using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using ytLive.Models;
using ytLive.Services.Compositor;
namespace ytLive.Services.Encoder;
///
/// The live frame producer (TASK 4 ship step 5): the bridge between the capture
/// managers + compositor and the encoder. While live it snapshots the active
/// scene each tick, resolves every element to its latest frame, composites it
/// into the tier's output frame, and paces frames into the encoder at the tier's
/// FPS. All collaborators are constructor-injected seams (scene, resolver,
/// options, encoder factory, pacing delay) so the pump stays free of WPF and of
/// the capture managers and is fully hermetic in tests.
///
/// The RTMP URL comes from the options provider: until the live-stream create
/// flow lands (TASK 5) it yields null, so go-live runs the existing visual flow
/// without actually pushing.
///
public sealed class FramePump : IDisposable
{
private readonly Func _sceneProvider;
private readonly Func _frameResolver;
private readonly Func _compositorOptions;
private readonly Func _encoderOptions;
private readonly Func _encoderFactory;
private readonly Action? _log;
private readonly Func _pacingDelay;
private readonly Func<(VideoFrame? Frame, SocialBarPosition Position)>? _socialBar;
private readonly Func? _alertTicker;
private readonly Func? _brandFlash;
private readonly TransitionService? _transition;
private readonly SceneGraph? _sceneGraph;
private readonly SceneCompositor _compositor = new();
// Master-buffer scratch pool (take-4 starvation fix, slice 2 of 2): a fresh
// 8.3MB byte[] every tick is ~500MB/s of LOH churn — GC stalls masquerading
// as render cost. The pump pools ONLY buffers it handed out (reference-equality
// set), so bake-cache / social-bar / static-cache frames are never touched;
// SubmitFrameAsync copies the bytes to the encoder's stdin before returning,
// so recycling after submit is safe (MyMistakes recipe).
private readonly HashSet _ownedScratch = new(ReferenceEqualityComparer.Instance);
private readonly List _freeScratch = new();
private const int MaxScratchPooled = 4;
private byte[] AcquireScratch(int size)
{
for (var i = _freeScratch.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
{
if (_freeScratch[i].Length != size) continue;
var buffer = _freeScratch[i];
_freeScratch.RemoveAt(i);
return buffer;
}
var fresh = new byte[size];
_ownedScratch.Add(fresh);
return fresh;
}
private void ReleaseScratch(byte[]? buffer)
{
if (buffer == null || !_ownedScratch.Contains(buffer)) return;
if (_freeScratch.Count >= MaxScratchPooled || _freeScratch.Contains(buffer)) return;
_freeScratch.Add(buffer);
}
// Windows sleep quantum (take-9 finding, 2026-09-04): Task.Delay rounds every
// request up to the system clock tick (~15.6ms default — learn.microsoft.com/en-us/
// dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks.task.delay: "approximately 15 milliseconds on
// Windows systems"), so a pacer requesting 3-15ms actually sleeps 15.6ms. Takes
// 5-9 measured work ~25ms but period ~37ms: one padded wait per frame hid every
// compositor improvement. Established media-app practice (game-loop/OBS canon —
// stackoverflow.com/questions/5441464; and raise the resolution for the session —
// learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/timeapi/nf-timeapi-timebeginperiod):
// timeBeginPeriod(1) while the pump runs, sleep only the BULK of the remainder,
// and spin the last ~2ms across the deadline.
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("winmm.dll")]
private static extern uint timeBeginPeriod(uint uMilliseconds);
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("winmm.dll")]
private static extern uint timeEndPeriod(uint uMilliseconds);
private static readonly long SpinTailTicks = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency * 2 / 1000; // 2ms
private readonly object _gate = new();
private IFfmpegEncoder? _encoder;
private CancellationTokenSource? _cts;
private Task? _pumpTask;
private bool _started;
private long _outputIndex;
/// Captured by when a render exceeds ~20ms —
/// the 2026-09-12 half-speed-render probe. Appended (once) to the next stats or
/// stall line, then cleared.
private string _renderDetail = "";
/// C4 blit-on-change cache (2026-09-15): the FULL-render path (split=0
/// when the live-capture backdrop sits at element 0, or no SceneGraph) re-composites
/// the ENTIRE frame every tick even when no input changed — the ty-1841 take logged
/// a render stall on EVERY iteration (totalMs 21-44, one composite per ~30ms while
/// the content moved ~20 updates/s). The SceneGraph split can never help here: the
/// backdrop is element 0 and must stay dynamic (a baked capture goes stale), so the
/// cache lives at the pump: the last full-render output plus the input identity that
/// produced it. Unchanged identity → ONE BlockCopy (~3ms) reuses the composite;
/// changed identity → re-composite. The cache buffer is a SEPARATE long-lived array,
/// never the scratch pool — the caller burns the frame counter and recycles the
/// scratch AFTER RenderScene returns, so the cache is written from the rendered
/// scratch BEFORE returning (pre-burn, pre-recycle). The identity mirror is
/// : it resolves the same frames the compositor
/// will (same resolver seam), so a changed frame (new capture, new webcam, new chat
/// raster) forces a re-render and an unchanged one never serves stale bytes. Internal
/// counters feed the Good Dog test + the 5s cache detail in the stats line.
private byte[]? _fullCachePixels;
private bool _fullCacheValid;
private ulong _lastFullSignature;
internal long CacheHits;
internal long CacheRenders;
/// Forwards the encoder's parsed health — ship step 6 binds this to the bottom bar.
public event EventHandler? HealthUpdated;
/// Raised when the encoder cannot start or dies mid-stream. The pump stops itself.
public event EventHandler? Failed;
public FramePump(
Func sceneProvider,
Func frameResolver,
Func compositorOptions,
Func encoderOptions,
Func encoderFactory,
Action? log = null,
Func? pacingDelay = null,
Func<(VideoFrame? Frame, SocialBarPosition Position)>? socialBar = null,
Func? alertTicker = null,
Func? brandFlash = null,
TransitionService? transition = null,
SceneGraph? sceneGraph = null)
{
_sceneProvider = sceneProvider ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(sceneProvider));
_frameResolver = frameResolver ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(frameResolver));
_compositorOptions = compositorOptions ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(compositorOptions));
_encoderOptions = encoderOptions ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(encoderOptions));
_encoderFactory = encoderFactory ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(encoderFactory));
_log = log;
_pacingDelay = pacingDelay ?? ((delay, ct) => Task.Delay(delay, ct));
_socialBar = socialBar;
_alertTicker = alertTicker;
_brandFlash = brandFlash;
_transition = transition;
_sceneGraph = sceneGraph;
}
public bool IsRunning { get; private set; }
/// The burned counter of the LAST frame submitted to the encoder. Stable
/// across a tick's multiple resolver passes (it advances only at burn/submit, which
/// happens AFTER render) — tests key per-tick content on it.
internal long OutputIndex => _outputIndex;
/// Never throws: failures are logged and surfaced via ,
/// so the VM can fire-and-forget it from a sync command handler.
public async Task StartAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
{
lock (_gate)
{
if (_started) return;
_started = true;
}
IFfmpegEncoder? encoder = null;
try
{
var options = _encoderOptions();
if (options == null)
{
_log?.Invoke("FramePump: no output configured (neither streaming nor recording) — encoder skipped");
lock (_gate) _started = false;
return;
}
encoder = _encoderFactory();
encoder.HealthUpdated += OnHealthUpdated;
encoder.ProcessFailed += OnProcessFailed;
await encoder.StartAsync(options, cancellationToken);
lock (_gate)
{
_encoder = encoder;
}
// IsRunning must be true before the loop starts: the loop reads it on
// its first iteration, and with a completed-task delay it can run
// synchronously on this thread before PumpAsync even returns.
IsRunning = true;
_cts = new CancellationTokenSource();
// The loop runs on the thread pool ON PURPOSE (take-8 finding, 2026-09-04):
// Task.Run installs no SynchronizationContext, so every await continuation
// stays off the UI dispatcher. Before this, the pump inherited the UI
// thread's sync context (StartAsync is fired from a command handler), so
// "render 22ms, wait 10ms" was the producer sitting in the dispatcher
// queue behind the live preview it is meant to be independent of — the
// stats quantum fix made the wait VISIBLE; this removes its cause.
// OBS's video threads are dedicated for exactly this reason.
_pumpTask = Task.Run(() => PumpAsync(options, _cts.Token));
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump started ({options.Width}×{options.Height} @ {options.Fps} fps)");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump: start failed: {ex.Message}");
if (encoder != null)
{
encoder.HealthUpdated -= OnHealthUpdated;
encoder.ProcessFailed -= OnProcessFailed;
try
{
encoder.Dispose();
}
catch (Exception disposeEx)
{
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump: disposing failed encoder: {disposeEx.Message}");
}
}
lock (_gate)
{
_started = false;
IsRunning = false;
}
Failed?.Invoke(this, ex.Message);
}
}
public async Task StopAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
{
IFfmpegEncoder? encoder;
Task? pump;
lock (_gate)
{
if (!_started && _encoder == null) return;
_started = false;
IsRunning = false;
encoder = _encoder;
pump = _pumpTask;
_cts?.Cancel();
}
// Stop the encoder BEFORE awaiting the pump: closing its stdin unblocks a
// write stuck on pipe backpressure, otherwise the pump could await forever.
if (encoder != null)
{
try
{
await encoder.StopAsync(cancellationToken);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump: encoder stop failed: {ex.Message}");
}
}
if (pump != null)
{
try
{
await pump;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump: pump loop faulted during stop: {ex.Message}");
}
}
if (encoder != null)
{
encoder.HealthUpdated -= OnHealthUpdated;
encoder.ProcessFailed -= OnProcessFailed;
try
{
encoder.Dispose();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump: encoder dispose failed: {ex.Message}");
}
}
lock (_gate)
{
_encoder = null;
_cts = null;
_pumpTask = null;
}
_log?.Invoke("FramePump stopped");
}
public void Dispose()
{
try
{
StopAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump: dispose failed: {ex.Message}");
}
_freeScratch.Clear();
_ownedScratch.Clear();
}
private async Task PumpAsync(EncoderOptions options, CancellationToken ct)
{
var interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1d / Math.Max(1, options.Fps));
var lastTick = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();
// Deadline pacing (2026-09-03, take-3 fix): the frame interval is a DEADLINE,
// not an afterthought sleep — the OBS libobs video-io.c pattern (researched
// before coding; see https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/master/
// libobs/media-io/video-io.c). The old loop slept the FULL interval after
// each render, so period = render + submit + interval: at take-3's 258ms
// render that was 3.6fps stamped into a 60fps container — rawvideo stamps by
// arrival, so 30 wall-seconds muxed as a 2.1s time-lapse, no error anywhere.
var intervalTicks = Math.Max(1, (long)Math.Round(interval.TotalSeconds * System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency));
var nextTick = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
// Stage timing (2026-09-01, take two): rawvideo carries no per-frame
// timestamps — ffmpeg stamps frames by ARRIVAL at the declared fps. A producer
// slower than the declared rate yields a time-lapsed, short file (observed:
// 39 frames in 27 wall-seconds ≈ 30x at 60fps) with no error anywhere.
// Log the render/submit split every 5s so the next take names the stage.
var renderSw = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
var submitSw = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
var waitSw = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
// Resolve-vs-composite split (2026-09-04, take-6 ambiguity): "render" was a
// black box — the stats line now reports resolver time separately so a take
// names the stage (get-frame vs blit) instead of feeding another guess.
var resolveSw = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
long renderTicks = 0, submitTicks = 0, resolveTicks = 0, waitTicks = 0, worstRender = 0, worstSubmit = 0;
int statFrames = 0;
int stalls = 0;
long lastCacheHits = 0, lastCacheRenders = 0;
var statsNext = DateTime.UtcNow + TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5);
void ReportStats()
{
if (DateTime.UtcNow < statsNext) return;
var target = 5d / interval.TotalSeconds; // frames expected per window
IFfmpegEncoder? encoder;
lock (_gate) encoder = _encoder;
var dropped = encoder == null ? 0 : encoder.DroppedFrames;
var detail = _renderDetail;
_renderDetail = "";
var cacheDetail = "";
if (statFrames > 0)
{
// C4 window detail: rendered composites (R) vs cache reuses (H) since the
// last report — hard numeric proof the blit-on-change cache engaged.
var hits = CacheHits - lastCacheHits;
var renders = CacheRenders - lastCacheRenders;
lastCacheHits = CacheHits;
lastCacheRenders = CacheRenders;
if (hits > 0 || renders > 0) cacheDetail = $", cache {renders}R/{hits}H";
}
_log?.Invoke(statFrames == 0
? "FramePump stats: NO frames produced in 5s (loop stalled?)" + (detail.Length > 0 ? " | " + detail : "")
: $"FramePump stats: {statFrames}/{target:F0} frames per 5s, " +
$"avg render {renderTicks / (double)System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency * 1000 / statFrames:F1}ms " +
$"(resolve {resolveTicks / (double)System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency * 1000 / statFrames:F1}), " +
$"avg submit {submitTicks / (double)System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency * 1000 / statFrames:F1}ms, "
+ $"avg wait {waitTicks / (double)System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency * 1000 / statFrames:F1}ms, "
+ $"worst render {worstRender / (double)System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency * 1000:F1}ms, "
+ $"worst submit {worstSubmit / (double)System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency * 1000:F1}ms, "
+ $"dropped {dropped}, stalls {stalls}" + cacheDetail + (detail.Length > 0 ? " | " + detail : ""));
worstRender = 0;
worstSubmit = 0;
renderTicks = submitTicks = resolveTicks = waitTicks = 0;
statFrames = 0;
stalls = 0;
statsNext = DateTime.UtcNow + TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5);
}
// One wrapper shared by every render of the run — resolve time accumulates
// inside the render measurement, and the stats line reports the split.
timeBeginPeriod(1); // pairs with timeEndPeriod in the finally — see field note
var previousGcMode = System.Runtime.GCSettings.LatencyMode;
System.Runtime.GCSettings.LatencyMode = System.Runtime.GCLatencyMode.SustainedLowLatency;
VideoFrame? TimedResolver(SceneElement element)
{
resolveSw.Restart();
var frame = _frameResolver(element);
resolveSw.Stop();
resolveTicks += resolveSw.ElapsedTicks;
return frame;
}
try
{
while (!ct.IsCancellationRequested)
{
var scene = _sceneProvider();
if (scene != null)
{
var iterStart = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
var compositorOptions = _compositorOptions();
VideoFrame? socialBarFrame = null;
var socialBarTop = 0;
if (_socialBar != null)
{
var (barFrame, position) = _socialBar();
socialBarFrame = barFrame;
if (barFrame != null)
socialBarTop = position == SocialBarPosition.Top
? 0
: compositorOptions.SourceRectHeight - barFrame.Height;
}
// The alert ticker is a per-frame overlay (it scrolls while an alert
// plays), NEVER baked into the static base. Lawn-mower seam: read it
// each tick and let the compositor pin it to the very top.
var tickerFrame = _alertTicker?.Invoke();
// The free-tier branding credit. Read per-frame for the same reason
// as the ticker: it fades and sits on a fresh random spot, so it can
// never live in the baked base or the blit-on-change cache.
var flashFrame = _brandFlash?.Invoke();
VideoFrame frame;
var scratchSize = compositorOptions.SourceRectWidth
* compositorOptions.SourceRectHeight * 4;
// The transition "from" frame lives in TransitionService.FromFrame
// (captured at Start by the VM). The old per-tick fromScene render
// here was dead weight — a full extra scene composite every
// transition tick that BlendFrame never read; removed with the
// pooling change because its buffer's only consumer was its own release.
renderSw.Restart();
var scratch = AcquireScratch(scratchSize);
frame = RenderScene(scene, compositorOptions, socialBarFrame, socialBarTop, tickerFrame, flashFrame, scratch, TimedResolver);
if (_transition is { Active: true } transition)
{
frame = transition.BlendFrame(frame);
transition.Tick(lastTick.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);
}
// Restarted EVERY frame (transition or not): a transition begun
// after idle must not inherit a giant ElapsedMs and complete
// instantly on its first Tick.
lastTick.Restart();
renderSw.Stop();
renderTicks += renderSw.ElapsedTicks;
if (renderSw.ElapsedTicks > worstRender) worstRender = renderSw.ElapsedTicks;
IFfmpegEncoder? encoder;
lock (_gate) encoder = _encoder;
if (encoder == null) break;
// Deadline pacing, OBS duplicate-on-lag (slice 15): emit ONE frame per
// deadline slot — a fresh composite when the render kept up, a REPEAT
// of this iteration's latest composite for every slot the render
// overran. The OBS model never leaves a wall-time hole: libobs
// media-io/video-io.c runs on its own clock and duplicates the latest
// frame when the video thread lags, logging "lagged frames due to
// rendering lag/stalls" — never skipped time (docs.obsproject.com/
// backend-design: "If the video frame queue is full, it will duplicate
// the last frame"). Slice 10 chose the opposite for freshness: an
// overrun SKIPPED the missed slots, so a 60fps-authoring pump emitting
// one frame per 35ms overrun authored ~1.7x playback (ty-1726: 163
// video frames for 2.93s of audio) and ended the video 0.22s before the
// audio tail. Counting duplicates instead of skips keeps recording
// duration == wall duration (no acceleration, no audio tail cut) at the
// cost of a short judder during a stall — the accepted trade. The burst
// is microseconds (the enqueue never blocks, and the loop is clamped to
// deadlineNow) so it can't smear the way the take-9 blocking burst did.
var deadlineNow = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
while (!ct.IsCancellationRequested && deadlineNow >= nextTick)
{
// Burned-in frame counter (slice 10 judge): a clock-independent
// pacing witness burned literally into the composite. Decode the
// recording and read the bottom-right strip: the number must
// advance +1 per authored frame and jump only by counted drops
// (queue overflow). Burned here — on the buffer finally submitted,
// which the enqueue's snapshot copies before the next iteration
// rewrites it — so every file frame carries its own index and a
// fast-render iteration that submitted nothing leaves no phantom
// gap (the slice-10 unconditional bump before the gate could).
_outputIndex++;
BurnFrameIndex(frame.BgraPixels, frame.Width, frame.Height, _outputIndex);
submitSw.Restart();
await encoder.SubmitFrameAsync(frame, ct);
submitSw.Stop();
statFrames++;
submitTicks += submitSw.ElapsedTicks;
if (submitSw.ElapsedTicks > worstSubmit) worstSubmit = submitSw.ElapsedTicks;
nextTick += intervalTicks;
}
// SubmitFrameAsync copied the bytes into the encoder's queue — the
// tick's buffers are recyclable once the enqueue snapshot them.
// The free-list Contains guard keeps the Cut path (BlendFrame
// returns toFrame itself, aliasing scratch) safe.
ReleaseScratch(frame.BgraPixels);
ReleaseScratch(scratch);
// Sleep the BULK of the remainder, SPIN the 2ms tail — never hand
// a sub-tick remainder to the sleep quantum (the timeBeginPeriod
// note). If the renderer already ate the budget there is nothing
// left to sleep and the loop renders the next frame straight away.
waitSw.Restart();
var ahead = nextTick - System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
if (ahead > SpinTailTicks)
await _pacingDelay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(
(ahead - SpinTailTicks) / (double)System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency), ct);
while (!ct.IsCancellationRequested
&& System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetTimestamp() < nextTick)
Thread.SpinWait(400);
waitSw.Stop();
waitTicks += waitSw.ElapsedTicks;
// Stall logger (slice 10): an iteration spanning more than two full
// intervals is the old bug's fingerprint — name the stage instead of
// guessing. With the queue, submit should be ~1ms, so a stall here
// means RENDER or RESOLVE (the stage terms of the last take).
var iterWall = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.GetTimestamp() - iterStart;
if (iterWall > 2 * intervalTicks)
{
stalls++;
var detail = _renderDetail;
_renderDetail = "";
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump stall: iteration {iterWall / (double)System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency * 1000:F0}ms " +
$"(> 2× the {interval.TotalMilliseconds:F0}ms interval): worst render " +
$"{worstRender / (double)System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency * 1000:F0}ms, worst submit " +
$"{worstSubmit / (double)System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.Frequency * 1000:F0}ms, dropped {encoder.DroppedFrames}" +
(detail.Length > 0 ? " | " + detail : ""));
}
ReportStats();
}
}
}
catch (OperationCanceledException)
{
// normal stop
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// A failure while the pump is supposed to run (encoder died under us,
// scene provider faulted, ...) stops the pump and surfaces once.
if (ct.IsCancellationRequested)
{
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump: pump exited during stop: {ex.Message}");
}
else
{
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump: pump loop faulted: {ex.Message}");
Failed?.Invoke(this, ex.Message);
}
}
finally
{
System.Runtime.GCSettings.LatencyMode = previousGcMode;
timeEndPeriod(1);
lock (_gate) IsRunning = false;
}
}
private void OnHealthUpdated(object? sender, StreamHealth health) => HealthUpdated?.Invoke(this, health);
/// Render a scene, using the baked-crust optimization when a
/// is wired in: bake/cache the static layers below the split point, then composite the
/// dynamic/above-split layers per frame. Without a SceneGraph, falls back to a full render
/// (identical output — see SceneCompositorTests). is a pooled
/// master buffer when supplied; the fully-static path returns the bake-cache frame itself
/// (never pooled — the release side checks owned-by-reference).
private VideoFrame RenderScene(
Scene scene,
CompositorOptions options,
VideoFrame? socialBarFrame,
int socialBarTop,
VideoFrame? tickerFrame,
VideoFrame? flashFrame,
byte[]? scratch = null,
Func? resolver = null)
{
resolver ??= _frameResolver;
if (_sceneGraph == null)
{
var sw = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();
var frame = RenderFull(scene, options, socialBarFrame, socialBarTop, tickerFrame, flashFrame, scratch, resolver);
ProbeRender("full-no-graph", scene, -1, sw.ElapsedMilliseconds, 0);
return frame;
}
var split = _sceneGraph.GetSplitPoint(scene);
if (split == scene.Elements.Count)
{
// Fully static scene: bake once, reuse.
var sw = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();
var baked = _sceneGraph.GetBakedBase(scene, _frameResolver, _compositorOptions);
if (baked != null)
{
// BUG (pre-existing, found while wiring the branding credit 2026-09-26):
// this path returned the stretched bake and silently DROPPED the social
// bar and the alert ticker. Overlay() copies before blitting, so the
// cached bake is not mutated and the flash still cannot get sticky in it.
if (socialBarFrame != null || tickerFrame != null || flashFrame != null)
{
var withOverlays = baked;
if (flashFrame != null) withOverlays = SceneCompositor.Overlay(withOverlays, options, flashFrame, 0, 0);
if (tickerFrame != null) withOverlays = SceneCompositor.Overlay(withOverlays, options, tickerFrame, tickerFrame.OriginX, tickerFrame.OriginY);
if (socialBarFrame != null) withOverlays = SceneCompositor.Overlay(withOverlays, options, socialBarFrame, socialBarTop, 0);
baked = withOverlays;
}
var stretched = StretchMath.BilinearScale(baked, options.OutputWidth, options.OutputHeight);
ProbeRender("fully-static", scene, split, sw.ElapsedMilliseconds, (int)sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);
return stretched;
}
}
var swBase = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();
var baseFrame = _sceneGraph.GetBakedBase(scene, _frameResolver, _compositorOptions);
if (baseFrame != null)
{
var frame = SceneCompositor.CompositeLayers(
baseFrame, scene, split, resolver, options, socialBarFrame, socialBarTop, flashFrame: flashFrame, tickerFrame: tickerFrame, scratch: scratch);
ProbeRender("base+layers", scene, split, swBase.ElapsedMilliseconds, 0);
return frame;
}
// No static base (first layer is dynamic or empty scene) — full render.
var swFull = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();
var frame2 = RenderFull(scene, options, socialBarFrame, socialBarTop, tickerFrame, flashFrame, scratch, resolver);
ProbeRender("full-render", scene, split, swFull.ElapsedMilliseconds, 0);
return frame2;
}
/// The full-render path (no SceneGraph, or no static base) wrapped in the
/// C4 blit-on-change cache: when every resolved input plus every element's
/// layout/visual bits match the last composite, reuse it with one BlockCopy instead
/// of re-compositing. Mirror the compositor's resolution before deciding so a
/// hit costs ~3ms of pure copy and a miss costs exactly the old full render.
private VideoFrame RenderFull(
Scene scene, CompositorOptions options, VideoFrame? socialBarFrame, int socialBarTop,
VideoFrame? tickerFrame, VideoFrame? flashFrame,
byte[]? scratch, Func resolver)
{
// 1:1 guard: the cache stores the OUTPUT bytes and scratch is source-sized —
// at 1:1 they are the same buffer size. Off-size tiers (a vertical 1080×1920
// tier, an H264-1080p tier) fall back to a per-tick full render; the deployed
// config is master-sized and caching a per-tick fresh scale buffer is the known
// vertical-tier follow-up (see ai.md), not silently baked here.
var useCache = scratch != null && options.SourceRectWidth == options.OutputWidth
&& options.SourceRectHeight == options.OutputHeight;
var signature = useCache
? BuildFullRenderSignature(scene, options, socialBarFrame, socialBarTop, tickerFrame, flashFrame, resolver)
: 0UL;
if (useCache && _fullCacheValid && signature == _lastFullSignature
&& _fullCachePixels!.Length == scratch!.Length)
{
Buffer.BlockCopy(_fullCachePixels, 0, scratch, 0, scratch.Length);
CacheHits++;
return new VideoFrame(options.SourceRectWidth, options.SourceRectHeight, scratch);
}
var rendered = _compositor.Render(scene, resolver, flashFrame, options, socialBarFrame, socialBarTop, scratch: scratch, tickerFrame: tickerFrame);
CacheRenders++;
if (useCache)
{
var pixels = rendered.BgraPixels;
if (_fullCachePixels == null || _fullCachePixels.Length != pixels.Length)
_fullCachePixels = new byte[pixels.Length];
// PRE-burn / PRE-recycle: the caller burns the counter and recycles this
// scratch after RenderScene returns — the cache keeps a clean copy, and the
// burn on the next hit writes to a FRESH scratch copy, never the cache.
Buffer.BlockCopy(pixels, 0, _fullCachePixels, 0, pixels.Length);
_lastFullSignature = signature;
_fullCacheValid = true;
}
else
{
_fullCacheValid = false; // size changed — never reuse a wrong-size buffer
}
return rendered;
}
/// Hash the complete set of inputs the compositor's FULL render consumes:
/// the crop/output dimensions, the social bar, and — in element order, mirroring
/// SceneCompositor.Render's iteration — every element's layout/visual fields
/// plus the frame each one resolves (through the SAME resolver seam the render will
/// use). A changed frame (new capture, new webcam Epoch, new chat raster) changes the
/// hash → re-composite; an unchanged one reuses the cache. Buffer-array identity +
/// Epoch + CropBounds is the compositor's own paste-key shape — producers hand out
/// fresh immutable arrays, or recycled-ring arrays whose monotonic Epoch
/// distinguishes generations (the capture take-11 fix), so address-identity alone is
/// never trusted to key recycled content.
private static ulong BuildFullRenderSignature(
Scene scene, CompositorOptions options, VideoFrame? socialBarFrame, int socialBarTop,
VideoFrame? tickerFrame,
VideoFrame? flashFrame,
Func resolver)
{
var h = 14695981039346656037UL; // FNV-1a offset basis
h = Mix(h, (ulong)options.SourceRectX);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)options.SourceRectY);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)options.SourceRectWidth);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)options.SourceRectHeight);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)options.OutputWidth);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)options.OutputHeight);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)socialBarTop);
if (socialBarFrame != null) h = MixFrame(h, socialBarFrame);
else h = Mix(h, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUL);
if (tickerFrame != null) h = MixFrame(h, tickerFrame);
else h = Mix(h, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUL);
// BrandFlashPresenter recycles one buffer and bumps Epoch every read, so this
// invalidates the cache on every tick of a credit — a cached frame would freeze
// the fade and pin a stale spot.
if (flashFrame != null) h = MixFrame(h, flashFrame);
else h = Mix(h, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUL);
var backdropResolved = false;
foreach (var element in scene.Elements)
{
h = Mix(h, (ulong)System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.GetHashCode(element));
h = Mix(h, element.IsVisible ? 1UL : 0UL);
h = MixDouble(h, element.X);
h = MixDouble(h, element.Y);
h = MixDouble(h, element.Width);
h = MixDouble(h, element.Height);
h = MixDouble(h, element.Opacity);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)element.ClipShape);
h = Mix(h, element.IsMirrored ? 1UL : 0UL);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)element.BorderWidth);
h = MixDouble(h, element.BorderOpacity);
if (element.TryGetBorderColor(out var bcR, out var bcG, out var bcB))
h = Mix(h, (ulong)((bcR << 16) | (bcG << 8) | bcB));
else
h = Mix(h, 0UL);
// Mirror the compositor's per-element frame resolution EXACTLY, so the hash
// reacts to the same frames a render uses and never to a frame a render
// ignores (a false-positive change only wastes one render; a false NEGATIVE
// would serve stale bytes — that is what this mirror prevents).
VideoFrame? frame = null;
if (element is Source { IsBackground: true })
{
h = Mix(h, 1UL); // the live backdrop — first visible one is resolved, once
if (element.IsVisible && !backdropResolved)
{
frame = resolver(element);
backdropResolved = true;
}
}
else if (element is Source { Type: SourceType.TextOverlay })
{
h = Mix(h, 2UL); // skipped kind — never resolved by the compositor
}
else if (element is Source { Type: SourceType.Background })
{
h = Mix(h, 3UL); // background image — resolved even when invisible (Render does)
frame = resolver(element);
}
else
{
h = Mix(h, 4UL); // regular layer — resolved only when visible
if (element.IsVisible) frame = resolver(element);
}
if (frame != null) h = MixFrame(h, frame);
else h = Mix(h, 0UL);
}
return h;
}
private static ulong Mix(ulong h, ulong v) => (h ^ v) * 0x9E3779B97F4A7C15UL;
private static ulong MixDouble(ulong h, double v)
=> Mix(h, unchecked((ulong)BitConverter.DoubleToInt64Bits(v)));
private static ulong MixFrame(ulong h, VideoFrame frame)
{
h = Mix(h, (ulong)System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.GetHashCode(frame.BgraPixels));
h = Mix(h, (ulong)frame.Epoch);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)frame.Width);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)frame.Height);
if (frame.CropBounds is { } cb)
{
h = Mix(h, (ulong)cb.X);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)cb.Y);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)cb.W);
h = Mix(h, (ulong)cb.H);
}
else
{
h = Mix(h, 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUL);
}
return h;
}
/// 2026-09-12 half-speed-render probe: the pump only produces ~27fps
/// (render ~35ms vs the 16.7ms deadline), and rawvideo muxes at the DECLARED fps,
/// so every take muxes at ~half its wall length (the truncation complaint). This
/// names WHICH compositor path ate the slow frame so the fix targets the real
/// stage. Records only when a frame takes ≥20ms (or carries the previous detail).
private void ProbeRender(string path, Scene scene, int split, long totalMs, int bakeMs)
{
if (totalMs < 20 && _renderDetail.Length == 0) return;
var dynamics = 0;
foreach (var e in scene.Elements)
if (e.Kind == ElementKind.Dynamic) dynamics++;
_renderDetail = $"render={path} split={split} elements={scene.Elements.Count} dynamic={dynamics}" +
(bakeMs > 0 ? $" bakeMs={bakeMs}" : "") + $" totalMs={totalMs}";
}
// Dot-matrix digits (5×7, one row per raster line, '1' = lit) burned into the
// bottom-right of every composite. Basic OCR-safe shapes, sized so the strip is
// a 36×8 white box in the corner of a 1920×1080 frame — readable with a zoomed
// player, invisible at normal size.
private static readonly string[][] DigitGlyphs =
{
new[] { "01110","10001","10001","10001","10001","10001","01110" }, // 0
new[] { "00100","01100","00100","00100","00100","00100","01110" }, // 1
new[] { "01110","10001","00001","00010","00100","01000","11111" }, // 2
new[] { "11111","00001","00010","00110","00001","10001","01110" }, // 3
new[] { "00010","00110","01010","10010","11111","00010","00010" }, // 4
new[] { "11111","10000","11110","00001","00001","10001","01110" }, // 5
new[] { "01110","10001","10000","11110","10001","10001","01110" }, // 6
new[] { "11111","00001","00010","00100","01000","01000","01000" }, // 7
new[] { "01110","10001","10001","01110","10001","10001","01110" }, // 8
new[] { "01110","10001","10001","01111","00001","10001","01110" }, // 9
};
private static void BurnFrameIndex(byte[] bgra, int width, int height, long index)
{
const int digitW = 5, digitH = 7, gap = 1, margin = 2, digitCount = 6;
var stripW = digitCount * (digitW + gap) - gap;
var left = width - margin - stripW;
var top = height - margin - digitH;
// Solid white box under the digits — the underlying scene can be anything.
for (var y = top; y < top + digitH; y++)
for (var x = left; x < left + stripW; x++)
{
var i = (y * width + x) * 4;
bgra[i] = 255;
bgra[i + 1] = 255;
bgra[i + 2] = 255;
}
var text = index.ToString("D6");
for (var d = 0; d < digitCount; d++)
{
var glyph = DigitGlyphs[text[d] - '0'];
for (var row = 0; row < digitH; row++)
for (var col = 0; col < digitW; col++)
{
if (glyph[row][col] != '1') continue;
var i = ((top + row) * width + (left + d * (digitW + gap) + col)) * 4;
bgra[i] = 0;
bgra[i + 1] = 0;
bgra[i + 2] = 0;
}
}
}
private void OnProcessFailed(object? sender, string message)
{
_log?.Invoke($"FramePump: encoder process failed: {message}");
Failed?.Invoke(this, message);
_ = StopAsync();
}
}