This project is created to provide native video recording support for Selenium Grid and was initially designed to be used with docker-selenium project. See details in related article.
As Docker will be available on Windows soon, initial approach was extended for supporting corresponding OS. Technically, now you can use it on Windows even without Docker.
ffmpeg tool is used to produce mp4 output. The entire recording process is managed on selenium session level.
VideoInfo entity is designed to supply required video options to be able to control output paths, quality and frame rate. As there's no easy way to extend official selenium sources, you should provide exactly the same entity on a client level and pass corresponding info in json format as a part of DesiredCapabilities.
To be able to handle when actual recording is completed, all videos are published into tmp folder, which is relative to the provided output. Note that you should map corresponding volumes on Docker level to be able to correctly consume mp4 output. E.g. for docker-compose.yml it may look like the following:
firefoxnode:
image: sskorol/node-firefox-debug:2.53.0
volumes:
- ~/work:/e2e/uploads
- ~/work/tmp:/e2e/uploads/tmp
On Windows it's not required to map anything. Temporary folder will be created automatically, if it doesn't exist yet.
To build this project use the following command:
mvn clean install
To use newly created jar with docker-selenium, just copy it into corresponding Base/lib folder and rebuild required chain of images.
