Screen capture in CircleCI VMs in macOS

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I’m trying to record test videos using either ffmpeg or appium mac2 driver (as far as I know, it uses ffmpeg behind the scenes anyway)

deviceId == 0 is screen capture in CircleCI VM.

In python code is simple:

appium_driver.start_recording_screen(deviceId=0)

Or using raw ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i "0" -t 10 output.mp4

But I can’t give permissions somehow. Once I start video recording, there is a popup:

permissions popup

And an error:

[ffmpeg] objc[23088]: class 'NSKVONotifying_AVCaptureScreenInput' not linked into application

What I’ve tried:

basically main are ffmpeg and .machine-agent, others are just out of desperation :slightly_smiling_face:

      - macos/add-permission:
         bundle-id: /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
         permission-type: kTCCServiceScreenCapture
     - macos/add-permission:
         bundle-id: /private/tmp/.machine-agent
         permission-type: kTCCServiceScreenCapture
     - macos/add-permission:
         bundle-id: /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
         permission-type: kTCCServiceScreenCapture
     - macos/add-permission:
         bundle-id: /opt/homebrew/bin/appium
         permission-type: kTCCServiceScreenCapture

P.S. Screen capturing via applescript and quicktime doesn’t work for me (I can’t click “Record” button). What I’ve also tried: wrap ffmpeg into apple Automator or Apple Script to make a fake app and give permissions to it, but it didn’t work neither.