Recorded videos are saving as corrupted files

Chethan_NY · October 8, 2020, 6:14pm

Aleksei · October 9, 2020, 5:10am

Platform under test (android / ios)
Appium version
Os version (macOS / win / … )
Your code with start, stop and save video
Appium server logs

Chethan_NY · October 9, 2020, 10:06am

1)android
2) 1.7.0
3) windows
4)driver.start_recording_screen()
vide_name=driver.current_activity + time.strftime("%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S")
#create filepath
filepath = os.path.join(“C:/Users/CH40043575/PycharmProjects/p1/video/”, vide_name+ “.mp4”)
video_rawdata=driver.stop_recording_screen()
with open(filepath,“wb”) as vd:
vd.write(base64.b64decode(video_rawdata))

Chethan_NY · October 9, 2020, 10:08am

appium-server-logs.txt (90.1 KB)

Aleksei · October 9, 2020, 10:40am

1.7.0 Appium? Why so old?

It will not be fixed. Try with latest 1.18 or 1.19 beta.

and in logs we see start but no end command to record.