Running castro on OSX

[jasonm]

I feel like I'm getting close, but the generated SWF is only 70 bytes. Any ideas about the Socket errors / Broken pipe?

# get pygame something like http://juliaelman.com/blog/2013/04/02/installing-pygame-on-osx-mountain-lion/
brew install sdl sdl_ttf sdl_image sdl_mixer hg
pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame

# get castro
pip install castro

# Turn on VNC
* System Preferences > Sharing
* Enable Screen Sharing
* Allow access for all users
* Computer Settings > Enabled "VNC viewers may control screen with password" and set a password

# write an encrypted ~/.vnc/passwd file with your vnc password
mkdir ~/.vnc
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/trinitronx/vncpasswd.py.git
cd vncpasswd.py/
./vncpasswd.py -f ~/.vnc/passwd your-vnc-password

# encrypted password there seems legit
cat ~/.vnc/passwd  | base64
29g8/XJ6FFg=

# try it out
cd /tmp
python -c "import castro; castro.test()"

Recording a 10 second video...

10 Connected: localhost:5900, protocol_version=3.3, preferred_encoding=(0, -232, -239)
9 VNC Screen: size=5440x2340, name='Jason\xe2\x80\x99s MacBook Pro'
Output movie size: 5440x2340
Creating movie: '/var/folders/qz/4yw7g_b560j9ns1hqk86tyrr0000gn/T/castro-video.swf': version=5, size=5440x2340, framerate=12, compression=None
Socket error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
8 Connected: localhost:5900, protocol_version=3.3, preferred_encoding=(0, -232, -239)
VNC Screen: size=5440x2340, name='Jason\xe2\x80\x99s MacBook Pro'
RFB error: Connection closed unexpectedly.
7 Connected: localhost:5900, protocol_version=3.3, preferred_encoding=(0, -232, -239)
6 VNC Screen: size=5440x2340, name='Jason\xe2\x80\x99s MacBook Pro'
RFB error: Connection closed unexpectedly.
5 Connected: localhost:5900, protocol_version=3.3, preferred_encoding=(0, -232, -239)
VNC Screen: size=5440x2340, name='Jason\xe2\x80\x99s MacBook Pro'
RFB error: Connection closed unexpectedly.
Writing: /var/folders/qz/4yw7g_b560j9ns1hqk86tyrr0000gn/T/castro-video.html...

ls -lah /var/folders/qz/4yw7g_b560j9ns1hqk86tyrr0000gn/T/castro-video.swf
-rw-r--r--  1 jason  staff    70B Nov 19 15:29 /var/folders/qz/4yw7g_b560j9ns1hqk86tyrr0000gn/T/castro-video.swf

[avlin-woods]

Hi Jasonm, I got the same error. Can you post an answer if you resolved already?

Thanks

[jasonm]

@avlin-woods I never did. I was trying to record video on a CI server, and ended up using xvfb + avconv on ubuntu. Still curious how to do this on OSX, though.