A WGC-helper exit (crash, or a console disconnect killing its session) used to
end the stream. Now virtual_stream_relay rebuilds the output + helper and resumes
on the new helper's opening IDR. Rebuild — not respawn-on-the-old-target —
because an abruptly-killed helper leaves the SudoVDA's DXGI output briefly
unresolvable ("no DXGI output for target N yet"), and a console reconnect needs
a fresh output in the new session; `build` (the same path reconfigure uses)
recreates both. Bounded: 500ms backoff per attempt, give up after
MAX_HELPER_FAILS (20) consecutive failures; the counter resets on the first
relayed frame.
Live-validated on the RTX 4090 (host as SYSTEM): force-killed the helper PID
mid-stream → exactly one "WGC helper exited — rebuilt output + helper fails=1" →
the stream recovered and client-rs decoded 645 HEVC Main-10 frames continuously
across the kill (an earlier respawn-on-stale-target attempt storm-failed with
"no DXGI output", which the rebuild fixes).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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