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enricobuehler 6ff62b087c feat(client): say which GPU can do Vulkan Video, and why not when it can't
Field report from an Intel Arc + NVIDIA laptop: pinning the Vulkan rung on the Arc
iGPU silently produced D3D11VA, and there was no way to tell whether the build had
tried at all. That ambiguity was ours, in three places.

The "unavailable" log printed three of the FIVE conjuncts that gate Vulkan Video.
A device with 1.3, the features and a decode queue family — but no codec extension
— logged dev_is_13=true features_ok=true decode_family=true next to the word
"unavailable" and named nothing actionable. It now prints all five, plus which
base extensions are missing, which codec extensions are present, the decode
family's own advertised codec operations, and the device name and vendor. It also
no longer says "VAAPI/software" on Windows, where the rung below is D3D11VA.

The native-vulkan PIN refusal logged `video_decode` alone. On a device that
decodes something but not THIS codec, that reads as a contradiction: refused, yet
video_decode=true. It now carries the caps mask and the codec bit that was wanted,
so "your GPU can't" is distinguishable from "we asked for the wrong thing" — only
the second is our bug.

And `--probe-decode` is new: per-adapter Vulkan Video capability with no session,
no surface and no logical device. For each GPU it answers usable yes/no, the
driver's own decode ops, the extensions, and — when the answer is no — which
conjunct failed, in words. Separate from --list-adapters, which the desktop shells
parse line-by-line for their GPU picker and which therefore keeps printing bare
names.

The listing is ordered like pick_device (discrete first) and marks entry 0 as the
default presenter, because that ordering is very likely the reporter's actual
answer: pick_device ranks DISCRETE_GPU above INTEGRATED_GPU, Vulkan Video decodes
on the PRESENTER's device by design (that is what makes it zero-copy), and
PUNKTFUNK_DECODER does not move the presenter. So on a hybrid laptop, pinning the
decoder while the dGPU presents probes the wrong GPU entirely —
PUNKTFUNK_VK_DEVICE=<index> is the knob that moves it, and the index printed is
that value.

To keep the probe honest, VIDEO_BASE and VIDEO_CODECS moved to module scope and
the five-way AND became video_decode_gate(), called by both the probe and device
creation. A probe holding its own copy of the rule is one that eventually reports
a capability the session then refuses — which reads to everyone as a decoder bug
rather than a probe bug.

Gates: fmt clean; clippy -D warnings over punktfunk-client-session and
pf-presenter. The Linux container was unavailable (the host's disk filled and took
the docker daemon with it), so this ran on the macOS host target only — the
container leg is owed, and CI covers it on the PR.
2026-08-07 12:35:55 +02:00
enricobuehler bbbcf321e5 Merge origin/main into worktree-native-decode-m0
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main moved 93 commits while this branch ran. Two conflicts, both where main's new
work sat next to M10's excision:

packaging/flatpak/io.unom.Punktfunk.yml — main added the vendored gamescope WSI
layer (the only route to HDR on a Deck) and, before it, a vulkan-headers module.
Took both: this branch predates them and deletes neither. But the headers module's
stated consumer was pf-ffvk's bindgen over FFmpeg's hwcontext_vulkan.h, and M10
deleted pf-ffvk — so it now reads as dead weight to the next person. It is not:
the WSI layer IS a Vulkan layer, compiles against those headers, and builds after
it, so module order is the dependency. Rewrote the rationale to say so, including
why dropping it would be expensive to discover — flatpak.yml has no pull_request:
trigger, so a manifest break reaches main invisibly and a tag then ships no Linux
flatpak. Also recorded that the native decoder needs nothing from there: pf-vkdecode
reaches Vulkan through ash, which is pure Rust bindings, no bindgen, no C headers.

crates/pf-console-ui/src/screens/settings.rs — main restructured the gamepad
settings into TABS, which removed the per-row section headers; this branch had left
Some("Video") untouched from the merge base and added the pre-M10 decoder migration
next to it. Git could not tell those apart. Took main's structure (no header, its
deliberate change) with this branch's migration layered on: a stored `vulkan`,
`vaapi` or `d3d11va` names no preset in the tabbed list and would render as "—",
then silently rewrite the user's preference on the next save.

Gates on the merged tree, Linux container: fmt clean; cargo check --workspace
--all-targets clean; clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings clean; tests
green across pf-vkdecode (187), pf-client-core (163), pf-console-ui (58) and
punktfunk-host (447 of 448 — the one failure is the pre-existing
gamestream::stream::tests::sender_delivers_batches, a UDP-loopback EINTR under
qemu that fails identically on a pristine HEAD).
2026-08-07 10:50:32 +02:00
enricobuehler 5c05246098 feat: M10 — FFmpeg is gone from the client
cargo tree -p punktfunk-client-session finds no ffmpeg. The host still does,
which is the whole point: pf-encode keeps libavcodec unconditionally and no
host workflow, packaging script or licence file was touched.

Deleted: crates/pf-ffvk, video_vulkan.rs, video_vaapi.rs, video_libav.rs, the
libavcodec half of video_d3d11.rs, the av_log machinery, ffmpeg::codec::Id as
the decoder's vocabulary (the quic CODEC_* wire constants now serve, which is
why the evidence table was keyed on them), DecodedImage::VkFrame and ::Dmabuf,
the presenter's AVVkFrame lane, and the ffmpeg-fallback feature with
everything behind it. DrmFrameGuard collapses from an enum to a newtype, which
removes an unsafe impl Send. Roughly 25,000 lines.

Then the CI, packaging, licensing and docs work the plan's §6 lists: the
Windows workflows lose FFMPEG_DIR, PF_FFVK_VULKAN_INCLUDE and their PATH
prepend; the MSIX loses its DLL wildcard; the client .deb stops emitting libav
sonames on its own because depends come from dpkg-shlibdeps; arch, flatpak and
nix drop the dependency; and the README's "FFmpeg 7 or 8" contract narrows to
the host.

Three defects reached users' machines in the first cut, and none was in the
deletion itself.

All three desktop Settings UIs offer vulkan, vaapi and d3d11va as stored
decoder values, so those strings sit in shipped settings files today. Refusing
them by name — which is the correct rule for a stale pin — would have bricked
every upgraded client whose owner ever touched that dropdown. They now migrate
onto the native rung for the same hardware family, at decoder construction AND
at each dialog's lookup, because a legacy value that matches no preset
displays as "Automatic" and silently rewrites the user's preference on the
next save.

M9's evidence filter was deleted on the argument that with no libavcodec twin
below, barring an unproven rung removes hardware decode rather than moving
down one rung. That is true on Windows and false on Linux for Intel and every
unknown vendor id, where prefer_vulkan_first is false and the order is
native-vaapi → native-vk: a rung that has decoded nothing anywhere sitting
above one that is 250/250 on three drivers. Every Intel Linux desktop would
have moved from libavcodec VAAPI, shipping for years, onto pf-vaadec by
default — and a rung that constructs and then produces wrong pixels leaves
only by the error-streak demotion, which this codebase already documents as
not tripping on the B580's strobing. The filter is restored as a narrow, pure,
testable rule: an unproven rung yields to a proven one, and to nothing else.
Windows deliberately passes no rung below, because that vendor family is the
one with a measured wrong-pixel report against Vulkan decode, and trading no
evidence for evidence of corruption is the wrong direction.

And the notices still said FFmpeg was bundled. The root file is what both
desktop clients include_str! and what the MSIX ships, three lines under the
new card saying no FFmpeg is bundled; Apple's Acknowledgements said it too, on
iOS, tvOS and macOS. The generator now emits four per-client files scoped by
transitive closure — 0 FFmpeg mentions in each, verified — while the root file
keeps it for the host. That also ends the standing false attribution of
ffmpeg-next, GTK4, windows-rs and the NVENC SDK to an iPhone.

Windows has no reachable box, so it was compiled instead: a cross clippy at
-D warnings on x86_64 and aarch64-pc-windows-msvc with the C toolchain stubbed
so build scripts run without linking. That gate immediately caught an
include_str! path one directory too deep, which nothing else could have.

Gates: container clippy -D warnings, 160 tests, workspace check, both Windows
targets clean, client ffmpeg count 0 and host 2. The four decode crates are
untouched, so the hardware rungs' 250/250 stands.

⚠ Owed and unrun: no GPU has executed any of this milestone. M8's on-glass
software check, M7's D3D11 and VAAPI AV1 hardware legs, and M9's field bake
all still want hardware, and the bake window and criteria remain the user's.
2026-08-07 08:58:47 +02:00
enricobuehler 38554c1c6e feat(client): M9's code half — native first, FFmpeg behind an off-by-default feature
`ffmpeg-fallback` on pf-client-core, default off on the crate. With it off the
libavcodec rungs are not compiled, pf-ffvk leaves the dependency graph, and no
ladder or demotion arm names them; with it on each sits exactly where it sits
today, directly below its native twin. That is the switch which makes M10 a
deletion rather than a redesign.

The bake window and the regression criteria are the user's, per the plan, and
nothing here claims the M9 gate is met.

The hard part was not the feature, it was honesty. Two of the four native
rungs have never decoded a frame on any hardware — native VAAPI at all, and
native D3D11VA's AV1 leg — and making those the default would assert evidence
that does not exist. So admission is per rung and per codec: a pair with
hardware evidence joins `auto` always; a pair without it joins only when
nothing proven is left below it (a build with no FFmpeg twin, where the
alternative is not a proven rung but the CPU) or when the user asks with
PUNKTFUNK_NATIVE_FIRST=1. Pins bypass it, so a lab run can still reach any
rung.

The shipping default therefore changes in exactly three ways, all
evidence-backed: AV1 `auto` takes native Vulkan (250/250 bit-identical on an
RTX 5070 Ti), Windows H.264/H.265 `auto` takes native D3D11VA above its FFmpeg
twin (parity on two GPUs plus a 30-minute soak), and a failing Vulkan rung on
Windows demotes to native D3D11VA first. Everything unproven is byte-for-byte
as it was.

The evidence state is written where it cannot rot: a table in video.rs's
module docs, the same facts in code as `native_evidence()`, a test asserting
them in both feature states, and a per-session log line carrying the rung, the
codec, whether hardware has verified that pair and the evidence string — at
WARN when it has not. A support engineer reading a log can now tell proven
from assumed without asking anyone.

Termination needed a new guarantee. With the FFmpeg twins gone, two native
rungs in opposite per-vendor orders could hand a session back and forth
forever, so a rung once entered is never re-entered and the walk is monotone
to software. The never-delivered fall-through still works: with the feature on
it is unchanged, and with it off it is redundant, because the next candidate
already IS the rung below.

⚠ ffmpeg-next remains a hard dependency of pf-client-core, deliberately. What
is left off-feature is three type-level residues — the codec-id vocabulary,
the AVVkFrame guard that is pf-presenter's public import, and a pixel-format
in one signature — every one of them an M10 §6 line item. Deleting them here
would mean deleting the presenter's FFmpeg lane, 55 call sites, in a milestone
whose gates cannot run a GPU. No libavcodec decoder is opened in a default
build.

⚠ video_d3d11.rs was gated item by item rather than wholesale, and nothing in
this tree compiles it — it needs a Windows check before anyone trusts it.

Gates: both feature states, container clippy -D warnings and 158/159 tests,
workspace check. The four decode crates are untouched, so the hardware rungs'
250/250 stands.
2026-08-07 07:00:29 +02:00
enricobuehler d5e23146c0 feat(client): M8 — the software rung is openh264 and rav1d, and swscale is gone
The ladder's last rung no longer runs FFmpeg. H.264 decodes through openh264,
AV1 through rav1d, and HEVC is refused outright: no permissively licensed
software HEVC decoder exists, so an HEVC session that exhausts its hardware
rungs now tears down and re-dials advertising HEVC-less caps, and the host
picks H.264. The plan calls that a first-class path; it is one.

swscale is deleted, and with it the BT.601 default that its correction code
existed to undo. Colour on the H.264 lane now comes from the same
pf-bitstream planner every hardware rung submits from — openh264 reports no
VUI at all — and AV1's comes per-picture from the sequence header. One colour
source, one CSC: the old default is unrepresentable rather than merely fixed.
Frames reach the presenter as three tightly-packed planes through the planar
CSC pass, which had to be un-gated from the pyrowave feature and its device
probe, since the last rung must exist on devices that failed that probe.

rav1d rather than the dav1d crate, deliberately and against the plan's
literal wording: dav1d-sys is system-deps-only, so it would add a system
library and a .pc file to every client package — in the milestone family
whose excision checklist exists to delete exactly that. rav1d is the same
decoder, same licence, statically linked. The cost is honest: no-asm builds
on both decoders, and software throughput is still unmeasured.

The colour test is the milestone's exit criterion, so it is built to fail.
Three fixtures, and a mutation check: hardcoding the swscale default turns the
red bar to [255,24,0], and swapping Cb/Cr turns red to blue — a silent error
no metadata assertion could catch. Review then disproved the range half of it
numerically: with eight saturated bars, decoding the full-range fixture with
the wrong range gives max error ZERO, because a mismatch only pushes values
outside [0,1] where the shader clamps. A mid-tone was added; the wrong range
now costs 11, well past the tolerance. The exit criterion I set was
satisfiable by a test that proved nothing.

Two blocking defects, both emergent rather than local.

Software AV1 on a 10-bit stream never reached its typed refusal: rav1d is
built 8-bit-only and returns ENOPROTOOPT, which the send loop turned into a
generic error, so the pump's typed downcast missed and every AU failed
identically — a permanent freeze on precisely the shipping case, since AV1 is
advertised only where hardware AV1 exists and hardware AV1 plus HDR is Main
10. The shape is now read from the sequence header before any byte reaches
the decoder, exactly as the H.264 leg reads the active SPS.

And the new Reconnecting phase was the first state that is not streaming, not
connecting, and still holding a live stream — which opened all three guards
that had made a second launch impossible. Pressing A assigned over `stream`
where every other site shuts down first, and StreamState has no Drop, so the
old pump was detached: a second live session still submitting to a Vulkan
device that gets destroyed underneath it. Nothing about the reconnect was
wrong in isolation; the defect lived between a new state and three guards
nobody re-examined. Start is now defensive and the retry raises the
connecting modal, so the UI matches the state and B can cancel.

Also closed: retry_caps was computed, tested and never applied, so a shape
refusal could end a session reporting no codec available while a working
retry existed; the retry inherited force_software sticky-true, landing an
HEVC→H.264 fallback on software H.264 with working hardware H.264; it
re-dialled with a stale mode; the CPU present arm had no survivable-failure
handling where the pyrowave arm — same pass — has it; HEVC is no longer
advertised when the decoder is pinned to software; and the software rung now
feeds the recovery-point SEI it already had in hand to the re-anchor gate.

⚠ Two host-side gaps found while tracing, neither in scope here: Hello::launch
is NOT idempotent (gog:/custom: targets spawn a second copy on a retry; the
field is kept verbatim because dropping it orphans the gamescope display whose
reuse key includes the command), and a reconnected session can never adopt a
game predating its own launch stamp, so it has no game-exit detection.

⚠ OWED: the on-glass software run. ~200 lines of new Vulkan on a path that
only runs because the GPU already failed, and no driver has seen it. The
review's minimum check is sync validation enabled, a non-multiple-of-16 mode,
a mid-session resize and demotion, and both colour matrices.

Gates: container clippy -D warnings over four crates, 236 tests, workspace
check. pf-vkdecode and pf-bitstream are byte-for-byte untouched, so the
hardware rungs' 250/250 stands.
2026-08-07 06:18:23 +02:00
enricobuehler a20cd44ed4 feat(client): native VAAPI AV1 — the third rung, and two failure-path defects
The libva AV1 layouts, the AuPlan conversion and the Linux rung's AV1 arm,
completing AV1 across all three hardware backends. Pin-only.

Layouts measured, not transcribed: the committed probe grew the AV1
structures and every size and offset it printed against libva 2.23.0 is a
compile-time assertion. Three that a hand-count gets wrong — the picture
buffer is align 8 because anchor_frames_list is a pointer, inserting seven
bytes of padding; seg_info and film_grain_info carry their own padding tails
inside the parent; and THREE of AV1's six bit-field unions are narrower than
a word (one uint8_t, two uint16_t), so a u32 packer over any of them writes
through its neighbour.

This is the fifth way this program has had to spell "which pictures does this
frame use", and it is unlike the other four: ref_frame_map is indexed by SLOT
and holds actual VASurfaceIDs rather than indices into anything, ref_frame_idx
is indexed by NAME and holds slots taken from the header — not from the
plan's refs, where a lost reference leaves a hole and a hole is not a slot —
global motion is picture-level, and there is no per-reference size field at
all. Established from va_dec_av1.h and libavcodec's vaapi_av1.c, and stated
in the module docs so the next reader does not re-derive it.

Review verified the whole happy path — every layout assertion re-measured,
every packer width and bit position, the reference convention, the
num_elements buffer shape — and found both defects on FAILURE paths, neither
reachable on the vendored vector.

A conversion refusal permanently desynced the ledger. The mutation block sat
after the tile walk, so any tile-shape refusal left the planner holding a
picture with no ledger slot — and the resulting UnresolvedReference fires
before that block too, so it never repaired. Every later access unit
hard-errored until a shown key frame: one lost packet costing a GOP. The
arm's own doc already warned that skipping conversion would desynchronise the
slot map; the refusal door did exactly what the skip door was written to
avoid. The block is hoisted, and a tile-shape refusal on an already-damaged
plan is now concealed rather than refused.

Fixing that exposed a sharper edge: the conversion can release a slot and
reassign it to the refused picture in one call, so the binding would still
hold the PREVIOUS picture's surface — a wrong reference rather than a missing
one, which nothing downstream could notice. The caller now clears the binding
unconditionally on the refusal path.

And a damaged frame's surface was never written yet was bound as a reference
and left in pending, so a later clean show_existing_frame would claim it with
damaged = false and ship uninitialised GPU memory to the presenter — on
several drivers another client's framebuffer. The justification quoted half
of va_dec_av1.h; its next sentence gives the remedy, which is to point the
problematic index at an alternative buffer. Damaged frames now submit as they
do on the other two arms, with live surfaces substituted for invalid entries
and reported as a bitmask — preferring a reference that really decoded over
the decode target, and keeping libavcodec's deliberate all-invalid map on a
shown key frame.

Film grain is refused rather than decoded wrong: libva wants two surfaces,
one ungrained for prediction and one grained for output, and libavcodec
allocates a second frame for exactly that. The gate now sits after the
mutation block so a grained frame costs itself rather than the GOP, and stays
per-AU rather than per-sequence because a stream that merely DECLARES the tool
decodes here perfectly.

⚠ Residual, flagged not fixed: a picture decoded from substituted references
can still be shown by a later show_existing_frame. It is decoded memory now
rather than uninitialised, and it is what the H.264/H.265 arms do, but
tracking "this was concealed" through to display needs new session state.

Gates: macOS fmt/clippy/125 tests/cargo-doc, container clippy -D warnings over
seven crates and 548 tests, workspace check. pf-bitstream's diff is
comment-only — verified — so the Vulkan rung's 250/250 stands untouched.

Nothing here has decoded a frame: no VAAPI hardware is reachable.
2026-08-07 04:22:23 +02:00
enricobuehler ef40890c80 feat(client): native D3D11VA AV1 — wired, and four defects it exposed
The AV1 arm of the native D3D11VA rung, parity-required because today's
FFmpeg d3d11va rung already decodes AV1 Profile 0 and the excision must not
silently drop it. Pin-only, as that rung is today.

decode() walks the temporal unit frame by frame; submit() splits into
decode_into and present, because AV1 decodes frames that are never shown. The
proven H.264/H.265 body is byte-for-byte unchanged — review diffed it against
HEAD mechanically and found only a rename plus one refusal arm — and the
VideoProcessorBlt hand-off is untouched. That mattered more than anything
else here: those two codecs are hardware-proven, .173 is powered off, and no
gate that runs could have caught a regression in them.

Every descriptor value comes from libavcodec's dxva2_av1.c read verbatim, not
from symmetry with the other codecs: three buffers and no qmatrix (AV1
transmits none), NumMBsInBuffer zero on all three, ConfigBitstreamRaw 1,
surface alignment 128, pool +8, and the session sized from the SEQUENCE
header's max frame size — sizing from the frame would rebuild the decoder and
drop every reference the first time a stream legally resized downward.

Two places where following the H.264/HEVC pattern would have been wrong.
libav pads the bitstream buffer and grows only its descriptor's DataSize,
never a tile's, because a tile's size is exact — charging padding to the last
record is corruption, not filler. And the committed tile records were one per
tile GROUP spanning the whole OBU, header and frame header included, where
libav emits one per TILE addressing the payload past its tile_size_minus_1;
the vendored vector is single-tile, so the old tests passed either way.

Review then found four more defects in the already-committed conversion, each
confirmed against libavcodec AND Chromium's D3D11 AV1 accelerator:

Tile widths and heights were the coded minus-1 where the field is a
superblock COUNT — every tile declared one superblock short, on every frame,
with a comment asserting the opposite of the truth.

StatusReportFeedbackNumber must be zero for AV1. Both reference
implementations disable it specifically for this codec — libav's note reads
"breaks decoding on some drivers (tested on NVIDIA 457.09)", Chromium's "it
crashes :|" — while both set it for H.264 and HEVC, which is why this rung's
proven codecs never showed it. It would likely have presented as a hang or a
rejected submission rather than bad pixels, sending the next session after
the tile records instead.

frame_refs[].Index is an index INTO RefFrameMapTextureIndex, not a surface
index; the neighbouring line already filled that map correctly. Measured:
1636 reference entries on the vendored vector where the two differ.

qm_y/u/v need the 0xFF "no matrix" sentinel — 0 is a valid matrix index, and
274 of 274 frames transmit no quantiser matrix, so every one was being
dequantized against matrix 0.

Also closed: the slot leak the Vulkan rung had already found and documented
(a frame refreshing no slot is never reported removed, so nine of them
exhaust the ledger); a tile-grid check that could not fire, replaced with
libav's own cols*rows guard; per-reference sizes now taken from the
reference's own header via RefState rather than the current frame's; and the
render size clamped against the decoded picture in both rungs, since AV1
permits a render size larger than the frame.

The parity leg was rewired through the real decode path — it previously
called the internals directly, so its hidden-frame assertion described the
harness's own counter rather than production withholding anything.

Gates: macOS fmt/clippy/383 tests, container clippy -D warnings over four
crates and 499 tests, and on Windows .133 (.173 is powered off) clean checks
plus 97 pf-dxvadec tests. All 8 Vulkan gpu_parity legs re-verified bit-exact
on the RTX 5070 Ti after the shared-code change.

No AV1 frame has been decoded through this rung anywhere: it needs .173 back.
2026-08-07 03:01:49 +02:00
enricobuehler a404830456 feat(client): wire AV1 into the native Vulkan rung, pin-only
The third codec arm in video_vk_native, AV1 admitted to native_codec and to
native_vulkan_gate by pin only. It stays out of `auto` on the same rule M5's
D3D11VA rung follows: `auto` admission is earned with hardware evidence, and
this has decoded nothing on a device.

is_integrity_warning_av1 did not exist, so the client could not have
concealed AV1 damage at all. Added, exhaustive, no wildcard: all three AV1
warnings really are damage, because AV1 has no spec-legal-but-noisy signal
to mis-classify — no reorder envelope to announce, no MMCO to rebase — and
the exhaustive match is what stops a future variant defaulting to clean.

The blocking defect review found was two safety mechanisms cancelling each
other. After a failure the decoder skipped to the next key frame answering
Ok(None), and because AV1's planner has no flush its store kept planning
cleanly, so those AUs carried no warnings and the client read them as proof
the rung works — clearing the demotion streak and resetting its clock on
every one. The streak could then never reach the threshold, which made the
never-delivered fall-through to FFmpeg-Vulkan unreachable, which is the
documented backstop for exactly three things: a level above maxLevelIdc, a
sequence header disagreeing with the Welcome, and film grain. Film grain is
the probe's own admitted assumption, so a grain stream would have frozen the
screen for the session while DecodeHealth reported run 0 — recovered.

AV1 now answers the wait with an error, as H.264 and H.265 already do
through AwaitingIdr, so all three codecs are indistinguishable to the
demotion machinery. That matters more than the extra precision of a third
state: only the H.26x paths have hardware evidence, and they are proven WITH
that behaviour.

The obvious form of that fix would have wedged the decoder. A key frame can
sit behind a skipped frame inside the same temporal unit — the vendored
vector has 24 two-frame units — so erroring out of the per-plan loop would
never reach it and the wait would never end. Skips are therefore counted per
frame and the error raised only when the whole unit was skipped, with the
metadata-only unit staying a clean Ok(None).

Also closed: a refused temporal unit left an already-decoded frame in the
ready queue, which shipped on the next AU as a clean success — putting a
picture from a refused AU on screen, clearing the streak again, and latching
delivered so the fall-through was disabled for good. The error arm now
drains and releases unshown.

MAX_DELIVERABLE is derived rather than picked: HOLD_HEADROOM minus the
pipeline's own hold, pinned to pf-vkdecode's constant so a hardcoded depth
fails the build. At the previous 8 the queue plus the presenter's 4-7 stood
against a headroom of 8, so it capped memory without preventing the
exhaustion it named, and a frame waiting 8 AUs burned 16 of the 17 query
slots — where a re-armed slot reads as Failed and becomes a fabricated
driver-corruption verdict in the very counter the Ally X signal lives in.
The trim now runs after this AU's frame is taken, or at the derived depth it
would drop a two-output unit's first frame and invert display order inside
one AU.

Its justification was also wrong: the claim that a temporal unit may carry a
show_existing_frame alongside a shown frame is disproved by this repo's own
golden — 250 units, 250 shown, zero show_existing. The bound is kept as
defence in depth against a non-conformant or multi-operating-point stream,
and now says so.

Gates: macOS fmt/clippy/392 tests, container clippy -D warnings over six
crates, 851 tests, workspace check. No hardware: the rung is pin-only and
has still never decoded a frame on a device.
2026-08-06 22:19:22 +02:00
enricobuehler eecd04247f feat(client): AV1 is advertised on hardware, not on a decoder existing
The standing open item M7 was meant to close. `decodable_codecs` answered the
AV1 bit from `ffmpeg::decoder::find(AV1)`, which says yes on every build that
links libdav1d — a software decoder. So the client told the host "send me
AV1" on machines that would then decode a 4K stream on the CPU, and codec
negotiation happens once at Welcome, so there is nothing to fall back to
afterwards. A promise the client cannot keep is worse than not making it.

`av1_hardware_decodable` answers from device facts only: the presenter's
Vulkan device listing DECODE_AV1 among its decode queue family's codec
operations, or — on Windows — the D3D11 import path, which is the same gate
the D3D11VA rung sits behind and that rung decodes AV1 Profile 0 today.

VAAPI is deliberately not consulted: asking libva costs opening a display,
and this is called too early and too often for that. The Vulkan bit covers
the Mesa devices where VAAPI AV1 exists in practice, and a machine with
VAAPI AV1 but no Vulkan AV1 loses the advertisement, not a working path.

The test pins what the gate must not accept: a device that decodes H.264 and
H.265 but lists no AV1 operation, and a device whose caps word claims AV1
while it has no decode queue at all.

Gates: macOS fmt/clippy, container clippy -D warnings over six crates, 805
tests, workspace check.
2026-08-06 19:27:24 +02:00
enricobuehler a6e51215fd feat(client): M6's rung is wired — libva, dlopen'd, no libavcodec
The native VAAPI decoder now runs end to end: pf-vaadec's plans go into
libva's buffers, the surface comes back as DRM-PRIME dmabufs, and the
presenter imports them exactly as it does the FFmpeg rung's. Pin-only —
`PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=native-vaapi` — for the reason M5's D3D11VA rung was:
`auto` admission is earned with hardware parity and a soak, and this rung
has decoded nothing yet.

libva is dlopen'd rather than linked, so the pf-lxcheck2 container compiles
and clippies the whole thing without libva-dev, and a machine without a
VAAPI runtime gets a clean refusal instead of a packaging dependency.

The surface pool is not the slot map. `SlotMap::assign` hands out the lowest
free slot, and a slot freed by an access unit's own removals is free by the
time that unit's picture takes it — measured at 225 of the vendored vector's
250 access units. A surface bound by slot index would therefore decode, on
nine frames in ten, into the surface still holding the picture on screen. So
`plan_to_va` now takes the decode target as a parameter, bound by the caller
at activation time the way pf-vkdecode binds a pool image, and a surface is
free only when no live picture is bound to it, no output is owed for it, and
no consumer holds it.

Measured rather than transcribed, as everywhere else here: layout-probe.c
grew the export descriptor (312 bytes, objects[4]/layers[4]), the buffer-type
enumerators — VASliceParameterBufferType is 4 and VASliceDataBufferType is 5,
not the 3 and 4 that counting off the header suggests — and the config,
attribute and generic-value layouts. All pinned as compile-time assertions,
which is how the 12-byte VAGenericValue in the first draft was caught: the C
union holds a pointer, so it is 8-aligned and 16 bytes.

The plane walk lives in pf-vaadec, pure and unit-tested on macOS, because it
is the one structure the DRIVER writes and we read: SEPARATE_LAYERS returns
NV12 as two layers, and taking layers[0] is the green screen this project has
already paid for. It also refuses what it cannot express rather than guessing
— a bogus object count, a plane naming an object that is not there, objects
disagreeing on tiling.

Own DecodedImage variant, same payload type. The physical hand-off is
identical to the FFmpeg rung's, so the presenter keeps ONE arm and one
demotion streak; the variant exists so the compiler asks which rung decoded
wherever that matters. Both D3D11VA rungs share a variant and `1573a987` had
to fix the consequence afterwards — a "native" soak that could silently have
been an FFmpeg soak. Here the four uncovered matches were compile errors.

Buffers are destroyed by us, not by vaEndPicture: va.h is explicit that the
user must call vaDestroyBuffer, and the libva 0.x behaviour is long gone.
Leaking two per picture at 60 fps exhausts the driver's store in minutes.

pf-vaadec's presenter headroom was 4, written against no consumer. The Vulkan
rung had already measured the client pipeline at four to seven held frames;
it is 8 now, pinned to that crate's constant so a re-measurement moves both.

Gates: macOS fmt/clippy/341 tests/cargo doc, and in the container clippy
-D warnings over six crates, 795 tests, workspace check.

Hardware legs are still owed — no AMD/Mesa or Intel box was reachable.
2026-08-06 16:56:38 +02:00
enricobuehler 00d4026054 Merge pull request 'Worktree field kleisty triage' (#69) from worktree-field-kleisty-triage into main
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2026-08-06 12:41:28 +00:00
enricobuehler 81b4f76c4d fix(client): a session ending on purpose stops reading as a failure
The desktop clients turned every host-side close into "Host ended the
session", and a reason string means "abnormal" to everything downstream:
the GTK and Windows shells raised a banner, the console overlay drew a
status strip. Quitting a game you launched yourself produced all of
that. Now only a host error or a lost connection carries a message; the
deliberate endings return the silence those shells already give a clean
exit, which is also what puts the console back in its library with
nothing in the way.

The Apple client gains the same distinction. It had one line for every
ending — "Session ended by <host>." — which is fine for an operator
stopping the session and wrong for a link that died, so each now says
what happened. A game exiting stays silent and returns to the library it
was launched from.

Both read the reason while the connection is still up, because tearing
it down is what makes it unreadable, and both fall back to their previous
wording when there is no verdict — an older core, or a close that raced
the read — rather than inventing a new one for a case they cannot see.
2026-08-06 14:30:46 +02:00
enricobuehler 509843f0d4 test(client): the D3D11VA rung's ten-bit path, measured too
The companion to the Vulkan ten-bit leg, over the same vector and the same
P010 goldens — one golden file serves both rungs because a D3D11 P010 surface
and Vulkan's 3PACK16 family hold the ten bits in the same place.

This is the rung where the gap mattered most. D3D11VA exposes no per-picture
status query at all, so its HDR evidence was a session that built a Main10
decoder and streamed without complaint — which is precisely what a Main10
stream decoding to garbage would also produce. Now there is a number.

It exercises geometry the eight-bit legs cannot reach: P010 samples are two
bytes, so a row is width * 2 rather than width, and HEVC's 128-line granule
pads a 240-line picture to a 256-line surface — so the chroma plane starts a
long way from where the display height alone would put it. Getting either
wrong is the smeared-rows failure this project has already paid for once, and
it would have looked like a decoder fault.

The run body now takes the stream format and the expected access-unit count
rather than assuming the eight-bit envelope and 250 frames.

A CPU guard pins the vector at ten bits — 4:2:0, both depths minus8 == 2,
320x240, 50 access units. A regenerated eight-bit vector would otherwise turn
this into a second run of the eight-bit path under a ten-bit name, passing,
because its goldens would have been regenerated with it.

Hardware: HEVC Main 10 50/50 bit-identical on the RTX 4090 and on the AMD
Radeon iGPU, alongside the unchanged eight-bit legs at 250/250 on both. With
the Vulkan leg's two drivers that is four independent drivers across two
rungs for the ten-bit path, where yesterday there were none.
2026-08-06 13:53:23 +02:00
enricobuehler fbdad8d917 Merge pull request 'fix(clients): host discovery heals itself, and every client can rescan' (#67) from worktree-host-discovery-refresh into main
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Reviewed-on: #67
2026-08-06 11:51:30 +00:00
enricobuehler b25e6eda91 fix(clients): host discovery heals itself, and every client can rescan
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A field report from an iPad: the host is not found on first run, and
restarting the client finds it. Pull-to-refresh appeared to do nothing.

Both were real. The Apple client's discovery had three ways to go
permanently deaf, each needing an app relaunch to clear:

- A failed resolve was never retried. `browseResultsChangedHandler`
  only fires when the result SET changes, and a host whose resolve
  failed is still in the set — so nothing ever re-offered it.
- A stuck resolve never ended. `NWConnection` has no timeout, so the
  throwaway UDP flow used to resolve an address could sit in
  `.preparing`/`.waiting` forever, and a service with a connection in
  flight was skipped.
- `NWBrowser` parking in `.waiting` was ignored (only `.failed`
  re-armed). On iOS that is where the local-network privacy prompt
  lands on first launch after install: the browse starts, the system
  asks, and the browser waits. Granting does not revive that browser —
  only a new one sees the grant. That is the reported first-run bug.

HostDiscovery now runs a 1 Hz sweep that times out stuck resolves,
retries failed ones on a 1→30 s backoff, and re-arms a browser that
stopped working; the advert's TXT is re-read on every browse report, so
a host that re-keys or flips its pairing policy is followed. Returning
to the foreground re-arms the browse (iOS/tvOS: `onAppear` does not
fire across background/foreground, and a suspended browse stays dead).

Pull-to-refresh did nothing because there was no `.refreshable` in the
client at all. Added, plus the explicit control the report asked for:
a toolbar Refresh on iOS/macOS, an action-row button on tvOS, a Rescan
tile in the gamepad launcher, Scan Again on the empty state, a
header-bar button in the GTK client, a hosts-page button on Windows,
and Scan again on Android. Decky already had one.

The desktop/Android browses needed a rescan trigger to make those
buttons mean anything: mdns-sd re-queries on a doubling backoff capped
at ONE HOUR, so a long-lived browse is effectively passive and a host
that appears later can stay invisible. `discovery::Rescan` forces a
fresh query; the wake-and-wait loops use it too, so a host that just
booted is noticed in seconds rather than at the next backoff tick.

Also fixed, found on the way: clients/windows/src/discovery.rs is a
second copy of the browse that d0fa8bd3 ("pin mDNS discovery to IPv4 on
every client") missed. It took an arbitrary first address, so when a
host's OS responder answered AAAA the Windows GUI rendered a card that
failed on every click. It also never noticed a dropped receiver, leaking
a thread and a :5353 socket per wake-and-wait.

Gates: Apple macOS + iOS (arm64-apple-ios17.0, proven non-vacuous) build
clean, 195 tests pass incl. a new one asserting a rescan re-finds a
still-advertising host. On .21: fmt, clippy --all-targets -D warnings
and build clean for pf-client-core + client-linux + client-session,
117 tests pass. Android :kit: and :app: compileDebugKotlin clean.
The Windows client is UNGATED — its CI runner was unreachable.
2026-08-06 13:30:10 +02:00
enricobuehler 5a7f7f0fc5 feat(clients/gamepad-ui): section tabs, background palettes, and a backdrop that moves everywhere
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The console settings were one 30-row scroll, which on a Deck meant thumbing past
Video and Audio to reach the pad settings. They are now split across sections —
Stream · Video · Audio · Controller · Interface · Profiles, plus Input on the
desktop console, which alone carries the touch/mouse rows. L1/R1 walks them,
each section remembers where its cursor was, and the names are the same word on
every client so a setting is where you looked for it last.

Shoulders are not the only route, because a D-pad remote hasn't got any: on
Android, Up from the first row moves onto the strip (left/right walks sections
there, A drops back in), and on tvOS the pills are focusable, so the focus
engine handles it — a Siri Remote has no extended gamepad profile and never
reaches the input poll at all. The desktop console needs neither; PageUp and
PageDown already map to the same events.

New "Background" row, six palettes: Violet (the brand default), Tide, Forest,
Ember, Rose, Graphite. A palette is a hue rotation plus a saturation scale over
the ONE colour field each client already draws, so every palette inherits its
structure and Violet is the identity transform — existing installs see exactly
what they see today. The maths is ported three times (Rust/Swift/Kotlin) under
one shared `ui_palette` key, with the same assertions pinned in each language.
It is presentation only, so it is a device preference and never part of a
profile.

The form screens no longer have a backdrop of their own. Settings, add-host and
pair used to sit on a still gradient; they now wear the same living field at a
calm mix — pools dimmed onto the palette's own corner colour, vignette halved so
rows that run to the edges don't get crushed. On the desktop console that
collapsed the old aurora-over-static crossfade into one shader pass with a
chased uniform. Motion speed is identical in both modes on purpose: changing it
would make the field jump mid-transition. Nothing in the gamepad UI is backed by
a static image now, and Reduce Motion (Apple) / "remove animations" (Android)
still freeze it.

Also: the settings screen had no raster coverage at all — the eyeball dump is
`#[ignore]`d — so a new test draws every tab, and the Android screenshot set
gains a console-settings scene. Both earned their keep immediately: the renders
showed the extra hint pushing "Done" off a 360 dp phone (the legend scrolls now,
and the Section cell only appears where shoulders exist) and the form backdrop
crushing its own edges.
2026-08-06 12:39:30 +02:00
enricobuehler 1573a9876b fix(client): a d3d11va soak could not tell which rung it soaked
The `stats:` line's decode-path tag is derived from the DecodedImage variant,
and both D3D11VA rungs deliver DecodedImage::D3d11 — they share the hand-off
ring on purpose. So a native-d3d11va session and an FFmpeg-d3d11va session
emitted a byte-identical tag, and nothing downstream could tell them apart.
The native Vulkan rung never had this: it carries its own variant, hence its
own `native-vulkan` tag.

That is not cosmetic, and it was found the only way it could be — by running
the rung on glass and having to grep the log to prove which one had answered.
A native pin that fails to initialise falls through to the FFmpeg rung by
design; the line it then emits is exactly the line the native rung would have
emitted. M5's owed soak and M9's vendor-matrix bake both rest on attributing
a session to a rung, and until now the machine-readable half of that evidence
could not do it. This project has already shipped one measurement that could
not tell "clean" from "unmeasured"; this is the same shape.

D3d11Frame now records which rung wrote the surface, keyed off the pin
constant itself rather than a second field the two rungs could set
inconsistently — the native rung passes DECODER_PIN into the hand-off and
nothing else does.

The stats line stays additive for every shipping session: the only value that
changes belongs to a rung that is pin-only and deliberately absent from the
automatic ladder, and the Windows shell passes the line through opaquely
rather than matching on the tag.

Verified on glass on .173, both directions: pinned native-d3d11va gives 85
windows tagged `native-d3d11va` and 0 plain, pinned d3d11va gives 64 plain and
0 native, zero errors either way. Gates: clippy -D warnings on Windows, the
Linux container's clippy/tests/workspace check, rustfmt.
2026-08-06 12:34:31 +02:00
enricobuehler 3041d9bb43 test(client): M5's decoded pixels now answer to libavcodec's
The native D3D11VA rung had no pixel evidence at all. Its DXVA bytes were
checked against libavcodec's own captured bytes, and its Intel bring-up proved
the driver accepts the submission — but nothing had ever compared what came
out. This is that comparison, against the same goldens and the same reference
the Vulkan rung was held to: libavcodec's SOFTWARE decode, which is ground
truth rather than a peer implementation, so the two rungs' verdicts are now
directly comparable numbers.

It reads back the DECODE surface, before the VideoProcessorBlt, so what is
hashed is the half this rung is responsible for; the hand-off is the shared,
field-proven half and is deliberately not in the measurement.

Finding, recorded rather than papered over: this rung presents in DECODE
order. It never consults AuPlan::dpb.outputs — submit blits setup_slot and
returns. The native Vulkan rung keeps a display-order queue for exactly that
reason, and libavcodec's D3D11VA rung reorders internally, so this rung
differs from both. It cannot bite on punktfunk streams, which are zero-reorder
and carry no B pictures, but that is a convention of our hosts rather than a
structural guarantee, and a stream that did reorder would present out of order
with nothing to say so.

Both vendored vectors DO reorder — the H.265 one's first B picture at AU 3 is
what localised the RPS slot defect — so a harness hashing in decode order
would report a permutation against display-order goldens and read like a
decoder fault. Instead each decoded surface is hashed against the PicId the
planner gave it and the hashes are emitted in the planner's own output order.
The reordering is the test's, done by the planner the rung already trusts, and
`both_vendored_vectors_really_do_reorder` asserts the reason so the docs
cannot go stale silently.

The crop reads the chroma plane at RowPitch * texture height, not display
height: the decode pool is aligned to the codec's granule and is taller than
the picture. That is the 1088-row smear this project has already paid for.

Two CPU guards run in ordinary CI. This file needs its own Annex-B splitter
(pf-client-core does not depend on the vendored parser), and a splitter that
disagreed with pf-bitstream's would fail on hardware as a frame-count mismatch
that reads like a decoder defect; instead it fails on CPU, saying so.

PF_DXVA_ADAPTER pins a GPU by description substring and every run prints the
adapters it saw — .173 enumerates its AMD iGPU alongside the 4090, and which
one answered is a fact worth printing rather than inferring.

Hardware: H.264 and H.265 both 250/250 bit-identical on NVIDIA GeForce RTX
4090 and on the AMD Radeon iGPU, Windows. Gates: clippy -D warnings and the
lib tests on Windows, the Linux container's clippy/tests/workspace check, and
rustfmt.
2026-08-06 12:17:24 +02:00
enricobuehler 31087697a9 feat(client): M5 — native D3D11VA decode, pin-only pending hardware
The Windows fallback rung, and auto's first choice on Intel, now has a
native implementation driven by pf-bitstream's plans instead of
libavcodec. New crate pf-dxvadec holds everything that can be a pure
function — the DXVA structure layouts, both codec conversions, bitstream
packing, config selection — deliberately CROSS-PLATFORM, because a
cfg(windows) module is verified by a remote cargo check and nothing
else, and this milestone's riskiest code is exactly the part no local
test can see. Only the FFI lives in video_d3d11_native.rs.

windows-rs does not generate dxva.h at the pinned rev, so the DXVA
structures are hand-declared: compile-time assertions on every struct
size AND every field offset, packed bitfield words as plain integers
with named builders and the bit positions written beside the C
declaration, and a const zeroed() per struct so construction needs no
unsafe at all. The crate's only unsafe is a sealed byte view over those
PODs. Review round 13 checked all seven layouts field by field in
declaration order — sizes, widths, array lengths, the PicEntry
index/flag packing, and every named bit's position and width.

The decode pool reproduces libavcodec's rather than inventing one:
ONE texture with ArraySize = pool size, BIND_DECODER and nothing else,
MiscFlags 0, aligned 16 for H.264 and 128 for HEVC. That is deliberate.
This rung's predecessor records that a hand-built pool which validated
on NVIDIA was rejected by Intel at the first SubmitDecoderBuffers — and
Intel is the vendor this rung exists for. The VideoProcessorBlt into
shareable RGBA is untouched: importing a multiplanar NV12 D3D11 texture
into Vulkan device-losts on NVIDIA, so that hand-off is load-bearing
field-proven code. It was extracted into a shared HandoffRing so both
rungs fill one implementation; the review diffed the blit statement by
statement, including the keyed-mutex pairing.

Review round 13's four defects are fixed. The blocking one: the HEVC
quantisation matrix was submitted unconditionally, and the vendored
parser leaves it ALL ZEROS unless the stream codes one — unlike FFmpeg,
which seeds the spec defaults. On a stream saying 'use the default
matrices' the driver is obliged to apply what it is handed, so every
residual would dequantise to zero and the picture would drift to flat
prediction. It is now gated on scaling_list_enabled_flag exactly as
libav gates it, with the Table 7-5/7-6 defaults supplied when enabled
but uncoded.

Second: NumMBsInBuffer was 0 where libav's H.264 path sets
mb_width * mb_height. This module's whole method is verbatim
reproduction on precisely the call that once failed for Intel, so an
omitted descriptor field is the same class of bug as the pool.

Third, and the one to watch on hardware: RefFrameList carried the
frame's reference set rather than the pictures marked used for
reference. Vulkan defines pReferenceSlots as the slots this operation
uses, so a subset is correct there; DXVA defines RefFrameList as a
statement about the DPB. The list DERIVATION survives a subset — which
is exactly why a smoke test would have passed — but a long-term
reference held across frames that none of them name would vanish and
reappear, and a driver keeping per-reference state is entitled to
discard it in between. That is the Ally X symptom shape. pf-bitstream
now exposes a per-AU DPB snapshot for both codecs and the converters
build the array from it, frame references first, marked tail appended.
121 of the 250 vendored AUs carry a marked picture the frame never
names, so this is exercised, not theoretical.

Fourth: the session identity omitted bit depth and chroma, while the
Windows host flips an HDR desktop to PQ in-band with a new SPS — a
depth change at unchanged size would have decoded 10-bit samples into
an NV12 pool. Identity now derives from the SPS per AU and rebuilds.

Wired PIN-ONLY (PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=native-d3d11va), absent from every
auto arm. Nothing has decoded a frame yet, and M2's discipline was that
auto admission comes only after hardware parity. A runtime streak
demotes to the FFmpeg D3D11VA rung first, then software.

Also scaffolded: a byte-diff harness against libavcodec's own DXVA
picture parameters, with the FFmpeg patch and capture recipe in its
docs. Nothing here is checked against libav's actual bytes the way M3
was checked against its pixels, and that is the cheap way to buy the
confidence before hardware.

Gates: fmt clean; container clippy -D warnings zero across
pf-client-core + pf-presenter + pf-vkdecode + pf-dxvadec +
punktfunk-core; tests 73/131/63/129/354 green; cargo check --workspace
clean; Windows cargo check and clippy -D warnings clean on .173.
2026-08-06 06:11:21 +02:00
enricobuehler 2a57ee36f8 feat(client): M4 — the decoder's own verdict reaches the session
This program exists because a field corruption was architecturally
undetectable through FFmpeg: no decode-status read, no corrupt-frame
flag, errors only as scraped log lines, and no recovery-point signal so
intra-refresh healing was invisible. The native decoder has all of those.
M4 is where they stop being internal.

DecodeHealth counts, per session and without allocating per frame, what
the three answers actually are: damaged (the stream arrived incomplete),
refused (the rung would not decode it at all) and driver-failed (the
hardware says it could not decode what arrived), plus the current and
worst concealment run — the figures that separate one bad AU from a
stream that never came back. They ride the stats line additively, so an
FFmpeg session and a healthy native session emit byte-identical output
to today. The status-query capability is reported too: without it a
clean report cannot be told from an unmeasured one, which is the whole
nb_queries=0 lesson.

The headline is local recovery. Until now the pump could only learn that
intra-refresh healing finished from wire flags the host sends; absent
those it froze until the 500 ms backstop forced an IDR. The parsed
recovery-point SEI now feeds the re-anchor gate directly, so a session
lifts on the picture that is actually clean. Wire semantics are
untouched for every client that never calls it.

Detection now asks for recovery instead of erroring — an integrity
warning ticking the error streak would demote the native rung on exactly
the lossy links it exists to diagnose, where an FFmpeg rung conceals
silently and keeps its job.

Review round 12 found that trade had removed the escape hatch entirely.
Concealment returning Ok(None) reset the demotion streak, and worse: the
driver-verdict ledger is only populated when a frame ships, so under
continuous concealment no verdict was ever read and the erroring arm
could not fire at all. A host framing regression of the 0.23.0
slice-wire class — which does not self-heal, and which a keyframe does
not clear — would have frozen indefinitely with no demotion and a clean
integrity line, where before it demoted to FFmpeg-Vulkan and showed a
picture. Now only an answer that proves the rung works clears the
streak: a shipped frame, or a clean no-frame. Concealment neither ticks
nor clears, so a lossy link still cannot demote a healthy rung while a
driver failure interleaved with concealment reaches the threshold again.

Two more honesty defects from the same round. A rung refusing every AU
reported no integrity line at all — the founding failure mode, wearing
the shape of a clean bill of health; refusals are now counted. And
driver-failed could be non-zero on a device that cannot produce driver
verdicts, because a degraded timeline read looked the same as one; the
attribution is now withheld inside the counter rather than at call
sites, so the self-contradictory line is unrepresentable.

Local recovery also no longer trusts any recovery-point SEI: only one
whose target advances past an outstanding wave counts as a new wave, so
an encoder re-announcing the current wave with a decreasing count — legal,
and what x264 intra-refresh does — cannot lift the freeze early onto a
partially stale picture. Frames buffered across an arm are dropped by
decode order for the same reason.

Fault injection is a first-class tool now (PUNKTFUNK_AU_FAULT, inert
unless set, env read once). Its test replays the vendored vectors
through the real planners and asserts a negative the plan assumed away:
truncation and bit flips are PROVABLY invisible to the parser — Annex-B
carries no NALU length, so a cut slice is just a shorter slice and a
flipped payload byte is syntactically perfect. Only dropped AUs are
parser-detectable; the rest need the driver verdict, which is why the
status query matters. The H.265 leg found a second: three of that
vector's faulted AUs are sub-layer non-reference pictures, so dropping
them damages nothing and silence is correct — the test asserts both
verdicts and guards that neither half goes vacuous.

Per-frame decode latency was deliberately NOT built. Polling answers
only 'complete by now', and the pump polls once per AU, so every sample
would quantise up by as much as a frame interval — 8.3 ms at 120 Hz
against decodes of 0.1-2 ms. Sampling faster needs a spin or a second
thread on a decoder that is deliberately not Sync. A blocking per-frame
wait is the field scar that once capped a stream at 51 fps. The honest
sampled stat stands.

Also fixed, pre-existing: the re-anchor gate re-armed on every damaged
AU, so sustained damage permanently zeroed the mark count — meaning the
wire's two-mark rule could never complete on exactly the lossy links it
was written for.

Field note recorded while wiring this: intra_refresh_recovery is set by
exactly one encoder backend (Linux libav-NVENC under
PUNKTFUNK_INTRA_REFRESH). AMF and QSV run a wave with no wire mark, and
AMF emits no recovery-point SEI either, so AMD/Windows intra-refresh
sessions still have no clean recovery point by either route.

Gates: fmt clean; container clippy -D warnings zero across
pf-client-core + pf-presenter + pf-vkdecode + punktfunk-core; tests
69/131/129/354/41 plus 5 fault-detection green; cargo check --workspace
clean.
2026-08-06 04:30:40 +02:00
enricobuehler e4d8573475 feat(client): the native rung now decodes HEVC as well as H.264
The last piece of M3 WP-2 — VkH265Decoder was built and hardware-gated
but nothing drove it. video_vk_native.rs holds a two-arm codec enum and
forwards to it; the ledger, release tokens, status-query settling and
timeline waits are byte-for-byte what they were, since they were always
codec-agnostic over one DecodedVkFrame contract. The forwarders are
written out per arm rather than macro'd so the unchanged H.264 arm is
visible to a reviewer.

The picture's own format now reaches the presenter, which picks bit
depth and MSB packing from it instead of assuming the H.264 envelope.
That incidentally fixes a live bug on the SHIPPING FFmpeg-Vulkan path:
it derived ten-bit-ness by comparing against the 10-bit 4:2:0 format
alone, so a 10-bit two-plane 4:4:4 surface — which its own format table
accepts, and which NVIDIA reports for HEVC RExt — got 8-bit range and
transfer maths. Reachable today with Full chroma plus 10-bit: decoded
correctly, displayed wrong.

Review round 11 caught a regression this WP would otherwise have
shipped. pf-vkdecode refuses a stream whose (chroma, depth) pair has no
picture format on the device, but the session is built lazily from the
first SPS, so the refusal arrived AFTER construction — past the point
where a native init failure falls through to FFmpeg-Vulkan. It burned
the error streak instead and demoted to VAAPI/D3D11VA, which on
NVIDIA/Linux means software. Turning on Full chroma on any non-NVIDIA
GPU was enough: a 4K HEVC session that ran on FFmpeg-Vulkan before this
branch would have landed on software decode.

Both halves are fixed. The negotiated chroma and bit depth — already at
the call site, the PyroWave arm four lines up uses them — are threaded
into the backend, which probes the same caps path ensure_state would
run, so the whole class refuses at CONSTRUCTION where the fall-through
already exists. For the legs no negotiation can carry (a level above
maxLevelIdc, an SPS that disagrees with the Welcome) the decoder latches
'never delivered a frame' and routes that first streak to FFmpeg-Vulkan
rather than down the hardware ladder. H.264 is deliberately not probed:
its envelope is fixed, so a probe would only add a profile guess on the
bit-exact path; it gets the latch as its backstop.

Two more from the round. Planner warnings are typed again rather than
Debug strings — pf-vkdecode simply lacked the h265 re-export its h264
twin already had — which restores the H.264 log rendering exactly and
unblocks M4, whose job is counting concealment by kind. And concealment
is now the integrity set only: NonZeroReorder is documented spec-legal
and fully planned, but the client treated every warning as damage, so
the opening IDR and every ABR renegotiation's IDR were released unshown
and re-anchored — a visible hitch on a healthy stream.

Also: a raw-format newtype so a neighbouring i32 field cannot be passed
to the colour maths, the presenter's depth table now pinned against
pf-vkdecode's actual output vocabulary rather than the FFmpeg lane's,
a per-format warn latch, and four stale docs.

Gates: fmt clean; container clippy -D warnings zero across
pf-client-core + pf-presenter + pf-vkdecode; tests 69/125/108/40 green;
cargo check --workspace clean.
2026-08-06 03:02:09 +02:00
enricobuehler 6d8f3b45b5 feat(pf-vkdecode): the GPU half of HEVC decode — session, pools, recording
M3 WP-2 complete. caps_h265.rs builds the profile the stream actually
needs (profile idc + chroma + bit depths, all three stated on every
Vulkan object) and resolves its picture format — Main to NV12, Main 10
to P010, RExt 4:4:4 to the two-plane 4:4:4 formats — validating it
against the format list of every role the chosen arrangement creates
images in. A Main 10 stream on an 8-bit-only device is refused BEFORE a
session exists, never narrowed: decoding 10-bit into an 8-bit surface is
the silent-wrongness class this crate exists to refuse. session_h265.rs
adds the three-array parameters ledger; decoder_h265.rs adds
VkH265Decoder, mirroring VkH264Decoder method-for-method so the client
wiring is a two-arm dispatch away.

H.264 and H.265 now SHARE the machinery instead of duplicating it:
derive_arrangement (one coincide/distinct/layered decision table),
ring::rebased_offsets (the slices-only rebase — non-VCL NALUs in the
decode range hang VCN firmware), session::bind_session_memory, and a
parameterised build_frame. A DecodeProfile enum replaces the bare
profile idc that images.rs and ring.rs used to take: both codecs' idc
types are c_uint, so handing an H.265 idc to the H.264 path COMPILED
SILENTLY and built a mismatched profile chain. That is now
unrepresentable.

The VPS leg is the ledger's real work. The vendored parser attaches a
VPS to an SPS only when it saw the NALU, and clients join live streams,
so VpsSource is Parsed-or-FromSps and is stored BY VALUE: re-activating
a VPS-less SPS is Current (no churn), but the real VPS arriving under
the same id is a content change and RECREATES onto it, because Vulkan
cannot replace a stored parameter set.

Review round 10 (adversarial) confirmed the hardware-proven H.264 path
is NOT regressed — derive_arrangement's check order and error identity
are byte-for-byte the original, build_frame's call sites still pass the
granularity-aligned extent (the 1088-row scar stays shut), and
rebased_offsets reproduces the deleted inline loop for every input while
moving the sum to u64 so overflow errors instead of wrapping. Also
verified: the refs-order contract on every path, the RESULT_STATUS caps
gate (each of reset/begin/end individually gated, no pool created when
unsupported — recording one on RADV hangs its VCN), pNext lifetimes, and
that no panic is reachable on stream input.

Its 10 findings are fixed. The two that mattered:

- A failed decode stranded a DPB slot. Once plan_to_vk_h265 had mutated
  the slot map, five later failure paths returned without restoring it,
  so planner and slot map both believed a picture was resident while no
  image held it — and every later AU referencing it failed, where H.264
  soft-degrades and keeps delivering. Fail-closed is kept (substituting
  a reference silently is the corruption-hiding this program exists to
  end) but made RECOVERABLE: a latch flushes the planner to AwaitingIdr
  and resets the bindings on the next decode, which composes with the
  client already requesting a keyframe on every decode error. The fix
  deliberately covers pre-mutation failures too — those strand the
  picture the other way round and wedge identically.
- DecodedVkFrame carried no picture format, so a Main 10 frame would
  decode correctly and be rendered with 8-bit transfer/range math. It
  now carries one, stamped from the pool so it is truthful for both
  decoders by construction. The presenter comment says depth 8 is
  because only H.264 is WIRED, not a decoder limit.

Plus: bind_session_memory freed allocations before the session that may
hold them was destroyed (an ordering regression from the extraction,
with a SAFETY comment asserting the opposite) — the bind-stage exit now
hands them back so Drop destroys first; max_level_idc is codec-tagged
rather than an H.264 type carrying H.265 code points; and the decode
family's videoCodecOperations is now checked, turning 'create an H.265
session on a device without the extension' from UB into a clean ladder
demote.

Deferred by design: no HEVC gpu_smoke/gpu_parity yet (its goldens are
already in tests/data/test-25fps-h265.nv12.sha256), and no codec
dispatch in the client — both later legs.

Gates: fmt clean; mac clippy zero warnings, pf-vkdecode 106 +
pf-bitstream 69 green; container clippy -D warnings zero for
pf-client-core + pf-presenter + pf-vkdecode, tests 69/121/106 green.

HARDWARE (.173, after the refactor — review saying the proven path is
safe is not the GPU saying it): gpu_parity '250 frames bit-identical to
libavcodec software decode' on BOTH the NVIDIA 4090 (610.88, coincide
mode) and the AMD iGPU (Adrenalin 25.10.30.02, distinct mode), gpu_smoke
green on both. Two independent drivers, both DPB modes, still bit-exact.
The smoke trace also shows the new videoCodecOperations capture reading
DECODE_H264 | DECODE_H265 | DECODE_AV1 off the real decode family.
2026-08-06 01:59:39 +02:00
enricobuehler 370b0ab494 feat(client): native Vulkan decode joins the automatic ladder, above FFmpeg-Vulkan
Closes M2. The 2026-08-05 ladder decision: WP-D shut with bit-exact
parity vs libavcodec (250/250 AUs on RADV, AMD-proprietary and NVIDIA)
and a 92-minute clean soak, and the program's goal is dropping FFmpeg
from the client — so on H.264 sessions where caps pass, auto now tries
pf-vkdecode FIRST, exactly where the ladder would reach FFmpeg-Vulkan.
No bake period.

native_vulkan_gate widens from by-name-only to the auto family
(auto/""/hardware); the vendor-first rungs are untouched (Linux
Intel/unknown still VAAPI-first, Windows Intel/unknown still
D3D11VA-first — NVIDIA and ALL AMD go native first). A native INIT
failure or caps refusal logs and falls through to FFmpeg-Vulkan, so
admission can't cost a session its decoder at start; runtime error
streaks ride the existing demotion machinery unchanged (past
FFmpeg-Vulkan to VAAPI/D3D11VA/software — a native→FFmpeg-Vulkan
runtime rung is deliberately absent, FFmpeg is on its way out).
PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=native-vulkan stays as the explicit pin; vulkan
keeps naming the FFmpeg backend specifically. A native_tried guard
keeps a failed pin init from re-attempting construction in auto.

Review round 8 (adversarial): no blocking code defect — no demote
bounce-back (Decoder::new is session-start-only; demotion mutates in
place), no double attempt, no cfg imbalance. 5 findings fixed: two doc
overclaims ("nothing regresses" now scoped to init; the ladder
enumerations no longer claim desktop-AMD Linux is VAAPI-first —
prefer_vulkan_first is vendor-wide), stale opt-in claims in Cargo.toml,
stale user-facing ladder text (console-ui row, trust.rs decoder field,
session README incl. the env-knob list), and the gate test now pins the
H264 codec-op bit to the literal 0x1 so a typo'd constant can't make
native silently never engage.

Gates: fmt clean; container clippy -D warnings zero for pf-client-core +
pf-presenter + pf-vkdecode; container tests green (pf-client-core lib +
pf-vkdecode + pf-bitstream); pf-console-ui check clean; mac
pf-vkdecode/pf-bitstream/cros-codecs 167 tests green.

On-glass sanity CLOSED 2026-08-05 ~22:10 UTC on .173 (4090, coincide
mode), decoder=auto and NO env var: the ladder picked native on its
own ("pf-vkdecode auto rung" log line), 525/526 stats windows on
native-vulkan over ~8m46s / 31550 frames, fps 0/59.4/61 with 6
windows <55 incl. startup zeros, bad-signature grep over the whole
log EMPTY, zero TDR events, host service Running after teardown.
2026-08-06 00:12:35 +02:00
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Reported from the field (2026-08-05): a fresh Windows 11 box with a data
partition, "New apps will save to: D:", and the client installed there. It
launches, finds hosts and streams — but no setting and no profile survives a
restart. Reinstalling to C: fixes it completely. The reporter's read was "it's
in read-only mode", and that is almost exactly right.

The one clue that localises it: the client creates its mTLS identity with a
plain `fs::write` on first run and hard-exits if that fails. Their app started,
so ordinary file creation in the config directory works. Only the config stores
were being lost — and those are the three files that go through `write_atomic`,
which writes a sibling temp and renames it over the target.

The rename is what breaks. The client ships as a full-trust MSIX package, so
its `%APPDATA%` writes are redirected into the package container. When the
package lives on a secondary drive, Windows keeps that redirected state on the
package's own volume: `C:\Users\<u>\AppData\Local\Packages\<pfn>\` stays a real
directory on C:, but its children (LocalCache, RoamingState, …) are junctions to
`D:\WpSystem\<SID>\…`. Both sides of our rename still spell `C:\Users\…`, so
nothing looks unusual, but they can resolve across that junction boundary — and
`std::fs::rename` is `MoveFileExW` with `MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING` and *not*
`MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED`, so a cross-volume move fails outright rather than
degrading to a copy. Creating files still works, which is why everything else
about the install looks healthy.

So the fix is not to make the rename work — it is to stop treating it as the
only way to persist. `write_atomic` now falls back to writing the target in
place when the atomic route fails. That is the same operation the identity files
already use, and those demonstrably round-trip on the affected installs, so the
fallback lands on a path we know resolves. It trades crash-atomicity for exactly
the writes that would otherwise be lost, and nowhere else: temp+rename stays the
normal route everywhere it works.

Writing into a redirected location cannot desync from reading it — Microsoft
documents one private-location-first resolution order for both, so whichever
layer a write lands in is the layer the next read finds. The fallback verifies
anyway, by reading the bytes straight back: a write that reports success and
disappears is precisely the bug being fixed, so this path does not get to claim
success on an `Ok(())` alone. It costs nothing normally — it only runs on an
install that has already shown it does something unusual.

Two things this uncovered on the way:

The temp file was a single shared `<name>.json.tmp`, but these stores have five
whole-file writers (WinUI shell, session, console UI, CLI, Decky). Two saving at
once collide on it — on Windows the second write hits a sharing violation, and
worse, one process can rename the other's half-written bytes over the target.
The scratch path now carries the pid.

And none of this was visible to anyone. Every save on this page is
fire-and-forget by design (a failed settings write must never take a stream
down), so ~15 call sites discard the error and the UI cheerfully shows the
toggle you just moved. The reporter had no log file to send either, because
"Open log folder" was handing out a phantom path — a separate bug, already fixed
in f3c0ee47 but not in the 0.24.0 they were running. `store_health` records the
last persistence failure centrally, and Settings shows an error bar naming the
path when the store is refusing writes, so a client that cannot save says so
instead of pretending.

`update.rs` had hand-rolled the same temp+rename inline, so it neither cleaned
up its temp on a failed rename nor picks up the fallback; it now goes through
the one writer. The update floor silently never rising is how a declined update
comes back forever.

Deliberately NOT done: disabling MSIX AppData virtualization in the manifest
(`desktop6:FileSystemWriteVirtualization`). It would stop the redirection at the
source, but every existing packaged install's settings, profiles and pairings
live inside the container today — turning it off points the client at an empty
real `%APPDATA%` and silently resets all of them. That needs a migration, not a
manifest flag.

Also considered and not taken: resolving the destination directory with
`GetFinalPathNameByHandleW` and creating the temp inside the resolved path, to
keep atomicity. It does not reliably close this hole — when the target file
exists only in the unvirtualized layer while its directory resolves to the
private one, the rename still straddles the boundary — and it would rest on
canonicalisation behaving through the redirection, which we have never verified
on a packaged run.

Verified on the RTX box (.173, Windows 11 26200), which is the platform that
actually has these rename semantics: `cargo fmt --all --check`, the full
`pf-client-core` lib suite (109 passed), and clippy `-D warnings --all-targets`
on both `pf-client-core` and `punktfunk-client-windows` — all clean. Also green
under linux/amd64 (116 passed). Three new tests: the pid-scoped scratch path,
the fallback actually persisting and reading back when the atomic route is
blocked, and a genuinely unwritable store surfacing its error instead of
swallowing it.

The mechanism above is established from documentation and third-party reports,
not from a reproduction on a second-drive install — that box does not exist
here. The fix does not depend on the diagnosis being exactly right: it repairs
any install where the rename fails but a direct write succeeds.
2026-08-05 22:33:36 +02:00
enricobuehler dc0766b2f3 fix(client): the native rung now follows the stream's colour and reports true decode latency
The round-4 residuals, closed after the WP-D hardware verdict:

- VUI colour plumbing (the one silent-wrong): the picture's ACTIVE SPS's
  colour signalling (H.273 code points + range, with E.2.1's 'unspecified'
  inference where the VUI is silent — the vendored parser's defaults ARE the
  inferred values, verified) rides PicturePlan -> DecodedVkFrame ->
  NativeVkFrame per frame, never latched: the Windows host switches an HDR
  desktop to PQ/BT.2020 IN-BAND while the Welcome still says SDR. Before
  this, the native path would have painted PQ washed out, silently.
- Native decode-latency stat: the deliberately-deferred NativeVk arm of the
  pump's sampled once-per-stats-window decode measurement now feeds - the
  frame's (semaphore, semaphore_value) is the decode-done signal, resolved
  through the shipped ledger before a bounded, pure-measurement
  vkWaitSemaphores (VkH264Decoder::wait_decoded).
- The renegotiation-teardown window is settled as NO HOLE: rebuild_state now
  documents the full safety argument (graveyarded pools stay intact under
  presenter holds, tokens route strictly by generation, session objects die
  only post-drain with the generation gate INSIDE read_status), and the two
  backend comments that wrongly claimed stale pools were 'gone' are fixed.
- VK_KHR_unified_image_layouts stays deferred (fleet drivers lack it).

Adversarial review round 6: 3 minor findings (2 doc fixes applied; the
SPS-replaced-without-PPS-resend divergence stays a documented envelope
assumption - hosts re-send both at every keyframe, and a hardening
PlanWarning could cost real frames on a false positive).

Gates: fmt clean; clippy -D warnings zero (mac + pf-lxcheck2 container,
incl. pf-client-core/pf-presenter); tests 45+30+53 mac, 30+121+53 container.
2026-08-05 22:22:03 +02:00
enricobuehler 6331ae7fd9 fix(pf-vkdecode): zero-copy pool model + the two faults the first hardware run found
WP-D leg 1 (.25 RADV, distinct mode) root causes, both real:
1. Output starvation: the fixed 4-deep ring lost to a stream that keeps
   max_dpb_frames+1 = 8 pictures pending. Zero-copy fix (user
   requirement, no copies): one picture pool of required_slots +
   HOLD_HEADROOM(8) images decoupled from DPB slots — a re-activated
   slot binds a fresh free image, so a delivered picture is never a
   decode target; the WP-B pin layer became dead and is deleted.
   Per-image timeline semaphores carry the AVVkFrame contract: decode
   signals value+1, the presenter waits and signals back, later decodes
   wait the image's latest value — layout traffic ordered against
   reference reads with no copy anywhere.
2. RESULT_STATUS queries HANG RADV's VCN firmware (ring timeout,
   DEVICE_LOST): queryResultStatusSupport=false on the decode family.
   Queries are now caps-gated; without them poll/wait degrade to
   timeline-completion verdicts (FFmpeg parity — and the likely reason
   upstream never wired nb_queries). The Ally-X-class detection runs
   where drivers advertise the query; .173 probes NVIDIA/Windows-AMD.

Also: slice-only bitstream feeding (the field-proven consumer shape),
graveyarded pool retirement keyed by release tokens + generation,
decode-current-AU-before-status attribution, take_ready drained,
H264-bit gating, teardown short-circuit on disconnected channel.

On-glass: 48 AUs green on .25 holding 4 frames like the real client.
Gates: fmt clean, container clippy -D warnings zero, 27+121+52 green
both platforms.
2026-08-05 19:12:20 +02:00
enricobuehler d0659d2b61 feat(client): wire the native Vulkan decoder in behind PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=native-vulkan
M2 WP-C. video_vk_native.rs adapts the presenter's VulkanDecodeDevice to
pf-vkdecode (queue lock shared only when the families actually collide —
the one case the 2026-07-09 DEVICE_LOST race proved matters), and the
presenter consumes DecodedImage::NativeVk on its own device: no handle
import, no AVVkFrame co-authoring — wait the timeline, barrier to
sampled, existing crop-aware CSC, barrier back, release after the fence.

Frame lifetime is a token: presented, retired, displaced or dropped
mid-demotion, the guard's drop sends it exactly once; the backend
releases the decoder slot only after the status query resolves, so a
recycled slot can never report a false Failed. Driver-reported decode
failures and plan warnings ride the existing streak/reanchor machinery —
the Ally X corruption class is now a visible error, not a silent frame.

Opt-in only until WP-D's on-glass parity verdict; H.264 sessions only;
failures demote to the existing ladder. Known WP-D items recorded in
code: coincide-mode cross-queue reference overlap, renegotiation
teardown window, VUI colour plumbing.

Gates: fmt clean; container clippy -D warnings zero for pf-client-core +
pf-presenter + pf-vkdecode; 121+53+27 tests green.
2026-08-05 17:57:12 +02:00
enricobuehler 119ec0dd83 feat(client): PUNKTFUNK_DUMP_VIDEO captures the exact decoder input
Fixture-corpus enabler for the native-decode program (M0,
design/client-native-decode.md): every AU exactly as the pump hands it
to decode_frame — the raw concatenation plus a sidecar .idx carrying
the AU boundaries and wire flags a byte stream cannot. Best-effort by
design: any I/O error disables the capture, never the stream.
2026-08-05 11:02:37 +02:00
enricobuehler 3d4a659959 feat(host,sdk,kit): store claims, launcher entries, and plugin sources on the wire
M2 of design/library-scanner-plugins-implementation-plan.md. Everything a
library scanner plugin needs is now expressible over the API; all additive.

WP2.1/2.2 — store claims (D2). library.json gains a v2 shape ({entries, claims})
that loads the v1 bare array unchanged and is written on the first mutation.
PUT /library/provider/{p}?store=<s> claims a store for a provider: its entries
then surface with deterministic <store>:<external_id> ids and the store's own
badge instead of opaque custom:<id> ones. That identity is the whole point —
entry ids, GameStream FNV app ids, client art caches and Moonlight pins all
survive a title moving from an in-host scanner to a plugin. One provider per
store (409 otherwise); DELETE releases; an empty reconcile does NOT (a store can
legitimately have zero titles). While a claim is held, all_games() skips the
matching built-in scanner, so the two never double-list during the bridge.

WP2.3 — DetectHint gains steam_appid and env_marker, the two store-derived
signals the host used to read for itself. Without them a steam plugin's lease
tracking would drop from reaper-exact to dir-prefix, and Heroic-under-Proton
would lose the only signal that works. Malformed markers are dropped, not
honoured — this feeds a path that can end processes.

WP2.4/2.5 — role: game|launcher on the entry shapes (serde-default, skipped when
default), and a steam_ui launch kind valued bigpicture|desktop that opens the
Steam client itself. Validated inbound as well as at launch.

WP2.6 — GET/PUT /library/scanners generalizes to SOURCES: built-in scanners
minus claimed ones, plus claimed stores, plus any provider with entries. The
same library-scanners.json disabled-set backs all of them and the ids match by
construction, so a user's disabled state carries over verbatim through the whole
migration. A disabled plugin source has its entries filtered at read time,
exactly like a disabled scanner.

WP2.7/2.8 — plugin registration gains a category field (the console keeps
library plugins out of the nav); index entries gain categories and per-platform
detect probes, evaluated existence-only into CatalogEntry.detected so the host
never re-grows per-store knowledge. Index SCHEMA stays 1 — additive.

WP2.9 — OpenAPI + SDK regenerated on Linux; kit wire widened (LaunchSpec.kind is
now a plain string documented against the host's vocabulary — closes G3), and
ProviderClient.reconcile takes an optional store and returns the host's echoed
entries so a caller can detect a pre-M2 host silently ignoring the claim.

Also fixes a bug the S3 spike turned up: is_steam_launch gated on a steam:// URI,
so a steam_ui launcher entry would have skipped BOTH gamescope's --steam mode and
the B1 single-instance free — on a box autologged into game mode, the nested
second Steam would see the first and exit, crashing the spawn. It now tests the
first token.

Gates on .21: workspace tests green (punktfunk-host 425 passed), workspace
clippy -D warnings clean, cargo fmt --all --check clean, OpenAPI drift test
green. plugin-kit: tsc clean, 20 tests pass.
2026-08-05 09:39:31 +02:00
enricobuehler 56adb47026 fix(client-core): pad-audio references the WASAPI module by its mounted name
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The Windows build of pf-client-core has been red on main since the
pad-audio merge (#23): pad_audio.rs calls
`crate::audio_wasapi::device_by_id`, but lib.rs mounts audio_wasapi.rs AS
`crate::audio` via the #[path] per-OS swap — the `audio_wasapi` module
name never exists. Windows-gated call site, so every Linux leg stayed
green while both `windows / build` targets failed E0433.

One-line rename to the mounted path (+ the comment that pointed readers
at the phantom name). Verification is the PR's own windows leg — the
crate builds on no other platform this path compiles on.
2026-08-05 08:15:02 +02:00
enricobuehler d27e62f7c9 fix(pad-audio): close the twelve findings the sweep left open on this branch
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Everything the 2026-08-03 haptics sweep filed against the pad-audio branch (P2 + P3).
Four of them are the difference between a feature that works and one that fails silently.

**B6 — nothing ever un-muted the coils.** Every rumble report asserts `HAPTICS_SELECT`,
which is SDL's "disable audio haptics" bit: the firmware mutes the very voice coils the
0xD1 stream drives. No code anywhere cleared it again, so ONE rumble left tier-A haptics
silent for the rest of that pad's life — no error, nothing in a log, and the host happily
streaming into a muted actuator. `DsDevice.ds5AudioHapticsReport` is the documented undo
(flag0 with both bits clear); written EP0-direct when the stream starts and again after a
rumble stop while a stream is live, because the stop report re-mutes on its way past.

**B10 — the desktop mix could reach a controller's coils.** Pad endpoints were filtered out
inside `plan()` only. The watchdog, Follow mode and the parked default all go through
`judge_default`, which classifies by NAME — and a pad endpoint is deliberately stamped
"DualSense Wireless Controller" so games treat it as the pad's speaker. No name rule could
ever catch one. It now refuses them by identity.

**B27 — an out-of-range pad aliased onto a real slot.** The 0xCD plane's pad is the only u16
index and every consumer narrowed it with `as u8` on an assumption nothing enforced, so wire
pad 256 steered pad 0's speaker volumes. Rejected at the decoder, which makes the narrowings
lossless by construction. An existing test had pinned the bug in place, asserting that wire
pad 513 round-trips; corrected, plus a test for the 256→0 alias specifically.

**B7 — caps that arrived late were never announced.** The renderer commits the tier-A trade
only once its sink opens, which is well past the arrival burst's two 100 ms ticks, and
`set_pad_audio_caps` only stored an atomic. The client believed it had pad audio while the
host emitted nothing. The input task now compares the live registry against what the last
arrival actually carried and re-arms the burst itself — no new plumbing, and no extra traffic
when nothing changed.

The rest: `needs_aeb_kick` is finally ACTED on (R4) — a stored-but-not-served endpoint is
declined rather than opened, because `AUTOCONVERTPCM` makes it succeed and mis-route; a failed
provisioning no longer latches `PROVISIONED` for the process lifetime (R5), and `host_cap`
retries, so a host that started while the audio stack was busy recovers at the next connect
instead of the next reboot; the loopback init timeout reaps its thread instead of detaching one
per ~2 s reopen (R6); kind-change restarts are bounded (R3) since the trigger is a client-sent
arrival; the devtest uses the endpoint's real channel mask (B11) instead of letting wasapi
derive 0x0F against the endpoint's 0x33; the render loop asks `is_session_ended()` rather than
spinning at nice -16 (R12); short writes are counted and reported instead of dropping the tail
in silence (R13); and a frame addressed to another pad is dropped before it can seed the gap
tracker from a foreign sequence space (R14).

Verified: punktfunk-host clippy -D warnings **0 on a real Windows box**; Linux/amd64 clippy 0
with **589 tests** (pf-client-core 114, pf-inject 101, punktfunk-client-android 20,
punktfunk-core 345+1+8); Android :kit: tests + :app: compile green; fmt clean.

Six punktfunk-host tests fail on that Windows box. FIVE fail identically on a tree with no
pad-audio code at all (QUIC `Rejected(SetupFailed)` — the box's network environment); the
sixth passes 3/3 in isolation and only failed under the parallel run, on a locally-bound
ephemeral port. Neither is this change.

Still owed: on-glass. This is a hardware feature and none of it has been on a real DualSense
since the merge.
2026-08-04 23:55:47 +02:00
enricobuehler 0a72959ef7 Merge main into feat/android-pad-audio
86 commits of main, including the whole M1-M12 haptics sweep. Twelve conflicting files;
three of them were more than textual.

**The capability bits collided.** Both branches allocated the SAME wire bits for DIFFERENT
features: `client_caps 0x04` and `host_caps 0x20` are redundant desktop audio on main and
pad audio here. Merged naively, a peer would negotiate one and get the other. Pad audio
moves to the next free bits — `CLIENT_CAP_PAD_AUDIO = 0x08`, `HOST_CAP_PAD_AUDIO = 0x40` —
and the `abi.rs` mirrors move with them (their compile-time equality assertions caught the
mismatch, which is exactly what they are for).

**Both branches also claimed ABI v15.** Main's shipped (the rumble-policy floor), so the
pad-audio surface becomes **v16**.

**`native/input.rs` would have reintroduced a fixed bug.** This branch resets
`rumble_seq[idx]` on pad removal; M1 established that the client's reorder gate is
per-connection with no reset path, so restarting the host counter strands every later
envelope until it climbs back. Took main's seq-preserving `clear_pad_feedback` and kept only
the branch's `pad_streams.stop(idx)`.

The rest: `wiring_plan::plan` now delegates to main's `plan_with_formats`, so the pad-endpoint
filter moved into that body and the predicate behind it is factored out as `is_pad_render`
(also what B10 needs); `Ds5Feedback::AUDIO` derives from main's `REPORT_ID_LEN` like its
siblings; `AudioCtl` joins the explicitly-listed unhandled variants so the guard-false case is
covered rather than swept up by a `_`; `include/punktfunk_core.h` regenerated rather than
hand-merged.
2026-08-04 23:27:06 +02:00
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# Conflicts:
#	clients/android/kit/src/main/kotlin/io/unom/punktfunk/kit/GamepadFeedback.kt
#	crates/pf-client-core/src/gamepad.rs
2026-08-04 23:11:22 +02:00
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# Conflicts:
#	clients/android/kit/src/main/kotlin/io/unom/punktfunk/kit/DsCapture.kt
#	crates/pf-client-core/src/gamepad.rs
2026-08-04 23:07:18 +02:00
enricobuehler b2e716ad5f Merge pull request 'fix(client/desktop): the Deck keeps its trackpad, and a pad stops buzzing at exit' (#38) from worktree-haptics-m6-presenter into main
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enricobuehler 42a0dd52be refactor(haptics): one copy of each thing every rumble path was transcribing
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Twelve findings from the sweep's DRY/docs/dead-code tail. Most are small; three found
real defects hiding behind the duplication.

**The UHID event ABI existed five times.** Every UHID gamepad backend — DualSense,
DualShock 4, Switch Pro, Steam Controller, Steam Controller 2 — carried its own verbatim
copy of the kernel's constants plus its own `put_cstr`, and they had already drifted:
`switch_pro` was missing the SET_REPORT pair entirely, and `steam_controller` read a
FIXED 16-byte SET_REPORT window instead of the event's own `size`. That last one is a
bug in both directions — a longer report was truncated, and a shorter one had the parser
reading whatever the reused event buffer still held past the payload, i.e. acting on
rumble values the game never wrote. Now one `uhid_abi` module owns the numbers plus the
two accessors that are easy to get subtly wrong, with tests on exactly that.

**A dead force-feedback id fallback.** ff-core's `input_ff_upload` picks a free effect
slot and writes it into the effect BEFORE uinput forwards the request, so the `id == -1`
branch could never run — and allocating from a local counter would have been the wrong
answer anyway, since the kernel owns that id space. Removed, with a `debug_assert` where
it stood.

**Apple's HID path silently dropped weak rumble.** `hidByte` took the top byte with no
non-zero floor, so every amplitude below 0x0100 rendered as exactly nothing. Android has
always floored it at 1; this was the odd one out. That converter also existed twice
byte-identically inside one Gradle module — now one `wireAmplitudeToByte`.

Also: the DS5 output-report layout gets named offsets (`dualsense_proto::out_report`)
documenting all three transport bases — USB 0, SDL payload −1, Bluetooth +2 — since the
differing bases are transport-forced, not drift. `pf-client-core` cannot import them (it
and `pf-inject` do not depend on each other, and a DualSense layout has no business in
`punktfunk-core`, their only shared crate), so its copy now DERIVES its offsets by
explicit subtraction and a test pins the relationship. `PUNKTFUNK_HID_EFFECT_MAX` sizes
the struct it describes instead of a second literal 11 — the header now emits
`uint8_t effect[PUNKTFUNK_HID_EFFECT_MAX]`. The rumble policy engine's `min_pulse_ms`
and `keepalive_ms` docs stop naming cases nothing implements: no in-tree caller sets
`min_pulse_ms`, and the macOS DualSense-over-BT keepalive the doc cited CANNOT be served
by the quirk, because that renderer skips writes whose levels are unchanged and would
swallow the engine's re-emit — it keeps its own keepalive instead. `TrackpadHaptic` is
marked as staged scaffolding (the tag is on a shipped wire; removing the variant would
not reclaim it). Three ×257-vs-`<<8` doc comments corrected — the scaling itself is fine,
both round-trip to 255. `backstop_ms.max(160)` deleted as unreachable (the engine floors
at 500). New tests for `Ds5Feedback` and for the Android rumble JNI packing on BOTH sides,
with `MAX_PADS <= 16` now a compile-time assertion rather than a comment.

Closes S1-S9, S11, T2, T3 (design/haptics-sweep-2026-08-03.md M12).

S11's second half is NOT a defect and was left alone: `clients/session/src/main.rs`
calls `set_forwarding` unconditionally on every params-build (its own comment explains
why — browse mode reuses one service across launches), so `Ctl::Forwarding` routinely
arrives unchanged and that early-out is what stops a redundant `sync_open` + Valve-HIDAPI
cycle each launch.

Verified: pf-inject clippy -D warnings 0 / 91 tests; pf-client-core + punktfunk-core
clippy 0 / 437 tests (amd64 container); punktfunk-client-android 7 tests; Android :kit:
6 tests; Apple swift build + 189 tests / 0 failures; cargo fmt --all --check clean. Each
new test probed by reverting its fix — the fixed SET_REPORT window fails 3, a broken pack
shift fails 3, dropping the amplitude floor fails 1, and a wrong DS5 offset either fails
the pin or refuses to compile.
2026-08-04 22:52:38 +02:00
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Pressing guide/Steam/QAM collided with the client device's own shell: iOS 26
opens its Game Overlay for the Home press (no app opt-out until iOS 27 makes
it a user setting), and a Gaming-Mode client opened BOTH Steam overlays for
one press — the local one covering the stream.

Two cross-client tier-P settings, zero wire changes:

- system_buttons (auto|forward|local): raw guide+misc1 passthrough. Auto
  forwards everywhere EXCEPT under gamescope, where SteamOS reacts to the
  same physical press no matter what.
- guide_gesture (auto|on|off): hold Select ALONE ~350ms sends the HOST's
  guide, down until release — held on, that's the host's long-press, which
  opens a Gaming-Mode host's QAM for regular pads. A Select tap is delivered
  on release with its up TAP_PRESS (50ms) behind, because per-transition
  sends fold into seq'd GamepadState snapshots and a back-to-back pair can
  coalesce into no press at all. A Select inside a combo (the escape chord)
  passes through untouched. Auto arms it only where the raw press can't
  reach the host cleanly: gamescope, iOS/iPadOS, tvOS.

The same SelectGesture rules live in pf-client-core (pure state machine +
unit tests), the Apple client (mask-diff adaptation in GamepadCapture), and
Android's GamepadRouter. Settings rows on every surface (GTK, WinUI,
console UI, Decky, Apple x2, Android x2) with profile plumbing throughout.

punktfunk-session grows a control socket
($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR[/app/$FLATPAK_ID]/punktfunk-session-ctl.sock — the one
runtime path a flatpak and the host see identically): 'guide'/'qam' verbs
inject synthetic taps. The Decky panel gains a Host menus section (visible
while the client runs) whose buttons press the host's Steam/QAM and close
the local menu so the host's shows through.

iOS 27's GCControllerHomeButtonSettingsManager deep-link is a TODO (the
class needs the Xcode 27 SDK to compile). Docs: input, client-settings,
steam-deck. Design: punktfunk-planning design/system-buttons-routing.md.

Gates: docker clippy --all-targets --locked -D warnings + tests
(pf-client-core 88 incl. 6 new gesture tests, pf-console-ui 47),
cargo fmt --all --check, swift build (macOS), gradle kit+app compile,
decky tsc --noEmit + py_compile. clients/windows not compiled (no box).
2026-08-04 21:46:27 +02:00
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An adversarial review of this branch found a regression I introduced, plus three smaller
defects. All four are fixed here, each verified on .21.

**The regression.** `mergeHosts` names a host by its record's stable id, and `hosts list --json`
always emits one (`KnownHosts::load` mints ids for every record). So a launch always went out as
`punktfunk launch <uuid>` → `ConnectPlan::for_host` → `HostTarget::from(&KnownHost)`, which
copies the address stored ON THE RECORD. Meanwhile the panel deliberately renders the LIVE
advert's address. Nothing on a Deck ever writes a moved address back — `discover` and
`hosts list` are both reads, and only the desktop shells' hosts pages update one.

So after any DHCP move the row read "online" at the new address and every press dialled the old
one: a 15 s dead connect, or — if a MAC had ever been learned — a black Steam "game" for the
full 90 s wake budget. Proven with a stub session binary: `launch abc-123` emitted
`--connect 10.0.0.5:9777` for a host answering at `10.0.0.99`.

This worked on origin/main, which dialled `toHost(v).host` — the advert's address. The fix
restores that without giving up stable ids: `hosts add <new-addr> --fp <known-fp>` now MOVES the
matching record instead of filing a second one (the fingerprint is the identity — this is the
same rule that makes the verb idempotent), and the panel re-points a host it can see has moved
before launching it. Verified: `moved 10.0.0.5:9777 to 10.0.0.99:9777`, one record still, and
`launch abc-123` then emits `--connect 10.0.0.99:9777`.

**"No hosts yet" was also how a missing client looked.** `_cli_argv()` returning None becomes
`client-unavailable`, which the panel dropped on the floor — so a Deck with no client installed
was told its network was empty, under a button that launches the client that isn't there. It now
says which of the two it is.

**The browse worker never exited on a quiet LAN.** `discover_for` drops the receiver and the
doc claimed that stops the thread. It does not: the worker parks in `recv()`, and the arms that
ignore an event (`SearchStarted`, `ServiceFound`, `SearchStopped`, a v6-only advert) never touch
the sender, so on a LAN with no Punktfunk host nothing ever wakes it. Harmless today because the
only caller is a short-lived CLI process, but the function invites in-process use, where it would
leak a thread and an mDNS daemon per call. Now polled with a 250 ms tick and a check at the top
of the loop. Verified: ten back-to-back browses settle back to the baseline thread count.

**A `pair=optional` host was recorded as paired.** Every unsaved host now goes through the trust
sheet (it has no pin, so it cannot stream without one), but the sheet's only non-PIN action ran
`--request-access`, which persists `paired: true` on Ready. An optional host admits anyone who
pins its identity — there is no operator decision, so nothing was approved and the same box read
"paired" here and "trusted" in the desktop client. Such a host now gets **Connect** instead,
which pins and streams without claiming an approval, and the "approve this Deck" toast is no
longer shown to someone who has nobody to ask.

Also: `PF_CLIENT_BIN` was the one launch-option value never validated — a client installed under
a path with a space would split Steam's tokenizer.
2026-08-04 21:26:09 +02:00
enricobuehler 414380fc9e fix(cli): discover reads the host store without writing to it
`KnownHosts::load()` mints a stable id for any record that lacks one and SAVES it — which makes
it a write, and `discover` was calling it purely to annotate what the browse found with
saved/paired. It never hands those ids back to anyone.

That matters because the Decky panel issues `discover` and `hosts list` together, in parallel.
Against a store written before ids existed, both processes read it, both mint DIFFERENT ids for
the same record, and both save. Whichever loses the race has already handed its ids to its
caller — so the panel could draw a row whose host reference no longer resolves, and pressing it
would exit 5 ("no saved host matches") until the next refresh settled things.

`KnownHosts::read()` is `load` without the mint: the store exactly as it is on disk. `discover`
uses it; every caller that dials a host by id still uses `load`, so ids are still minted the
first time anything needs one.

Verified on a fixture store with no ids: `punktfunk discover` leaves it byte-identical, and a
following `punktfunk hosts list` mints as before.
2026-08-04 21:07:37 +02:00
enricobuehler a9a514dea0 fix(feedback): the pad stops keeping a game's trigger effect after the stream ends
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Two faults in the rich-feedback plane — the lightbar, player LEDs and adaptive
triggers — both of which leave a controller physically wrong with nothing to
put it right.

Nothing reset the pad on teardown. Rumble stops on its own the moment nothing
renews it, but the rich planes are LATCHED in the controller's firmware: they
outlive the stream, the app, and being unplugged. Ending a session while a game
held a weapon's trigger resistance left the physical trigger stiff on the
desktop afterwards, and its lightbar showing whatever the game last set, until
another game happened to set one. The Apple client already reset on teardown;
the desktop and Android halves now do too — triggers to mode 0x00, lightbar
dark, player indicator cleared. Android writes them EP0-direct like its rumble
stop, because the reader thread is stopping and the queue would never drain.

A single lost datagram stranded the pad on the previous value. The plane is
deduped AND rides unreliable datagrams, which is a bad pairing: a change is
forwarded exactly once, so when that datagram is dropped nothing re-derives it
— the game keeps sending the same value and the dedup swallows every copy. The
pad then holds the last weapon's trigger effect, or the last lightbar colour,
for as long as the game keeps that setting, which can be the rest of a level.
The dedup already remembers the current state, so it can repair itself: it now
re-emits what it has latched once a second. Slow on purpose — this is a repair
mechanism, not a transport, and every value is idempotent, so a client that did
receive the original simply re-applies it. A forward re-stamps the clock, so a
plane the game is actively driving never pays for a renewal it does not need.

One-shot pulses are deliberately excluded from that renewal: replaying a
trackpad haptic would be a new pulse, not a repair. Raw passthrough reports are
excluded too — the device's own refresh cadence already re-sends them verbatim.
2026-08-04 20:37:25 +02:00
enricobuehler 48bb1769b4 feat(cli): punktfunk discover — browse the LAN, annotated against what you've saved
The CLI could do everything with a host except FIND one, so every headless consumer
grew its own mDNS: the Decky plugin parses ~120 lines of avahi TXT escaping in Python,
which drifts from the host's advert every time a key is added and makes the plugin
depend on Avahi being the resolver.

`discovery::discover_for(timeout)` is the bounded collector beside the streaming
`browse()` the UI uses — same service type, same TXT keys, folded to one row per host.
A refreshed advert wins (it carries the newer address), a removal drops the row, and
dropping the receiver on the way out stops the worker so a one-shot call can't leak a
browse per invocation.

The verb annotates each hit against the saved-hosts store rather than handing back two
lists to join: `saved`/`paired` are answered by fingerprint first and address second —
the same rule every other surface uses. That is what stops a host that moved DHCP lease
from reading as new, and stops a different box that inherited the old address from
reading as paired.

  punktfunk discover [--json] [--timeout SECS]

Default 3 s, capped at 30 — this is called from a Quick Access panel, and a typo'd
`--timeout 3000` would hang that panel with no way to cancel. An empty LAN exits 0: a
caller branching on the code is asking whether the browse ran, and it did.
2026-08-04 20:26:59 +02:00
enricobuehler 8abdd74a62 fix(client/desktop): the Deck keeps its trackpad, and a pad stops buzzing at exit
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Three faults in the desktop session's gamepad path.

The Steam Deck lost its built-in trackpad-mouse at the start of every session.
SDL's Valve HIDAPI driver clears the pad's digital mappings during
*enumeration*, which is part of bringing the gamepad subsystem up — so holding
the drivers off from inside GamepadService::pumped could never work: receiving
a GamepadSubsystem means the enumeration has already happened. The hint set
there detached a driver that had already done the damage, and lizard mode only
came back seconds later when the firmware watchdog restored it. The presenter
now disables them with its other pre-SDL_Init hints. The threaded worker always
had this right; only the caller-pumped path was wrong, and it could not fix
itself, hence a separate entry point its callers can place correctly.

Player LEDs did nothing at all on any pad that is not a DualSense. The match
arm handled the DualSense raw-effects path and let everything else fall through
a bare `_`, though SDL exposes set_player_index and owns the per-device
pattern. The wire carries a positional bitmask rather than an index, and the
bridge is the popcount: every convention that reaches this wire spells "player
N" as N lit LEDs — the DualSense patterns 0x04/0x0A/0x15/0x1B/0x1F and the
Switch/XInput run 0x01/0x03/0x07/0x0F alike — so counting them works for both,
where reading a bit position would only ever suit one. No lit LED means no
player, not player 0. The remaining unhandled variants are now named rather
than swept up by `_`, so a new one cannot join them silently.

A forwarded pad could be left buzzing when the session ended. detach() only
posts Ctl::Detach; the close that flushes the pad, tells the host to remove it
and explicitly zeroes the motors runs when the pump next drains that message.
Single mode broke out of the loop immediately after detaching and Event::Quit
never detached at all, so both skipped it entirely. The teardown now sits where
every exit converges instead of on the individual breaks. That still leaves the
several paths that leave by `?` on a fatal overlay or present error, so the
pump also silences its slots on Drop — the explicit call stays, because a pad
should go quiet before a long teardown rather than after it. Drop closes the
slots directly rather than draining the queue that would have done it: same
physical outcome, and it touches no lock, where draining reaches an unwrap on a
Mutex that would abort the process if it panicked mid-unwind.
2026-08-04 19:10:45 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Opus 5 2cfc82e96c fix(audio): budget the audio plane against the link, and close the review's gaps
Findings from the post-implementation review of design/audio-quality-and-latency.md.

**The bandwidth gap (highest).** Tier `High` (256 kbps) and the redundant `0xD2` plane were
added separately, each costed as "~1 % of the video budget", and nobody added them together:
256 kbps sent twice is 512 kbps — ~2.5 % of a 20 Mbps session but ~10 % of a 5 Mbps one. Audio
rides QUIC datagrams, OUTSIDE the ABR loop, so ABR could neither see that nor reclaim it; a
constrained link quietly handed a tenth of its bandwidth to audio while ABR carefully managed
the rest.

`plan_audio_budget` now makes tier and redundancy ONE decision against the session's resolved
video bitrate, ordered by preference rather than cost — transparent audio beats redundant audio,
since the field report was about quality and redundancy only pays under loss, so `High` alone
outranks `Standard`+redundancy even though they cost the same. It can lower what the operator
asked for, never raise it, and never goes below `Low`: a stream with unintelligible audio is
worse than one spending a few percent more.

**The Linux host kept the exact defect fixed on Windows.** `let _ = tx.try_send(samples)` —
silent, uncounted data loss, where the encoder concatenates across the hole, so every drop is a
click AND a permanent shift of everything after it. WP0.2 turned out to be Windows-only and had
not said so. Linux now shares `capture_policy::CaptureStats`: drops counted and warned, plus
per-window peak/RMS/delivered%. A Linux audio report was until now exactly as un-triageable as
the Windows one was on 2026-08-03.

**Apple's WP0.3 was half-done** — `bufferedMS` was added and wired to nothing. The drain thread
now logs buffer/target/underruns/sheds like the other three, from one locked snapshot so the
numbers in a line describe the same instant.

Also: the Linux "audio format negotiated" line now says WHICH mode produced it, because that
changes what it is worth — in stream-sink mode the host owns the sink so the mix cannot have
been narrowed upstream, but in legacy monitor mode a 16 kHz Bluetooth sink would still be
reported as a clean 48 kHz through PipeWire's resampler, the same way WASAPI's autoconvert hid
it on Windows. Reading the monitored node's own rate needs a registry lookup this stream does
not do; recorded as an open gap rather than implied to be covered.

Two stale docs: `audio_wasapi.rs` cited `clients/windows/src/audio.rs` (deleted) and still
described the pre-shared-policy "prime to ~3 quanta" behaviour. And the Apple ring's `prefill:`
parameter, dead since the depth moved into the ring, is gone.

Verified: clippy --all-targets -D warnings on Linux (docker) AND Windows (runner .133, forced
clean rebuild of punktfunk-host + pf-client-core); core 167 tests; host 57 audio tests on
Windows; Android clippy count identical to pristine (6, all documented arm64 artifacts); Apple
ring re-simulated. The host suite's `gamestream::stream::tests::sender_delivers_batches` fails
under qemu — the recorded environmental flake, unrelated to audio, green on the earlier
less-loaded run.

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2026-08-04 17:58:17 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Opus 5 a12f1f092c feat(clients/audio): one de-jitter policy for all four rings, and lossless single-packet recovery
Phase 4 + WP3.2 of design/audio-quality-and-latency.md.

**The defect.** Every client ring primed *up* to a target and clamped at a ceiling, and none
walked the depth back *down*. Any transient — a Wi-Fi arrival burst, a host stall, or plain
host-DAC-vs-client-DAC skew of a few dozen ppm — therefore added latency permanently, until
an underrun happened to re-prime. Android, with no shed at all, converged on its 120 ms hard
cap and stayed there for the rest of the session; that is the "audio latency is too high"
report. Apple did shed, 40 ms in one go, which its own comment called "one audible blip".

All four now share `punktfunk_core::audio::JitterPolicy`: depths in MILLISECONDS rather than
device quanta (`3 x quantum` meant 15 ms at a 5 ms quantum and a silent 64 ms at a 20 ms
one), a crossfaded 5 ms shed once the depth average has sat above target for 2 s of consumed
audio, and de-prime hysteresis. Linux and Windows had never had that hysteresis — they still
carried the `if ring.is_empty()` instant re-prime that Android identified as self-inflicted
crackle, where one transient drain manufactured a whole target's worth of silence.

Android's floor drops 40 -> 25 ms: the policy grows the target on the devices that actually
underrun, instead of every device pre-paying for the worst one. The Windows ring moves from
raw bytes to interleaved f32 so it can share the policy and the crossfade helper at all.

Apple is the one client where the policy is hand-written in a second language, so it gets
its own XCTest (`AudioRingDriftTests`). Verified here by compiling `AudioRing.swift`
standalone against a simulation harness — +200 ppm for 5 minutes settles at 30 ms with zero
silent callbacks, where the old ring would have ridden its 80 ms high-water mark.

**WP3.2 — recovery lives in core, not in the clients.** The rebuilt frame is re-inserted into
the demux queue in order, so every embedder (including any C-ABI consumer) gets a complete
stream without knowing the `0xD2` plane exists, and their `AudioGapTracker` simply stops
seeing the gap. `recovery_and_the_gap_tracker_agree` pins exactly that. For the same reason
core advertises CLIENT_CAP_AUDIO_RED itself rather than making four embedders remember to.

Verified: clippy --all-targets -D warnings and the full test suites for punktfunk-core,
pf-client-core, punktfunk-host, pf-host-config under Linux/docker (163 + 61 tests);
punktfunk-client-android `cargo ndk check` for aarch64 with the gate proven non-vacuous by a
planted type error, and its 6 clippy findings confirmed IDENTICAL to the pristine file (all
are the documented arm64-only artifacts); AudioRing.swift type-checked and simulated on
macOS; fmt. The Windows client half (audio_wasapi.rs) is still not compile-verified anywhere.

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2026-08-04 09:28:01 +02:00
enricobuehler 5be494f490 merge: bring main into the pad-audio branch
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Main had moved 34 commits past the merge-base and 13 files had diverged.
Resolving now rather than later, since the force-feedback sweep work is landing
in the same files.

Five conflicts needed hand resolution. Four were "each side added something
different" and keep both: the Forwarding and PadAudioPrefs control variants with
their handlers and setters (pf-client-core/gamepad.rs), both of the session's
pre-attach declarations (forwarding first, so slots still declare their
pad-audio caps at open time), main's WiredPlan/fingerprint alongside the
branch's pad_render_ids (audio_control.rs), and main's judge_default signature
(wasapi_cap.rs).

wiring_plan.rs was not mechanical. Main's 652abeb3 added a flagged last-resort
loopback tier; the branch had added a fifth `plan` parameter excluding pad
endpoints from every role. Taking either side alone loses the other, and
combining them carelessly is worse than both: the new last-resort tier would
happily select the pad's own speaker endpoint, which is stamped "DualSense
Wireless Controller" with no virtual marker precisely so games read it as the
pad's speaker — routing the entire desktop mix into the controller's voice
coils. The branch's exclusion shadows `renders` before any tier runs, so the
last resort inherits it; `a_pad_is_never_the_last_resort` pins that, including
that a pad-only candidate set stays honestly unsatisfiable rather than falling
back onto the coils.

Verified: clippy -p punktfunk-host -p pf-client-core --all-targets --locked
-D warnings = 0; pf-client-core 93/93; punktfunk-host 387 passed with only the
known-environmental gamestream sender_delivers_batches UDP-loopback flake;
wiring_plan 21/21; fmt clean.

NOT verified: audio_control.rs and wasapi_cap.rs are cfg(windows), so neither
the Linux container nor xcheck.sh compiles them. Those two resolutions have had
review only and need the Windows runner before this merges.
2026-08-03 19:11:26 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Opus 5 35285afafc fix(host/pad-audio): retire the freed-string endpoint lookup everywhere, and make provisioning converge
Two loose ends from the pad-audio bring-up.

`wasapi 0.23`'s `DeviceEnumerator::get_device` passes `GetDevice` a pointer
into an `HSTRING` temporary that was already dropped, so it resolves whatever
the allocator left behind and misses ids that are perfectly valid. Only the
pad-audio path had been moved off it; the remaining four callers include
desktop loopback capture and the default-endpoint judgement, where a spurious
miss silently downgrades a capturable default to Unknown. The host now resolves
through `open_wasapi_device` (raw COM, buffer kept alive). `pf-client-core`
cannot share that helper — it pins a different `windows` revision than `wasapi`
does, so the two `IMMDevice` types are incompatible — and instead scans the
active collection by id, which touches only safe crate APIs.

Provisioning also stopped latching a transient. A stamp lands, a check run
immediately afterwards reports all seven keys served, and AudioEndpointBuilder
then reverts the three format keys behind us, leaving 4/7 for good. Since
`needs_aeb_kick` is what makes startup restart AudioEndpointBuilder + Audiosrv,
that transient meant bouncing the machine's whole audio stack on every host
start, forever, chasing stamps a re-pass lands. `ensure` now stamps, lets AEB
settle, and only then checks — repeating up to five times.

Before: fresh provisions landed 4/7 with kick=true on 3 of 4 runs. After: 4 of
4 runs settle 7/7 with kick=false in 2.8s, identity intact (Wireless
Controller / DualSense Wireless Controller / PFDS container), 4ch mask 0x33,
render and loopback capture both opening, and `pad-endpoint tone` clean.

Host clippy clean; 360 tests pass, the one mgmt display failure reproduces on a
clean tree. The client-side helper is type-checked against wasapi on Windows in
isolation — pf-client-core itself will not build on .173 (no ffmpeg/SDL3/Vulkan
toolchain there), so its module integration is unverified.

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2026-08-03 11:44:29 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Opus 5 5f55fa874a feat(client/present): the desktop presenter gains the Apple/Android intent model
WP1+WP2 of design/desktop-presentation-rebuild.md. The shared Linux/Windows
session client presented arrival-paced with no pacing layer at all: two depth-2
newest-wins hops into a drain-to-newest and an immediate present. That IS the
lowest-latency intent, but it was unnamed, unselectable, and had no alternative
— and on a surface without MAILBOX (AMD's Windows driver offers none, and any
compositor holding images does the same) the swapchain's own FIFO becomes a
standing queue worth a measured 11-13 ms at 60 Hz.

WP1 — the settings cluster, under the keys the Apple client already writes into
the shared profile catalog (present_priority / smooth_buffer / vsync /
allow_vrr): mismatched names would ride SettingsOverlay::extra, carried but
never applied. PresentPriority::resolve mirrors the Android reference exactly
(anything but an explicit "smooth" is latency; a buffer outside 1..=3 becomes
2), so a profile authored on any client means the same thing on all of them.
Only the first two are consumed here; vsync/allow_vrr land in WP3.

WP2 — the engine (present_pace.rs, pure state + arithmetic, 6 tests):
- FrameStore: newest-wins slot, or the smoothing FIFO with preroll-to-capacity,
  drop-oldest overflow, and an underflow that re-arms the preroll (repeat by
  omission) — the Apple/Android semantics, with qDrop/qDry counters.
- LatchClock: the panel grid learned from VK_KHR_present_wait glass stamps,
  min positive spacing capped by the mode refresh (measured, never queried —
  VRR and Android's per-uid refresh lie both punish trusting a reported rate).
  It now also publishes the host-facing LatchGrid, so the phase-lock report and
  the local scheduler cannot disagree about the grid.
- PresentGate: one undisplayed present in flight on FIFO surfaces, with the
  100 ms stale force-open. This is the standing-queue killer, and it is inert
  on MAILBOX/IMMEDIATE and without present timing — where behaviour stays
  byte-for-byte the shipped arrival pacing.

Wiring: glass samples drain every pass (a 1 Hz batch would starve clock and
gate) and the waiter pushes an SDL wake, so a gate reopen never waits out the
event timeout; smoothness serves one frame per latch slot and tightens the
loop's wait to that deadline; the adaptive slot margin starts at 0 and widens
+500 us per missed window toward 2.5 ms (a fixed lead was measured to be pure
display tax). PUNKTFUNK_PRESENTER=arrival disables the whole engine for field
A/B without a rebuild.

PyroWave collapses smoothness to latency for the stream: its plane-ring
retirement accounting assumes the depth-2 newest-wins hand-off, and all-intra
frames make buffering moot anyway.

Gates (punktfunk-rust-ci, linux/amd64, sources touched first so a warm target
cannot print a vacuous Finished): clippy -D warnings across pf-client-core,
pf-presenter and punktfunk-client-session; 80 + 32 tests pass; rustfmt clean.

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2026-08-03 00:00:50 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Fable 5 d839f4c2b6 fix(client/windows): settings stop going stale behind your back, and the log has a door
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A field reporter's codec setting "changed by itself" between sessions. Nothing writes
the negotiated codec back — what they saw was a stale snapshot. `AppCtx.settings` is
loaded ONCE at process start and the page renders from it, but this process is not the
file's only writer (the spawned session persists its match-window size, the console UI
and Decky save too), so the page showed values another process had already replaced —
until a row was touched and `commit`'s rebase pulled the file in, at which point the
value visibly jumped. The 2026-07-31 rebase fix covered the whole-file writers and
missed two spots: nothing re-based on page ENTRY, and the profile-scope commit arm
cloned the snapshot without reloading, so overlay absorption diffed against stale
globals. Both now re-base on the file.

Two more ways a setting could vanish or cost time:

* An older binary's whole-file save DROPPED a newer client's keys — `Settings` had no
  unknown-key passthrough, unlike `SettingsOverlay`, whose `extra` map already gives
  profiles exactly that contract. Extended to the globals: additive, empty on every
  existing store, and an empty map serializes to nothing so no file churns. (`save()`
  was already temp+rename, so the torn-file → silent-Default reset was closed.)
* "Check the client log" never said WHERE. Settings ▸ About grows an Open log folder
  row (%LOCALAPPDATA%\punktfunk\logs, folder not file so the rotated .old generation
  is in reach), and the failed-spawn banner now names the path.

The 4:4:4 caption said "HEVC only, and only where the host can encode it", which sends
people hunting: the host gate is PyroWave or an NVENC backend. It says so now.

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2026-08-02 23:49:45 +02:00
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A controller that reaches the host by USB passthrough — VirtualHere and friends, or simply a
pad plugged into the host — arrived there twice: once as the real device, once as the virtual
pad this client built from the same hands. Games read both, so a stick drifts against the
centred second pad and menus take every input twice.

New per-client setting, "Forward controllers", default on (today's behaviour). It is tier-P,
so a profile can decline what another profile forwards.

On Linux and Windows it is deliberately stronger than "send nothing". Opening a controller is
what CLAIMS it — SDL's HIDAPI drivers take the device node — and a claimed device is one a
passthrough tool cannot bind, so with this off the session opens no slot at all and never
enables the Valve HIDAPI drivers. Menu navigation is untouched: the launcher still opens the
active pad, and a session supersedes menu mode whether it forwards or not, so the pad is free
for the whole time a stream is up. The consequence, documented at both the setting and the
chord: the controller escape chord is read off forwarded pads, so it is unavailable there.

The Apple and Android input stacks claim nothing, so those clients keep their slots and their
chords and only gate the wire sends — losing tvOS's only controller way out of a stream would
have been the worse bug. Android does stop its DualSense and Steam Controller 2 USB captures,
which do claim the device.

Surfaces: GTK, WinUI, the console settings screen, Apple's touch and gamepad settings, the
Android touch and gamepad settings, and Decky (which also hides the rows that now have nothing
to act on). Everywhere the "which pad" and "pad type" rows grey out while it is off.

Verified: cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings + 79 tests on pf-client-core, pf-console-ui,
punktfunk-client-session and punktfunk-client-linux (linux/amd64 container, gate proven
non-vacuous with a planted error); swift build for the Apple clients; gradle compile + 49 unit
tests for Android (likewise proven); tsc for Decky. clients/windows is UNCOMPILED — both
Windows boxes were offline; its edits were reviewed against the helper signatures by hand.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 22:21:26 +02:00