Extract the display-agnostic encode/mux tail out of wayland.rs into a new
host/pipeline.rs: CaptureHandle + lifecycle, audio routing setup, the gst
arg builder, the spawn, and Serve::bind now live there. Backends supply
only their video-source element args plus a post-spawn hook (Wayland uses
it to close its leaked pipewire fd; X11 passes a no-op). capture.rs
collapses to a thin dispatcher; its CaptureHandle enum is gone.
Add host/x11.rs: ximagesrc (use-damage=false show-pointer=true), whole
root window by default or a single window via --window (xwininfo
click-picker → xid). x11rb reads geometry for an info log, justifying the
previously-vestigial dep. No portal, no fd dance — capture starts
silently when the first viewer connects (the ticket is the access
control). Viewer is display-agnostic and unchanged.
Wire --no-hwencode for real (was a no-op): the shared tail now selects
x264enc(tune=zerolatency,ultrafast)/I420 vs vah264enc/NV12 and switches
the videoconvert target format to match. Applies to both backends.
deps.rs: check_host_binaries now takes &HostOpts and checks shared
elements for both backends, encoder by --no-hwencode, source per backend
(pipewiresrc/ximagesrc), and xwininfo only when X11 + --window. Install
hints added for x264enc, ximagesrc, xwininfo.
Verified: warning-free build; smoke test still passes (tail unchanged);
ximagesrc + both encoder tails produce mpv-decodable H.264 against an
Xwayland root. Interactive cross-machine end-to-end pending.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per-app audio routing (--app), mic mixing (--mic), and --repair all
landed in recent commits but the README still listed the first and last
as stubs. Move them to Working, drop them from "Not yet working" (X11
capture is now the only remaining stub), and add an Audio section
documenting --app/--mic/--repair.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Updates the status section to move multi-viewer out of "not yet
working", adds a Configuration section pointing at the new TOML config
at ~/.config/pixelpass/config.toml, and a Multi-viewer section
covering the lazy-sticky lifecycle, the --max-viewers cap, the
bandwidth-bitrate tradeoff, and how to fit more viewers by dropping
--bitrate. Known-limitations section gains "late joiners see ~2 s of
garbage" (expected behavior) and drops the now-stale "single viewer
per host" line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous vlc-plugin-dvb diagnosis was incomplete. On a laptop with
only vlc-plugin-dvb installed, VLC reads the MPEG-TS container, sees
the H.264 stream type in the PMT, then errors "Codec h264 ... is not
supported" because libavcodec_plugin.so is also a split package and
also wasn't pulled in by the base `vlc` install.
Installing vlc-plugin-ffmpeg (which pulls ffmpeg4.4 as a compat dep)
on the laptop made VLC play pixelpass cleanly via Intel iHD hardware
decode.
- README: list both plugin packages under requirements; rewrite the
known-limitations line.
- interactive.rs: extend the launch-time check to also probe for
libavcodec_plugin.so; combine both into one warning that lists
every missing piece and the single pacman invocation to fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VLC's MPEG-TS demuxer (libts_plugin.so) ships in a separate package on
Arch / CachyOS (vlc-plugin-dvb). Without it, VLC silently falls back
to the PS demuxer and misidentifies our H.264 stream — the symptom is
a green screen. mpv doesn't share this dependency.
- README: list vlc-plugin-dvb under requirements, replace the
"green screen, not yet diagnosed" gotcha with the diagnosis.
- interactive.rs: when the user picks VLC, check for
/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/demux/libts_plugin.so and print a warning to
stderr if it's missing. Soft warning, not a hard error — VLC still
spawns so the user can confirm the symptom for themselves.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Covers v0.1 status, quick-start (interactive + headless), system
deps, build, architecture diagram, design rationale, and known
limitations. No README existed before — this fills the gap now that
v0.1 is verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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