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| author | John "Elwin" Edwards <elwin@sdf.org> |
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| date | Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:50:35 -0700 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/web/about/ttyrec.html Thu Aug 23 10:50:35 2012 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> +<html> +<head> +<title>TTYREC files</title> +<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/main.css"> +</head> + +<body> +<h1>TTYREC files</h1> +<div class="nav"><a href="/">rlgallery.org</a> -> <a href="/about/">About</a> -> TTYRECs</div> +<div class="content"> +<p>TTYREC files are recordings of text-based sessions, much like screencasts are recordings of graphical sessions. The Roguelike Gallery and other roguelike +sites create ttyrec recordings of games played online, so that others can watch them. The <a href="/archive.cgi">Archiver</a> will search rlgallery.org's +ttyrecs for you.</p> +<p>As you might expect, ttyrecs are not video files that can be played in video players. They contain mostly text, and you will need a ttyrec player to +watch them.</p> +<p><a href="http://0xcc.net/ttyrec/">The original ttyrec program</a> comes with ttyplay.</p> +<p><a href="http://angband.pl/termrec.html">Termrec</a> includes termplay, which is easy to use and works on Windows.</p> +<p><a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ipbt/">IPBT</a> is a newer player that allows you to rewind while playing.</p> +<p>A ttyrec produced on one kind of terminal will not play properly on a different kind of terminal. Most modern terminals are similar and should produce +compatible ttyrecs, but you might come across a file that won't work.</p> +<p>Replaying also might not work properly if your terminal is a different size from the one that produced the ttyrec. If things are getting drawn in the +wrong places, try making your terminal bigger. Unfortunately, ttyrecs don't tell you what the proper size is.</p> +<p>(But it can sometimes be deduced, if you don't mind poking around with a hex editor. Check near the beginning for the sequence +<span class="metavar"><escape></span>[1;<span class="metavar"><number of rows></span>r )</p> +<p>Note: if you are using ipbt, you must also tell ipbt what size terminal to use. Check ipbt's documentation.</p> +</div> +</body> +</html>