I think it compresses file size/network transfer, but in order for playback to occur, the video must be decompressed into memory, even though the terminal colors will be mostly the same color hex.
> Is that the asciinema player, or the "video" it plays?
Hard to tell, just shows up as 'JIT' in the profiler.
> I thought part of the point of asciinema was that it compresses better for terminal capture?
Better than what? 30Mb of heap for a video source/player combination isn't that awful. It's on-par with most videos that your web browser will try to play.
Is that the asciinema player, or the "video" it plays? Either way: I thought part of the point of asciinema was that it compresses better for terminal capture? Just how much data was stored by that particular session?