FFmpeg's Vulkan Video decoder now runs on the PRESENTER's own VkDevice — the decoded VkImage feeds the existing CICP CSC pass directly: zero copy, no interop, and NVIDIA gets hardware decode for the first time (its VAAPI is unusable by design). One decode architecture for every vendor going forward; VAAPI-dmabuf and software remain the fallbacks (auto: vulkan → vaapi → software; PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=vulkan pins it). Presenter: instance 1.3; probes VK_KHR_video_queue/decode_queue + codec extensions, a VIDEO_DECODE queue family (+ its codec caps via QueueFamilyVideoPropertiesKHR), and the samplerYcbcrConversion/ timelineSemaphore/synchronization2 features — all enabled at device creation when present, exported as a VulkanDecodeDevice handle bundle. Decoder: AVVulkanDeviceContext built over those handles via pf-ffvk (features chain, extension lists, deprecated queue indices + the qf[] map); get_format supplies OUR frames context with MUTABLE_FORMAT so the presenter's per-plane views are legal; output is DecodedImage::VkFrame carrying AVVkFrame/frames-ctx pointers plus the lock fns. Present: R8+R8G8 plane views over the multiplanar image, the live sync state read under the AVVulkanFramesContext lock, a timeline-semaphore wait(sem_value)/signal(sem_value+1) folded into the submit, layout/ queue-family/sem_value written back per FFmpeg's contract, and the frame guard parked in the retire queue until the fence. CSC pass + video framebuffer are now unconditional (NVIDIA has no dmabuf-import path). Verified on the RTX 5070 Ti: device creates with decode_qf=3, caps=DECODE_H264|H265|AV1|VP9; swapchain unaffected. Live stream validation next. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
punktfunk-session
The Vulkan session binary: one stream per invocation in an SDL3 window — no UI toolkit,
no widgets, terminal stats. The power-user / gamescope stream client, and the stage-2
presenter of the Linux client re-architecture (punktfunk-planning:
linux-client-rearchitecture.md).
punktfunk-session --connect host[:port] [--fp HEX] [--launch id] [--fullscreen] [--stats]
punktfunk-session --browse host[:port] [--mgmt PORT] [--fullscreen]
--browse opens the console game library (the Skia coverflow over the animated aurora)
instead of connecting: A launches the focused title as a stream in the same window,
session end returns to the library, B quits (Gaming Mode returns). Paired hosts only —
pairing is the desktop client / Decky plugin's job. PUNKTFUNK_FAKE_LIBRARY=<file.json>
feeds canned entries with no host (portrait paths starting with / load from disk).
Reads the same identity / known-hosts / settings stores as the desktop client
(punktfunk-client) — pair there (or via its headless --pair) first; this binary never
connects to a host it has no pinned fingerprint for (--fp HEX overrides the store).
Stdout is the machine interface: {"ready":true} after the first presented frame,
stats: … once per second (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S toggles, --stats forces on), one
{"error"|"ended": …} JSON line on the way out. Logs go to stderr. Exit codes: 0
clean end, 2 connect failed, 3 trust rejected / pairing required, 4 presenter
init failed.
In-stream keys match the desktop client: click captures input (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q releases), Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D disconnects, F11 toggles fullscreen; the controller escape chord (L1+R1+Start+Select, hold to disconnect) works the same.
The default build carries the Skia console UI (ui feature): the stats OSD and capture
hint render in-window (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S toggles both the OSD and the stdout mirror).
--no-default-features is the ~5 MB power-user build — same streaming, stats on stdout
only, no Skia anywhere in the dependency tree.
Decode follows the Settings preference: VAAPI frames import zero-copy into Vulkan
(per-plane dmabuf + the stream's CICP-driven CSC shader); boxes whose driver can't
import (NVIDIA proprietary by design) fall back to software decode automatically.
Debug/bisect knobs: PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=software|vaapi, PUNKTFUNK_PRESENT_MODE= mailbox|immediate (default FIFO), PUNKTFUNK_VK_DEVICE=<index> (multi-GPU), and
PUNKTFUNK_HW_FAULT=import (fault every dmabuf import — proves the three-strike
demotion to software on healthy hardware). HDR/P010 and the Skia console UI
(--browse) are later phases of the plan.