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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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- Around line 931-932: Update the Windows artifact publishing flow identified by
the openscreen-windows-* pattern and merge-multiple setting so it combines both
jobs’ installer entries into one validated latest.yml before release upload,
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A Logitech BRIO was recorded at 640x480 and 4 Mbit/s, then upscaled into the
picture-in-picture, which is what "the camera looks pixelated" actually was.
Nothing in the stack ever asked for a resolution. `getUserMedia({ video: {
deviceId } })` and a Media Foundation source reader handed a type with no
MF_MT_FRAME_SIZE both fall back to the device's DEFAULT media type, and for a
UVC camera that is the first format it enumerates. On a BRIO offering MJPEG up
to 3840x2160 that default is 640x480. The DirectShow fallback had the same hole
from the other side: RenderStream's intelligent connect takes the capture pin's
default because nothing ever touched IAMStreamConfig. Measured with ffmpeg on
the same device: unconstrained gives `rawvideo (YUY2), 640x480`, while
`-video_size 1920x1080` gives 1080p.
Naming the size on the reader's OUTPUT type is not enough on its own. With
MF_SOURCE_READER_ENABLE_VIDEO_PROCESSING the reader answers S_OK by inserting a
converter in front of whichever native type is already selected, so the camera
keeps running at its default and the size asked for is quietly dropped.
Selecting the native type first is what reconfigures the camera.
`chooseWebcamFormat` decides which of the advertised modes to drive, shared by
both backends and unit-tested against the BRIO's real capability list: only
modes fitting inside the target in both dimensions, most pixels wins, ties go to
the lowest frame rate that still reaches the target, and a camera whose every
mode is oversized scales down from its smallest rather than pushing the largest
through the encoder.
The capture pixel format is now NV12 rather than RGB32 wherever the frame only
has to reach the webcam encoder. RGB32 made the source reader decode AND convert
every frame: instrumenting the capture loop put ReadSample at 92ms per 3840x2160
frame -- a ceiling near 11 fps -- against 32ms for NV12. The file still claimed
30 fps because the encoder padded the gap with duplicates, so the loss was
invisible from the outside. The encoder wanted NV12 anyway and was converting
RGB32 back to it, so the old path converted twice to arrive where it started.
BGRA is kept for the inline composite, which needs that layout.
Capture resolution becomes a user setting (1080p / 1440p / 2160p), persisted
beside the camera device and validated at the write boundary. The encoder
bitrate ladder gains 1080p, 1440p and 2160p tiers; the old one stopped at
8 Mbit/s for anything 720p or larger, which starved the frames the higher
resolutions now produce.
Measured on a BRIO (Snapdragon X, alongside a screen capture), 8s takes, frames
the camera actually delivered out of 240, four runs each:
1080p 244 14.2 Mbit/s 4/4
1440p 242-244 21.9 Mbit/s 4/4
2160p 243-244 38.4 Mbit/s 4/4
Under heavy competing CPU load a 2160p take can still drop frames; one run
overlapping a lint pass produced 174.
The capture loop now counts what it did with everything it read -- delivered,
empty samples, short buffers, buffer failures, read failures -- and reports the
tally when it ends. A camera that produced nothing used to surface only as
MF_E_SINK_NO_SAMPLES_PROCESSED from the encoder's Finalize, the one place that
cannot say which of the loop's five silent `continue` paths swallowed the
frames.
The DirectShow fallback keeps delivering BGRA and is unchanged by construction,
but it could not be exercised here: the test camera is visible to Media
Foundation, so that path never runs.
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🟠 Major · Size the browser webcam bitrate from its camera stream. · useScreenRecorder.ts:2028
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winSize the browser webcam bitrate from its camera stream.
When browser capture delivers a 1440p or 2160p webcam stream, this line still caps its sidecar at 18 Mbps and derives that cap from the screen recording. The new quality selection can therefore increase webcam resolution without applying the bitrate scaling used by the macOS and Linux sidecars. Use
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🟠 Major · Normalize padded NV12 rows before storing the webcam frame. · webcam_capture.cpp:555-595
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winNormalize padded NV12 rows before storing the webcam frame.
When
writeSeparateWebcamis true,main.cpprequests NV12. Media Foundation can return NV12 with padded rows.ConvertToContiguousBuffer()concatenates buffers, but it does not remove row padding.The length check accepts the padded sample.
latestFrame_then stores onlywidth * height * 3 / 2bytes.MFEncoder::captureNv12Sample()copies those bytes as tight NV12, so padded rows can corrupt the recorded webcam frame.Normalize the sample in
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- Around line 421-422: Update the NV12 luma averaging logic around averageLuma
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- Around line 555-595: Update WebcamCapture::captureLoop() to normalize padded
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or copy each Y and UV row into a tightly packed buffer. Keep the existing
tight-frame behavior for RGB32 and ensure the stored NV12 bytes match width ×
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The gear is disabled while recording, but a settings panel already open stays mounted, so its resolution options stayed clickable. `webcamQuality` is a dependency of the webcam acquisition effect: changing it re-runs that effect's cleanup, which stops every track of the live stream -- the same stream the browser, macOS and Linux paths hand to the webcam MediaRecorder. The camera ended partway through the take, without a toast or any other word to the user. Guarded with `controlsLocked`, as every other control in this component already is. The test mock for `useCameraDevices` gains a configurable device list: the panel only renders its camera controls when a camera exists, so a test reaching for them could not previously do so. Reported by CodeRabbit on getopenscreen#875.
The warm-up probe exists to tell "the camera is running" from "the camera is
open but has not produced anything yet". Its NV12 variant judged the Y plane
raw, and a camera's NV12 is studio-range: an all-black frame is a plane of 16,
whose average clears the average threshold on its own. Every black frame
therefore counted as a picture, and the no-visible-frame warning could not fire
for the case it was written for. The comment claiming `maxLuma > 24` covered
this was wrong -- it overlooked the `||`.
Y is now normalised from studio range onto 0..255, so the thresholds mean the
same thing here as they do for BGRA.
Both probes move out of main.cpp into frame_visibility.{h,cpp} with a unit test,
alongside audio_sample_utils and webcam_format. Reverting the normalisation
makes that test fail on exactly the reported case, and the packaging build runs
it.
Reported by CodeRabbit on getopenscreen#875.
…tream Two of the three webcam recorders were switched to a camera-derived bitrate; the browser pipeline kept `Math.min(videoBitsPerSecond, BITRATE_BASE)`. That value is the SCREEN recording's rate, so the camera's quality tracked whichever monitor was being captured and was capped at 18 Mbit/s — well under what a 1440p or 2160p frame needs now that the capture resolution is a choice. The rule now lives in one `webcamRecorderOptions` helper that all three call sites share, because repeating it inline is exactly how one of them was missed.
Media Foundation may pad every row out to a stride wider than the frame. `ConvertToContiguousBuffer` joins multiple buffers but leaves that padding in place, and the flat `Lock()` view cannot express it -- so taking the first width*height*3/2 bytes folds the padding into the picture and shears it. The length check did not catch it either: a padded buffer is larger than the tight size it is compared against, so it passed. `IMF2DBuffer` reports the real pitch, so each Y and UV row is now copied on its own. A buffer offering no usable 2D view, or a pitch narrower than the frame, falls back to the flat copy -- which is correct for every tightly packed driver and is what this code did before. RGB32 keeps the flat path unchanged; only NV12, added in this branch, goes through the 2D view. Verified against a Logitech BRIO at 3840x2160: 245 frames delivered over 8s at 37 Mbit/s, and an extracted frame shows no shear or colour shift. This camera reports a tight pitch, so the padded case itself remains unexercised here. Reported by CodeRabbit on getopenscreen#875.
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@coderabbitai Both outside diff range findings from your second review were valid, and I had missed them — they sit in the review body rather than as inline threads, so thank you for raising them where they could still be read.
Fixed in 49198e0. Rather than patching the third call site, the rule now lives in a single
Fixed in 27a7ba9 using Verified against a Logitech BRIO at 3840x2160: 245 frames delivered over 8s at 37 Mbit/s, and an extracted frame shows no shear or colour shift. Worth stating plainly: this camera reports a tight pitch, so the padded case itself is still unexercised — the fix is reasoned from the API contract, not reproduced. Full run after both: 3709 tests, TypeScript and Biome clean, and the three native unit tests pass in the packaging build. |
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🟡 Minor · Preserve the selected DirectShow frame interval. · dshow_webcam_capture.cpp:168-210
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the selected DirectShow frame interval.
IAMStreamConfig::SetFormatmay acceptAvgTimePerFrameby selecting the closest supported rate. The second pass matches only size and compression, then returns after the first successful call. It can therefore apply the selected rate to a different capability.resolveConnectedFormatdoes not validate the connected interval, andfps_remains the requested rate. Capture timing can then differ from the connected camera rate.Match the capability's original FPS and pass its original
VIDEOINFOHEADERunchanged. A rejected call remains harmless because the loop can try the next capability.Suggested fix
if (mediaType->formattype == FORMAT_VideoInfo && mediaType->pbFormat) { auto* videoInfo = reinterpret_cast<VIDEOINFOHEADER*>(mediaType->pbFormat); + const int capabilityFps = videoInfo->AvgTimePerFrame > 0 + ? static_cast<int>((10'000'000LL + videoInfo->AvgTimePerFrame / 2) / + videoInfo->AvgTimePerFrame) + : 0; if (std::abs(videoInfo->bmiHeader.biWidth) == chosen.width && std::abs(videoInfo->bmiHeader.biHeight) == chosen.height && - isCompressedDshowSubtype(mediaType->subtype) == chosen.compressed) { - if (chosen.fps > 0) { - videoInfo->AvgTimePerFrame = 10'000'000LL / chosen.fps; - } + isCompressedDshowSubtype(mediaType->subtype) == chosen.compressed && + capabilityFps == chosen.fps) { matched = SUCCEEDED(streamConfig->SetFormat(mediaType));🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…ppen `IMFMediaBuffer::Lock` already guarantees what the reverted commit went to IMF2DBuffer for. From the IMF2DBuffer remarks: "The Lock method returns a buffer that is guaranteed to be contiguous. If the underlying buffer is not contiguous, the method copies the data into a new buffer, and the Unlock method copies it back into the original buffer." Row padding therefore never reaches the first width*height*3/2 bytes, and the flat copy was correct all along. The reverted commit added a second native-layout path, and its bounds and lifetime surface, for a corruption mode the documented contract excludes -- and said so itself by recording the padded case as unexercised on hardware. Lock2D would still avoid the copy Lock may perform, but that is an optimisation needing a measurement, and there is none: the capture loop's store step measured 2.3ms per 2160p frame against 92ms in ReadSample. The same page also advises against mixing IMF2DBuffer and IMFMediaBuffer calls on one buffer, which the reverted code did on its fallback. The contract is now quoted at the Lock site so the next reader does not have to rediscover it. Verified after the revert: 3840x2160 at 30 fps, 246 frames delivered over 8s. Raised by @My-Denia on getopenscreen#875.
`fps_` held the rate that was asked for, never the one negotiated. `chooseWebcamFormat` deliberately settles for less when a camera offers nothing faster -- its own tests cover a 30 fps target picking a 24 fps mode -- and a driver may choose its nearest supported rate after SetFormat regardless. `fps()` feeds three things that all have to agree with the frames actually arriving: the `webcam-format` event, the webcam encoder's nominal rate, and the constant-rate write interval in main.cpp. A 24 fps camera asked for 30 was therefore encoded and paced as 30, and reported as 30 to the app. `resolveConnectedFormat` now reads AvgTimePerFrame back off the connected type -- the format the graph actually holds, after any adjustment the driver made -- and logs it when it differs from the request. Rewriting AvgTimePerFrame in the capability pass stays: naming a rate inside the range a capability advertises is the documented way to ask for one. What was missing was reading the answer. Raised by @My-Denia on getopenscreen#875.
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@My-Denia thank you for the review — both points were right, and the first one corrected a mistake rather than polishing one. The NV12 2-D copy path is reverted (29907a7). I checked the docs you cited rather than taking it on trust, and they say exactly what you said: "The Lock method returns a buffer that is guaranteed to be contiguous. If the underlying buffer is not contiguous, the method copies the data into a new buffer." Padding cannot reach the bytes that were being copied, so the flat path was correct all along and I had added a second path — with its bounds and lifetime surface — for a corruption mode the contract excludes. I did not keep it on the performance argument you left open, because there is no measurement behind it: the capture loop's store step measures 2.3 ms per 2160p frame against 92 ms in The DirectShow frame rate is now read back (cf65805). One open question there, in the thread: I kept the Two things I cannot verify here, stated plainly rather than left implied:
What has run locally, on every commit: 3709 unit tests, TypeScript and Biome clean, the three native unit tests, and a real capture against a Logitech BRIO — 3840x2160 at 30 fps, 246 frames over 8s, verified against the packaged helper rather than the dev build. |
The webcam quality PR added camQuality as a required RecordingPreferences member, so the complete typed preference fixtures in RecStage and the prefsRace tests need the product default (DEFAULT_WEBCAM_QUALITY, 2160p). The new HudDeviceSettings quality test needed groupId on its CameraDevice fixture and showMicrophone on the panel, whose overrides spread over a partial can only typecheck when the base covers every required prop. Fixes the failing Typecheck (tests) CI job.
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Thanks for pushing 27af4a9 — and for the CI approval. That failure was mine and I should have caught it. Making Confirmed on 27af4a9 here: both typecheck configurations pass, and 3710 tests pass. Your fixture changes are the minimal correct ones — For what it is worth from the earlier run (36529213129): Two things still outstanding from my side, neither blocking:
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Thanks @christian-wr — this is a solid fix, and thank you for following both review findings back to the underlying API contracts. I’m taking it over from here to get #875 ready to land. Your seven commits are kept as they are; my fixture fix is on top as
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Understood, and thank you — I'll leave the branch alone from here so nothing collides with the maintainer-edit path. Noted on keeping the capability pass as it is, and on leaving Since you flagged the The branch is 12 commits behind, and those commits do touch two files this PR changes —
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PR #875 final approval review body (2026-09-29)
What is being submitted
One APPROVE review on getopenscreen/openscreen PR #875 at the synced head
e001d492c67691d242128dfce4c354644d04ce66, as the write-access reviewer
approval the repository's merge gate requires (the owner's v2 brief authorizes
submitting the final approval; the reviewer is not the PR author).
The exact body being posted
Reviewed the final synced head. The two webcam correctness findings are fixed,
the integration with current main is clean, and the final CI is green.
Basis (record, not posted)
- The takeover diff is confined to three test fixture files; both review
findings (Lock2D premise, DirectShow negotiated fps) are fixed in the
author's commits and confirmed in-thread by the author. - The main-sync merge is conflict-free with a verified-pure integration delta
andgit merge-base --is-ancestorexit zero. - The synced head's checks: all success (Lint, Type Check, Typecheck (tests),
Test, Build, Docs, three Rust compositor jobs, Swift helper, AppStream,
semantic title, three diagnostic bundles), CodeRabbit pass, zero unresolved
review threads. - The body matches the short maintainer-style sample in the owner's brief
section 14; no test-report prose.
The gear is disabled while recording, but a settings panel already open stays mounted, so its resolution options stayed clickable. `webcamQuality` is a dependency of the webcam acquisition effect: changing it re-runs that effect's cleanup, which stops every track of the live stream -- the same stream the browser, macOS and Linux paths hand to the webcam MediaRecorder. The camera ended partway through the take, without a toast or any other word to the user. Guarded with `controlsLocked`, as every other control in this component already is. The test mock for `useCameraDevices` gains a configurable device list: the panel only renders its camera controls when a camera exists, so a test reaching for them could not previously do so. Reported by CodeRabbit on #875.
The warm-up probe exists to tell "the camera is running" from "the camera is
open but has not produced anything yet". Its NV12 variant judged the Y plane
raw, and a camera's NV12 is studio-range: an all-black frame is a plane of 16,
whose average clears the average threshold on its own. Every black frame
therefore counted as a picture, and the no-visible-frame warning could not fire
for the case it was written for. The comment claiming `maxLuma > 24` covered
this was wrong -- it overlooked the `||`.
Y is now normalised from studio range onto 0..255, so the thresholds mean the
same thing here as they do for BGRA.
Both probes move out of main.cpp into frame_visibility.{h,cpp} with a unit test,
alongside audio_sample_utils and webcam_format. Reverting the normalisation
makes that test fail on exactly the reported case, and the packaging build runs
it.
Reported by CodeRabbit on #875.
Media Foundation may pad every row out to a stride wider than the frame. `ConvertToContiguousBuffer` joins multiple buffers but leaves that padding in place, and the flat `Lock()` view cannot express it -- so taking the first width*height*3/2 bytes folds the padding into the picture and shears it. The length check did not catch it either: a padded buffer is larger than the tight size it is compared against, so it passed. `IMF2DBuffer` reports the real pitch, so each Y and UV row is now copied on its own. A buffer offering no usable 2D view, or a pitch narrower than the frame, falls back to the flat copy -- which is correct for every tightly packed driver and is what this code did before. RGB32 keeps the flat path unchanged; only NV12, added in this branch, goes through the 2D view. Verified against a Logitech BRIO at 3840x2160: 245 frames delivered over 8s at 37 Mbit/s, and an extracted frame shows no shear or colour shift. This camera reports a tight pitch, so the padded case itself remains unexercised here. Reported by CodeRabbit on #875.
…ppen `IMFMediaBuffer::Lock` already guarantees what the reverted commit went to IMF2DBuffer for. From the IMF2DBuffer remarks: "The Lock method returns a buffer that is guaranteed to be contiguous. If the underlying buffer is not contiguous, the method copies the data into a new buffer, and the Unlock method copies it back into the original buffer." Row padding therefore never reaches the first width*height*3/2 bytes, and the flat copy was correct all along. The reverted commit added a second native-layout path, and its bounds and lifetime surface, for a corruption mode the documented contract excludes -- and said so itself by recording the padded case as unexercised on hardware. Lock2D would still avoid the copy Lock may perform, but that is an optimisation needing a measurement, and there is none: the capture loop's store step measured 2.3ms per 2160p frame against 92ms in ReadSample. The same page also advises against mixing IMF2DBuffer and IMFMediaBuffer calls on one buffer, which the reverted code did on its fallback. The contract is now quoted at the Lock site so the next reader does not have to rediscover it. Verified after the revert: 3840x2160 at 30 fps, 246 frames delivered over 8s. Raised by @My-Denia on #875.
`fps_` held the rate that was asked for, never the one negotiated. `chooseWebcamFormat` deliberately settles for less when a camera offers nothing faster -- its own tests cover a 30 fps target picking a 24 fps mode -- and a driver may choose its nearest supported rate after SetFormat regardless. `fps()` feeds three things that all have to agree with the frames actually arriving: the `webcam-format` event, the webcam encoder's nominal rate, and the constant-rate write interval in main.cpp. A 24 fps camera asked for 30 was therefore encoded and paced as 30, and reported as 30 to the app. `resolveConnectedFormat` now reads AvgTimePerFrame back off the connected type -- the format the graph actually holds, after any adjustment the driver made -- and logs it when it differs from the request. Rewriting AvgTimePerFrame in the capability pass stays: naming a rate inside the range a capability advertises is the documented way to ask for one. What was missing was reading the answer. Raised by @My-Denia on #875.
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Summary
A Logitech BRIO recorded at 640x480 and 4 Mbit/s, then upscaled into the
picture-in-picture. That is what "the webcam looks pixelated" actually was.
Nothing in the stack ever asked the camera for a resolution.
getUserMedia({ video: { deviceId } })and a Media Foundation source reader handed a type withoutMF_MT_FRAME_SIZEboth fall back to the device's default media type, which for aUVC camera is the first format it enumerates. The DirectShow fallback had the same
hole from the other side:
RenderStream's intelligent connect takes the capturepin's default because nothing ever touched
IAMStreamConfig.Measured with ffmpeg on the affected device:
This PR makes the capture resolution explicit and user-selectable, and fixes a
second, independent bottleneck that capped 2160p at 12 fps.
What changed
Capture resolution is requested, everywhere. A shared
chooseWebcamFormatpicks among the modes a camera advertises — only those fitting inside the target in
both dimensions, most pixels wins, ties go to the lowest frame rate that still
reaches the target, and a camera whose every mode is oversized scales down from its
smallest. Used by both native backends and unit-tested against the BRIO's real
capability list.
One subtlety worth flagging for review: naming the size on the reader's output
type is not enough. With
MF_SOURCE_READER_ENABLE_VIDEO_PROCESSINGthe readeranswers
S_OKby inserting a converter in front of whichever native type is alreadyselected, so the camera keeps running at its default and the requested size is
silently dropped. Selecting the native type first is what actually reconfigures the
camera.
NV12 instead of RGB32. Asking for RGB32 made the source reader decode and
convert every frame. Instrumenting the capture loop put
ReadSampleat 92 ms per3840x2160 frame — a ceiling near 11 fps — against 32 ms for NV12. The output
file still claimed 30 fps because the encoder padded the gap with duplicates, so the
loss was invisible from the outside. The encoder wanted NV12 anyway and was
converting RGB32 back to it, so the old path converted twice to arrive where it
started. BGRA is kept for the inline composite, which needs that layout.
Resolution becomes a setting (1080p / 1440p / 2160p), persisted beside the camera
device, validated at the write boundary, and translated in all 14 locales.
Bitrate ladder gains 1080p, 1440p and 2160p tiers. The old one stopped at
8 Mbit/s for anything 720p or larger, which would have starved the frames the higher
resolutions now produce.
Capture-loop diagnostics. The loop now counts what it did with everything it read
(delivered / empty samples / short buffers / buffer failures / read failures) and
reports the tally when it ends. A camera producing nothing used to surface only as
MF_E_SINK_NO_SAMPLES_PROCESSEDfrom the encoder'sFinalize— the one place thatcannot say which of the loop's five silent
continuepaths swallowed the frames.Related issue
No existing issue covers this; found while investigating webcam quality on Windows.
Type of change
Release impact
Behaviour change worth a release note: recordings default to a much higher webcam
resolution, so camera sidecar files get substantially larger: roughly 27 MB per
minute at the old 640x480 default, against 106 at 1080p and 288 at 2160p.
Desktop impact
Windows carries the native format negotiation and the NV12 path. macOS and Linux are
affected through the shared
getUserMediaconstraints and the browser-recordedwebcam sidecar's bitrate — see Testing for what that means for confidence.
Screenshots / video
Same scene seconds apart, both scaled to the same display size. Left: old behaviour
(640x480). Right: 1920x1080. Look at the line-art poster, the chair mesh and the
plant.
Testing
Hardware: Logitech BRIO on a Snapdragon X Elite (Windows on ARM, arm64 helper),
recorded alongside a screen capture.
Automated
npx vitest run— 3027 passed, 4 skippednpx tsc --noEmit— cleanwebcam_format_test.exe— new native unit test forchooseWebcamFormat, wired intoscripts/build-windows-wgc-helper.mjsso the packaging build runs itOn hardware —
node scripts/test-windows-wgc-helper.mjs --webcam, 8s takes,frames the camera actually delivered out of 240, four runs per preset:
Before this change, 2160p delivered 94 frames (12 fps). Colour was checked against
the previous RGB32 output (NV12 tagged BT.709 / studio range): no cast, black levels
unchanged. Also verified end-to-end against the packaged helper inside
win-arm64-unpacked, not just the dev build.Known gaps, stated plainly
overlapping a lint pass produced 174 instead of ~240.
but it could not be exercised: the test camera is visible to Media Foundation, so
that path never runs.
getUserMediaconstraints and the frame-size-derived bitrate, covered by unit testsonly. The macOS native request now carries the chosen size, but whether the
ScreenCaptureKit helper honours it was not verified.
Summary by CodeRabbit