[Feature]: Selenium/BrowserWebDriver - Get rid of your VNC recorder and use Selenium's video recorder

Module

Selenium

Problem

There are multiple open problems with the VNC recorder:

• https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/discussions/6229
• https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/issues/5024
• https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/issues/5268
• https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/issues/4380

Additionally:

• the recorder requires VNC
• The VNC recording code is based on some python code from 2010 and looks outdated
• Requires rendering after the recording -> Needs time to stop the test

Solution

Use Selenium's video recorder

We implemented this along with some additional improvements and cleanup efforts in an open source library.

Benefit

Described in https://github.com/xdev-software/testcontainers-selenium/blob/develop/README.md under "Selenium's video recorder"

Alternatives

Searched for alternatives, the above one was the easiest for implementation. Implemented it. No problems since then.

Would you like to help contributing this feature?

Reference implementation is available at https://github.com/xdev-software/testcontainers-selenium (maybe consider giving us some credit if you port it)

Start with the Selenium module and compare its current VNC recorder behavior against Selenium's video-recording guidance in the Docker Selenium README. Review the reference implementation in xdev-software/testcontainers-selenium and the linked discussions and issues for known problems. Done means the Selenium video recorder replaces the VNC-based approach and the documented recording benefits are available without the listed limitations.