Vidium

A tool to record video from a headless Chrome/Chromium tab.

Uses the Page.startScreencast Chrome DevTools protocol method.

Installation

cargo install vidium

Usage

vidium encode --url https://google.com --output google.mp4 --width 800 --height 600 --headless=false

Limitations

• No sound support (Chrome screencast limitation)
• Only .mp4 output is supported (h264, yuv420p)

Future work

• [] Library / binary separation
• [] Allow to control the page with a JS script