fix(windows): encode H.264 High with the BT.709 colour the compositor expects - #929
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Windows Media Foundation encoder now converts CPU BGRA frames to BT.709 limited-range NV12. It sets H.264 High-profile and color metadata and configures zero B-frames. A new executable tests conversion and encoded output, and the Windows helper build runs it. ChangesWindows H.264 color encoding
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Capture as BGRA capture or composite path
participant Converter as convertBgraToNv12Bt709
participant MFEncoder
participant MFT as Media Foundation H.264 encoder
Capture->>Converter: provide strided BGRA frame
Converter->>MFEncoder: produce BT.709 limited-range NV12
MFEncoder->>MFT: submit NV12 sample
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Resolution Add a fallback to the previous H.264 profile behavior when an encoder refuses High. Keep B-frames disabled in the fallback path. Add automated coverage for refusal fallback. Add automated coverage or reviewable test evidence for fragmented-MP4 playback, seeking, compositor decoding, and export. Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 29.41% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)
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…ects Every Windows recording was written in BT.601 and untagged. The helper fed the encoder RGB32, and the colour converter Media Foundation puts in front of it produced BT.601 whatever the media types said: solid red came out at Y 82, Cb 90 from the software and the hardware encoder alike, where BT.709 is 63 and 102. The compositor decodes every recording as BT.709, so colours shifted. The encoders also defaulted to Constrained Baseline. - The helper now converts BGRA to NV12 BT.709 studio range itself (SSE2) and feeds NV12 on every path. A 1080p frame costs 1.6 ms to hand over, against about 2 ms for the old copy plus converter. - Range, matrix, primaries and transfer are tagged BT.709 on both tracks. - H.264 High profile, with B-frames off through the encoding parameters (the software encoder added them in High). - The cpuInputIsNv12 option is gone: every system-memory path is NV12. mf_encoder_color_test drives the real encoder, software and hardware, and reads the file back: High, no B-frames, bt709 tags, red/green/blue exact to the code value, and the converter within one code value of BT.709 on noise. It runs from npm run build:native:win. Fixes #922 Fixes #923
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🟠 Major · Add a profile fallback before retrying encoder selection. · mf_encoder.cpp:808-822
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winAdd a profile fallback before retrying encoder selection.
When a Windows H.264 encoder rejects
eAVEncH264VProfile_High, the sink-writer attempt fails. Every retry reuses the sameoutputType, so changing the container, input path, or encoder preference does not remove the rejected profile. Capture initialization can therefore fail even though the encoder accepts the profile that the base requested by default.Keep High as the preferred attempt, but rebuild the video output type without
MF_MT_MPEG2_PROFILE(or with a supported fallback profile) before repeating the existing retry ladder. This correction belongs in the output-type setup, not only in encoder selection.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 808-822: Keep eAVEncH264VProfile_High as the preferred profile,
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Fixes #922. Fixes #923. Part of #920.
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Every Windows recording was written in BT.601, untagged. The compositor decodes all recordings as BT.709, so colours were shifted on every Windows take.
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SetInputMediaType's encoding parameters, sinceICodecAPI::SetValueis refused once the types are set.cpuInputIsNv12option: every system-memory path is NV12 now.Measured
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mf_encoder_color_test, run bynpm run build:native:win. It drives the real encoder with synthetic frames, software and hardware, and reads the file back with ffprobe/ffmpeg:has_b_frames=0tv / bt709 / bt709 / bt709Pending
ffprobeof both tracks, then export solid colours and compare RGB (added to the manual checklist).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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