Asciinema records are small, but not in a format that is handled with commonly installed software; people rely on an external website for hosting the playback.
TTY screen recordings compress very well (with a proper codec, not GIF!) because many of the pixels don't change between frames, and the resolution isn't HD. The window is usually only a small fraction of 1920x1024.
I'm looking at a 7 minute video I made in 2022; it takes 29 Mb. It's not small, but for this day and age, that's not large. It's likely smaller than a download required to host all the Asciinema stuff to be able to play a file, and can be streamed just by planting the file on a server somewhere. It's small enough I can casually plonk that into a Slack chat or what have you. For sending as an e-mail attachment, I might think twice.
It has an audio track without which you wouldn't understand all that is going on. Like I'm hitting such and such a key to bring about such and such an effect or mode, which shows up in such and such a way that I'm indicating with the mouse pointer.
TTY screen recordings compress very well (with a proper codec, not GIF!) because many of the pixels don't change between frames, and the resolution isn't HD. The window is usually only a small fraction of 1920x1024.
I'm looking at a 7 minute video I made in 2022; it takes 29 Mb. It's not small, but for this day and age, that's not large. It's likely smaller than a download required to host all the Asciinema stuff to be able to play a file, and can be streamed just by planting the file on a server somewhere. It's small enough I can casually plonk that into a Slack chat or what have you. For sending as an e-mail attachment, I might think twice.
It has an audio track without which you wouldn't understand all that is going on. Like I'm hitting such and such a key to bring about such and such an effect or mode, which shows up in such and such a way that I'm indicating with the mouse pointer.