Recording doesn't work on windows 11.

[jhonatan-segura]

Description
I downloaded the binaries using winget and added VHS to path, VHS gets frozen on the terminal when trying to run it to generate video, no errors displayed, both ffmg and ttyd are installed and available from PATH.

Setup

• OS [Windows 11]
• Shell [cmd/powershell]

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create .tape file
2. Execute "vhs demo.tape"

Source Code

Expected behavior
Video should be generated at examples folder.

Screenshots

[w4tchdoge]

I'm also experiencing the same issue on W11. VHS is installed via scoop so both ttyd and ffmpeg are already on the path.

[jdrst]

Same here for any combination of windows terminal/alacritty and powershell/nu

PSVersion                      7.3.4
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.3.4
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.22631

(that's Windows 11 23H2 22631.5549)

❯ nu --version
0.105.1

alacritty: 0.15.1

Windows Terminal
Version: 1.22.11141.0

[ptsouchlos]

I'm getting the same results on Windows 11 with vhs v0.10.0.
ttyd version 1.7.7-40e79c7

ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version 7.1.1-full_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 14.2.0 (Rev1, Built by MSYS2 project)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static --disable-w32threads --disable-autodetect --enable-fontconfig --enable-iconv --enable-gnutls --enable-lcms2 --enable-libxml2 --enable-gmp --enable-bzlib --enable-lzma --enable-libsnappy --enable-zlib --enable-librist --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libzmq --enable-avisynth --enable-libbluray --enable-libcaca --enable-libdvdnav --enable-libdvdread --enable-sdl2 --enable-libaribb24 --enable-libaribcaption --enable-libdav1d --enable-libdavs2 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libquirc --enable-libuavs3d --enable-libxevd --enable-libzvbi --enable-libqrencode --enable-librav1e --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libvvenc --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs2 --enable-libxeve --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libjxl --enable-libvpx --enable-mediafoundation --enable-libass --enable-frei0r --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libharfbuzz --enable-liblensfun --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-libzimg --enable-amf --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-dxva2 --enable-d3d11va --enable-d3d12va --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-libvpl --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc --enable-vaapi --enable-libshaderc --enable-vulkan --enable-libplacebo --enable-opencl --enable-libcdio --enable-libgme --enable-libmodplug --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libshine --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libcodec2 --enable-libilbc --enable-libgsm --enable-liblc3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb
--enable-libopus --enable-libspeex --enable-libvorbis --enable-ladspa --enable-libbs2b --enable-libflite --enable-libmysofa --enable-librubberband --enable-libsoxr --enable-chromaprint
libavutil      59. 39.100 / 59. 39.100
libavcodec     61. 19.101 / 61. 19.101
libavformat    61.  7.100 / 61.  7.100
libavdevice    61.  3.100 / 61.  3.100
libavfilter    10.  4.100 / 10.  4.100
libswscale      8.  3.100 /  8.  3.100
libswresample   5.  3.100 /  5.  3.100
libpostproc    58.  3.100 / 58.  3.100

[seradotflac]

Same result with the Windows Terminal and Warp.dev on the example tape file in the vhs repo

[mattvmsft]

Seeing a similar issue with vhs 0.10.0. When running vhs record > test.tape in powershell, the file just contains the text unsupported.

[junapur]

i'm having this issue too, my vhs is installed through winget.

[NSPC911]

Same as well, vhs just straight up does nothing after the initial setup. No issues on WSL, but I just hate using WSL.

[mattvmsft]

In the meantime, I've been using PowerSession which seems to work well and is compatible with other asciicinema tooling like agg

[NSPC911]

The main issue with asciinema is that you cant have a preset sort of presentation (like vhs' tapes) that let you just run it, and it will automatically record

[Freddy-FT]

same issue.
Edge is running with ttyd tab

but then stuck

[Pinguladora]

Any updates on this?

[WillEhrendreich]

please have mercy on us windows plebs. lol.