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With native macOS screen capture, the ScreenCaptureKit helper now records the camera as well (WebcamRecorder: AVCaptureSession + AVAssetWriter, hardware HEVC at 3 Mbit/s, H.264 if the writer refuses HEVC). The renderer no longer records the webcam with MediaRecorder on that path, so Chromium's recording limits (the MP4 muxer's 4 GiB CHECK, one Blob on Stop) don't apply, and a HUD crash doesn't touch the webcam file. The camera frames share the screen recorder's queue and clock state: they are placed on the screen timeline (first screen frame, accumulated pause), dropped while paused or during a warm-start countdown, and the last frame is held so both files end together. The helper prints WEBCAM_CAPTURE_STARTED / WEBCAM_CAPTURE_UNAVAILABLE at start and WEBCAM_OUTPUT <path> OFFSET_MS <n> on stop; main passes nativeWebcam and webcamPath/webcamTimeOffsetMs through. If the camera can't be opened natively, the renderer records it the old way. Windows and Linux are unchanged. Prebuilt darwin helpers are rebuilt.
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webadderallorg#1146 records the webcam in the macOS capture helper as recording-<ts>-webcam.mp4. A countdown capture discarded after a HUD crash now deletes that file too (nativeCaptureSidecarPaths); when it doesn't exist the delete is skipped, so this works in either merge order.
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- Around line 1244-1252: Update the stop-failure fallback in the catch branch to
parse nativeCaptureOutputBuffer and attach webcamPath and webcamTimeOffsetMs to
the result of finalizeStoredVideo, matching the success path’s webcam metadata
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- Around line 1331-1335: Update recoverNativeMacCaptureOutput to return the
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…covered The stop-failure fallback and recoverNativeMacCaptureOutput returned the screen recording without the webcam file the helper had printed, and the renderer's recovery asked the browser webcam recorder, which never ran in native mode. A recovered recording lost its webcam layer and left the file on disk. withNativeWebcam attaches WEBCAM_OUTPUT on every main-process path, and recoveredWebcam makes recovery use that file and its offset before falling back to the browser recorder.
The renderer passes the camera's Chromium label, and Chromium adds " (<vendor>:<product>)" to the macOS name whenever the camera has a model ID (VideoCaptureDeviceDescriptor::GetNameAndModel). The helper compared names exactly, so such a camera was "not found" and the webcam fell back to the browser recorder. Found in a packaged build. labelMatches accepts the name alone or with that suffix, and nothing else. Desk View cameras are listed too, so choosing one no longer fails the same way. The darwin screen capture helpers are rebuilt.
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🟠 Major · Delete the webcam file when finalization fails. · ScreenCaptureKitRecorder.swift:253-254
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDelete the webcam file when finalization fails.
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finishWriting()leaves the writer outside.completed, this branch returns no path but leaves its output file in place. The discard cleanup cannot identify that file, so a failed recording can retain captured webcam footage. RemoveoutputURLbefore returningnil. Do not rely oncancelWriting()alone: it has no effect after the writer enters.failed. (developer.apple.com)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🟠 Major · Check that the capture session started before reporting… · ScreenCaptureKitRecorder.swift:164
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winCheck that the capture session started before reporting success.
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session.startRunning()fails, it reports the failure throughruntimeErrorNotification; it does not throw. This code still reachesWEBCAM_CAPTURE_STARTED, so the renderer can release its browser recorder although the camera produces no frames. Checksession.isRunningafter the call and report the camera as unavailable when it is false. (developer.apple.com)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 98: Update the camera selection around `labelMatches` so the Chromium
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`localizedName`; if the suffix cannot uniquely identify a camera, retain the
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- Around line 253-254: Update the non-completed writer branch in the
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Two cameras of one model share the macOS name and the vendor:product suffix, so the label can't tell them apart, and the first one found could be recorded instead of the chosen one. When more than one camera matches, the helper now reports the camera as unavailable and the app records the webcam the old way, by Chromium's exact device ID. The darwin screen capture helpers are rebuilt.
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Description
On macOS with native screen capture, the webcam is now recorded by the ScreenCaptureKit helper instead of a
MediaRecorderin the HUD renderer.WebcamRecorder(inScreenCaptureKitRecorder.swift) runs anAVCaptureSessionon the chosen camera and writesrecording-<ts>-webcam.mp4withAVAssetWriter: hardware HEVC at 3 Mbit/s for 720p, or H.264 at 4 Mbit/s if the writer refuses HEVC. Key frame every 2 s.webcamLabel, thenwebcamDeviceId, else the default camera). Chromium's label adds(<vendor>:<product>)to the macOS name when the camera has a model ID, so the name matches with or without that suffix (labelMatches). Desk View cameras are included. If two cameras match (two of one model), the helper reports the camera as unavailable and the renderer records it the old way, by Chromium's exact device ID.WEBCAM_CAPTURE_STARTEDorWEBCAM_CAPTURE_UNAVAILABLE <reason>at start, andWEBCAM_OUTPUT <path> OFFSET_MS <n>on stop (parseNativeWebcamOutput). Main returnsnativeWebcamfrom start andwebcamPath/webcamTimeOffsetMsfrom stop.Motivation
Follow-up to #1139. Recording the webcam in the renderer is what exposed it to Chromium's limits: the MP4 muxer's 4 GiB
CHECK(#1143, reported upstream as https://issues.chromium.org/issues/574578846) and the single Blob on Stop (#1142). On macOS, the helper that already records the screen can record the camera too, so none of that applies, and a HUD crash no longer touches the webcam file. Side effects: the webcam is HEVC at about 3 Mbit/s instead of 8 Mbit/s H.264 (files around a third of the size), and screen and webcam come from one process on one clock.Type of Change
Related Issue(s)
#1139. Independent of #1142–#1145. #1145's countdown discard already deletes
recording-<ts>-webcam.mp4(ecebc69), so the merge order doesn't matter. On this path #1143's WebM change isn't used (noMediaRecorder); it still covers Windows, Linux and the fallback.Testing Guide
npx vitest run electron/ipc/recording/nativeWebcam.test.ts electron/native/ScreenCaptureKitRecorder.webcam.test.ts src/hooks/useScreenRecorder.test.ts. The Swift test compilesWebcamRecorderfrom the helper source and writes real 720p files with its HEVC and H.264 settings (a setting the encoder rejects raisesNSInvalidArgumentExceptionthere and fails it).Full suite: 184 files, 1626 tests pass; lint unchanged from
main. The camera matching is tested with Swift cases compiled from the helper source (suffix forms, a different camera, two cameras with one name).End to end in
npm run devon an M1 Pro, FaceTime HD Camera, through the real start/stop handlers, with the HUD holding its owngetUserMediastream on the same camera the whole time (like the live preview):The preview stream stayed
livein every run.Not tested: an iPhone Continuity Camera or a USB camera, and a long recording with the webcam (the 4.6 GB runs in Stream MediaRecorder chunks to disk instead of holding them until Stop #1142/Record the webcam as H.264 in WebM to avoid the 4 GiB MP4 muxer crash #1143 used the renderer path).
Manual: on macOS, record with the webcam on. The recordings folder should have
recording-<ts>-webcam.mp4(HEVC), the editor shows the webcam in sync, and Activity Monitor shows noMediaRecorderwork in the HUD.Checklist
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