FFmpeg's Vulkan Video hwaccel is the youngest code in our decode chain (merged
around 6.1/7.0) and 7.1 is a stabilisation branch that does not receive its ongoing
fixes. Both field reports of silent inter-frame corruption on Windows — Intel B580
(2026-07) and AMD Xbox Ally X (2026-08) — sit on that hwaccel, while the mature
d3d11va one streams clean on the same boxes. Getting onto current FFmpeg is the
cheapest thing that can move that, and it keeps Vulkan Video as the default rather
than demoting a whole vendor to DXVA.
Not new ground for our API usage: Ubuntu 26.04 already ships avcodec 62 (FFmpeg
8.0.1) and pf-client-core clippies clean there today. ffmpeg-sys-next 8.1.0 accepts
avcodec 56..63, so the binding needs no change.
The presence check is now version-stamped. It used to test only for
`lib\avcodec.lib`, which meant editing the pin here would have done NOTHING on every
already-provisioned runner — CI would have gone on building against 7.1 while this
file said 8.1, and the bump would have looked applied without being applied. A
`.punktfunk-ffmpeg-version` marker, written only after a successful extract, makes
runners re-provision themselves when the pin moves.
Still lgpl-shared (the licensing posture is unchanged) and still SHA-256 pinned
fail-closed; both pins re-captured 2026-08-05 from the current n8.1 assets.
Verified on the CI runner against a SEPARATE tree (C:\temp\ff81 — the canonical
C:\Users\Public\ffmpeg is shared with every other branch's jobs and was left alone):
ffmpeg n8.1.2, `cargo check -p pf-client-core --all-targets` and
`cargo check -p pf-encode --features amf-qsv,qsv --all-targets` both clean.
Address findings from a repo security review:
- core: add a sliding-window anti-replay filter over the AEAD-authenticated
sequence in Session (poll_input/poll_frame), closing the input-replay gap the
data plane previously left to the LAN/VPN trust assumption. 4096-deep window,
unit-tested; the encrypted loopback suite confirms no false drops.
- clients: write the mTLS client private key 0600 and lock the config dir 0700
on Unix (it was world-readable at the umask default), re-locking existing
stores on load. pf-client-core::trust plus the probe's own identity writer.
Windows keeps the %APPDATA% ACL; Android/Apple already wrap the key.
- web: fix a post-login open redirect — resolve `next` via URL and require it to
stay same-origin, rejecting `/\evil.com` and tab/encoding variants the old
`!startsWith("//")` guard missed. Also fixes the dead safeNextPath helper.
- ci: SHA-256-pin the BtbN FFmpeg DLLs bundled into the signed Windows installer
(were fetched from the rolling `latest` tag unverified); fails closed on a
re-roll, matching the VB-CABLE gate.
- ci: fail-open fork-guard on the Windows/Apple host-mode PR build jobs that
share runner labels with the signing jobs. Definitive fix stays server-side
(Gitea outside-collaborator approval / isolated PR runners) — see the notes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The punktfunk-session Vulkan client (clients/linux-session, now clients/session)
builds and runs on Windows; the WinUI shell spawns it for every stream. Verified
live: 10-bit HEVC via Vulkan Video on both AMD (iGPU) and NVIDIA, 5120x1440 at
130 fps / 8 ms end-to-end on the RTX 4090.
- pf-ffvk: Windows bindgen branch (FFMPEG_DIR + PF_FFVK_VULKAN_INCLUDE, no
pkg-config); provisioning fetches Vulkan-Headers (pinned v1.4.309).
- pf-client-core: builds on Windows — WASAPI audio (audio_wasapi.rs, cfg-swapped
via #[path], same surface as the PipeWire twin), VAAPI/dmabuf gated inline
(chain = vulkan -> software), trust reads the WinUI shell's %APPDATA% stores
(parity tests pin both serialized shapes), Settings gains adapter/hdr_enabled
(serde-defaulted; Linux stores unaffected).
- pf-presenter: builds on Windows — dmabuf module Linux-gated; SDL keyboard grab
while captured (Alt+Tab/Win reach the host); pick_device ranks discrete over
integrated (device 0 was the iGPU on hybrid boxes — the silent footgun) and
honors PUNKTFUNK_VK_ADAPTER (the Settings GPU pick, exported by the session).
- run loop: block in one SDL wait woken by input AND decoded frames (a per-
session forwarder pushes a FrameWake user event) instead of a 1 ms poll —
measured 111%% -> 5%% of a core (NVIDIA), 86%% -> 3.5%% (AMD), stats unchanged.
The pump's decode-fence wait became once-per-window sampling (no per-frame
pipeline stall; the stat now shows true backlog).
- pf-console-ui: builds on Windows (skia-safe msvc prebuilts); font lookup falls
through fontconfig aliases to concrete DirectWrite families (Consolas/Segoe UI)
— browse/coverflow works, verified against a live host.
- WinUI shell: session-always via new src/spawn.rs (GTK spawn.rs port —
CREATE_NO_WINDOW, stdout contract, kill handle); the Stream screen is a status
card (chips + stage lines from the child's stats). The legacy in-process
D3D11VA path stays behind Settings "Streaming engine" / PUNKTFUNK_BUILTIN_
STREAM=1 as the A/B baseline until Phase 8 deletes it. SessionParams.video_caps
makes the HDR toggle real.
- clients/linux-session renamed to clients/session (builds for both OSes).
- CI/MSIX: both workflows build/test both bins with widened path filters; the
MSIX ships punktfunk-session.exe. ARM64 session builds --no-default-features
(rust-skia has no aarch64-pc-windows-msvc prebuilts; flip when it does).
A/B on this box (5120x1440 HEVC vs home-worker-5): NVIDIA Vulkan 130 fps / 8 ms
e2e / 1.6 ms decode — clearly better than the built-in path. The AMD iGPU VCN
saturates at ~52 fps where its own D3D11VA does ~70 — Adrenalin Vulkan decode is
slower on APU silicon; discrete RDNA validation gates Phase 8.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Modern branded wizard: WizardStyle=modern dynamic windows11 (Inno >= 6.6,
plain-modern fallback for older compilers; CI provisioning upgrades a
pre-6.6 Inno). Brand-mark wizard side panels + header tiles (100-200% DPI)
and a multi-size punktfunk.ico (SetupIconFile + Apps & Features), generated
AND committed by branding/gen-branding.ps1 from the canonical brand geometry.
Gotcha encoded in the script: ISCC rejects all-PNG icons, so entries <= 64px
are classic DIBs (PNG only at 128/256), and the ICO is load-verified.
- VB-CABLE actually ships now: windows-host.yml never set VBCABLE_DIR, so every
published installer silently omitted the virtual mic (broken mic passthrough
in the field). CI provisions the pinned, SHA-256-verified official Pack45
(provision-windows-punktfunk-extras.ps1) and the pack now FAILS on a
supplied-but-invalid dir instead of shipping mic-less again. Attribution per
VB-Audio's bundling grant surfaced in the visible wizard task text (vendor,
vb-cable.com, donationware) on top of the licenses notice.
- GameStream (Moonlight) compat is a wizard task (checked by default) ->
service install --gamestream=on|off writes PUNKTFUNK_HOST_CMD=
serve[ --gamestream] into host.env. Only the two canonical values are ever
rewritten - a hand-customized command line survives upgrades. Silent
installs: /MERGETASKS="!gamestream".
- Driver uninstall (field report: our virtual-device drivers survived
uninstall): new `driver uninstall [--gamepad]` removes the pf-vdisplay
device node(s) + the pf-vdisplay/pf-dualsense/pf-xusb driver-store packages,
wired into [UninstallRun] after service uninstall. Locale-safe by
construction: devices matched on unlocalized VALUES (never pnputil's
localized labels), packages found by INF content scan - validated against a
German-locale box ("Instanz-ID:" parse; 7/7 punktfunk INFs matched, no
foreign hits). VB-CABLE is deliberately left installed (shared third-party
component with its own uninstaller).
Installer compile, cargo check/clippy/fmt, and the ASCII locale gate are green;
the wizard look + uninstall flow still need one on-glass pass on a disposable
box (this box runs the live host).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Windows CI runner (home-windows-runner-1, vmid 210) is now provisioned/owned by
unom/infra and can be rebuilt or joined by additional windows-amd64-labeled runners at
any time - a manually-dispatched provisioning workflow has no way to target a specific
runner instance, so it could land on an already-provisioned box instead of the one that
needed it. Replace windows-drivers-provision.yml / windows-punktfunk-provision.yml with
scripts/ci/ensure-windows-toolchain.ps1, a shared idempotent pre-flight (WDK/cargo-wdk,
FFmpeg, Inno Setup, ARM64 rustup target) that every Windows workflow now runs at job
start - a fast no-op once already provisioned, so any runner self-heals on first real use.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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