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appium ios Recording the screen, the saved mp4 file cannot be opened

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

Start with the Python client entry points start_recording_screen and stop_recording_screen, then reproduce the iOS recording flow through tidevice on Windows using the provided options and save path. Check the Appium logs and recording_data handling; done means the saved recorded_video.mp4 can be opened successfully.

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Description

The problem

appium ios Recording the screen, the saved mp4 file cannot be opened

Environment

  • Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue:2.0.1
  • Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable):
  • Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: windows
  • Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe):
  • Mobile platform/version under test:ios
  • Real device or emulator/simulator:device
  • Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe:

Details

Use appium to connect tidevice to run in windows environment
The mp4 file saved by using the start_recording_screen method to record the screen cannot be opened

Link to Appium Logs

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Code To reproduce issue

options = {
'videoQuality': 'low',
'timeLimit': 600,
}
self.driver.start_recording_screen(**options)
sleep(3)
recording_data = self.driver.stop_recording_screen()
with open(r'F:\recorded_video.mp4', 'wb') as file:
file.write(base64.b64decode(recording_data))

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