fix(windows): keep WGC capture and finalization responsive - #942
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe WGC capture path now uses asynchronous bounded encoding with reusable GPU textures. Capture stops on encoder failure, stale frames are counted, frame pacing is adjusted, and the helper manifest is refreshed. ChangesWGC encoding pipeline
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WGCSession
participant MFEncoder
participant MediaFoundationSinkWriter
WGCSession->>MFEncoder: Queue captured GPU frame
MFEncoder->>MFEncoder: Process frame on worker thread
MFEncoder->>MediaFoundationSinkWriter: Write encoded sample
MFEncoder-->>WGCSession: Report failure or dropped-frame count
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A recording can appear successful despite a final queued frame failing to encode, so failure propagation should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@electron/native/wgc-capture/src/mf_encoder.cpp`:
- Around line 459-460: Update MFEncoder::finalize() to preserve the result of
flushPendingFrames(), continue executing stopEncoderWorker() for cleanup, and
return failure when draining detects a worker error instead of relying only on
SUCCEEDED(hr). Ensure sink finalization still occurs while the drain failure is
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Propagate worker failures from finalization.
main.cpp performs its last encoder.hasFatalError() check before extendLastFrameTo(). A worker can still be processing a queued frame and set workerFailed_ afterward. extendLastFrameTo() returns false when its flushPendingFrames() observes that failure, but main.cpp logs only a warning and continues. MFEncoder::finalize() then discards its drain result and returns only SUCCEEDED(hr). If sink finalization succeeds, main.cpp reports success and leaves incomplete output.
Preserve the drain result and return failure after cleanup.
Proposed fix
bool MFEncoder::finalize() {
- flushPendingFrames();
+ const bool framesFlushed = flushPendingFrames();
stopEncoderWorker();
std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_);
// Existing finalization and cleanup...
- return SUCCEEDED(hr);
+ return framesFlushed && !workerFailed_.load() && SUCCEEDED(hr);
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In `@electron/native/wgc-capture/src/mf_encoder.cpp` around lines 459 - 460,
Update MFEncoder::finalize() to preserve the result of flushPendingFrames(),
continue executing stopEncoderWorker() for cleanup, and return failure when
draining detects a worker error instead of relying only on SUCCEEDED(hr). Ensure
sink finalization still occurs while the drain failure is propagated to callers.
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Description
I hit a Windows recording failure where stopping a longer capture stalled and left an unreadable MP4. The native helper was doing GPU readback, BGRA-to-NV12 conversion, and Media Foundation writes directly inside the WGC
FrameArrivedcallback. It could then write thousands of duplicate samples while filling a large timestamp gap during stop.This moves encoding to a worker thread backed by a three-frame GPU texture queue. If encoding falls behind, the queue keeps the newest pending frames and reports how many stale frames were dropped. Stop now writes a single held frame at the final timestamp instead of generating every missing frame in the gap.
Worker failures are also returned by the helper instead of being lost on the encoding thread.
Motivation
Heavy synchronous work in
FrameArrivedcan block WGC frame delivery and make recording feel uneven. The old gap-fill loop also made stop time grow with the size of the timestamp gap. In the failure I investigated, that was enough to outlive Recordly's helper timeout before Media Foundation could finalize the MP4.The goal is to keep capture responsive under load and keep finalization bounded.
Type of Change
Related Issue(s)
Related to #375 and #684.
I have not marked either issue as fixed because they cover broader Windows recording and pause/resume behavior.
Screenshots / Video
Not applicable. This changes native capture pacing and file finalization without changing the UI.
Testing Guide
npm run build:windows-capture.Validation completed locally:
npm test: 1,124 passed, 1 skipped across 125 filesnpm run lint: passed across 584 filesnpx tsc --noEmit: passednpm run build:windows-capture: passednpm run smoke:packaged-binaries -- release\win-unpacked: passedgit diff --check: passedThe normal Windows packaging command completed the application build but could not extract electron-builder's signing cache because the local account lacks symlink privileges. An unsigned package built successfully with executable signing and editing disabled.
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