What would you like?
Cypress also automatically compresses the recorded video to a Constant Rate Factor (CRF) of 32. Cypress could turn off video compression by default for all users - having a videoCompression value set to false in their configuration file.
Why is this needed?
Recording video in low CPU resourced machines results in slower runtime of Cypress tests. Video compression is on my default and blocking, so it increases the time the tests take to run. And video compression takes longer the longer the video is, so these reasons are compounding the problem.
Other
Turning off video compression would result in larger video sizes, which still needs exploration as to the impact for users and Cypress.
The release and implementation strategy has not been decided, but this could result in a breaking change for users.
What would you like?
Cypress also automatically compresses the recorded video to a Constant Rate Factor (CRF) of 32. Cypress could turn off video compression by default for all users - having a
videoCompressionvalue set tofalsein their configuration file.Why is this needed?
Recording video in low CPU resourced machines results in slower runtime of Cypress tests. Video compression is on my default and blocking, so it increases the time the tests take to run. And video compression takes longer the longer the video is, so these reasons are compounding the problem.
Other
Turning off video compression would result in larger video sizes, which still needs exploration as to the impact for users and Cypress.
The release and implementation strategy has not been decided, but this could result in a breaking change for users.