CreateProcessAsUserW gives the spawned helper the *user's* environment block, so
the host's PUNKTFUNK_ENCODER=nvenc (and ZEROCOPY/PERF/…) were dropped and the
helper fell back to the software (H.264-only) encoder — the client negotiated
H265 → "WGC helper exited". `merged_env_block` now parses the user block, strips
any PUNKTFUNK_* it carried, overlays this (host) process's PUNKTFUNK_* vars, and
passes the merged UTF-16 block.
Validated live on the RTX 4090 (host as SYSTEM): the helper spawns via
CreateProcessAsUserW, runs WGC with no hang (HDR FP16 BT.2020 PQ), opens NVENC
(D3D11 Main10), and relays AUs over the pipe — client-rs decoded 411 HEVC
Main-10 frames over the LAN. Step 4 (spawn + relay) complete.
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`virtual_stream_relay` now muxes the AU source by input desktop. A DesktopWatcher
(SYSTEM-only Winlogon-name poll) drives it: the user-session WGC helper relay
feeds the normal (Default) desktop; the host's OWN DDA capturer+encoder — opened
lazily on the first secure transition, on the same SudoVDA target with a no-op
keepalive (the host still holds the real isolation owner) — captures the secure
(Winlogon: UAC/lock/login) desktop that WGC can't see. Every switch latches
"wait for IDR" and forces the now-active source to emit a keyframe (the two
encoders keep independent infinite-GOP state, so the client must resume on an
IDR); returning to the helper also drains its stale buffered AUs first.
Reconfigure drops the stale-target DDA; keyframe requests route to the live
source. Send path (FEC/seal/paced-send) unchanged.
Also: wgc_relay gains try_recv (drain on switch-back); open_dda takes dims as
args (avoids a closure borrow of the reassigned cur_mode); the forward! macro
returns bool with `break 'outer` at the call site (no in-macro label hygiene).
cfg-gated windows-only. Live validation (UAC switch over a session) pending.
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The SYSTEM host now sources the normal-desktop video from a user-session WGC
helper instead of capturing in-process (WGC won't activate as SYSTEM). New
`capture/wgc_relay.rs`: `HelperRelay::spawn` launches `m3-host wgc-helper` in the
interactive user session via CreateProcessAsUserW (WTSQueryUserToken →
DuplicateTokenEx(TokenPrimary) → lpDesktop="winsta0\\default", CREATE_NO_WINDOW)
with three anonymous pipes — stdout (framed Annex-B AUs → parsed back to
RelayAu), stdin (control: force-keyframe), stderr (helper logs → host tracing).
The host holds the SudoVDA keepalive (sole isolation/topology owner); the helper
captures by GDI name only.
m3.rs: `virtual_stream` dispatches to the new `virtual_stream_relay` when
`should_use_helper()` (running as SYSTEM, or PUNKTFUNK_FORCE_HELPER; disable with
PUNKTFUNK_NO_HELPER). The relay loop feeds the existing send thread — same
FEC/seal/paced-send path. Reconfigure rebuilds the output + re-spawns the helper;
keyframe requests forward over the control pipe; helper pts_ns (same-machine
monotonic clock) is used directly as capture_ns. Disconnect ends the stream
(step 6 adds the relaunch watchdog).
wgc_helper.rs: reads the stdin control byte to request an IDR; --bit-depth flag
threaded through so SDR 10-bit (Main10) negotiation reaches the helper's encoder.
cfg-gated windows-only; Linux/macOS build unaffected. Step 5 (DesktopWatcher mux
to host DDA on the Winlogon secure desktop) is next.
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