Terminal Screencast Mock (MP4)
A screen-recording-style clip of a mock terminal — a window with traffic-light buttons and build output typing out line by line with a blinking cursor. A fixture for testing screen-capture pipelines, UI-motion thumbnails, and text-in-video OCR.
Browser-playable test video · 6 seconds
Specifications
- Resolution
- 480x300
- Fps
- 15
- Duration
- 6s
- Audio
- none
- Codec
- H.264
- Note
- synthetic UI — text types out line by line
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Decode the clip and confirm its geometry and the event the fixture is named for.
- Expected result
- 480x300 at 15 fps, 6s, H.264 in MP4. synthetic UI — text types out line by line, with no audio. Screen content is the hard case for a natural-video encoder: sharp glyph edges and large static regions between updates, at a low 15 fps, which is where a content-adaptive encoder should behave very differently from the camera-like plates elsewhere in this library.
What is a .mp4 file?
MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) is the dominant container for digital video, holding video, audio, subtitle, and metadata tracks in a tree of typed boxes. `ftyp` declares the brand, `moov` carries the sample tables that make seeking possible, and `mdat` holds the media; when an encoder writes `moov` last, playback cannot begin until the file has fully downloaded, which a faststart remux fixes. It derives from Apple's QuickTime format, generalized by ISO into the ISOBMFF base that MOV, 3GP, and HEIF share.
How to use this file
Use an example MP4 to test box parsing and track detection, seeking, range-request streaming, and transcode or thumbnail pipelines — verifying that a file with a trailing `moov` box is still handled, and that codec support is checked per track rather than inferred from the extension.
How to use this file for testing
“Terminal Screencast Mock (MP4)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: 6s · 15 fps. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Media fixtures are short and synthetic by design. Prefer waveform or transcript ground truth in the same group when measuring ASR, trim, upscale, or sync tools; do not assume broadcast-quality masters.
Code examples
<video controls preload="metadata" width="640" src="terminal-screencast.mp4"></video>Related files
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