appium: Can't play screen recorded video

The problem

Can’t play screen recorded video

Environment

Appium version 1.9.0
OSX
v10.9.0
Android
Emulator image: system-images;android-27;google_apis_playstore;x86

Details

stopRecordingScreen results in base64 video, which can be decoded fine with bas64 --decode but can’t be played after

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 37

Most upvoted comments

@RishuKS Try with “mpeg4”

((CanRecordScreen) mobileDriver).startRecordingScreen(new IOSStartScreenRecordingOptions() .withTimeLimit(Duration.ofSeconds(600)).withVideoType("mpeg4").withVideoQuality(VideoQuality.MEDIUM) .enableForcedRestart());

hemantbanafal on Jun 4, 2019

@hemantbanafal Working with ‘mpeg4’. Thank you for help.

RishuKS on Jun 5, 2019

@RishuKS After few hours of searching I found solution for this. I am not familiar with kotlin but it should works similar to my code in python.

You have to set videoType = ‘h264’ argument in startRecordingScreen() method.

tanistra on Jun 4, 2019

@dpgraham Do you mind publishing new beta with 4.x driver version?

mykola-mokhnach on Sep 3, 2018

Faced the same problem with appium@1.11.1 Downgrade appium-android-driver to version 4.7.0 resolved issue

moonatamanchuk on Mar 15, 2019