Monday, July 3, 2023

WARNING - Google Pixel 6a limits screen recording time

The Google Pixel 6a with Android 13, limits the video recording of the screen. All video recordings using the built-in feature inside each operating system (no additional software), while playing Clash Royale. All values according to MediaInfo 23.06 (full parsing).

Pixel 6a, screen recording 1:

Size: 4.19 GB (4,501,312,556 bytes)
Duration: 16 mn 21 s
Video: 36.7 Mb/s, 1080*2400 (0.450), at 58.980 FPS, AVC (High@L5.1)(CABAC/2 Ref Frames)
Audio: N/A
Stopped: automatically, with vibration notification

Pixel 6a, screen recording 2:

Size: 4.19 GB (4,501,367,959 bytes)
Duration: 16 mn 29 s
Video: 36.4 Mb/s, 1080*2400 (0.450), at 58.966 FPS, AVC (High@L5.1)(CABAC/2 Ref Frames)
Audio: N/A
Stopped: automatically, with vibration notification

 Samsung Galaxy S10 with Android 12:

Size: 9.23 GB (9,917,962,724 bytes)
Duration: 1h 0 mn
Video: 22 Mbps, 1080*2280 (0.474), at 57.256 FPS, AVC (High@L5)(CABAC/1 Ref Frames)
Audio: N/A
Stopped: manually by me at 1h exactly, but could run more

 Phone X with iOS 16.5.1:

Size: 8.13 GB (8,730,969,125 bytes)
Duration: 1h 0 mn
Video: 19.3 Mbps, 886*1920 (0.461), at 59.131 FPS, AVC (High@L4.2)(CABAC/2 Ref Frames)
Audio: 96 Kbps (128 Kbps), 44.1 KHz, 2 channel, AAC LC
Stopped: manually by me at 1h exactly, but could run more

 

What displeases me the most, is the lack of any information or notification before or upon starting the recording. So you take for granted to record a beautiful gameplay, all of a sudden the phone vibrates and the recording end prematurely:



 

Google is following bad programming practices here, doing unexpected things and interfering with the desired behavior. The root filesystem of the Pixel 6a is ext4, so maximum file size is not the problem (double checked downloading a bigger file to storage and no problems). There is enough free space. What Google could do, is to continue recording to another file, split the recordings so to speak.

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