[Question] Video recording not storing file in root with .Net

[davidhprotective]

-Windows 10 -Playwright version 1.18 -Using with .Net

In order to see how video recording feature works, I set up a sample test class like below but somehow cannot get video file generated. I am probably missing something very basic. Can someone please assist?

using System;
using AcceptanceTests.Common;
using Microsoft.Playwright;
using Xunit;

namespace AcceptanceTests
{
    public class SampleTests : IDisposable
    {
        private readonly IPlaywright _playwright;
        private readonly IBrowser _browser;
        private readonly IPage _page;
        private readonly IBrowserContext _context;

        public SampleTests()
        {
            var config = new TestConfiguration();

            _playwright = Playwright.CreateAsync().Result;
            _browser = _playwright.Chromium.LaunchAsync(new BrowserTypeLaunchOptions
            {
                Headless = config.RunHeadless,
                Args = new[] { "--disable-dev-shm-usage" }
            }).Result;
            _context = _browser.NewContextAsync(new BrowserNewContextOptions
            {
                RecordVideoDir = "videos/",
                RecordVideoSize = new RecordVideoSize() { Width = 640, Height = 480 }
            }).Result;

            _page = _context.NewPageAsync().Result;
        }

        [Fact]
        public void VerifyTitle()
        {
            _page.GotoAsync("https://playwright.dev/dotnet/docs/videos").Wait();
            Assert.True(_page.TitleAsync().Result.Contains("Videos"));
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            _context?.CloseAsync().Wait();
            _browser.CloseAsync().Wait();
            _playwright.Dispose();
        }
    }
}

[davidhprotective]

I just found that videos were being generated under bin/Debug/net5.0/videos/ and I am wondering why it is not placing it in project root directory.

[davidhprotective]

Also, two additional questions for video recording feature:

1. Is it meant to be used with headless mode only? My tests fail when I run it video recording ON in headed mode.
2. Video resolution is extremely low. Is there any way to improve it slightly?

[pavelfeldman]

• Yes, we are generating videos next to where the binaries are. That way if you move the binaries, videos are generated in a predicted manner.
• It is supposed to work in any more, headless or headed
• You specified the resolution yourself in the code, you can bump it, but performance will suffer.

Overall, we discourage using videos in favor or our tracing features. They are much more comprehensive an performant. See https://playwright.dev/dotnet/docs/trace-viewer.

[pavelfeldman]

Closing as per above. Please file a new issue and link this one if there are outstanding issues!