Use native WASAPI for Windows microphone recording - #935
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 8 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWindows microphone capture now uses native WASAPI by default, passes selected device IDs to the native helper, improves device matching, and switches to browser capture when native output reports microphone unavailability. ChangesWindows microphone capture
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RecordingIPC
participant WgcCapture
participant WasapiCapture
participant BrowserFallback
RecordingIPC->>WgcCapture: pass microphone device ID and name
WgcCapture->>WasapiCapture: initialize microphone
WasapiCapture-->>WgcCapture: setup result
WgcCapture-->>RecordingIPC: emit capture output
RecordingIPC->>BrowserFallback: start browser capture when output contains MICROPHONE_CAPTURE_UNAVAILABLE
Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The updated device-selection path rejects ambiguous or unresolved microphones and falls back to browser capture when native startup cannot proceed. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@electron/native/wgc-capture/src/wasapi_loopback.cpp`:
- Line 98: Update scoreDeviceName so name fallback matches only normalized
friendly-name equality, removing word-containment matches. In
findCaptureDeviceByName or the surrounding initializeMic flow, ensure a
non-"default" request with no exact match returns false without calling
GetDefaultAudioEndpoint, while preserving default-device resolution for the
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60-82: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReject ambiguous normalized microphone-name matches.
normalizeDeviceNamemaps bothMic-1andMic 1tomic 1. If the device ID is unavailable,findCaptureDeviceByNamereturns the first matching active endpoint, soinitializeMiccan record from the wrong microphone. Return no device unless exactly one endpoint matches. This lets the existing unavailable-microphone path emitMICROPHONE_CAPTURE_UNAVAILABLEand use the browser fallback.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@electron/native/wgc-capture/src/wasapi_loopback.cpp`:
- Around line 60-82: Update findCaptureDeviceByName to collect all active
endpoints whose names match via deviceNamesMatch, returning a device only when
exactly one endpoint matches; return no device for zero or multiple matches so
initializeMic follows the existing
MICROPHONE_CAPTURE_UNAVAILABLE/browser-fallback path.
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Addressed the follow-up review in 788359e. Native name lookup now succeeds only when exactly one active endpoint has the same normalized friendly name. Zero or multiple matches trigger the existing browser microphone fallback. |
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Manual Windows validation completed: microphone recording works, export works, and simultaneous system audio plus microphone recording works. |
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Description
Windows recordings now capture the microphone through native WASAPI by default instead of routing it through Chromium. The selected microphone is resolved by device ID and then by an exact normalized name match.
If a specifically selected microphone cannot be resolved, or WASAPI cannot initialize or start, Recordly automatically uses the existing browser microphone fallback for that recording. The browser path can still be forced with
RECORDLY_WINDOWS_MIC_CAPTURE=browser.The native helper reports microphone startup failures before it reports that recording has started, preventing a race that could otherwise leave a recording without microphone audio.
Motivation
The browser microphone path enables Chromium audio processing and has produced crackling on some Windows devices. Windows already records the screen through the native helper, so using native WASAPI for the microphone avoids that processing while retaining a safe fallback.
Type of Change
Related Issue(s)
None.
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Not applicable; there are no user-interface changes.
Testing Guide
RECORDLY_WINDOWS_MIC_CAPTURE=browserand confirm the forced fallback still works.Automated validation completed:
npm test(1,105 tests)npx tsc --noEmitgit diff --checkThe native Windows helper is compiled by the Windows CI runner because the local development host is macOS.
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