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The screen recorder opened the webcam via getUserMedia() a second time when recording started, even though the HUD's floating webcam preview already had it open. Many UVC webcams only support a single open handle at the OS/driver level, so the second open froze the existing preview and could silently fail to deliver frames to the recorder, leaving the final recording without a webcam layer. The recorder now reuses the preview's already-open track via MediaStreamTrack.clone() instead of requesting the device again. Also fix useVideoDevices/useMicrophoneDevices never prompting for camera/microphone permission when enumerateDevices() returns zero entries up front (as opposed to entries with blank labels), which left the device pickers permanently empty on fresh app profiles. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 7 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds coordinated webcam acquisition and release. Webcam preview, recording, and video permission probing use the coordinator. Microphone permission probing now handles empty device enumeration. ChangesWebcam stream and device permissions
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participant Preview
participant Recorder
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participant MediaDevices
Preview->>SharedWebcamStream: acquireSharedWebcamStream(deviceId)
Recorder->>SharedWebcamStream: acquireSharedWebcamStream(deviceId)
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SharedWebcamStream-->>Preview: return acquisition
SharedWebcamStream-->>Recorder: return acquisition
Preview->>SharedWebcamStream: releaseSharedWebcamStream(acquisition)
Recorder->>SharedWebcamStream: releaseSharedWebcamStream(acquisition)
SharedWebcamStream->>MediaDevices: stop tracks after final release
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In `@src/hooks/useVideoDevices.ts`:
- Line 49: Coordinate permission probing and preview acquisition in
useVideoDevices through one lifecycle-aware shared in-flight camera stream.
Ensure prepareWebcamRecorder awaits the shared acquisition before deciding
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Address CodeRabbit review feedback on PR webadderallorg#971: the device picker's label-unlock probe, the HUD's live preview, and the recorder could each independently call getUserMedia() for the webcam, racing each other when acquisitions overlapped (e.g. the preview's getUserMedia() still in flight when prepareWebcamRecorder ran, before its resolved stream was visible anywhere to reuse). Introduce a small refcounted coordinator (src/lib/sharedWebcamStream.ts) that dedupes concurrent acquisitions for the same device and only releases the underlying track once every consumer has released its reference, so at most one getUserMedia() call against the physical camera is ever in flight. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/lib/sharedWebcamStream.ts`:
- Line 35: Update the active-stream reuse logic around the shared webcam stream
condition so an acquisition without a deviceId is not considered compatible with
a later explicit device selection. Serialize explicit requests until the generic
probe completes or verify the resolved track’s actual device before reuse,
ensuring preview and recording requests use the selected camera.
- Line 69: Update the pending acquisition cleanup around active so it remains
registered until getUserMedia() settles and the deferred stop completes; do not
clear active immediately. Ensure a compatible acquire reuses the pending entry
and cancels its deferred release instead of starting another getUserMedia()
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- Around line 34-55: The acquireSharedWebcamStream flow must not replace an
unresolved active acquisition for a different device, because its later release
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acquisitions independently until all references reach zero, while preserving
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Address further CodeRabbit review feedback on PR webadderallorg#971's coordinator: - A device-less (generic) acquisition was treated as reusable by any later request for a *specific* device, so a caller that asked for camera B could silently get whatever camera the generic probe had already opened. Reuse now requires an exact device match; only a generic (no deviceId) request may reuse any open acquisition. - Switching to a different device while an acquisition was still in flight replaced the single `active` slot outright, orphaning the old acquisition's eventual release call and leaking its camera track. Acquisitions are now tracked in a set instead of a single slot, so unrelated devices can be in flight concurrently and each is released independently. - Releasing the last reference before getUserMedia() had settled cleared the slot immediately, so a fast unmount/remount could start a second competing getUserMedia() call for the same device while the first was still pending — the exact race this coordinator exists to prevent. A release that lands before settling now just marks the acquisition for a deferred stop; a new compatible acquire in the meantime cancels that and reuses the same in-flight request. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
useScreenRecorder'sprepareWebcamRecordernow reuses the HUD's already-open preview track viaMediaStreamTrack.clone()instead of callinggetUserMedia()again for the same device — many UVC webcams only support a single open handle at the OS/driver level, so the second open froze the first and could silently fail to deliver frames to the recorder.useVideoDevices/useMicrophoneDevicesnever showing any cameras or microphones on a fresh app profile: they only probedgetUserMedia()to unlock device labels whenenumerateDevices()returned devices with blank labels, but on a cold profile Chromium can return zero entries instead, so the probe never ran and the pickers stayed empty forever.Test plan
npx tsc --noEmitnpx vitest run src/hooks/useScreenRecorder.test.ts(56 passing)npm run build:win, reproduced the original freeze/empty-list bugs, confirmed both are resolved after the fix (and after a full OS reboot to clear a stuck camera session from earlier crashed test builds).Summary by CodeRabbit