Proposal: Support video recording in browsers other than electron

[Sumolari]

From version 0.20.0 changelog...

There is a new --browser option that lets you change the browser that runs from the command line. This works the same way as changing the browser in the GUI, with the exception that any browser other than the default electron browser will not record a video. This is solvable but requires more work.

Is this going to be addressed in a future version?

[brian-mann]

Yes, we already ship ffmpeg and could use that to record the headed browsers. The code just needs to be updated to handle these different scenarios.

There's some complexity around situations where the user has 2 monitors, or they inadvertently record the wrong thing and upload it to the Dashboard. The video would likely be taken at maximum screen size resolution too, making these bigger than the usual videos taken. It's also possible to figure out the dimensions of the browser and to possibly just record that.

Launching in full screen would likely also need to be the default, and/or we'd need to expose a CLI flag for launching at a specific resolution.

[gpenafib]

Hi Brian, could you please provide roughly a date when the recording video feature will be already implemented for Chrome browser?

[hally9k]

This is a feature that we will need in order to continue with cypress as electron doesn't seem to support EventSource for SSEs.

[RandallKent]

Closing in favor of #1767