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fegger ce52f64e52 feat(capture): implement Phase 3 PipeWire/portal desktop capture
Implement the xdg-desktop-portal ScreenCast backend via libportal: a
blocking portal handshake (interactive source picker), a PipeWire stream
on the portal's node enumerating BGRx/BGRA/RGBx/RGBA, and a latest-frame
slot handing frames to next_frame(). stop() is thread-safe; teardown
follows the order PipeWire requires. All proxy operations run under the
thread-loop lock to satisfy the protocol extension context checks
('impl_ext_end_proxy called from wrong context' otherwise).

The encoder now accepts padded strides for packed RGB inputs (real
PipeWire row pitches) and maps the new PixelFormat::Bgrx to
AV_PIX_FMT_BGRA.

Add tools/capture_smoke: a manual smoke tool (interactive, not in
meson test) that captures N frames, encodes them, and writes a
self-contained Annex-B elementary stream with prepended SPS/PPS.

Validated manually on Wayland/Hyprland: 2256x1504 H.264 elementary
stream, ffprobe clean. Phase 3 marked complete in docs/PHASES.md.
2026-09-07 10:37:14 +02:00

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# Runbook — build and validation commands
Reusable validation steps for this repository. Run the relevant ones before
considering a change complete.
## Build and test
```sh
meson setup build # once
meson compile -C build
meson test -C build --print-errorlogs
```
## Memory and correctness checks (codec changes)
Run the codec round-trip test under valgrind after touching the encoder or
decoder:
```sh
valgrind --leak-check=full --errors-for-leak-kinds=definite \
build/tests/test_codec_roundtrip
```
Expected: no "definitely lost" bytes and no "Invalid read/write" errors.
FFmpeg may keep some "still reachable" allocations at exit; that is normal.
This check caught two real defects in the Phase 2 decoder: a per-packet
payload leak and an unpadded extradata buffer over-read. Keep using it.
## Capture smoke test (Phase 3, manual)
Requires a running desktop session with `xdg-desktop-portal` and a backend
that implements the ScreenCast portal (e.g. Hyprland, GNOME, KDE). The
portal shows an interactive source picker, so this cannot run unattended.
```sh
meson compile -C build # builds tools/capture_smoke
./build/tools/capture_smoke 10 out.h264 # captures 10 frames
ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream=codec_name,width,height out.h264
```
Expected: the tool prints the negotiated resolution/format/stride and
writes a non-empty file; `ffprobe` reports `codec_name=h264` and the correct
width/height. The encoder prepends its Annex-B SPS/PPS extradata so the
file is a self-contained elementary stream.
If you see `impl_ext_end_proxy called from wrong context` warnings, a
PipeWire proxy operation ran without the thread-loop lock — all pw
calls that send messages (connect, stream, core) must happen under
`pw_thread_loop_lock`.
## Formatting
```sh
find include src tests -type f \( -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h' \) \
-exec clang-format --dry-run --Werror {} +
```