing Python applications to produce animations and animated prompts.

> What was your intent when you first wrote it

A post here on HN featured an animation of the Sneakers terminal decryption effect and I thought, I can do that in Python. I wrote a handful of simple effects and really enjoyed the process of writing effects and upgrading the engine to support new features. The effect requirement -> engine feature loop is very satisfying. So, I keep working on it when I have free time.

> what do you use it for now?

It's really more of a toy, and the delay it causes requires some thought when using it, but I've had people reach out with some interesting use cases. Shell startup / SSH motd is pretty common. It can be imported and used as a library, so you may find it as a splash screen or animated prompts in scripts. A few people have shared examples of using it as an animation tool to create advertisements or background animation for electronic music displays. Framework computers recently tweeted a video of TTE running on boot for one of their laptops.

Eventually, I'd like to fully document the API from an effect writing perspective and produce some tutorials. I won't consider the project 'finished' until that happens. I don't want to abandon it before people are able to write their own effects.

I thought that was the role of Enlightenment [1] but I guess I'm just old. :)

[1]: https://www.enlightenment.org/

Speaking of which, an interesting thing to contemplate is if it is worth automating what you did, or if making the videos happens rarely enough that you'd start from scratch with a new manus or other ai session.

Sure, not every site needs to run on a highly-available elastic cluster of nodes, but the alternative mindset of actively rejecting this architecture is arguably even more harmful.

A healthy deployment should be able to scale up and down easily, if not automatically. I wouldn't want to be woken up at 3am because prod1 needs a CPU/RAM/disk increase and a reboot, and the users wouldn't like that either.

Eh. I think my takeaway would be more that this is the authors passion / side project that they use to test and learn new languages.