Videos don't seem to work on GitHub Action default runners

Context

Bug report regarding videos on GitHub Actions default runners.

Steps

I have just set up cypress for my repository.

Everything seems to be set up correctly, and yarn cypress run yields a video that works.

Now I’d like to reproduce this in CI, and created a workflow with the same settings apart from the URL:

Relevant part of the workflow

      - name: Run Cypress 🌲
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v2
        env:
          CYPRESS_BASE_URL: ${{ github.event.deployment_status.target_url }}
      - name: Upload video 📼
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        if: always()
        with:
          name: Test videos
          path: cypress/videos
          retention-days: 14

I’m using default ubuntu-latest runner with default settings.

** Results**

The tests run fine (all 91 succeed as expected) and the video uploads. However the video cuts out after a few seconds. Only the last frame is updated to show the tests. Presumably because the machine runs out of resources while loading the page.

Video artifact

Test videos.zip

Video file

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20756439/150003505-a2fcf6b4-08da-4596-925b-9e9cb2dd473b.mp4

Screenshot of last frame

Related

I believe that most reports here are also related to this issue.

[henrikq]

I’m experiencing the same thing.

[karlhorky]

Great, I have requested access to the new larger GitHub Actions runners for installation to our organization and will try the videos on a 4-core runner. I’ll report back here with what I find.