# Asciinema as a first-class video format

**URL:** <https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/asciinema-as-a-first-class-video-format/907>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [January 4, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/asciinema-as-a-first-class-video-format/907 "2025-01-04T00:00:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/asciinema-as-a-first-class-video-format/907/2 "2025-01-21T14:55:07Z")

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Hey @bitplane, welcome!

That’s an interesting idea. Feel free to reach out to ffmpeg authors, although I doubt they’ll go for it 🙂

However, one thing which could be done without too much hassle and too much work is to implement raw frame output in `agg` or in the new `convert` subcommand of the upcoming asciinema CLI 3.0. It could output a raw image for each frame, sequentially as one stream, which could be piped straight into `ffmpeg`. Once those frames hit `ffmpeg` you can perform anything (`ffmpeg` can) on it and encode it into any type of video format.

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