fix(capture): stamp Linux video frames with wall-clock PTS to stop time-compression - #512
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…me-compression The Linux screen encoder wrote constant-frame-rate H.264 with PTS = a running frame index, and the clock-driven catch-up meant to backfill missed 60fps ticks was capped (MAX_CATCHUP_FRAMES = 8 per advance) and only ran from two starved event-loop arms. Under load `next_index` — which was simultaneously the PTS and the frame counter — fell permanently behind the wall clock, so `file duration == frames_encoded / fps` silently dropped real time: a 61 s session came out as a 55.2 s video that played ~10% fast and drifted ahead of audio, webcam and the cursor overlay, which are all wall-clock based. Stamp each frame's PTS with the wall clock's current frame index instead of a counter, and mux variable-rate: when ticks are missed the next write jumps its PTS to the real index and the container records the gap as that frame's duration, so file length always equals real elapsed time and a stall costs one held frame rather than a deleted span (or an unbounded catch-up burst). The editor and compositor already seek/play by decoded PTS — the same path the already-VFR webcam takes — so playback is unaffected. Report duration from the timeline (next_index) not the encoded count, add a final tail stamp in finish() so a quiet ending is not short, and emit a `timeline-divergence` warning when the file's duration and measured wall-clock time disagree beyond ~100 ms so this cannot regress silently. Rewrite the catch-up tests around the wall-clock invariant and add a sparse-wakeup regression that reproduced the original compression. Fixes getopenscreen#511 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesWall-clock capture timeline
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The Linux timing fix preserves wall-clock video duration, but pausing before the first video frame can still finalize queued audio into an otherwise zero-duration recording and report a misleading started state; supported low frame rates can also trigger false timeline-divergence warnings. This is a bounded but concrete lifecycle, privacy, and observability risk, so merge should wait for correction or explicit owner acceptance. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CaptureLoop
participant Capture
participant ActiveClock
participant VideoEncoder
participant Finalization
CaptureLoop->>Capture: call advance() with staged frame
Capture->>ActiveClock: read active elapsed time
ActiveClock-->>Capture: return wall-clock timeline index
Capture->>VideoEncoder: encode one frame at wall-clock PTS
CaptureLoop->>Capture: call finish()
Capture->>VideoEncoder: encode final held frame at current index
Capture-->>Finalization: return duration_ms and wall_clock_ms
Finalization->>Finalization: emit timeline-divergence if skew exceeds 100 ms
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The changes address issue Full details: Out of Scope Changes checkExplanation The changes are focused on the linked capture-timing defect, related telemetry, pause handling, and regression tests. The compositor preview limitation is explicitly documented as follow-up scope, not implemented here. ✨ Finishing Touches🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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In `@electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/capture.rs`:
- Around line 481-489: Update the staged-frame write logic around current_index
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…deRabbit getopenscreen#512) finish() guarded the final held-frame write on `paused_at.is_none()`, so a stop that arrived while paused skipped it and left next_index at the last heartbeat — dropping the active time between that heartbeat and the pause from the timeline, the same compression this PR fixes. current_index() already freezes at the pause boundary, so the tail write is correct while paused. Add a regression that stages, lets active time pass unserviced, pauses, and finishes without resuming, asserting duration_ms tracks wall_clock_ms. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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510-513: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSnapshot active wall-clock time before finalization.
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AudioEncoder::finish,VideoEncoder::finish, andMuxer::finish. The tail PTS is selected before those operations, butelapsed_active()continues while they drain or flush. If finalization takes more than 100 ms,main.rsemitstimeline-divergenceeven when the encoded timeline correctly matches the capture duration.Capture
wall_clock_msbefore flushing the encoders and muxer.Proposed fix
pub fn finish(mut self) -> Result<Summary, String> { let mut muxer = self .muxer .take() .ok_or_else(|| "capture was already finished".to_owned())?; + let wall_clock_ms = self + .elapsed_active() + .map(|elapsed| elapsed.as_millis() as u64) + .unwrap_or(0); // Close the tail. if self.encoder.has_staged_frame() { // ... } - let wall_clock_ms = self - .elapsed_active() - .map(|elapsed| elapsed.as_millis() as u64) - .unwrap_or(0); Ok(Summary {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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481-492: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftSensitive Data Exposure (CWE-200): Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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Gate frame staging while paused.
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FrameReadyhandler stages every mailbox frame, even whenpausedis true. A frame published during the pause can replace the staged frame, andfinish()then writes it to the recording. Reject frames while paused or preserve the last pre-pause frame.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/capture.rs`:
- Around line 510-513: Move the wall_clock_ms calculation using elapsed_active()
to before AudioEncoder::finish, VideoEncoder::finish, and Muxer::finish are
invoked, then reuse that snapshot for final timeline reporting. Preserve the
existing zero fallback and tail PTS selection behavior.
- Around line 481-492: Update the FrameReady handler to avoid staging mailbox
frames while paused, preserving the last frame staged before the pause for
finish(). Use the existing paused state and frame-staging logic, and leave the
stop-time encode_staged flow unchanged.
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…ore flush (CodeRabbit getopenscreen#512) Writing the tail frame while paused (previous commit) surfaced two issues in CodeRabbit's re-review: - Privacy: the compositor keeps streaming while the app is paused, so a frame arriving during the pause was still staged, and finish()'s tail write could then encode that POST-pause content into the file when a stop followed a pause with no resume. Gate `stage()` on `paused_at`: a paused recording ingests no new pixels, so the held picture — and the tail frame — is the last pre-pause one. Add a regression asserting a frame received while paused is not staged and never reaches the file. - False telemetry: `wall_clock_ms` was read after the audio/encoder/mp4 flush, which on a long recording keeps the active clock ticking for tens of ms and could trip the `timeline-divergence` warning on a slow flush alone. Snapshot it right after the tail write, where the video timeline is already frozen, so the two are compared at the same instant. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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541-543: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSet the timeline-divergence tolerance from the configured frame rate.
Request::fps()accepts positive values from 1 through 240, so production permits rates below 10 fps. At 5 fps,duration_mscan exceedwall_clock_msby almost one 200 ms frame interval. The fixed 100 ms threshold can emittimeline-divergencefor this expected quantization. Derive the tolerance fromRunConfig::fps.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Summary
On Linux (PipeWire capture) the recorded screen video silently time-compresses when frames drop under load: the encoder wrote constant-frame-rate H.264 with
PTS = a running frame index, and the clock-driven catch-up meant to backfill missed 60 fps ticks was capped (MAX_CATCHUP_FRAMES = 8peradvance()) and only ran from event-loop arms that starve under load. Becausenext_indexwas both the PTS and the frame counter, once it fell behind the wall clock the lost real-time interval simply disappeared (file duration == frames_encoded / fps) — a field-diagnosed 61 s session came out as a 55.2 s video that plays ~10% fast and drifts ahead of audio, webcam and the cursor overlay (which are all wall-clock based).This PR stamps each frame's PTS with the wall clock's current frame index and muxes variable-rate: when ticks are missed,
next_indexjumps to the real index and the container records the gap as that frame's duration, so file length always equals real elapsed time and a stall costs one held frame instead of a deleted span (or an unbounded catch-up burst).finish()adds a final tail stamp so a quiet ending isn't short. Playback is unaffected — the editor and compositor already seek/play the screen mp4 by decoded PTS (av_seek_frame+best_effort_timestamp), the same path the already-VFR webcam takes.Also adds anti-regression telemetry:
finish()reportsduration_ms(from the timeline) and a newwall_clock_ms, and the helper emits atimeline-divergencewarning when they disagree beyond ~100 ms.The defect is pre-existing in the original CFR pacing design and independent of the dmabuf/VAAPI work (#507/#508) — it affects both the shm and dmabuf paths, hence the branch off
main.Related issue
Fixes #511
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N/A — capture-side timing fix, no UI change. Verifiable with
ffprobe -select_streams v:0 -count_frames -show_entries stream=nb_read_frames,avg_frame_rate,duration <file>.mp4:nb_read_frames / fps(and the file duration) now tracks real wall-clock length and the sibling-webcam.webmduration instead of falling short.Testing
cargo testonelectron/native/pipewire-capture(libclang 18 + vendored ffmpeg SDK): 64 passed, 1 ignored (opt-in GPU encode test). Build / clippy / fmt clean on the changed files.sparse_wakeups_do_not_compress_the_timeline: servicesadvance()only a couple of times over ~400 ms as if the loop were starved, and asserts the timeline doesn't compress and thatduration_msagrees withwall_clock_ms— this reproduced the original bug.Notes / out of scope
The compositor's
Decoder::cur_time_sec()(pipeline_linux.rs) still reportsindex/fpsand drives live-preview webcam alignment; it's slightly off during a VFR drop-burst in preview only (export is PTS-correct). Left as a follow-up to keep this focused on the capture-side defect.Summary by CodeRabbit
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