So I spent a little bit of time tonight tinkering on Linux. I got interested in tty recording/playback after seeing some nethack things. I figured if I could find something that works well for playback of tty recordings it would be helpful on my blog. Enter: jsttyplay
This is a nice little tool using Perl and JavaScript to handle playback of terminal sessions recorded using ttyrec.
Here’s a demo of how to get things setup, including making a video and editing the HTML to play it.
I plan to start work on making a WordPress plugin for this so I can embed these a bit easier.
If you don’t have ttyrec, install it with your system’s package manager; in my case, I have Debian so I will use apt-get.
apt-get install ttyrec