Document meaning of time value in asciicast v2

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Marcin Kulik
2017-09-03 12:54:40 +02:00
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@@ -47,9 +47,8 @@ Each element of the event stream is a 3-tuple encoded as JSON array:
Where:
* `time` (number) - relative time (in seconds) since the previous event occured
(or, for the first event in the stream, since the beginning of the recording
session),
* `time` (float) - indicates when this event happened, represented as the number
of seconds since the beginning of the recording session,
* `event-type` (string) - one of: `"o"`, `"i"`, `"size"`,
* `event-data` (any) - event specific data, described separately for each event
type.
@@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ For example, let's look at the following line:
It represents the event which:
* happened 1.001376 sec after a previous event in the stream,
* happened 1.001376 sec after the start of the recording session,
* is of type `"o"` (print to stdout, see below),
* has data `"Hello world"`.
@@ -73,10 +72,8 @@ current and future versions of the format. For example, we may add new event
type for text overlay (subtitles display).
A tool which interprets the event stream (web/cli player, post-processor) should
ignore event types it doesn't understand or doesn't care about. However, it
should honor the amount of time specified by such stream item (by pausing for
this amount of time when playing back) in order to keep the subsequent events on
the timeline.
ignore (or pass through) event types it doesn't understand or doesn't care
about.
#### "o" - output, printing to stdout
@@ -103,11 +100,8 @@ not supported by current versions of the recorder and players
A very short asciicast v2 file looks like this:
{"version": 2, "width": 80, "height": 24, "command": "/bin/zsh", "title": null, "env": {"TERM": "xterm-256color", "SHELL": "/bin/zsh"}}
{"version": 2, "width": 80, "height": 24, "command": "/bin/zsh", "title": "Demo", "env": {"TERM": "xterm-256color", "SHELL": "/bin/zsh"}}
[0.248848, "o", "\u001b[1;31mHello \u001b[32mWorld!\u001b[0m\n"]
[1.001376, "o", "This is overwritten\rThis is better."]
[0.143733, "o", " "]
[0.541828, "o", "Bye!"]
The final `"Bye!"` was printed to a terminal 1.935785 sec (0.248848 + 1.001376 +
0.143733 + 0.541828) after the beginning of the recording session.
[2.143733, "o", " "]
[6.541828, "o", "Bye!"]