perf(preview): stop decoding the stand-in camera when a clip has none - #993
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Without a camera the preview opened the screen file a second time as a stand-in webcam decoder and decoded it in lockstep with the screen, for a picture it never drew. That halved the decode budget in the most common case: a 4K source read at 2x adopted ~46 frames/s for the ~97 VideoToolbox decodes on its own, and the view fell seconds behind the clock in speed regions. The stand-in stays open but is never stepped or sought; compose receives the screen frame in its place, the same picture it would have decoded. Measured with the new live_free_run_bench_macos example on an M1: 4K at 2x goes from 2.75 s of source behind at 8 frames/s published to on time at 57/s, 1080p at 4x from 22-33 to 60 frames/s published.
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crates/compositor/tests/no_camera_stand_in.rs (1)
67-69: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert that stand-in decoder work does not increase.
webcam_decoder_is_real()checks the fallback flag, not decoder activity. The test’s composition and screen-time assertions can still pass ifPlayer::stepdecodeswdec: the stand-in opens the same valid screen file. The test also does not callPlayer::seek_active. Add a decoder-operation counter or test hook, then assert that the stand-in’s seek/decode count stays unchanged acrosspresent_frame,step, andseek_active.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @crates/compositor/examples/live_free_run_bench_macos.rs:
- Line 103: Update the lag calculation using player.screen_time_sec() and
start_source to account for source time across EOF restarts, rather than
measuring only the final pass; alternatively, reject clips shorter than the
intended source-time span so Player::step cannot restart during the benchmark.
Review comments at @crates/compositor/tests/no_camera_stand_in.rs:
- Line 70: The playback loop in the no-camera stand-in test can run indefinitely
when Player::step seeks back to zero at EOF; bound iterations or detect the
source-time reset, and fail with a clear message if the fixture is too short to
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Review comments at @crates/compositor/tests/no_camera_stand_in.rs:
- Around line 67-69: Update the no-camera stand-in test around its composition
loop to verify decoder activity, not only the fallback flag: add or use a
decoder-operation counter or test hook, record the stand-in’s seek/decode count
before exercising present_frame, step, and seek_active, then assert the count is
unchanged afterward.
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…hat loops Addresses the CodeRabbit review of #993: the test now records the stand-in decoder's time and checks it is unchanged after seek, free-run, seek_active and recompose (composing alone proved nothing, the stand-in opens the same valid file); the free-run loop stops with a clear message when the source loops at EOF instead of chasing a target it can no longer reach; and the bench accumulates played source time across loops.
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Summary
The macOS e2e pass on v2.0.0-rc.12 found the preview trailing the playhead inside speed regions (logged in #991, never filed). The cause is not the drift watch from e358d77: the native free-run cannot decode fast enough, and the drift watch only re-anchors it every 500 ms.
Without a camera, the preview opened the screen file a second time as a stand-in webcam decoder and decoded it in lockstep with the screen, for a picture it never draws. That is the common case (no webcam), and it halved the decode budget. The stand-in now stays open but is never stepped or sought; compose receives the screen frame in its place, the same picture the stand-in would have decoded.
live.rsalready flagged this as "to do if someone measures that the useless decoder costs".Measurements (Mac mini M1, macOS 26.5)
Bench (
live_free_run_bench_macos, new example: replays the render thread's free-run loop on one clip and prints the lag; 6 s runs, 1920×1080 render,testsrccounter clips):decode_bench_macosputs VideoToolbox alone at 97 fps on the 4K clip; the player topped out at ~46 before (two decoders), ~90 after.In the editor, real OS input, installed rc.13 against a copy of it with only this addon and its ffmpeg dylibs swapped in, isolated profiles, the rc.12 pass's project; lag = playhead minus the burned-in counter, read from one capture of both, every ~0.3 s:
At 1080p 4× the decoder already kept up, so what is left there is display latency times four.
Not fixed
4K at 4× still falls behind: it needs 120 decoded frames a second, more than VideoToolbox gives here. The render thread caps a tick at
max_stepsframes and counts at most 0.1 s of clock per tick, so it loses time and the drift watch re-anchors it. Skipping ahead to a keyframe would be the fix; it is a larger change and is written down under Known gaps inpreview.md.Composing only the last due frame of a tick was tried too and measured no difference on this machine, so it is not in this PR.
Related issue
Refs #991 (where the rc.12 finding is logged)
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Testing
cargo test --release -p openscreen-compositor --lib --testson macOS: 399 passed.tests/no_camera_stand_in.rs(GPU + source, skipped in CI likeprogramme_time_seek.rs): seek, seek past the last frame, free-run at 2× and recompose all compose without a camera. Passed on the 1080p counter clip and on a real ScreenCaptureKit take.Player, so a Windows check (D3D11VA) of a no-camera clip played through a speed region, and of a clip with a camera, is wanted before this goes into a release.Summary by CodeRabbit