I just did a POC for recording the screen when a Selenium2 test executes. It was easy thanks to the Monte Media Library. I also adapted my code from this blog post.
Since I run in Maven the first step was to download the JAR (version 0.7.5 at the time of writing) and to install it in my local repository:
Then add it as a Maven dependency in my project:
<groupId>org.monte</groupId>
<artifactId>monte-screen-recorder</artifactId>
<version>0.7.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
And then to make sure my test starts and stop the recording:
import java.awt.*;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.monte.media.Format;
import org.monte.media.math.Rational;
import org.monte.screenrecorder.ScreenRecorder;
import static org.monte.media.VideoFormatKeys.*;
...
private ScreenRecorder screenRecorder;
public void startRecording() throws Exception
{
GraphicsConfiguration gc = GraphicsEnvironment
.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment()
.getDefaultScreenDevice()
.getDefaultConfiguration();
this.screenRecorder = new ScreenRecorder(gc,
new Format(MediaTypeKey, MediaType.FILE, MimeTypeKey, MIME_AVI),
new Format(MediaTypeKey, MediaType.VIDEO, EncodingKey, ENCODING_AVI_TECHSMITH_SCREEN_CAPTURE,
CompressorNameKey, ENCODING_AVI_TECHSMITH_SCREEN_CAPTURE,
DepthKey, 24, FrameRateKey, Rational.valueOf(15),
QualityKey, 1.0f,
KeyFrameIntervalKey, 15 * 60),
new Format(MediaTypeKey, MediaType.VIDEO, EncodingKey, "black",
FrameRateKey, Rational.valueOf(30)),
null);
this.screenRecorder.start();
}
public void stopRecording() throws Exception
{
this.screenRecorder.stop();
}
...
Just make sure that startRecording is called before your setup runs so that you can record it too. The default directory where the recording is saved depends on your OS. On Mac it's in Movies. You can control that programmatically of course.
For the record, with the settings above, recording a test that ran for 23 seconds took only 2.1MB. Not bad 
