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Summary

Moves the captured backend to the v2 captured from captured#4, which captures and encodes in one process. The agent no longer runs ffmpeg or touches raw BGRA. It spawns captured per stream and forwards the access units it gets back.

• CapturedBackend.StartStream spawns captured with a pipe on fd 3 (an inherited handle plus --media fd:<h> on Windows), sends JSON-RPC start with display, video.fps, video.codec, video.bitrate and anything from --captured, then reads 16-byte-header records off the pipe.
• ListDisplays spawns captured briefly, calls list, and returns the displays of the first pipeline without an error (the one pipeline=auto picks).
• H264Chunk.AccessUnit marks chunks that are already one access unit. publishStream skips the framer for those, so there's no extra frame of latency waiting for the next AU to start.
• New optional backend.KeyframeRequester. A late joiner calls RequestKeyframe, which sets video.keyframe on captured. captured only sends IDRs on request by default, so without this a second viewer would never get a decodable frame.
• A stopped notification from captured (capture or encoder failure) closes the stream. Close is stdin close, then kill after 2 s.
• --captured now takes bin=/path/to/captured plus any captured property, e.g. --captured "bin=/opt/captured,pipeline=kms_nvidia,video.encoder=h264_nvenc". Values that aren't valid JSON are sent as strings.
• AGENTS.md describes the new protocol and start/stop flow.

SetBitrate is there on the stream but nothing calls it yet.

Testing

On observatory (RTX 2070 SUPER, 2560x1440), agent --backend captured against captured at 80976d2, with a throwaway Go WebTransport client: one owner for 6 s and a late joiner after 2 s.

owner: 362 frames in 6.0s = 60.0 fps, 2 keyframes, first frame after 439ms (keyframe=true), max gap 22ms, 10.03 Mbit/s
late: 121 frames in 2.0s = 60.0 fps, 1 keyframes, first frame after 71ms (keyframe=true), max gap 18ms, 10.08 Mbit/s

captured picked kms_nvidia with h264_nvenc on CUDA frames. The dumped stream decodes with ffmpeg to the real desktop at 2560x1440, and no captured process is left after the owner disconnects.

go vet and go test pass, plus go vet with GOOS=windows and GOOS=darwin.

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Requested by: @spacedouut

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • The captured backend can now be configured with a custom binary and additional capture properties.
  • Capture streams default to 60 FPS and H.264 when those settings aren’t specified.
  • Late-arriving viewers receive a keyframe request to help them begin playback sooner.
• Improvements
  • Display discovery can return available displays even when some capture pipelines fail.
  • Capture startup and shutdown are bounded by timeouts to avoid waiting indefinitely.

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Findings

Guard the chunk send in readMedia against a stopped consumer.
Fix the goroutine leak in the stopped watcher.
Gate late joiners until the first keyframe.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/backend/captured.go:
- Line 347: Update capturedStream with a done channel, initialize it in
StartStream, and close it once in Close() alongside closing the capture process.
In readMedia, select between sending the H264Chunk to s.chunks and receiving
from s.done; return when done is closed so the send cannot block after shutdown.
- Around line 308-311: Update child.read’s exit cleanup to close c.stopped after
its final notification so the stopped watcher cannot block when the reader exits
normally or crashes; preserve the watcher behavior where a closed channel yields
an empty message and does not call s.Close().

Review comments at @src/stream.go:
- Around line 29-31: Mark each newly registered subscriber as needing a
keyframe, then update publishStream to skip non-keyframes for that subscriber
until the first keyframe arrives and clear the waiting state when it does. Add
the per-subscriber state to the subscriber type.

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Walkthrough

The captured backend now launches a child process for display listing and streaming. It uses JSON-RPC for control and fd 3 for encoded media. The stream publisher forwards access units and requests keyframes for late subscribers.

Changes: Captured stream lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Captured process configuration and control AGENTS.md, src/backend/captured.go, src/backend/media_unix.go, src/backend/media_windows.go, src/main.go	The backend selects the captured binary and applies configured properties. It starts a child process, passes the media handle, and exchanges JSON-RPC messages.
Display listing and media stream lifecycle AGENTS.md, src/backend/captured.go	The backend lists displays and starts streams through the child process. It reads media records, supports bitrate updates, and shuts down the child with a two-second limit.
Access-unit publishing and keyframe requests AGENTS.md, src/backend/backend.go, src/backend/captured.go, src/stream.go	H264Chunk can identify a complete access unit. The publisher sends these chunks directly and can request a keyframe when a subscriber joins.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent
  participant Captured as captured child
  participant Stream
  participant Subscriber
  Agent->>Captured: Send start RPC with stream properties
  Captured-->>Agent: Return stream dimensions and codec
  Captured-->>Agent: Write video access-unit record to fd 3
  Agent->>Stream: Publish access unit and keyframe flag
  Subscriber->>Stream: Join active stream
  Stream->>Captured: Request keyframe for late subscriber

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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 1b17e

Repeated streams can retain resources after stopping, and late joiners may receive undecodable initial video. Address these issues before merging.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/backend/captured.go:
- Line 347: Update capturedStream with a done channel, initialize it in
StartStream, and close it once in Close() alongside closing the capture process.
In readMedia, select between sending the H264Chunk to s.chunks and receiving
from s.done; return when done is closed so the send cannot block after shutdown.
- Around line 308-311: Update child.read’s exit cleanup to close c.stopped after
its final notification so the stopped watcher cannot block when the reader exits
normally or crashes; preserve the watcher behavior where a closed channel yields
an empty message and does not call s.Close().

Review comments at @src/stream.go:
- Around line 29-31: Mark each newly registered subscriber as needing a
keyframe, then update publishStream to skip non-keyframes for that subscriber
until the first keyframe arrives and clear the waiting state when it does. Add
the per-subscriber state to the subscriber type.

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