vhs
Your CLI home video recorder 馃摷
Runssource: GitHubGoMITcommit c073383b5de0
Go, MIT licensed. The project labels itself: ascii, cli, command line, gif, recording, terminal, vhs and video.
vhs runs. An Argusic agent installed it in 14 minutes and hit 4 errors and fixed every one without help on a clean machine with no GPU, and the whole session was recorded.
VHS builds, all 4 Go packages pass tests (lexer, parser, token, main), and runs end-to-end against a real auto-downloaded Chromium browser + real ttyd + real ffmpeg, producing valid GIF and text output files
What the agent ended up with on a clean machine, in its own words. How this is measured
Measured by Argusic on a fresh machine every time. Every number links to its evidence. Argusic Score 100 of 100 (the mean of this project's run scores).
At a glance
Subject data from GitHub, linked at the top of this page, refreshed . Test data by Argusic (CC BY 4.0); every number links to a run page with the full log, the recording, and their sha256 hashes.
What was measured
From the run that decided this verdict. Every line is a recorded value, not an estimate.
What went wrong, in the agent's own words
The agent's own words, worst first, never rewritten into advice.
- GIF output never written (ffmpeg killed by cancelled context)5 minutes
- Go not installed in container2 minutes
- ttyd not installed1 minute
- Chrome sandbox crash: 'No usable sandbox!' in container1 minute
- Install time
- 14 minutes
- Cold machine to finish
- 16 minutes
- Errors hit and fixed
- 4 hit, 4 fixed with no human help
- How the result was proved
- vhs completed with exit 0 on a minimal tape, produced /tmp/final_test.gif (10393 bytes), and 'ffmpeg -v error -i /tmp/final_test.gif -f null -' returned exit 0 with no stderr or errors
- Model tokens used
- 99,136
- Exact commit tested
- c073383b5de0
- Container image
- sha256:cdd920bce783
What was not measured
The other half, so you can see exactly how far this evidence goes. A gap is printed as a gap and never filled in.
- Peak GPU memory
- this ran on a CPU machine, so there was no GPU to sample
- Behaviour over a long run
- each attempt uses the smallest documented settings and a fixed time budget, so this measures whether it runs, not how it holds up under load
The end of the recording
The last lines of the terminal session that decided this verdict, exactly as they were recorded.
Enter 1 Sleep 1s Creating /tmp/final_test.gif... Host your GIF on vhs.charm.sh: vhs publish <file>.gif EXIT: 0 ELAPSED: 5s -rw-rw-r-- 1 runner runner 10393 Sep 22 10:32 /tmp/final_test.gif FFMPEG_EXIT: 0 All diagnostics verified end-to-end. Here is the final report: tokens used 99,136 All diagnostics verified end-to-end. Here is the final report:
Replay the whole session, every command from a clean machine to this point.
How it was tested
One agent, one container, no human help. It installs the project the way its own documentation says to, runs it, and fixes what breaks. Everything below is recorded as it happened: the terminal session, the log and the exact commit. The full method.
Strengths and limits
Measured facts, not opinions. How this is written.
What went well
- Reached a running state on a clean machine, with the session recorded.
- Installed in 14 minutes.
- Recovered from all 4 errors without a human stepping in, which says the failures are documented well enough to solve.
- Ran without a GPU, so it does not need one to start.
- Licensed MIT, as reported by its host.
- Measured 3 times, so the result is not a one-off.
What it is a reasonable choice for
- Trying it on a laptop or a small server: it reached a running state without a GPU.
Also tested, in the same area
Every one of these was installed and run by Argusic on a clean machine. Nothing appears here that was not tested.
Run history
Topics (from GitHub)
Embed the badge
Markdown for the project README. It links back here; terms on the terms page.
[](https://argusic.com/subject/vhs)Questions
- Does vhs run?
- Yes. vhs runs. Argusic installed and launched it on a clean machine in 14 minutes, hitting 4 errors on the way, and recorded the session.
- How did Argusic test vhs?
- On a fresh, disposable machine, with every command recorded and the repository pinned at commit c073383b5de0. 3 attempts are recorded, and the full method is on the methodology page.
- What did it cost to test vhs?
- The run that produced this verdict cost $0.11: real compute and model cost, not a list price per million tokens. It is recorded on that run's page.
- How long does vhs take to install?
- 14 minutes in the run that decided this verdict, from a clean machine to a running state. That is one measured attempt, not an average.
- Does vhs need a GPU?
- Not to start. Argusic reached a running state on a machine with no GPU.
- What goes wrong when installing vhs?
- 4 things broke in the recorded run, and 4 were fixed without human help. Each one, and the time it cost, is listed on this page.
- Where is the evidence for vhs?
- All 3 recorded runs are on this page, each linking to its full log and terminal recording, stored with a sha256 fingerprint so it cannot be quietly altered.