Show the camera again when the join preview reopens - #1095
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CameraPreviewController kept one AVCaptureSession for the whole launch. Cancel freed the panel's preview layer and stopped the session; the next join restarted it under a new preview layer, which stayed black. The preview session has no output of its own, and a reused session like that feeds a new preview layer no frames after a restart. Open Camera only escaped because its photo output keeps the reused session feeding. stop() now drops the session, so every open builds its own. configure() starts on the camera last switched to, unless it has been unplugged, so Open Camera still reopens on the camera the user picked.
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WalkthroughCamera session shutdown now clears stored session and photo-output references before stopping a running session. Configuration reuses a previously selected camera while it remains connected, and otherwise uses the default video device. The camera documentation describes these behaviors. ChangesCamera Session Behavior
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In `@Tinycast/Features/Camera/Service/CameraSession.swift`:
- Line 57: Update CameraSession.stop() to retain the task running stopRunning(),
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| guard let capture, capture.isRunning else { return } | ||
| guard let capture else { return } | ||
| // A reused session without an output of its own feeds a new preview layer no frames. | ||
| self.capture = nil |
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- 2: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avcapturesession/stoprunning()
- 3: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/RosyWriter/Listings/Classes_RosyWriterCapturePipeline_m.html
- 4: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/743177
- 5: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/AVFoundationPG/Articles/04_MediaCapture.html
- 6: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avcapturesession
Serialize session shutdown before reopening.
stop() starts stopRunning() in an untracked detached task. A later start() can create and start a replacement session before the previous session has stopped. If startRunning() fails, start() still returns .live.
Store the stop task and await its completion before configuring or starting the replacement session.
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In `@Tinycast/Features/Camera/Service/CameraSession.swift` at line 57, Update
CameraSession.stop() to retain the task running stopRunning(), and have start()
await that task before configuring or starting a replacement session. Ensure
start() returns .live only after startRunning() succeeds, propagating failure
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Related issue
Closes #955
What changed
CameraPreviewControllerkept oneAVCaptureSessionfor the whole launch. Cancel freed the panel'spreview layer and stopped the session. The next join restarted the same session under a new preview
layer, and that layer stayed black.
The cause is the session's shape. The join preview uses the
.previewpurpose, which has no outputof its own. When a session like that is reused, a new preview layer gets no frames after a restart.
Open Camera did not have the bug only because its
AVCapturePhotoOutputkeeps a reused sessionfeeding.
CameraSession.stop()now drops the session and its photo output, so every open builds its own.This fixes both surfaces in one place, so neither depends on the output keeping it alive.
configure()starts on the camera last switched to, unless it has been unplugged. So Open Camerastill reopens on the camera the user picked, as it did with the reused session.
docs/features/camera.mdnow states the new session lifetime.Memory footprint
Not measured. The change releases the
AVCaptureSessionwhen the panel closes, where before it waskept until quit. So memory after a preview can only stay the same or go down.
Leak-tested: no
Drawbacks
startRunning,which the open already waits for.
The probe below covers this: reopening 0.3 s after cancel shows video.
Tests & validation
./Scripts/run-tests.shpasses../Scripts/lint.shis clean. The Debug build has no newwarnings.
A standalone AppKit probe (not committed) copied the preview's lifecycle: the same session
presets, the layer-hosting preview view, the borderless panel, the fade-out, then stop. It opened
the panel, cancelled, and opened it again. Each second open was checked on screen:
.medium, no output), reusedpreview.session = nilindismantleNSView.photopreset, no output, reused.photo+ photo output (Open Camera), reusedNot yet tested by hand in the app: