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selenium-video-node

This project adds video recording capability to a Selenium Grid. Videos are encoded into WebM/VP8 format on-the-fly and made available at the end of the test.

Features

• Easy setup - just need to add another JAR file to the Selenium Node classpath
• Excellent video quality (at about 8-15 frames/sec)
• Additional support when running under the Xvfb virtual X Server on Linux (6 times faster video encoding)
• Simple API to retrieve videos
• Extensible storage mechanism for video storage

Mis-Features

• Video encoding is done using native code (using JNA) - unfortunately this means that additional effort is required to support more plaforms.

Example videos

For example videos recorded using this plugin, see the examples page.

Video Node System Requirements

• A dual core processor (one core for video encoding, another for everything else). It is possible to lower this requirement by reducing the framerate.

• 32-bit colour display output - 8 bits red, 8 bits blue, 8 bits green, with either 8 bits of alpha or 8 bits unused. See Wikipedia for more information.

• A Java 6 JVM (or higher) running on one of the following platforms:

Platform	Support	Tested?	Jenkins Build
Linux x86_64 (64-bit)	Yes	Yes
Linux x86 (32-bit)	Yes	Yes
Windows x86_64 (64-bit)	Yes¹	Yes¹
Windows x86 (32-bit)	Yes	Yes
Mac OS X 10.9 x86_64 (64 bit)²	Yes	Yes
Mac OS X 10.5-10.8 x86_64 (64-bit)²	Yes	No

¹ - Compiled and tested on Windows 7. ² - Compiled with flag -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 - it should work with older OS X versions.

The above does not apply to the Selenium Hub, which does not perform any video processing.

Downloads

Download the latest version from Maven Central:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/aimmac23/selenium-video-node/

Older releases can be found here:

https://aimmac23.com/public/maven-repository/com/aimmac23/selenium-video-node/

Alternatively, if you are creating your own Selenium Maven project, add the following to your POM file's dependency section:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.aimmac23</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium-video-node</artifactId>
    <version>2.0</version>
</dependency>

Basic Installation

To get the plugin working on your Selenium grid, see Installation

Additional Features

The Video Nodes can change some of their behaviour, based on certain command-line parameters. See Additional Features on how to make that happen.