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The credit existed only as a WPF BrandFlashLayer TextBlock in the preview at 25% opacity on a 300s timer. A viewer of the stream or the recording never saw it, so "free tier shows branding" was not actually being delivered. The frame pump has carried an unused per-frame flashFrame slot for exactly this. Reverses the documented "Pre-GA posture" (ai.md Monetization), which kept the flash preview-only so test VODs stayed clean. Creator ruling 2026-09-26: the free tier has to be honest advertising, so it now reaches the broadcast. One rendered VideoFrame feeds BOTH the frame pump and the preview, so the creator's view cannot drift from what viewers get. Spec: 500ms in / 1000ms hold / 500ms out, first credit ~5s after go-live then every rand(30s)+30s, single unwrapped line at a random spot inside the frame every time, neon white core with a feathered red/blue halo. Neon recipe is derivative work, per AGENTS.md: bright core + feathered multi-radius halo with R and B split in opposite directions, from https://nudaui.dev/components/neon-glow (layered text-shadow falloff), https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/html/Blurs-and-Glows-chromatic-glow.html ("with no displacement, the green channel is all but invisible behind your white text" once R and B are split) and the OBS obs-stroke-glow-shadow "feathered stroke with user-defined size and intensity". Neon blue is #4d8bff rather than the theme's #0f3460, which renders near-black as a halo. Also fixes a PRE-EXISTING bug found on the way: FramePump's fully-static shortcut stretched the cached bake and returned it, silently discarding every per-frame overlay - the social bar and the alert ticker were already lost there. SceneCompositor.Overlay is now internal (it copies before blitting, so the bake is never mutated) and the shortcut composites overlays first. The credit is deliberately NOT folded into SceneGraph.GetBakedBase: SceneRegion.Matches compares element ids only, so a credit in the cached bake would freeze there and never expire. Per-frame only, and Epoch is stamped every read because the 8MB master buffer is recycled - without that the paste cache would freeze a stale credit. BrandFlashEnabled is now derived !IsPremium and non-assignable, and the presenter re-checks the licence on every read, so a key entered mid-credit cuts the advertisement on the next tick instead of letting it finish. Tests: 10 new facts. 357 total, 356 pass; the one failure is the known environment-flaky RealMouseDrag layer test (needs an uncovered desktop session). Adds RealAppHost.RunAsync - a frame-pump test must await inside the collection's shared STA thread or the whole suite deadlocks silently. NOTE: scope-check.sh flags Helpers/InstanceProfile.cs, AppLog.cs, TokenStore.cs, WebView2Manager.cs and InstanceIsolationTests.cs as outside this commit. That is a false positive: it uses `git diff HEAD`, which cannot distinguish a planned second commit in the same session from an unrelated edit. Those files are the dev multi-instance unit, committed immediately after this one - as is the InstanceProfile paragraph in ai.md, which shares a file with the Monetization section corrected here.
ytLlive
A creator-proof live-streaming and recording app for YouTube — native Windows (C# / WPF / .NET 8).
Screenshot
Design Principle
This software is so intuitive that even the most right-brained person can easily intuit and use it.
Every feature is measured against this. One-click go-live, sane YouTube defaults, visual scene building, and no dead ends — every action has a visible outcome.
Why ytLlive
OBS treats YouTube as an afterthought; SLOBS is Twitch-first with YouTube bolted on. ytLlive is designed and dedicated to YouTube livestreaming and recording, and to YouTube's specific quirks.
Account Assumption
ytLlive assumes you already have a YouTube creator account — connecting uses "Sign in with Google" to link that existing account. ytLlive does not create accounts. If you don't have a YouTube channel yet, set one up on YouTube first, then connect it here.
Audio Assumption
ytLlive uses your default microphone and desktop/game output — it never hunts for a device or contends for one. It assumes your audio is already configured and working (default input and output set, not hijacked by another app). Audio issues are a Windows/device matter outside ytLlive's scope: we don't debug, detect, or try to fix them. If it doesn't sound right, fix the system's audio settings first — it's on the OS, not on us.
Run
dotnet build # Windows only — WPF
dotnet run
Version Roadmap
v1 is the finished product (creator ruling, 2026-09-01 — there are no v1.x releases).
Everything still queueing lands in v1; anything not on the feature list is on the closed
"Out of product — permanently" list in TASKS.md — read that page before asking for a feature.
What v1 ships: the five-scene director's control surface, webcam + screen capture, media + web + text sources, chat on-stream, the social bar, mic/desktop audio with auto-duck and TRAX, local recording, variable quality tiers with auto step-down, one-click go-live + scheduling, stream resilience (auto-reconnect inside YouTube's grace, one-click back on air), built-in monetization awareness (reward capture, session reports, YPP journey tracker), Alerts — all free and ungated; the one-time license only removes the branding flash.
Structure
| Path | Role |
|---|---|
Models/ |
Scene, Source, WebcamSceneConfig, SceneElement, SceneCatalog, QualityOption, StreamConfig/Health, chat, Socials, BroadcastMetadata, Music, MicStatus |
ViewModels/ |
MainViewModel (partial classes per area) + dialogs: GoLive, CameraPicker, MicPicker, HotkeyConfig, Socials, LiveBroadcastForm |
Services/ |
YouTube (OAuth, streams/broadcasts, chat polling), LayoutStore (SQLite), capture (camera/screen-capture/media-file via FFmpeg), SceneCompositor + FramePump, FFmpeg encoder + RTMP, audio pipeline (WASAPI loopback + mic, mixer, filters, ducker, limiter, TRAX), SocialValidator, notifications, hotkeys, SceneGraph, ChatOverlayLayer |
Helpers/ |
ViewModelBase, RelayCommand, ImageCache, AppLog, TokenStore (DPAPI), OAuthCredentials, converters |
Themes/ |
Controls.xaml — the dark-theme control styles, merged once in App.xaml |
MainWindow.xaml |
Dark-theme control surface: thumbnails + central preview, two-state left panel (layers/properties ↔ live chat), top bar, footer |
Distribution.md |
GA-time plan: signing, installer, EULA, hardening — executed as TASK 36 |
Docs (memory map)
schema.md defines the conventions; ai.md is the AI/session guide;
TASKS.md is the task queue. Each code directory carries an index.md.