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enricobuehler 8551e88fcb merge: bring current main into the audio-substrate branch
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Two conflicts, both unions of independent removals/fixes: main fixed the
same three install.rs SAFETY comments this branch fixed (main's phrasing
kept), and the runner provisioning drops BOTH env lines — main removed
PF_FFVK_VULKAN_INCLUDE (pf-ffvk is gone since the FFmpeg replacement),
this branch removed VBCABLE_DIR (the retirement).
2026-08-07 17:49:50 +02:00
enricobuehler ebc2f1cf92 feat(host/audio): the minted microphone returns to tier-0 — pitch-true
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The revert un-reverts, on measurement: with the per-direction stamp sets
(render = the pad-proven PCM16-device/float-mix stereo split, capture =
device-format only), micpitch reads 440 Hz in as 440 Hz out at exact
peak. The octave-low voice was the driver DEFAULT endpoints disagreeing
(stereo render vs mono capture), never a raw-crossing design. The user
called the wrong verdict — the pad program 4ch success was the
counter-evidence that reopened the case.
2026-08-07 16:53:48 +02:00
enricobuehler 52cd42e911 fix(host/audio): capture endpoints get the device format only
Live bisect on a fresh endpoint: the mix/host format keys are
RENDER-engine properties — stamped onto a capture endpoint they broke its
shared-mode graph (IsFormatSupported reported 2ch/48k OK while Initialize
failed 0x88890008 on a once-stamped fresh endpoint; unstamped it opened
fine, S3). The capture now gets ONLY the device-format key — the knob
mmsys.cpl itself writes — declaring the stereo the pins actually accept.
2026-08-07 16:49:15 +02:00
enricobuehler 8c274d6256 fix(host/devtest): the probe asks stereo — its mono ask WAS the unopenable endpoint
Measured resolution of the 0x88890008 mystery: IsFormatSupported said the
capture accepts 2ch/48k shared while Initialize kept failing — because
the probe itself had switched to a MONO ask for frequency counting, and
this stack does not bridge channel counts on capture even under
autoconvert. Every unopenable-endpoint verdict after that switch was the
instrument, not the endpoint. Stereo ask restored; crossings counted on
channel 0.
2026-08-07 16:44:01 +02:00
enricobuehler 16e506f943 feat(host/devtest): audio-probe micpins — the driver-capability map
Exclusive+shared IsFormatSupported across {1,2}ch x {16,32}bit x
{44.1,48,96}kHz on both minted mic pins. Interrogates the DRIVER,
bypassing every endpoint-store stamping question: what the pins truly
accept decides whether the mic leg has any coherent configuration, and
whether an exclusive-mode mono open is an escape hatch. (The pad program
made its own breakthrough with exactly this instrument on the sibling
SSS driver.)
2026-08-07 16:39:48 +02:00
enricobuehler 2eed9823e5 fix(host/audio): the mic pair gets the pad-proven coherent stereo stamp set
The user challenged the format-locked-pins verdict, and the pad program
is the counter-evidence: it hit the SAME 0x88890008 unopenable-endpoint
signature and cured it with a COHERENT stamp set, after which the same
driver family served 4ch happily. This branch previous attempts were
contaminated twice over — a float device-format (the pad bisect proved
the split must be PCM16 device / float mix+host) and no
AudioEndpointBuilder restart (Restart-Service Audiosrv never touches its
dependency, so endpoint configs were never rebuilt). Both mic endpoints
now get one identical coherent stereo set; the octave-low hypothesis
shifts from "raw crossing by design" to "the two endpoint stores
disagreed (stereo render default vs mono capture default)".
2026-08-07 16:33:20 +02:00
enricobuehler cc53b3d6b0 fix(host/audio): unwire the minted microphone — the driver mic path is unusable
Final pitch-probe verdict on the SSM driver pair: the render pin is
stereo-only, the capture pin mono-only (stamping either differently makes
the endpoint unopenable), and the crossing between them is a RAW byte
pass — so voice fed through the render endpoint reads back an octave low
and no format stamp can fix it. S3 peak-based PASS = false pass; per the
design doc revert clause the mic falls back to the name ladder (a virtual
cable), pending the user re-decision. The SPEAKERS substrate keeps tier-0
(no driver crossing — a plain engine loopback tap, measured clean).

minted_ids() publishes speakers only; the mic endpoints stay minted and
recorded (provisioned()) for the micpitch probe and a possible future
non-render transport, and their format stamps now pin each side to its
pin one true format — healing the endpoints this branch earlier
mis-stamped.
2026-08-07 16:06:56 +02:00
enricobuehler 5922cbe325 fix(host/audio): the minted mic pair declares stereo on BOTH sides
Second measurement round: the driver render pin is STEREO-ONLY — the
mono render stamp turned the endpoint unopenable (0x88890008 on every
open, the incoherent-stamp signature the pad program documented). Since
the crossing is raw, the coherent choice inverts: the CAPTURE side now
declares the stereo float stream that actually crosses (fixing the
octave-low voice), and the render has its stereo float default stamped
explicitly — pinning the pair AND healing any endpoint a previous build
left mono-stamped.
2026-08-07 16:01:39 +02:00
enricobuehler ed98814145 fix(host/audio): the minted microphone renders MONO — voice was an octave low
Measured with the new pitch probe: 440 Hz into the minted mic render came
back as 220 Hz off its capture side. The driver forwards the render
stream RAW into its mono capture, so a stereo-declared render (the
driver-default we inherited) turns every stereo frame into two mono
samples — half speed, octave down, exactly the field report. The mic
render now gets a coherent MONO 48 kHz format set stamped alongside its
name (PCM16 device format + float mix/host formats), making the engine
downmix before the driver crossing. The mic pump keeps pushing stereo;
shared-mode autoconvert handles the rest.
2026-08-07 15:57:19 +02:00
enricobuehler 0cf76af0c2 feat(host/devtest): audio-probe measures pitch, not just peaks
Field report through the minted microphone: voice plays back an octave
low. Peaks are pitch-blind — S3 passed while a potential half-rate link
hid in the numbers (288k samples fits both the honest and the half-speed
story). Every probe measurement now estimates the dominant frequency by
zero crossings over the signal span, and `audio-probe micpitch` runs the
decisive experiment against the LIVE minted pair: 440 Hz in, frequency
out — ~440 = pair innocent, ~220 = the stereo render stream is forwarded
raw into the mono capture.
2026-08-07 15:53:00 +02:00
enricobuehler 7993386900 feat(host/audio): the minted endpoints get their names — 'Punktfunk Speakers/Microphone'
Field-measured necessity, not cosmetics: unstamped, the minted instances
read 'Lautsprecher (2- Steam Streaming Microphone)' and even the box's
owner picked the wrong device out of the Sound settings zoo (as did the
S1 probe's name match before it). The provider now stamps device-desc +
device-name through the pad program's proven machinery — write_stamps/
stamps_served, extracted from the pad-only stamp functions — with the
same store-first/registry-fallback routes and settle/re-pass discipline.
Names only: a wider stamp set makes AudioEndpointBuilder re-mint the
endpoint under a new GUID (measured on pads). Stamping is best-effort
(SYSTEM ACL route); the wiring never depends on names — identity stays
the recorded id.
2026-08-07 15:33:52 +02:00
enricobuehler 507ea58da8 fix(host/audio): the silent-sink check recognizes the minted Speakers
Observed in the first real session on the substrate: the loopback ran on
the minted 'Punktfunk Speakers' (silent on the host by construction), but
have_silent name-matches only the Streaming Microphone — so the capture
open logged 'desktop audio will also play on the host' (false) and
re-attempted the Steam-pair install it doesn't need. The minted sink is
recognized by id; its name honestly says Speakers, which the name rule
must keep refusing for FOREIGN instances.
2026-08-07 12:59:15 +02:00
enricobuehler 99a59fb5c7 fix(host/audio): the mic pump's first resolve waits for the minted endpoints
Measured on the target box: the pump wired 2 s before the provisioning
worker latched, took the cable as its write target, and the next wiring
pass would then have paired the default recording with the minted
microphone — which nothing writes into: dead mic-air until a pump reopen.
resolve_target now provisions synchronously (instant once latched; the
opt-out env is honoured), so the pump's held device and the plan's verdict
can never disagree.
2026-08-07 12:02:48 +02:00
enricobuehler 3870cdd1da feat(host/mgmt): the audio wiring verdict joins /status
RuntimeStatus gains an 'audio' object (Windows hosts): readiness
(full/audio_only/mic_only/none), the friendly names carrying each role,
and the three degradation flags (mic_withheld, last_resort, narrowing) —
the verdicts that previously lived only in tracing logs. Snapshot of the
last wiring pass (the mic pump wires at host start and on every reopen);
a status poll never triggers COM work or IPolicyConfig writes.
2026-08-07 11:53:15 +02:00
enricobuehler 79c72fa64d fix(host/audio): capture endpoints carry the {0.0.1.…} id prefix
The capture-direction lookup built its endpoint id with the RENDER prefix
{0.0.0.00000000}., but WASAPI's enumeration returns capture ids as
{0.0.1.00000000}.{guid} — so the minted microphone's capture side never
string-matched the enumeration and the wiring plan paired no recording
device (audio-probe plan on the target box: mic_capture = '-'). Measured;
IMMDeviceEnumerator::GetDevice tolerated the wrong prefix, which is why
the S3 spike's direct open still passed.
2026-08-07 11:37:39 +02:00
enricobuehler 64655c5275 fix(host/devtest): audio-probe plan provisions synchronously
A fresh CLI process has no startup worker to have finished, so the plan
devtest raced its own background provisioning thread and printed the name
ladder instead of tier-0. ensure_blocking() re-resolves existing marker
devnodes in milliseconds before the wiring pass runs.
2026-08-07 11:32:05 +02:00
enricobuehler 4a621de6b1 chore(packaging): retire VB-Cable — audio's substrate is Steam's drivers
The other half of the audio-substrate decision (spikes S2+S3 green, minted
endpoints landed in the previous commit): stop bundling a third-party
kernel driver the host no longer needs.

  installer      the VB-CABLE task, payload, silent-install run and the
                 donationware notice are gone; a suppressible notice tells
                 a Steam-less box that audio needs Steam INSTALLED (never
                 running) and that installing it later just works. A cable
                 from an older install is still deliberately not removed.
  packer + CI    -VbCableDir/VBCABLE_DIR, the staged-payload check and the
                 runner provisioning download are gone; SBOM drops the
                 redistributed-driver component.
  winget         the VB-Audio bundling-grant agreement becomes the honest
                 Steam requirement (surfaced on the unattended path where
                 no wizard is on screen).
  docs           windows-host/uninstall/security/echo say what actually
                 ships: no kernel-mode driver of our own, endpoints minted
                 from Valve's vendor-signed drivers, VB-CABLE mentioned
                 only as the historical fallback that keeps working.
  host wording   the mic-open guidance and module headers lead with Steam;
                 the NAME ladder itself is untouched — demoting 'cable
                 input' was considered and rejected (on a box where minting
                 transiently fails, the SSM would outrank an installed
                 cable, steal the silent sink, and make audio host-audible).
2026-08-07 11:27:29 +02:00
enricobuehler 0b160a4e22 feat(host/audio): minted Punktfunk endpoints become the wiring plan's tier-0
The audio-substrate program's Phase 2 (spikes S2+S3 measured green on the
target box): the host mints its OWN instances of Valve's streaming-audio
drivers and wires by IDENTITY instead of borrowing Steam's primaries —

  minted.rs      the provider: one devnode per role ('Punktfunk Speakers'
                 from SteamStreamingSpeakers.inf, 'Punktfunk Microphone'
                 from SteamStreamingMicrophone.inf), marker-matched across
                 restarts (PunktfunkAudioRole in Device Parameters — names
                 are NOT identity, a minted instance is name-identical to
                 the primaries), provisioned on a startup worker like pad
                 audio, retried with a 60 s cool-down from wiring passes,
                 defaults restored when a fresh endpoint grabs them.
  wiring_plan    MintedIds tier-0: the mic takes its minted device outright
                 (capture side paired by the provider's id — a name search
                 cannot tell it from the primary), the loopback prefers the
                 minted sink at the head of the silent tier, an operator
                 override still beats everything, a narrowing minted sink
                 demotes below real hardware, and stale ids fall back to
                 the ladder unchanged. Plus AudioReadiness — the
                 full/audio-only/mic-only/nothing classification, logged
                 with every plan change (§C4's seed).
  audio-probe    'mint' runs the provider synchronously; 'plan' prints one
                 real wiring pass + readiness — the field-triage command.

Without Steam's drivers nothing changes: provisioning degrades to absent
ids and the plan keeps the name-based ladder (primaries → cable → real
hardware) exactly as before.
2026-08-07 11:22:06 +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 03ee3e55d7 feat(host/devtest): audio-probe — the audio-substrate spike measurements
The S1-S3 spikes from windows-audio-endpoints-and-vbcable.md as one
runnable devtest (no game, no client, ssh-drivable):

  audio-probe ssm          S3, the decision gate: mint a SECOND devnode of
                           Valve's Steam Streaming Microphone driver and
                           prove the pair end to end (tone into its render
                           endpoint must come back out of its capture
                           endpoint). Pass = a punktfunk-owned virtual mic
                           needs no VB-Cable wherever Steam is installed.
  audio-probe sink         S2: mint a Speakers instance, park the DEFAULT
                           playback on it, tone through the default device,
                           WASAPI-loopback the instance - the desktop-audio
                           capture path minus the game.
  audio-probe sss-primary  S1: the primary Speakers' known-silent loopback,
                           re-measured, with mix format + steam.exe state.
  audio-probe cleanup      remove every probe-minted devnode (marker value
                           in Device Parameters, never name-guessing).

pad_endpoint grows the first slice of the design's §C1 shared minting
surface: create_media_devnode(desc, hwid, mark), bind_driver(hwid, inf),
find_capture_endpoint_for_devnode — the pad provisioner now calls the
same functions. The probe restores whatever default devices the minting
disturbed before it exits.
2026-08-07 10:47:00 +02:00
enricobuehler 152047051c fix(host/windows): three SID unsafe blocks get their safety proofs
install.rs (landed 2026-08-05 with the security-review remediation, while
the Windows CI runner was down) fails windows-host.yml's clippy gate:
#![deny(clippy::undocumented_unsafe_blocks)] wants the SAFETY comment on
the line preceding EACH unsafe block, and three blocks didn't have one —
two sat behind a comment anchored to the enclosing closure/neighbouring
statement, and EqualSid had none at all. Comments only; no behavior
change.
2026-08-07 10:38:03 +02:00
enricobuehler 3608de25ed Merge pull request 'fix(ci): runner hygiene stops eating its own jobs' (#84) from worktree-ci-runner-hygiene into main
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Reviewed-on: #84
2026-08-07 08:37:42 +00:00
enricobuehler ef8214415f fix(host/audio): game audio outranks the mic on cable-less boxes
The wiring plan reserved the mic target unconditionally first, so on a box
without VB-Cable the mic took the Steam Streaming Microphone — the only
working client-only loopback sink — and desktop audio fell to the
known-silent Speakers last resort: a headless Steam-only host streamed
SILENCE (the 2026-08 field case), and the installer's 'optional (mic
passthrough)' wording never warned anyone.

The mic may now hold the Streaming Microphone only while the loopback still
gets a preferred (non-last-resort) pick without it — another silent sink or
real hardware. Otherwise the loopback takes the endpoint and the mic falls
to a lesser candidate or is honestly withheld (Wiring::mic_withheld), with
the open error naming the trade and the remedy. An operator
PUNKTFUNK_MIC_DEVICE override is exempt: an explicit choice may still
strand the loopback on the last resort.

Also: the Steam-pair auto-install latch is now once per INF-state instead
of once per process — an attempt made while Steam was absent re-arms when
its driver INFs later appear (files are invisible to the endpoint-set
fingerprint, so nothing else would ever retry), and a withheld mic skips
the pointless reinstall (the pair exists; the plan gave it to the loopback).
2026-08-07 10:29:37 +02:00
enricobuehler 75dfab1d35 fix(host): a reconnecting session inherits its launch instead of starting it again
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Two defects, found while tracing M8's codec-fallback reconnect and recorded
verbatim in d5e23146 as out of scope there.

A client retry re-sends Hello::launch verbatim, and the host launched
unconditionally. Steam and Epic URIs hide it — the launcher focuses the running
copy — but a gog:/custom: target really did start a SECOND COPY of the game. The
client cannot fix it by dropping the field: on Linux the per-session gamescope is
re-adopted through pf-vdisplay's display registry, whose reuse key includes the
launch command, so a retry without it orphans the running game.

And the retry minted a fresh launch_stamp, so procscan refused to adopt a game
started more than 2 s before it — the game was minutes old, so a reconnected
session had no game-exit detection for the rest of its life.

Both are now answered by a launch registry (launchreg.rs): one record per (client
fingerprint, library id), written at launch time and INDEPENDENT OF THE
TERMINATION POLICY. That independence is the point. The existing fingerprint-keyed
reclaim only exists under GameOnSessionEnd::Always — under the default Keep,
arm_grace is never called, so nothing was recorded at all in exactly the
configuration the defect was reported in.

The design correction that matters: at launch time the host knows NOTHING about
the game's processes — that is the premise of the whole lease design. So identity
flows BACKWARDS from the watcher, which publishes the concrete ProcRefs it
adopted, and the registry's liveness is Scanner::alive over that recorded set,
re-verified by (pid, start). Never a re-scan by spec: a later scan would find a
copy the player started since, and adopting that is what procscan's rule 1
forbids. The published set is never cleared on exit either — the last thing the
watcher saw is what makes a quit game read Gone rather than "no opinion", which
is how it becomes relaunchable at once instead of being suppressed for the window.

On rule 1: an adopting session inherits the older floor, so its own find() admits
what the ORIGINAL session's lease already admitted for its whole life. That is the
correct reading of "the same launch, continued" and not a new exposure — rule 1
forbids adopting processes that PREDATE the launch, and these postdate it.

The match rule is pure and total (covers()): liveness is authoritative where it
has an opinion, and only Unknown falls through to the tie-breakers — a live holder,
or a 90 s in-flight window for a re-dial while the launcher is still working. Gone
beats both, deliberately: a title that crashed on startup must relaunch at once.

Both race orders are handled and neither is relied on. Teardown-first takes the
Running arm; handshake-first (a fast re-dial on a half-open connection) takes the
holders>0 arm, and the old teardown then sees superseded() and does nothing —
without which, under Always, it would arm a grace the new session had already
passed its chance to reprieve, and the reaper would kill the new session's game.

Two tradeoffs taken deliberately: a custom: command with no detection hints stays
Unknown forever, so that reconnect trades game-exit detection for not
double-spawning; and IN_FLIGHT_WINDOW is a fixed 90 s rather than sharing
disconnect_grace_seconds, because the two have opposite failure costs — grace
being wrong leaves a game running, this being wrong silently swallows a launch the
player asked for.

Gates: fmt clean; clippy -p punktfunk-host --all-targets -D warnings green in the
Linux container; 418 passed, +9 exactly the new tests. One failure,
gamestream::stream::tests::sender_delivers_batches, is pre-existing and
environmental — a UDP-loopback EINTR under qemu at stream.rs:1697, outside every
hunk in this change (the last is at +448), and it fails identically on a pristine
HEAD. I reproduced both the failure and its location myself rather than taking it
on report.

⚠ OWED: the Windows leg is COMPILE-UNVERIFIED. cargo check --target
x86_64-pc-windows-msvc dies in ring's C build on macOS and xcheck.sh does not
cover punktfunk-host. The Windows edits are small restructures of existing
branches plus a bool assignment, reasoned through but seen by no compiler. Run it
on .133 before this merges.

I narrowed that exposure by inspection afterwards, and it is smaller than the
blanket warning suggests. The change presents exactly two things to a Windows
compiler that a Linux one did not already see. launchreg gates only alive_count
(lines 227/231), whose cfg(any(linux, windows)) arm calls
Scanner::system().alive(procs) — the identical call gamelease.rs:563 already makes
in code that compiles on Windows today. And the Windows launch arm at
native/stream.rs:1666 reads only ungated bindings the Linux arm type-checks thirty
lines below it (adopt_launch:1658, spawned_now:1663, launch_claim:1463) and calls
only the pre-existing library::launch_title. No new type, no new signature, no
Windows-only API.

That is an argument, not a compile. The run on .133 is still owed.
2026-08-07 10:14:21 +02:00
enricobuehler 138a1f1b2f fix(host/windows): the staging-dir SID checks document their unsafe blocks
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clippy's undocumented_unsafe_blocks (deny) flagged the three blocks that
81039581 introduced: the SAFETY comment sat outside the closure, so
IsValidSid/EqualSid inside it read as undocumented, and from_raw_parts
shared a comment that only covered the GetLengthSid line above it. Windows
host clippy is the only leg that lints this cfg(windows) code, red since.
2026-08-07 10:11:04 +02:00
enricobuehler 2366c4fe31 feat(pf-encode,host): price the HEVC sub-frame trade so arbitration can cover it
The named next step after WP3's first increment. That increment deliberately
REFUSED to arbitrate HEVC-with-sub-frame -- the fleet default, and the reported
field case -- because engaging split there gives up sub-frame readback, whose
whole value is that the send overlaps the encode. An encoder measuring only
encode time would see split as ~2x faster, take it, and make end-to-end latency
worse while reporting a win. This supplies the missing number.

The real comparison is encode_1eng + send_of_last_slice against
encode_2eng + send_of_whole_AU, so the challenger owes roughly
spread x (slices-1)/slices. Split across the two sides that can each see half:

- Host: new `Encoder::set_send_spread_us` (defaulted, forwarded by
  TrackedEncoder -- same trap class as set_wire_chunking, and unforwarded it
  would fail SILENTLY IN THE SAFE DIRECTION, which is the hardest kind to
  notice). The send thread is the only place a paced send is observed and the
  encode loop the only place the encoder can be touched, so it goes over an
  AtomicU32 like encoder_ceiling_kbps, EWMA-smoothed 3:1 per completed AU: one
  content spike must not flip a verdict that then gets cached.
- Encoder: turns the raw spread into the handicap, because only it knows
  `slices`. SplitArbiter::with_handicap charges it to the challenger before the
  comparison. A unit test runs identical encode numbers with a cheap and an
  expensive send and asserts the verdict REVERSES -- with an expensive send the
  arm that looks twice as fast is a loss end to end, and the incumbent must
  hold. That is precisely the regression an encode-only arbiter ships.

Gate now opens for HEVC+sub-frame only when a spread has actually been reported
(and slices >= 2); with no hint it still refuses, so behaviour is unchanged until
the host feeds it.

Two mechanics this needed:
- apply_split_mode became a PAIR flip (split + sub-frame), routed through
  resolve_split_subframe and restoring from `subframe_opened_with` so a session
  that never had sub-frame can never gain it. It also recomputes
  `subframe_chunks`, which reconfigure_bitrate does NOT -- spike S1c's finding;
  leave it stale and supports_chunked_poll keeps saying yes while numSlices never
  advances, so poll_chunk busy-polls its whole budget every AU.
- The arbiter is now fed from BOTH completion points. A sub-frame session
  finishes through poll_chunk, so the incumbent arm of an HEVC experiment would
  otherwise never deliver a sample -- only the challenger, with sub-frame
  dropped, comes through poll.

Verified .21: clippy -D warnings clean for pf-encode AND punktfunk-host with
nvenc, 63 unit tests (1 new), 23/23 NVENC on-hardware green. Verified .133:
Windows clippy -D warnings clean, zero dead_code. fmt clean.
2026-08-06 23:41:40 +02:00
enricobuehler e9da37aaf6 feat(host/gamelease): a launcher tile's session stops depending on invisible state
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A launcher entry (design D4) has no "the game exited" moment to detect, but the lease was
still deciding its lifetime from whatever happened to be true at launch — and the two
outcomes disagree:

  launcher NOT already running   the spawned child stays alive -> `Child` lease
                                 -> quitting the launcher ends the session
  launcher ALREADY running       the command forwards to the live instance and exits
                                 inside SHIM_WINDOW, with no detect signals behind it
                                 -> `Untracked` -> the session persists

Same tile, two lifetimes, chosen by something the user cannot see. Steam is the case that
settles which one is right: Big Picture is a *mode* of an already-running Steam client, not
a process — and on a Deck or SteamOS host Steam is always running — so no process signal can
express "the launcher's window closed". Heroic has the same shape for a different reason
(single-instance Electron: a second invocation forwards and exits).

So a launcher entry is now `LeaseKind::Untracked` unconditionally. The check sits AHEAD of
`nested`/`child`/`spec`, and that ordering is the fix rather than an implementation detail:
a launcher the host just started leaves a live child behind, and tracking that child is
precisely the inconsistency being removed.

`Untracked` already meant the right things downstream, so nothing else had to change: no
watcher thread, `terminate()` is a no-op ("nothing to end" — closing a session must not kill
the user's Steam), and no `GameExited` event, so a client does not bounce back to its library
when the launcher closes.

Threaded as `LaunchTarget::launcher` -> `LeaseRequest::launcher` from the entry's `role`.
Three call sites, one of which was the actual trap: the GameStream path does not build its
lease from a `LaunchTarget` at all, it goes through a `GsApp` intermediate that silently
dropped the field. An operator-typed `apps.json` command has no library entry behind it and
is never a launcher tile, so it passes `false` explicitly.

The test pins BOTH cases from the table above, plus the same request without the flag still
being `Matched` — so the assertions are the flag's doing and not an artifact of the fixture.

Gates: punktfunk-host 439 passed / 0 failed on .21 (+1).

Not covered here: nothing publishes launcher tiles until the plugins are released, so there
was no live exposure to fix — this is the semantics being made deliberate before the first
tile is ever clicked.
2026-08-06 18:35:09 +02:00
enricobuehler 166e158afe feat(host/library): an xbox launch kind a de-privileged plugin can publish
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The xbox scanner resolves each package's PackageFamilyName by enumerating
%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\Packages. Probed on .173 (design doc S1),
that directory is:

  NT AUTHORITY\LocalService   UnauthorizedAccessException   <- the plugin runner
  LocalSystem                 count=348                     <- the host service

So an extracted xbox plugin cannot build an AUMID, and `aumid` — which takes a complete
`<PFN>!<AppId>` — is unpublishable by one.

The design doc offered two fallbacks: entries without `aumid` (they would list but not
launch), or a one-shot elevated PFN resolve at install time. This is neither. The plugin
sends `<Identity>!<AppId>`, both read straight out of MicrosoftGame.config — which IS
readable de-privileged — and the host resolves the publisher hash at LAUNCH time, where it
already owns command construction.

That keeps D1 intact (the plugin supplies a validated value, the host builds the command),
it is the same shape as the `playnite` kind, and resolving late means a package update that
changes the publisher hash cannot leave a stale unlaunchable tile behind — which the
install-time cache would have.

`xbox_pfn` therefore moves from the scan path to the launch path rather than being deleted,
and its doc records the privilege asymmetry so the next reader doesn't re-derive it.

The charset guard is factored out (`aumid_part` / `valid_aumid`) and shared with the `aumid`
kind. On `aumid` it was belt-and-braces — every value was host-derived. On `xbox` it is
load-bearing: the Identity arrives over the wire from a plugin, and it is interpolated into
a `shell:AppsFolder\…` argument. Validated inbound at reconcile too, so a malformed value is
a 400 the plugin author can act on rather than a tile that fails on click.

Gates: punktfunk-host 438 passed / 0 failed on .21, and 55/0 for the library tests on .173
(where these arms actually compile). Both counts +1 for the new guard test.
2026-08-06 15:43:26 +02:00
enricobuehler 6ae2ea6708 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into worktree-library-clients 2026-08-06 14:45:36 +02:00
enricobuehler dd20a17edb test(host/library): the art tests build a file:// URL Windows can read
`local_art_bytes_is_confined_and_image_only` and `posix_local_art_is_classified_and_proxied`
built their `file://` values as `format!("file://{path}")`. On Windows that yields
`file://C:\covers\cover.png`, whose authority is `C:` — a UNC reference, not a local
file — so the read half failed on the box and the host suite was red there.

The parser is right and the tests were wrong: `@punktfunk/plugin-kit/library`'s `fileUrl`
emits `file:///C:/covers/cover.png` (three slashes, forward separators) and
`file_url_to_path` documents exactly that. A shared `file_url` helper now builds the value
the way the kit does, so both tests exercise the real plugin contract on both platforms
rather than a shape no plugin ever sends.

Found while gating the Playnite launch kinds on .173 — Linux CI never compiles these arms,
so the failure had gone unnoticed. Test-only: no product code changes.
2026-08-06 14:36:04 +02:00
enricobuehler 8ff2c2e1c6 feat(host/library): Playnite can publish again, and gets a fullscreen tile
The Playnite plugin emits `kind: "command"` for every game (a `start "" "playnite://…"`
shell line). The 2026-08-05 review made `command` operator-only, and `privileged_field`
refuses a PROVIDER reconcile carrying one — so on this branch the published
`@punktfunk/plugin-playnite@0.3.0` cannot publish anything at all. Not a launcher tile:
not one game. That is a regression against a shipped plugin, and it is the same hole
`launcher_ui` was created to close, one kind further along.

Two kinds, both host-owned so D1 holds — the plugin supplies a validated VALUE and
never a command line:

  playnite     valued by the game's GUID; resolves to
               explorer.exe "playnite://playnite/start/<guid>", the same
               protocol-via-a-concrete-EXE shape the `epic` kind uses. GUID-validated
               on the way in (so a bad value is a 400 the plugin author can act on)
               and again at launch.

  launcher_ui  now accepts "playnite" on Windows, resolving to
               Playnite.FullscreenApp.exe with Playnite's own install dir as the
               working directory.

Fullscreen, not Desktop, is the whole point of a couch tile — and it is also why this
one cannot ride the URI the games use: probed on .173, Playnite's registered
`playnite://` handler is bound to Playnite.DesktopApp.exe, so no URI opens fullscreen
mode. The exe is spawned directly, with the install dir read from Playnite's own
uninstall entry (HKCU, then HKLM for a machine-wide install), falling back to
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Playnite.

`valid_launcher_ui("playnite")` is answered by RESOLUTION rather than by a static list:
a host without Playnite installed refuses the entry instead of publishing a tile that
does nothing when a user clicks it. That is the same instinct that left Epic, GOG
Galaxy and the Xbox app off the list — each still needs its own verified activation,
and a guess would ship exactly that dead tile.

Gates: punktfunk-host 436 passed / 0 failed on .21 (the Linux arms), and the Windows
arms compiled and their library tests run on .173.
2026-08-06 14:35:48 +02:00
enricobuehler 883c317872 feat(clients/library): a launcher tile looks like one, on every client
The host has been able to describe a launcher entry since M2 — `role: "launcher"`,
the `steam_ui` and `launcher_ui` kinds — and the web console has grouped them into
their own rail since M4. No other client ever looked. `pf-client-core` decoded
`role` into an `is_launcher()` helper with zero call sites, and the shared console
model dropped the field entirely on its way to the renderer.

So a launcher tile arrived everywhere else as an ordinary game with no cover art:
indistinguishable from a title whose poster failed to load, sorted into the middle
of the alphabet, and captioned "Play".

One contract, implemented in each client's own idiom:

  * launchers never interleave with titles — they lead, and each group keeps the
    host's title order
  * grid surfaces get a labelled section; a coverflow keeps its single carousel and
    names the group the cursor is in, changing as it crosses the boundary. A second
    focus rail would mean a new up/down nav model in three renderers for two or
    three tiles
  * an art-less launcher gets an accent face naming its launcher, not a title
    monogram on the neutral one — "opens Steam", not "a cover that didn't load"
  * anything that is not `"launcher"` is a game, and a host that omits the field
    renders exactly as before (design D4's intended degradation)
  * launching is unchanged: the client sends an id, the host resolves the recipe

The grouping is enforced once per client stack rather than per screen. In the
console UI it is an invariant of `LibraryShared::set_games`, so the cursor
arithmetic, the art pump and every future consumer inherit it; on Apple and Android
it is applied where the library is fetched/parsed.

Fixed in passing: the Apple and Android store badges were hard-coded
`isCustom ? "Custom" : "Steam"`, so every Lutris, GOG, Heroic, Epic and Xbox title
was labelled "Steam". Both now carry the same store table the Rust clients use.

The CLI's `--library` gains a fourth column (`game`/`launcher`), appended rather
than folded into an existing one so anything reading the first three is untouched.

Gates: punktfunk-host 436 passed / 0 failed and pf-console-ui 49 passed / 0 failed
on .21 (three new tests), workspace clippy -D warnings and cargo fmt --check clean
there; `swift build` of the full PunktfunkClient and `:app:compileDebugKotlin` clean
on macOS; `cargo check` + `clippy -D warnings` for the Windows client on .173.

Still unproven on hardware: no launcher tile has been clicked on a real host — that
needs the plugins published, which needs this branch's base merged first.
2026-08-06 14:35:24 +02:00
enricobuehler 76e8bd1b98 fix(host/gamelease): a game that exited stops counting as running
When a launched game's processes are all gone, the watcher asks one last
out-of-band question before ending the session: does the launcher still
think the game is up? On Windows that reads Steam's per-app `Running`
registry flag. It was only ever meant to be a tie-breaker for a scan that
momentarily can't see the game — a launcher re-execing, an engine
relaunching itself into a new pid.

It had no bound. Honouring the flag reset the confirm window every pass,
so a flag Steam left set — it does that whenever it doesn't cleanly
observe the exit: it crashed, it was closed first, the game re-parented —
pinned the lease in `running` for the life of the host. The console kept
showing the game, `session_on_game_exit` never fired, and the only way to
get the stream back was a manual "End". Reported from the field on
Windows 0.24.0. `steam_running_hint` also believes the FIRST hive that
says so, so a stale flag in any loaded profile was enough.

The absence timer now keeps running instead of being reset, and that is
what bounds it: past `VETO_LIMIT` (30 s) with nothing of the game on the
box, the launcher's opinion is stale rather than early and the session
ends anyway, logged at WARN so it is visible. Ending a moment early is
the cheaper failure — the stream drops while the game lives, the user
reconnects, and nothing is ever killed. Ending never was the bug.

The rule is now a pure `exit_confirmed(gone_for, hint_running)` with a
test. The watch loop polls a live process table and can't be unit-tested,
which is exactly how an unbounded veto shipped unnoticed.
2026-08-06 13:58:24 +02:00
enricobuehler 6f07bd94d3 feat(library): launcher tiles a plugin can actually publish
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Design D4 promised entries that open the LAUNCHER — Steam Big Picture, Heroic,
Lutris — and the plumbing for it landed in M2/M4: the `role` field, the
`steam_ui` kind, the console's Launchers rail. But nothing could flow through it
for anything except Steam.

D4 said the other launchers would ride the `command` kind. The 2026-08-05 review
then made `launch.kind = "command"` operator-only (it is handed to a shell), so a
plugin publishing one is refused with a 403. The two changes are individually
right and jointly leave a hole: `steam_ui` was the only launcher kind a plugin
could publish, so a Heroic or Lutris tile was unreachable.

New `launcher_ui` kind, valued by store id. One kind rather than one per store
because every launcher except Steam has exactly a single UI to open; Steam keeps
its own kind because it genuinely has two. D1 is preserved — the plugin names a
launcher, the host builds the command, and no shell string crosses the wire:

  heroic -> the same native-or-Flatpak resolution the `heroic` game kind uses,
            minus --no-gui and minus the URI, so the window itself opens
  lutris -> bare `lutris`, which opens the window (the URI form is `lutris_id`)

Platform-gated to what this host can actually resolve, and validated INBOUND: a
value naming a launcher this OS cannot open is a 400 the plugin author can act
on, not a tile that silently does nothing when a user clicks it. Windows
launchers (Epic, GOG Galaxy, Xbox app) are deliberately absent — each needs its
own verified activation and a guess would ship exactly that dead tile.

Also closes a WP4.3 item I under-delivered and did not flag: the console's
add/edit form had no way to mark an entry as a launcher, so even hand-adding one
was impossible. It now has the checkbox — and `formFrom` round-trips it, without
which editing a launcher entry would silently demote it to a game, which is the
precise bug that file's own comment warns about.

Gates on .21: punktfunk-host 435 passed / 0 failed (two new), workspace clippy
-D warnings clean, cargo fmt --all --check clean, OpenAPI drift green. Console:
orval + paraglide regen, tsc clean, check-i18n at 604 messages for en + de.

Still unproven on hardware: no launcher tile has been clicked on a real host.
The steam plugin (the first to emit one) is not built yet.
2026-08-05 21:12:19 +02:00
enricobuehler d2085879da Merge main: plugin art rides THROUGH the H-2 confinement, not around it
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PR #58 hardened the art proxy in the same three files this branch rewrote, and
the two changes pull in opposite directions: #58 narrowed what the host will read
from disk, while WP1.2 widened what counts as a local art path so an extracted
scanner's covers can be served at all. Resolved so the widening goes through the
gate rather than beside it.

Kept from #58, unchanged: art_path_is_confined (UNC refusal, canonicalize-or-
refuse, config-dir exclusion, roots check), the image-extension whitelist,
sniff_image_type, validate_art_paths as write-time validation, the AuthLane
privileged-field check on every entry in a reconcile payload, and the launch
redaction in GET /library.

Three reconciliations:

  * `local_art_bytes` converts a `file://` value to a path BEFORE calling
    art_path_is_servable, so the confinement check and the read see the same
    path. Ordering is the point: percent-decoding happens before
    canonicalization, so a `%2e%2e` escape cannot hide from the traversal check.
    Pinned by a test.

  * `art_roots()` gains $HOME on POSIX. This is the one that would have bitten
    silently: the list was empty on non-Windows, which was correct while
    is_local_art_path was Windows-shaped (Playnite is Windows-only, so nothing on
    a POSIX host was ever classified as local art and the confinement had nothing
    to confine). Once WP1.2 classifies POSIX paths as local, an empty root list
    is not "secure by default" — it serves NO plugin art on Linux, which is every
    cover the lutris and steam plugins emit. $HOME is the exact analogue of the
    Windows users base #58 already ships, and covers Steam's librarycache and
    grid overrides, Lutris's coverart/banners (both copies), Heroic's caches and
    all the Flatpak variants. It is not the load-bearing control: a value still
    needs an image extension, must canonicalize to a real regular file inside a
    root and outside the config dir, and must CONTAIN image bytes.

  * The two tests that both wanted to mutate PUNKTFUNK_LIBRARY_ART_ROOTS became
    one. Cargo runs tests as parallel threads of a single process, so two tests
    setting the same env var race. The `file://` and confinement assertions moved
    into #58's existing confined test; what remains of the WP1.2 test is the
    pure classification/rewrite half, which touches neither env nor filesystem.

Also: `steam_ui` was missing from the list of host-resolved launch kinds in
privileged_field's doc comment and in the 403 a plugin sees. Prose only — the
check is a denylist (prep, launch.kind = "command"), so steam_ui was never
actually refused — but a plugin author reading that error would have concluded
otherwise.

Gates on .21: punktfunk-host 433 passed / 0 failed (including #58's H-2 tests and
the new file:// ones), full workspace tests clean, workspace clippy -D warnings
clean, cargo fmt --all --check clean, OpenAPI drift test green.
2026-08-05 19:59:11 +02:00
enricobuehler 0d94ef0dbe fix(host/mgmt): the field gate returns the refusal, not an error carrying it
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`check_entry_fields` returned `Result<(), Response>`, which trips
`clippy::result_large_err` under CI's `-D warnings`: an axum `Response` is 128
bytes and it was riding in the `Err` variant.

`Option<Response>` is the shape this always wanted. There is no error value to
propagate here — the "error" IS the response the handler sends back — so `None`
means "the payload may proceed" and `Some(r)` is the refusal to return. The call
sites read the same, one word different.

Caught by CI, not by me: I ran `cargo check` and not `cargo clippy -D warnings`.
2026-08-05 19:14:19 +02:00
enricobuehler defdfbdb58 fix(security): plugin UIs get their own origin
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Closes H-3 of the 2026-08-05 review, the last of its six highs. A plugin's
interface was reverse-proxied onto the console's own origin and framed with
`allow-same-origin`, so plugin JS ran as first-party code on that origin: one
`fetch('/api/**', {credentials:'same-origin'})` and the BFF attached the
operator's ADMIN bearer. That reached everything `plugin_may_access` withholds
— arm pairing, read the host PIN, approve a device, read `/hooks`. The "open
in new tab" link was the same escalation with no iframe involved at all.

The fix is not a sandbox attribute, and it is worth writing down why, because
the obvious change is the one that does not work. Dropping `allow-same-origin`
gives the frame an OPAQUE origin; its subresource requests are then cross-site;
the `SameSite=Lax` session cookie stops being sent; every plugin asset 302s to
/login and the frame is blank. Nothing about the new-tab link is helped either.

So the origin moves instead. A second listener on its own port (default
PORT + 1) serves plugin UIs and nothing else:

  different ORIGIN — scheme+host+PORT — so the same-origin policy separates the
                     plugin from the console: it cannot read the console's DOM,
                     its cross-origin fetch of /api/** is unreadable (no CORS)
                     and cannot mutate (Sec-Fetch-Site sees same-site).
  same SITE        — cookie scope ignores the port and SameSite is computed on
                     the site, so the session cookie still reaches the plugin
                     listener and plugin pages keep working.

Enforcement is two refusals and both are load-bearing: the console origin
refuses /plugin-ui/**, and the plugin origin refuses everything ELSE — above
all /api/**, which would otherwise hand the admin bearer right back to plugin
JS that is now same-origin with that listener. Both are unconditional: if the
plugin port cannot be bound, plugin UIs are DISABLED and the console says so,
rather than falling back to the arrangement this exists to remove.

Two consequences that would otherwise bite in the field:

  The port has to be open. Done for the Windows netsh rule, the firewalld
  service and the ufw profile.

  A browser stores a self-signed-certificate exception per ORIGIN, including
  the port — and a certificate interstitial can never be shown inside an
  iframe, so the frame would just sit blank with nothing on screen explaining
  why. A `no-cors` probe distinguishes it (a TLS failure rejects; any HTTP
  answer, even 401, resolves) and the console renders a card linking the
  operator to open the port once in a real tab.

Also here: the health probe moved server-side to the console origin (it used
to rely on being same-origin with the plugin), the postMessage listener now
verifies `event.origin` — a real check rather than a tautology — and
plugin-kit's `postMessage(..., "*")` is documented as load-bearing, since
narrowing it to `location.origin` would now target the plugin's own origin and
silently drop every message.

Verified against a running console with a fake mgmt API and a fake plugin:
console /plugin-ui/** → 404; plugin-origin /api/v1/hooks, /, /login,
/_auth/logout → 404; plugin page loads 200 through its own origin;
unauthenticated plugin origin → 401 (not a redirect to a /login it does not
serve); a forged x-pf-listener header changes nothing on either listener; the
plugin's own Clear-Site-Data / Access-Control-Allow-Origin / Set-Cookie are
dropped by the proxy allowlist; the plugin origin's CSP names the console as
its only frame-ancestors source; and with the port squatted, ui-config reports
`unavailable`, the console still refuses /plugin-ui/**, and the console itself
keeps working.

Still wants on-glass confirmation in a real browser — the cookie and framing
behaviour is reasoned from spec, not observed.

cargo fmt --all --check clean; cargo check -p punktfunk-host --all-targets
green on Windows; web console builds and typechecks.
2026-08-05 17:50:04 +02:00
enricobuehler 8103958169 fix(security): the plugin lane stops being a way in
Acts on the 2026-08-05 host security review. 36 of its 38 findings; the two
exceptions are recorded below and in the review doc.

The review's headline is that `plugin_may_access` was the one authorization
gate in the system that was allow-by-default — a hand-maintained denylist of
route prefixes, where every sibling gate is deny-by-default. Its own doc
comment names the two capabilities it exists to withhold, and both were
reachable one route over, because ~1450 commits of new routes were added and
the list was never one of the things anyone remembered to update.

So the gate is now an allowlist, and a test walks the live route table and
fails the build for any route that has not been deliberately classified for
both non-admin lanes. That test is the actual fix: it is what stops the next
route from arriving pre-authorized.

Route reachability and field authority turned out to be different questions.
A provider plugin has to be able to reconcile its own library entries — that
is what a scanner plugin IS — but `prep` and a `command` launch inside that
payload are handed to `/bin/sh -c` as the host user, and every execution site
documents them as operator-typed. Requests now carry the lane that authorized
them, and those two fields are refused to everyone but the operator's own
token.

The art proxy read any absolute path off disk in the host process, which on
Windows is LocalSystem, from a path the plugin lane could write and then read
back — so it yielded `mgmt-token`, which is full admin. It now serves only
real images (extension AND magic bytes, so a renamed secret fails), only from
inside an allowed root, only after canonicalization, and never over UNC; and
a path it would refuse to serve can no longer be persisted in the first place.

On Windows, the config-dir hardening was skipped exactly when it was needed —
it ran only in the branch that CREATES host.env, so the case it was written
for (a local user pre-created the directory and planted one) was the one case
it never ran in. It is now unconditional and first, an existing host.env is
re-owned, and the inheritable OWNER RIGHTS ACE that kept an attacker's files
theirs after the directory was re-owned is gone. The identity and token
readers were hardening the directory only on the path that GENERATED a new
secret, so a planted cert/key or token was adopted verbatim and permanently;
they harden before the first read now.

`ensure_admin_only_source` is implemented. The 2026-07-05 audit recorded it as
FIXED and it was in no commit in this repository's history — the local EoP it
described was live, and it is the payload half of the config-dir chain above.

Also: the three input planes are bounded and lossy like the mic plane on the
same loop already was; Android's library client no longer accepts any
publicly-trusted certificate for the pinned host; the usbip vhci nodes get
their own group instead of riding on `input`, which every packaging scriptlet
tells users to join; a registry URL can no longer inject a TOML table into
bunfig.toml; the pairing cooldown is charged before the arming state is read,
so armed/disarmed is no longer a free oracle; and the whole Low tier, of which
the two worth naming are a clipboard MIME NUL that panicked the host on one
control message, and an unauthenticated global logout that let any LAN peer
sign the operator out on a loop.

NOT fixed, deliberately:

  H-3 (plugin UIs framed allow-same-origin). Dropping allow-same-origin does
  not work: the document's origin goes opaque, its subresource requests are
  then cross-site, the SameSite=Lax session cookie is not sent, and every
  plugin asset 302s to /login. The "open in new tab" link is the same
  escalation with no iframe at all, so the sandbox attribute is not where this
  gets fixed either. It needs a second listener — a distinct origin that is
  still the same site — which changes the console's deploy model and wants
  on-glass validation. The mechanism and the dead end are written down at the
  iframe.

  H-6 registry authentication, whose other half lives in unom/infra. The
  in-repo halves are done: workflow_dispatch inputs no longer interpolate into
  run: blocks (one of them in the step holding UPDATE_MANIFEST_KEY), and the
  syft installer is pinned to its tag instead of main. Digest pinning is left
  until the registry is authenticated, because a tag — content-keyed or not —
  can simply be overwritten while anonymous pushes are accepted.

M-5 is half done: the oracle is closed, but binding the arming window needs
the console to learn the fingerprint first, which is a knock-then-bind flow
rather than an edit.

Verified: cargo fmt --all --check clean; cargo check --all-targets green on
Linux and on Windows (confirmed non-vacuous — a planted type error in
windows/install.rs fails the build); scripts/xcheck.sh windows check green;
cargo test -p punktfunk-host --bins 416 passed, the single failure being
gamestream::stream::tests::sender_delivers_batches, the known qemu-environmental
UDP-loopback flake that fails identically on clean main in the same container;
cargo test -p pf-clipboard 13 passed; web console typechecks.
2026-08-05 17:12:12 +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 a418d2852a refactor(host/library): launch helpers into launch.rs, art proxy resolves any id
M1 of design/library-scanner-plugins-implementation-plan.md — behavior-frozen
groundwork for lifting the six scanners out into plugins.

WP1.1: heroic_command/heroic_launch_prefix, epic_launch_uri, gog_spawn,
valid_steam_appid and shortcut_gameid move into library/launch.rs with their
unit tests. The scanner modules beside it now do enumeration only, so they can
be deleted wholesale later without taking launch logic with them (D1).

WP1.2: is_local_art_path accepts file:// (the plugin contract) and POSIX
absolute paths, excluding the two /-leading shapes the host itself emits (its
own /api/ proxy path and protocol-relative CDN URLs). local_art_bytes
percent-decodes and converts a file:// value first. The art proxy and
fetch_box_art resolve ANY id against library.json before the legacy steam:
branch, so a plugin's entries serve art without the host knowing its store.

No API change; no user-visible change.
2026-08-05 09:09:19 +02:00
enricobuehler e5416646f9 fix(host/send): a stall-resume frame paces at the proven rate instead of blasting
Stall program T2 (amplification kill), the resume-burst half. The native
pace budget was min(0.9 × time-to-deadline, overflow at ~3× stream rate) —
for steady-state frames the rate term is smaller and decides, but for an
OVERSIZED frame (a capture-stall resume carrying seconds of scene delta, a
cold IDR) the deadline term clamped a multi-interval overflow into the
remainder of ONE: an instantaneous many-×-stream-rate blast that overruns
the socket tx-buffer and loses the very frame that would have ended the
freeze. Field fingerprint across three RDNA4 standby-sink cases:
WSAENOBUFS(10055) + loss_ppm spikes at stall edges, then a recovery-IDR
round trip per retry while the client shows 'current bitrate 0.1'.

The budget is now the overflow's wire time at the pace rate itself
(send_pacing::native_budget, pure + unit-tested), bounded by an absolute
100 ms ceiling so a pathological frame can't park the send thread; the
deadline stays a target, never a license to blast. Steady-state frames
produce byte-identical schedules (the rate term already decided);
PUNKTFUNK_PACE_FACTOR=0 keeps the legacy deadline-only spread; the
GameStream plane's Moonlight-pinned schedule is untouched.

Gates: host clippy --all-targets -D warnings + 9 send_pacing tests green
(linux/amd64 container), fmt clean.
2026-08-05 00:28:13 +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
enricobuehler b31495bea5 fix(host): a leftover Sunshine folder is not a conflict, and a crashed host gives the screen back
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Three things a field report (Discord, upgrade from 0.1x) turned up, all on the
Windows host.

1. "It thinks I have Sunshine/Apollo running." It didn't — they were uninstalled.
   Both uninstallers leave their config/log directory in Program Files behind, and
   `detect.rs` counted a bare directory, or a service registered at ANY start type
   (including `disabled`), as a live conflict. The installer's own probe was
   narrowed to "service start type <= 2" after exactly this cried wolf on a
   `winget install`, and the tray dropped its always-on warning for the same reason
   in 3e782852 — the runtime probe never got the same treatment, so the one surface
   the user actually looks at kept shouting. `Evidence::is_active` now draws the
   line (running, or set to start on its own) and only active detections reach the
   startup warning, the `detect-conflicts` exit code, and `/local/summary`. Dormant
   findings still print in the full report, under a heading that says they need no
   action — that report is where "why does it think I have Apollo?" gets answered.

2. The console's conflicts card hardcoded "Another game-streaming server is
   **running** on this machine" regardless of what was found, so a dormant leftover
   was announced as a running server. It now says "active", and each entry names
   the observation — `Sunshine (running)`, `Apollo (starts automatically)`.

3. "The exclusive screen never times out going back to re-enabling the display."
   `isolate_displays_ccd` deactivates the operator's panels and hands the
   pre-isolate topology to the caller, which restores it at teardown — but that
   snapshot is PROCESS MEMORY, and Windows deliberately never saves the isolated
   topology to the CCD database. So a host that crashed, was killed, or was stopped
   mid-session left the desk dark with nothing in the product to undo it. There was
   one startup recovery leg already, but only for the EXPERIMENTAL
   `pnp_disable_monitors` axis, which is off by default — the default Exclusive path
   had none. `isolate_journal` now marks what an isolate is about to switch off
   (before the apply, so dying mid-apply is covered), clears the mark on restore,
   and force-EXTENDs at host startup if a mark survived. EXTEND rather than
   replaying the saved blob: the blob pins the virtual display's target id, which
   dies with the crashed host, so a replay would mostly fail BAD_CONFIGURATION into
   the very same backstop `restore_displays_ccd` already keeps — and EXTEND stays
   correct across a reboot, where saved ids would be stale.
2026-08-04 22:34:33 +02:00
enricobuehler 9f1f23eb40 Merge pull request 'feat(wire): mid-session shard-payload renegotiation — the black screen heals in seconds, jumbo behind an opt-in' (#41) from worktree-shard-payload-reneg into main
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2026-08-04 18:06:41 +00:00
enricobuehler 34ad3cc611 feat(host/wire): mid-session shard-payload renegotiation, driven by the MTU verdict
Phases 1-2 of design/shard-payload-reneg.md, on top of the Phase 0
per-frame geometry. The leg-1 watcher stops merely diagnosing the
constrained path and heals the CURRENT session; the same machinery,
inverted, takes a proven jumbo LAN up to ~8.9 KB shards.

- Messages: MSG_SHARD_PAYLOAD_CHANGED (0x08, host→client, {shard_payload
  u16}) and MSG_SHARD_PAYLOAD_ACK (0x09, the echo). Asymmetric by
  design: a shrink re-keys the packetizer at the next AU immediately
  after sending (per-frame pinning makes ordering irrelevant; the ack is
  telemetry), a grow emits nothing above the old size until the ack —
  the ack is the gate even though client buffers are statically sized.
- Client: one dispatch arm in the shared pump control task (all client
  families) — validate against the advertised receive bounds, ack;
  out-of-bounds requests get SILENCE, not an ack, so a buggy host can
  never read a granted grow out of garbage.
- Host driver: the wire_mtu watcher grows a ShardReneg arm — on a
  below-ceiling verdict it still records the learned budget (session 2
  starts right) and now also shrinks session 1 at the ~3-10 s verdict
  mark; with the jumbo opt-in (PUNKTFUNK_JUMBO=1, or PUNKTFUNK_WIRE_MTU
  > 1500 — one knob, derived) it sends the ack-gated grow after a
  settled-at-sealed-jumbo proof and then stays alive as the revert
  guard: quinn's blackhole detection lowering current_mtu shrinks the
  wire back through the same path. The QUIC MTUD probe ceiling rises
  from 1472 to the sealed jumbo size with the opt-in (per-ENDPOINT: a
  few extra failed probes toward non-jumbo peers, zero cost otherwise).
- Apply point: Session::set_shard_payload drained in the send loop next
  to the adaptive-FEC target, gated on no open streamed AU (a streamed
  frame's shard-aligned tiling derives from the size it began with).
- Renegotiation is gated OFF for PyroWave sessions: their clients parse
  chunk-aligned AUs in windows of the Welcome value pinned at session
  start (read once over the C ABI), so a mid-stream re-key would corrupt
  the parse — those sessions keep the leg-1 next-session clamp. This
  also settles the plan's open question on the two wire_chunk consumers:
  both are PyroWave-only, so the gate covers them entirely.
- Legacy peers are inert both ways: no Hello advertisement → the host
  never constructs the driver; an old host never sends the message.

core: 296/296 --features quic + clippy -D warnings (macOS), fmt; the
regenerated header carries the new message ids (drift gate).
2026-08-04 19:42:36 +02:00
enricobuehler 69f1db5ea9 Merge pull request 'feat(host/wire): MTU resilience for the video data plane' (#37) from worktree-wire-mtu-resilience into main
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enricobuehler 4bc7eecf05 feat(host/wire): MTU resilience for the video data plane
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Video datagrams are sealed at a shard payload sized for a clean 1500-byte
MTU (1472-byte UDP payloads). A host whose route to the client crosses a
smaller-MTU hop (a VPN/overlay adapter claiming the LAN route, a lowered
NIC MTU) delivers every small flow — QUIC control, hole punch, input,
audio — while 100% of video datagrams die: the client sits on a black
screen reporting zero loss and the host streams into the void with every
gauge green. Field-reported as 'connects fine, black screen forever'.

Three legs, none of which changes a session on a healthy path:

- PUNKTFUNK_WIRE_MTU operator override: shard payload derived from a
  given on-wire IP MTU. Wire-compatible — Welcome::shard_payload is
  already negotiated per session (the v4/v6 split ships two values
  today) and every client follows the negotiated value.
- Detection: the QUIC MTU-discovery probe ceiling moves from quinn's
  stock 1452 to exactly the sealed video-datagram size (1472), so a
  control connection's settled MTU becomes a verdict on the path:
  settled at the ceiling proves it carries video, settled below proves
  it cannot. A per-session watcher samples after the search has settled
  (live-connection guard against mid-search false learns) and logs an
  actionable WARN naming the failure shape and the diagnosis commands.
- Healing: the measured budget is recorded per peer IP; the next
  handshake clamps shard_payload to fit, so a reconnect self-heals. A
  later session that reaches the ceiling erases the record.

Verified: core 286/286 --features quic + clippy -D warnings (macOS);
host clippy -D warnings + native:: tests 44/44 (pf-lxcheck container).
The regenerated C header picks up the new MIN_SHARD_PAYLOAD constant.
2026-08-04 18:30:33 +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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 17:58:17 +02:00
enricobuehlerandClaude Opus 5 3055e29ebb feat(host/audio): make audio observable, fix the endpoint choice, raise the encode quality
Phases 0-3 of design/audio-quality-and-latency.md, host side.

**WP2.1 — the 2026-08-03 root cause.** The client-only loopback preference took Steam's
Streaming *Microphone* render endpoint over real hardware unconditionally, because it is
silent on the host. But that endpoint exists to carry remote VOICE, and nothing checked
whether it could carry music: on the reporter's box it won all 31 loopback opens across 25
sessions while a clean AMD HD Audio endpoint sat idle, and the whole desktop mix went
through it before reaching Opus. A silent sink now has to EARN its preference — if its mix
format narrows the mix it drops below real hardware. It is still taken when nothing better
exists (narrow audio beats no audio), but flagged so the capture side says why.

`plan_with_formats` takes a probe rather than reading WASAPI, so all 26 wiring-plan tests
still run on every platform. An unknown format counts as fine, which is asserted:
`unknown_formats_reproduce_the_formatless_plan` proves a probe failure can never make the
plan worse than it was before formats existed.

**WP0.1 — log the endpoint's ACTUAL mix format.** Everything the old log printed ("48 kHz
f32 channels=2") was our REQUEST; with `autoconvert` WASAPI converts silently from whatever
the endpoint really runs. That is why a 3,600-line log filed over an audio-quality
complaint contained nothing that could diagnose it.

**WP0.2 — count what we drop.** The capture->encode handoff was a silent lossy `try_send`:
a stalled encode thread lost chunks, the encoder concatenated across the hole, and nothing
recorded it — a click plus a permanent shift of everything after. Now counted and warned,
alongside per-window peak/RMS/delivered% so a quiet host, a broken endpoint and a stream we
are damaging ourselves stop looking identical.

**WP2.4 — stop the default-device tug-of-war.** In Assert mode the capture is bound to the
planned endpoint EXPLICITLY, so a hijacked default changes only where apps render — the old
full reopen tore the capture down for nothing. The field log shows the cost: something
re-set the default every ~4 s and each round was a teardown, a wiring pass with
IPolicyConfig writes, and an audible dropout — seven in sixteen seconds, one ending in a
2 s error backoff. Now: put the default back, keep the stream, and after four rounds in
twenty seconds concede for a minute and say so once.

**WP1.1/1.2 — encode quality.** Constrained VBR (the hard-CBR comment justifies itself with
GameStream's audio FEC, which this plane does not have) and `AudioTier::High` by default:
stereo 128 -> 256 kbps, ~1 % of a 20 Mbps session. GameStream's encoder is deliberately
untouched — its FEC really does need fixed-size packets.

**WP3.1 — redundant `0xD2` plane**, sent when the client asked for it.

**WP2.2 — `audio.output_mode`** as a first-class setting (`client_only` / `host_and_client`
/ `follow_default`), superseding the two undocumented env vars, which stay honoured. The
enum lives in pf-host-config, which is deliberately dependency-free, so the tier table stays
in core where the codec knowledge is.

`capture_policy.rs` is split out for the same reason `wiring_plan.rs` is: both encode field
behaviour, so their tests must run on Linux CI, not only on a Windows box. That split
immediately earned itself — `capture_stats_separate_silence_from_signal` caught RMS being
divided by the FRAME count while summed over interleaved SAMPLES, which inflated it by
sqrt(channels) and made a sine report an RMS equal to its own peak.

WP4.5 (open the loopback at the minimum device period) is deliberately NOT done: in shared
mode `IAudioClient::Initialize` cannot change the engine period at all, so it would be a
no-op at best and a new failure path at worst. Recorded in the code. WP2.3 (force the parked
endpoint's volume) is deferred — `wasapi` keeps IMMDevice private, so it needs new raw COM
on a path this tree cannot compile, let alone test; its diagnostic half ships as the RMS
line above.

Verified: punktfunk-host + pf-host-config clippy --all-targets -D warnings and the audio
test suite under Linux/docker (gate proven non-vacuous with a planted type error); 26
wiring-plan tests standalone; fmt. The Windows-only halves of wasapi_cap.rs and
audio_control.rs are NOT compile-verified anywhere yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 09:02:12 +02:00