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docs: the 4:4:4 story catches up with the code that ships it
The support matrix said the desktop clients' Full chroma switch "has no
effect today" and that only the Apple client asks for 4:4:4. Both stopped
being true in July: `clients/session/src/main.rs` advertises VIDEO_CAP_444
whenever the setting is on, deliberately with no client-side probe, because
every desktop decode rung can display full chroma — the Vulkan presenter
samples the 2-plane 4:4:4 pool formats and swscale converts for the software
rung. So Linux, Windows and Apple all ask; Android is the one that genuinely
doesn't implement it.

The other half was HDR. `9f72a3b6` gave the Windows IDD-push capturer a
packed 10-bit BT.2020 PQ RGB output, so NVENC encodes HEVC Main 4:4:4 10 and
the two compose — the matrix still said "4:4:4 and HDR together is refused",
and hdr.md still called PyroWave the only exception. Linux is the side that
keeps the trade: handshake.rs resolves the depth back to 8 for a 4:4:4
session, so full chroma wins and the stream is SDR.

Three cells move ⚠️ rather than  on purpose. The client half is
unconditional, but the host half is not: HEVC 4:4:4 means an NVIDIA host, or
PyroWave on any vendor. The notes say which, and point at the stats overlay's
`4:4:4→4:2:0` tag — this negotiation is the one that fails loudly.

Also: C ABI version 13 → 14; PyroWave's ≈8K 4:4:4 block-index ceiling now
has a note; and the roadmap no longer calls Intel 4:4:4 a hardware limit,
which the matrix and vaapi.rs both contradict — VCN can't, VAAPI hasn't.

Spot-checked and left alone as still accurate: the Linux client clipboard
stub, VAAPI declining 4:4:4, Android having no 4:4:4 at all, and the wire /
driver / gamepad-channel versions.
2026-08-07 10:58:58 +02:00
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