enricobuehlerandClaude Fable 5
f87c1e6cec
Field report: since 0.17.0 a stream to a Chromecast with Google TV 4K freezes on the first frame and ~80% of the time crashes + reboots the DEVICE — with both the Punktfunk app and Moonlight, while an Xbox Series S is fine. Root cause: LN1 Phase 3 (67b79810) defaulted Linux direct-NVENC to 4 slices per frame for EVERY session. Amlogic HEVC decoders wedge on multi-slice AUs — exactly why moonlight-android requests slicesPerFrame=1 for every hardware decoder (4 only for software slice-threading) — and our RTSP parser never read the request. The Phase-3 commit recorded the untested leg ("a live Moonlight re-test joins the standing owed Moonlight item"); this report is that re-test. The slicing ceiling now belongs to the CLIENT, threaded as open_video's new max_slices from both planes: - GameStream: parse x-nv-video[0].videoEncoderSlicesPerFrame into StreamConfig and honor it; absent/out-of-range (pre-auth input) => 1. - punktfunk/1: new Hello cap VIDEO_CAP_MULTI_SLICE (0x80 — the byte's LAST free bit; the next cap needs a second byte + ABI bump). SessionPlan.max_slices = 32 with the bit, 1 without, applied to every encoder the plan opens so rebuilds can't change the wire shape. The desktop session client advertises it (FFmpeg/D3D11VA/Vulkan decode stacks are fine); Android/Apple stay off until they can decide per-decoder like Moonlight does — the cap is embedder-set decoder truth, never OR'd in by the shared pump. - Linux direct-NVENC clamps its Phase-3 default to the ceiling (resolve_slices(codec, 4.min(max_slices))) and logs slices/max_slices in the caps-probe line; PUNKTFUNK_NVENC_SLICES stays the explicit operator override in both directions. Windows keeps its single-slice default untouched. Also repairs the nvenc_cuda #[ignore] hardware tests:d2c46eafadded open()'s cursor_blend param without updating them, invisible because CI never compiles tests with the nvenc feature. Verified on .21 (RTX 5070 Ti): pf-encode + host check/clippy clean with nvenc; host unit suite 263/0; rtsp announce tests 7/7 incl. the new slicesPerFrame coverage; on-hardware smokes — default e2e still 4 chunks/frame, NEW single-slice client-ceiling test clamps + disarms chunked poll with no env involved, env escape unchanged. rustfmt clean. Windows leg (prepare_display param) is CI-only. 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).
This binary is deliberately dumb: a renderer the front-ends call INTO — the GTK shell
(punktfunk-client), the WinUI shell, and the punktfunk CLI all spawn it through the
same brain (pf_client_core::orchestrate), which resolves policy (profiles, settings,
wake) and hands the result down, normally as a --resolved-spec file. It reads the
shared stores only as the compat fallback for a bare hand-launched invocation.
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), so enrolling on either side makes the other work; this binary never
connects to a host it has no pinned fingerprint for (--fp HEX overrides the store).
Pairing is punktfunk pair <host> — the CLI, which ships alongside this binary in every
package and needs no window and no toolkit either. punktfunk-session --pair still works
for one release (someone's provisioning script calls it today) but prints a deprecation
notice: pairing is a trust ceremony and belongs to the brain, not a renderer.
Stdout is the machine interface: {"ready":true} after the first presented frame,
stats: … once per second while the overlay tier isn't Off (always the full detailed
text, whatever the OSD shows; --stats forces the overlay 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 cycles the OSD tier live — Off → Compact (one
line: fps · latency · Mb/s) → Normal (mode + end-to-end percentiles) → Detailed (decoder
path + per-stage latency equation); any tier but Off also emits 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 (auto: Vulkan Video → VAAPI → software on Linux,
Vulkan Video → D3D11VA → software on Windows): FFmpeg's Vulkan Video decoder runs on the
presenter's own device where the stack supports it (every vendor, zero copy); VAAPI
dmabufs import per-plane elsewhere (D3D11VA textures on Windows); software is the
universal fallback. 10-bit Main10 and HDR10 are advertised
(VIDEO_CAP_10BIT|HDR): P010 decodes through all three paths, and PQ streams present
on an HDR10/ST.2084 swapchain when the desktop offers one (KDE HDR, gamescope) or
tone-map in-shader to SDR when it doesn't (PUNKTFUNK_TONEMAP_PEAK tunes the rolloff,
default ≈1000 nits). The host still gates the upgrade behind its PUNKTFUNK_10BIT
policy.
Debug/bisect knobs: PUNKTFUNK_DECODER=vulkan|vaapi|d3d11va|software, PUNKTFUNK_PRESENT_MODE= mailbox|immediate (default FIFO), PUNKTFUNK_VK_DEVICE=<index> (multi-GPU), and
PUNKTFUNK_HW_FAULT=import (fault every VAAPI dmabuf import — proves the three-strike
demotion to software on healthy hardware).