The silent settings-driven software path cost a debugging round on the
first Vulkan Video glass test (stale decoder=software from the VAAPI-
broken-on-NVIDIA era) — now it says so. Module docs updated: auto is
vulkan → vaapi → software.
Validated on glass (RTX 5070 Ti, HEVC 4K@144): decode 11 ms → 0.1 ms,
e2e p50 ~115 ms → 8.6 ms (the old number was software-decode queueing,
not clock skew), 144 fps locked, 2686 frames, zero errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
FFmpeg's Vulkan Video decoder now runs on the PRESENTER's own VkDevice —
the decoded VkImage feeds the existing CICP CSC pass directly: zero
copy, no interop, and NVIDIA gets hardware decode for the first time
(its VAAPI is unusable by design). One decode architecture for every
vendor going forward; VAAPI-dmabuf and software remain the fallbacks
(auto: vulkan → vaapi → software; PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=vulkan pins it).
Presenter: instance 1.3; probes VK_KHR_video_queue/decode_queue + codec
extensions, a VIDEO_DECODE queue family (+ its codec caps via
QueueFamilyVideoPropertiesKHR), and the samplerYcbcrConversion/
timelineSemaphore/synchronization2 features — all enabled at device
creation when present, exported as a VulkanDecodeDevice handle bundle.
Decoder: AVVulkanDeviceContext built over those handles via pf-ffvk
(features chain, extension lists, deprecated queue indices + the qf[]
map); get_format supplies OUR frames context with MUTABLE_FORMAT so the
presenter's per-plane views are legal; output is DecodedImage::VkFrame
carrying AVVkFrame/frames-ctx pointers plus the lock fns.
Present: R8+R8G8 plane views over the multiplanar image, the live sync
state read under the AVVulkanFramesContext lock, a timeline-semaphore
wait(sem_value)/signal(sem_value+1) folded into the submit, layout/
queue-family/sem_value written back per FFmpeg's contract, and the frame
guard parked in the retire queue until the fence. CSC pass + video
framebuffer are now unconditional (NVIDIA has no dmabuf-import path).
Verified on the RTX 5070 Ti: device creates with decode_qf=3,
caps=DECODE_H264|H265|AV1|VP9; swapchain unaffected. Live stream
validation next.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Under infinite GOP the pump only re-requested an IDR when the
reassembler's drop count climbed. A lost initial IDR (or a mid-GOP join)
delivers complete-but-undecodable delta frames instead — the reassembler
never drops, so recovery never fired and the stream froze on the last
good frame while libavcodec flooded stderr with missing-reference
errors. Reproduced at 4K@144 (large IDRs, higher loss); lower modes hid
it. Now a 3-frame no-output streak (~50 ms) forces a fresh IDR,
throttled and re-armed across the request→IDR round trip. Verified on
glass: 4K@144 recovers and holds. Also quiets libavcodec's raw stderr
(it bypassed tracing) to fatal-only, PUNKTFUNK_FFMPEG_LOG restores it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
punktfunk-session streams one --connect session in an SDL3 window: ash
swapchain with a transfer-only letterboxed blit of the software-decode
path (no graphics pipeline until the phase-2 dmabuf/CSC pass), the
ui_stream input-capture state machine on SDL events (scancode→VK table
cross-checked against the evdev one), gamepads via a new caller-pumped
GamepadService mode (SDL video owns the main thread here), and the
shell↔session stdout contract: {"ready":true}, per-window stats:
lines, JSON error + exit codes 0/2/3/4. Strict trust — no pin, no
connect. Design: punktfunk-planning linux-client-rearchitecture.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Session pump, FFmpeg decode, PipeWire audio, SDL3 gamepads, keymap, trust
store, mDNS discovery, library client and Wake-on-LAN move verbatim from
clients/linux into crates/pf-client-core, shared with the upcoming Vulkan
session binary (punktfunk-planning: linux-client-rearchitecture.md).
The GTK client re-exports them at the crate root so every existing
crate::-path keeps resolving; its manifest drops the moved-only deps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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