appium screen recording feature - ruby

Question

I am trying to record the screen and referring to the following tutorial.
http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/device/recording-screen/start-recording-screen/
I tried the following piece of code but it doesn't save anything at this path.
#driver.start_recording_screen video_type: 'h264', time_limit: '260', remote_path: '/recordings'
I am putting it in before method so that it records everything for all the following 5 tests that I have in the particular spec file
Am I missing something here?

Answer 1

To start recording use the below c# code:
driver.StartRecordingScreen(AndroidStartScreenRecordingOptions
.GetAndroidStartScreenRecordingOptions()
.WithTimeLimit(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1))
.EnableBugReport());
And then, to stop the recording, you need to use the following code. Since it creates recording in base64 format, you need to decode it to view.
String video = driver.StopRecordingScreen();
byte[] decode = Convert.FromBase64String(video);
String fileName = "VideoRecording_test.mp4";
File.WriteAllBytes(fileName, decode);

Answer 2

In order to start the recording, we just need to call the start_recording_screen method from the respective classes.
before(:all) or before(:each) do
#driver.start_recording_screen video_quality: 'low'
end
For IOS, please install ffmpeg (brew install ffmpeg).
We can add screen recording configurations like time limit, video size etc during the start of your video recording.
In order to stop the recording, we need to call the stop_recording_screen method from the respective classes.
Now, coming to the most important question! Where is our video?
The stopRecordingScreen() method returns a Base64 String. Using this string we need to build our video. There are many ways to do it, I have used decode64 method from Ruby Base64 module.
after(:all) do
record = #driver.stop_recording_screen
File.open('sample.mp4', 'wb') do |file|
file.write(Base64.decode64(record))
end
end
Finally you could find the recording under sample.mp4. I would recommend to play the video by VLC or Mplayer if you can not play the video with other video players.