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+# asciicast file format (version 1)
+
+asciicast file is JSON file containing meta-data like duration or title of the
+recording, and the actual content printed to terminal's stdout during
+recording.
+
+Version 1 of the format was used by the asciinema recorder versions 1.0 up to 1.4.
+
+## Attributes
+
+Every asciicast includes the following set of attributes:
+
+* `version` - set to 1,
+* `width` - terminal width (number of columns),
+* `height` - terminal height (number of rows),
+* `duration` - total duration of asciicast as floating point number,
+* `command` - command that was recorded, as given via `-c` option to `rec`,
+* `title` - title of the asciicast, as given via `-t` option to `rec`,
+* `env` - map of environment variables useful for debugging playback problems,
+* `stdout` - array of "frames", see below.
+
+### Frame
+
+Frame represents an event of printing new data to terminal's stdout. It is a 2
+element array containing **delay** and **data**.
+
+**Delay** is the number of seconds that elapsed since the previous frame (or
+since the beginning of the recording in case of the 1st frame) represented as
+a floating point number, with microsecond precision.
+
+**Data** is a string containing the data that was printed to a terminal in a
+given frame. It has to be valid, UTF-8 encoded JSON string as described in
+[JSON RFC section 2.5](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt), with all
+non-printable Unicode codepoints encoded as `\uXXXX`.
+
+For example, frame `[5.4321, "foo\rbar\u0007..."]` means there was 5 seconds of
+inactivity between previous printing and printing of `foo\rbar\u0007...`.
+
+## Example asciicast
+
+A very short asciicast may look like this:
+
+ {
+ "version": 1,
+ "width": 80,
+ "height": 24,
+ "duration": 1.515658,
+ "command": "/bin/zsh",
+ "title": "",
+ "env": {
+ "TERM": "xterm-256color",
+ "SHELL": "/bin/zsh"
+ },
+ "stdout": [
+ [
+ 0.248848,
+ "\u001b[1;31mHello \u001b[32mWorld!\u001b[0m\n"
+ ],
+ [
+ 1.001376,
+ "I am \rThis is on the next line."
+ ]
+ ]
+ }