how to record selenium webdriver test executions in python on window x64

Question

Using python binding selenium3 webdriver for test automation, to record execution steps using castro but it is failing on Windows 7 x64.

Is there any other library or mo

Answer 1

I do not recommend using castro. It's really outdated, I've tried using it in my own tests and did get it running but it was too unstable.

I'm currently using ffmpeg together with screen-capture-recorder (screen recording software) and it works like a charm. It allows you to set the framerate, resolution, bitrate as well as chose different video codec.

The code looks like this :

from subprocess import Popen
from subprocess import call

cmd = 'ffmpeg -y -rtbufsize 2000M -f dshow  -i video="screen-capture-recorder" -s 1920x1080 -b:v 512k -r 20 -vcodec libx264 test.avi'

def terminate(process):
    if process.poll() is None:
        call('taskkill /F /T /PID ' + str(process.pid))

videoRecording = Popen(cmd) # start recording

terminate(videoRecording)   # terminates recording