Video screencapture fails on Macos-latest

Question

Video screencapture fails on Macos-latest

lemnis opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

Description

I was trying to capture the desktop of macOS, but the outputted file is a pixel mess. Screencapture does work on macOS 10 & 12

Platforms affected

Azure DevOps
GitHub Actions

Virtual environments affected

Image version and build link

Environment: macos-11
Version: 20220719.1

Is it regression?

No

Expected behavior

Getting a 10 seconds of the desktop

Actual behavior

See below, the pixels in the video are misaligned.

Uploading foo-2.mov…

Repro steps

Run below workflow and download the artifacts:

name: Screencapture

on:
  push:
    branches: [ "master" ]

jobs:
  latest:
    runs-on: macos-latest

    steps:
    - run: screencapture -T0 -V 10 foo.mov
    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
      with:
        name: latest
        path: foo.mov

Lisa Martens · Answer 1 · Mon Jul 25 2022 17:41:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Video output:

foo-2.mov

Aleksandr Chebotov · Answer 2 · Mon Jul 25 2022 18:05:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hello @lemnis.
We will take a look at it.

Aleksandr Chebotov · Answer 3 · Wed Jul 27 2022 16:52:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey @lemnis.

As a workaround you should change a screen resolution, e.g. 1920x1080:

- run: |
     sudo "/Library/Application Support/VMware Tools/vmware-resolutionSet" 1920 1080
     sleep 5
- run: screencapture -T0 -V 5 foo.mov
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
  with:
      name: latest
      path: foo.mov