Replacing Playwright's hardcoded VP8 encoder: a deep dive into page.screencast

If you've ever recorded a Playwright session of a text-heavy page — a code editor, a font preview, anything with crisp glyphs — and the output looked like it was filmed through a screen door, you've met Playwright's recordVideo . The artifacts are not a CDP problem. They're not a frame-rate problem. They are an encoder choice problem , and the encoder is hardcoded. This post is about replacing it without patching playwright-core , using a public API that landed in Playwright 1.59 and that — as f