fix(windows): keep WGC capture and finalization responsive - #943
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe WGC encoder now uses a worker thread and pooled textures for asynchronous frame processing. Capture shutdown detects encoder failures and reports dropped frames. Frame-gap handling, timestamp filtering, and helper integrity metadata were also updated. ChangesCapture encoder pipeline
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WgcSession
participant MFEncoder
participant EncoderWorker
participant MediaFoundation
WgcSession->>MFEncoder: Submit captured texture
MFEncoder->>EncoderWorker: Queue pooled texture and timestamp
EncoderWorker->>MFEncoder: Process queued frame
MFEncoder->>MediaFoundation: Write encoded sample
WgcSession->>MFEncoder: Check fatal error and dropped frame count
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A queued-frame encoding failure during normal stop can still report the recording as successful, leaving an incomplete output file. Propagate this failure before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@electron/native/wgc-capture/src/mf_encoder.cpp`:
- Line 459: Update MFEncoder::finalize() to capture and preserve the boolean
result from flushPendingFrames() while continuing the existing worker shutdown
and resource release steps, then return failure if the worker failed even when
IMFSinkWriter::Finalize() succeeds; retain the sink-writer finalization status
when no worker failure occurred.
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Propagate worker failures from finalize().
MFEncoder::encoderWorkerLoop() sets workerFailed_ when processFrameLocked() fails. flushPendingFrames() then returns false, but MFEncoder::finalize() ignores that result and returns only the IMFSinkWriter::Finalize() status. The normal stop path can therefore report success after a queued frame was not written.
Preserve the worker result while still stopping the worker and releasing all resources.
Proposed fix
bool MFEncoder::finalize() {
- flushPendingFrames();
+ const bool workerHealthy = flushPendingFrames();
stopEncoderWorker();
std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_);
// Existing finalization and cleanup...
- return SUCCEEDED(hr);
+ return workerHealthy && SUCCEEDED(hr);
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| const bool workerHealthy = flushPendingFrames(); |
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In `@electron/native/wgc-capture/src/mf_encoder.cpp` at line 459, Update
MFEncoder::finalize() to capture and preserve the boolean result from
flushPendingFrames() while continuing the existing worker shutdown and resource
release steps, then return failure if the worker failed even when
IMFSinkWriter::Finalize() succeeds; retain the sink-writer finalization status
when no worker failure occurred.
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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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