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enricobuehlerandClaude Opus 5 6a4ffcb15c fix(client): HDR stops leaking out of the stream and blowing out the console UI
The gamepad/console UI looked right on launch, and wrong forever after the first HDR
session: connect to an HDR host, disconnect, and the UI came back overblown with wrong
colours.

The UI is not its own renderer. It is a `pf_presenter::overlay::Overlay` composited into
the SAME swapchain the stream used, and it draws plain sRGB with no HDR awareness at all —
so the swapchain's colorspace decides how its pixels are read. `present` switches SDR↔HDR10
from the FRAME's colour signalling, and a UI-only present is `FrameInput::Redraw`, which
carries none: the mode block is skipped entirely and nothing ever hands HDR10 back. The
UI's sRGB mid-tones were then emitted as PQ code points, i.e. near-peak nits.

`leave_hdr` drops back to SDR, called where the UI-only present already happens and gated
on the existing `browse_idle` — Browse mode with no live connector, i.e. the UI owns the
screen. That covers every route back to the UI rather than just the Ended/Failed arms, and
it is guarded internally so idle iterations stay free.

It also bails when minimized, which is load-bearing rather than an optimization:
`recreate_swapchain` keeps the old swapchain at a zero extent, but `set_hdr_mode` would by
then have rebuilt the CSC and overlay pipes against the SDR format — mismatched against
live HDR10 images. `present` early-returns on a zero extent above its HDR block, so this
was unreachable until a caller outside `present` existed.

Deliberately not applied to the `resize_scrim` arm of the same present: that scrim is a
mid-stream gap in a session that is still HDR, and flipping there would rebuild the
swapchain twice per resize.

Does not address the adjacent case: an overlay drawn DURING a live HDR session (the stats
HUD, the resize scrim) is blown out the same way. That needs the overlay to PQ-encode when
`hdr_active`; dropping to SDR is only correct here because the console UI shows exactly
when no stream is live.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 00:08:38 +02:00
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