punktfunk/clients/windows

punktfunk — Windows client

The native Windows app for streaming a punktfunk host to your PC. A modern WinUI 3 app that discovers hosts on your network, pairs with a PIN, and streams at your display's own resolution and refresh rate — with hardware-accelerated video decode and HDR.

It's pure Rust: the UI is WinUI 3 driven through windows-reactor (a declarative, React-like framework), and it links the shared punktfunk-core directly to speak the fast punktfunk/1 protocol.

Features

• Hardware decode, GPU present — Punktfunk's own decoders, no FFmpeg anywhere in the client: Vulkan Video (pf-vkdecode) leads on NVIDIA and AMD, D3D11VA (pf-dxvadec driving ID3D11VideoDecoder) leads on Intel, whichever isn't first is the fallback, and an OpenH264/rav1d CPU rung is last. Either hardware rung hands its surface to the Vulkan presenter without a CPU copy.
• HDR10 — advertise 10-bit/HDR, detect PQ in-band, and flip the swapchain to R10G10B10A2 + ST.2084 with HDR10 metadata.
• Your display's native mode — the host builds a virtual display at exactly your WxH@Hz.
• Audio both ways — WASAPI render + mic capture.
• Full controller support — SDL3 gamepads with rumble, lightbar, and DualSense feedback.
• Your display's native mode, really — "Native display" resolves the actual size + refresh of the monitor the window is on at connect time.
• Find hosts automatically — mDNS discovery lists hosts on your LAN, alongside saved and manual entries. First connect does a one-time SPAKE2 PIN pairing (or TOFU on trusted LANs), then reconnects on a pinned identity. Saved hosts carry per-host actions: a network speed test (probe burst over the real data plane → recommended bitrate, applied in one tap) and forget.
• Polished shell — host cards, settings (resolution / refresh / host compositor / decoder / codec / bitrate / HDR / forwarded controller / gamepad type / system shortcuts / audio channels / mic / stats-overlay level), the tiered stats overlay (Off / Compact / Normal / Detailed — Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S cycles it live in the session window), and the full trust surface. Stream input uses Win32 low-level hooks with Moonlight-style capture: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q releases the pointer, a click on the stream re-captures it, and system shortcuts (Alt+Tab, Win, …) can act locally or forward to the host.

Builds and ships for both x64 and ARM64 as a signed MSIX.

Get it

Install the signed MSIX from the package registry — see docs.punktfunk.unom.io/docs/install-client. A stock Moonlight client also works over GameStream if you prefer.

Build from source

Windows-only (the crate builds as a stub on other platforms so the workspace stays green). You need the MSVC toolchain and CMake (SDL3 builds from source) — nothing else: decode is native since M10, so there is no FFMPEG_DIR to point anywhere, and the Windows App SDK runtime bootstrap is staged next to the exe by windows-reactor-setup from this crate's own build.rs.

cargo build -p punktfunk-client-windows --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

# CLI paths for testing (no window):
punktfunk-client --discover                                   # list hosts on the LAN
punktfunk-client --headless --connect host[:port] [--pin HEX] # connect, count frames, print stats
punktfunk-client --headless --speed-test --connect host[:port]  # probe burst → recommended bitrate

CARGO_HOME must be an ASCII path — non-ASCII characters break SDL3's MSVC precompiled-header build. Packaging (MSIX manifest, signing) lives in packaging/.

Layout

Decode/present/input live in the spawned punktfunk-session binary (clients/session), not here — this crate is the shell that discovers, pairs, and launches it.

src/
  main.rs                 entry point + CLI paths (--discover · --headless · --speed-test)
  bin/punktfunk-console.rs  the couch/HTPC Start-menu entry (re-execs with --console)
  app/                    WinUI 3 shell (windows-reactor), one module per screen:
                          mod (root/router) · hosts · connect · pair · speed · settings ·
                          library · help · licenses · stream · style (shared cards/pills)
  deeplink.rs             punktfunk:// activation, single-instance hand-off, shortcut writer
  spawn.rs                punktfunk-session child process + its stdout event contract
  shell_window.rs         hide/restore the shell HWND around a session
  gpu.rs                  DXGI adapter enumeration for the GPU picker
  trust.rs · discovery.rs persistent identity, TOFU/PIN pairing, mDNS browse
  probe.rs · wol.rs       speed probe · Wake-on-LAN
  logfile.rs              log tee to %LOCALAPPDATA%
packaging/                MSIX manifest, signing, pack script

Manual smoke checklist

The windows-reactor pin is a moving target and WinUI regressions rarely show up in cargo check — walk this after a reactor bump or a change to the render/state architecture:

• Hosts — discovery populates tiles; tile hover fill; "…" menu → Forget and Rename; add-host modal connects; WOL wait screen cancels.
• Settings — every section renders; combos still show their selection after a section switch AND a scope switch (the historic blank-combo reconciler bug); profile create / rename / delete (with confirm); colour swatches repaint; the Overridden marker appears on edit and clears on Reset; GPU combo lists adapters.
• Pair — PIN entry pairs (the typed PIN must reach the Connect click — use_ref mirror path).
• Session — connect → session spawns → HUD stats tick; Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Q releases the pointer; shell window restores on exit.
• Shell — speed test completes; library grid loads; punktfunk:// deep link routes (second instance hands off and exits); window icon appears; screen-entrance animations play.

Related

• Documentation — quick start, pairing, troubleshooting
• Project README — the host, the other clients, and how it all fits together