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Describe main theme behind v2

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* __all subsequent lines__ form an event stream, _each line_ representing a
separate event stream item, encoded as JSON array.
By making the event stream a first class concept in the v2 format we get the
following benefits:
* it enables live, incremental writing to a file during recording (with v1
format the final recording JSON can only be written as a whole after finishing
the recording session),
* it allows the players to start the playback as soon as they read the meta-data
line (contrary to v1 format which requires reading the whole file),
* whether you're recording to a file or streaming via UNIX pipe or WebSocket the
data representation is the same.
## Meta-data
The following meta-data is **required** in asciicast v2: