Playback video in real-time

[DocBru]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The video that is captured by wdio-video-reporter plays back the video in a certain speed depending on images taken, which does not reflect the real test speed. To understand better what happened, it would be great to have the possibility to create a "real-time video" with frames taking as long as they were taking in reality.

In our tests, there are a lot of long "waiting times" that I would like to see in the video.

The parameter videoSlowdownMultiplier is helping to get it slower, but still not reflecting reality.

Describe the solution you'd like

Introduce a configuration parameter like videoPlaybackRealtime: true or so, which enables this mode.

Additional context

I quickly researched about the ffmpeg tool and figured out that with a ffconcat file as an input, that contains duration information for each frame, it could probably be achieved, if the recorder would also record those durations.

[christian-bromann]

@DocBru thanks for raising the issue, your proposal makes totally sense, any contribution for this would be appreciated!

[brickfungus]

could we allow a lower screenshotIntervalSecs?

[DocBru]

that does not really solve the issue, as the duration between screenshots is not constant.