["ffmpegArgs" must not be a sparse array]

[santhosh12992]

Hi dude..,

I have trying this video recorder but i got error message as below.

[tomyam1]

it means there is an undefined value in the ffmpegArgs array
do a console.log to find out which one is it

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:56 PM, santhosh12992 [email protected]
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Hi dude..,

I have trying this video recorder but i got error message as below.
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[santhosh12992]

Since, ffmpegArgs is optional i didnt used those in my config file.
var VideoReporter = require('protractor-video-reporter');
onPrepare: function() {

jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new VideoReporter({
baseDirectory: path.join(__dirname, 'reports/videos/'),

}));
}

still i am facing the same issue.

[tomyam1]

You probably don't have the DISPLAY env variable defined

[santhosh12992]

Hi tepez,

I am using windows. I am not able to troubleshoot this err. If required i will share you more details.

Thx.

[tomyam1]

Sorry, I've never run this on Windows, can't help with that

[santhosh12992]

Thanks for your replay tepez.

Kindly let me know this as been made compatable with windows also.
thanks again.

[irtiza]

@tomyam1
hey, getting this even on a mac.

protractor.conf

var ffmpeg = require('ffmpeg');
var VideoReporter = require('protractor-video-reporter');

jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new VideoReporter({
                baseDirectory: 'videos/'
            }));

both ffmpeg & protractor-video-reporter are installed.

[15:48:27] E/launcher - Error: ValidationError: child "ffmpegArgs" fails because ["ffmpegArgs" must not be a sparse array]

Any ideas?

[benjaminapetersen]

Also experienced this if I setup my reporter like so:

let videoReporter = new VideoReporter({
  baseDirectory: path.join(__dirname, reportDirs.video),
  //singleVideo: false,
});

I did not include ffmpegArgs. The error report is misleading (there is no array at all, not even a sparse array).

Thanks!

[jbwyme]

+1 same issue on OSX

[jbwyme]

This post helped: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38860261/recording-videos-of-protractor-e2e-tests

[trusta1]

Hello i'm also experiencing the same issue on OSX i installed the ffmpeg library, i could detect that the process.env.DISPLAY is undefined, please is there anyway to solve the problem?

[jsgervais]

I was able to have it run on both mac and windows to record protactor tests running. Sample code can be found here https://stackoverflow.com/a/45803583/4425525

The order of parameters in the array matters, as they are sent to ffmpeg command line in that order.