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enricobuehler 3efbe4164e fix(capture): capture CPU frames once the encoder proves it can't import dmabufs
A dmabuf import the GPU driver refuses is refused identically on every
retry, but the only recovery above it was the encode-stall ladder: five
in-place encoder rebuilds, then the video session ends. So a host whose
driver will not take what its compositor allocates lost every session
on its first frame, and every reconnect repeated it — while the very
same host streamed fine with `PUNKTFUNK_ZEROCOPY=0`. The software knew
how to run that machine and never chose to.

Latch it, exactly as the sibling CUDA-import path already does after
repeated worker deaths: three consecutive import failures with no frame
in between disable the raw-dmabuf passthrough for the host process, and
capture negotiates CPU frames from the next session on. Three sits
below the encoder's rebuild budget, so the latch is set before the
session it doomed ends — one bad session, then a working (if slower)
host, with a log line saying which and why instead of an operator
having to find an environment variable.

Only the two stages that ARE the import are counted — the buffersrc
push of the DRM-PRIME descriptor and the buffersink pull where `hwmap`
maps it into a VA surface. `avcodec_send_frame` is deliberately left
out: that one is the encoder stalling, which the in-place rebuild
exists to recover, and taking zero-copy away permanently over a
transient fault would be a bad trade.

The latch lives in pf-zerocopy because it is the leaf both sides can
see — the capture→encode edge is one-way by design, so pf-capture
cannot ask pf-encode anything.
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