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  shadowdaoandClaude Sonnet 5
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docs: OpenH264/MPEG-LA royalty finding sharpens C1 -- not resolved
Cisco's own OpenH264 FAQ (openh264.org/faq.html) is explicit: they cover MPEG-LA/AVC patent-pool royalties only for their own prebuilt binary, downloaded at install time. Anyone who compiles OpenH264 from source and redistributes it inside their own binary takes on "all applicable license fees" themselves -- Cisco "will not be liable for any licensing fees incurred by other parties" in that case. LiveKit's client-sdk-cpp links Google libwebrtc via the webrtc-sdk org's fork, whose documented build args (rtc_use_h264=true, ffmpeg_branding="Chrome") are the standard Chromium/WebRTC recipe -- which links a from-source, statically-compiled copy of OpenH264 (from Google's mirror, not Cisco's runtime binary) into libwebrtc. That is exactly the shape of case Cisco's FAQ says voids their coverage. Not independently confirmed against LiveKit's actual pinned v1.10.1 build (their release archives ship only compiled output, no build manifest) -- this is webrtc-sdk/libwebrtc's documented default, not a verified fact about this specific artifact. This sharpens C1 into a concrete mechanism instead of a general open question. It does not resolve C1 -- if anything it strengthens the case for treating it as unresolved -- and none of this is a substitute for an actual legal opinion. Recorded in third_party/livekit/README.md (the full writeup), README.md's Status section, and the release-notes template in publish-release.sh so it reaches whoever opens a draft release next, not just this one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RL8abRmgFXkVASHkkqiJbE |
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license: relicense first-party code from GPL-2.0-or-later to Apache-2.0
Owner sign-off: replace root LICENSE with Apache License 2.0, add a root NOTICE file, and swap the GPL-2.0 boilerplate header in every first-party core/ and obs-adapter/ source file for a short Apache-2.0 notice. This resolves review finding C2 (GPLv2 top-level LICENSE vs. the vendored Apache-2.0 LiveKit SDK is a license-compatibility violation): the whole repo is now Apache-2.0, matching LiveKit, so there's no GPL/Apache clash left. Updated the README Status gate and the CI workflow comment to reflect that C2 is resolved, while leaving the C1 WebRTC/OpenH264 patent/royalty gate untouched -- that question is still open and still blocks release. third_party/ stays under its own upstream licenses; only this project's own code changed hands. All 6 CTest suites still pass after the header swap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RL8abRmgFXkVASHkkqiJbE |
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shadowdaoandClaude Sonnet 5
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Make the OBS adapter real: properties UI, connect, and frame output
The stub source becomes an actual streamer-tools camera. On create it reads
server URL / room slug / read key / camera identity from obs_data_t, mints a
subscribe-only token through ApiClient, connects LiveKitSession, and pushes
decoded frames into obs_source_output_video / obs_source_output_audio. The
source is now OBS_SOURCE_ASYNC_VIDEO | OBS_SOURCE_AUDIO |
OBS_SOURCE_DO_NOT_DUPLICATE with an OBS_ICON_TYPE_CAMERA icon.
The file is C++ rather than C now: the core library's API is C++ and the C ABI
shim existed only to avoid that. obs-module.h already declares the module
entry points extern "C", so nothing is lost.
Properties UI: server URL, room slug, a masked read-key field (it is a
credential and is masked everywhere else in streamer-tools), a camera dropdown,
a "Refresh camera list" button, and a status line.
- The dropdown is built from a cache the worker keeps warm on every connect,
so opening properties never blocks on the network. The button is the
explicit way to force a round trip, with a shortened 5s timeout -- for which
ApiClient's two calls gained a timeout_ms parameter.
- The currently-selected identity is always in the list, labelled "(not in
this room)" if absent, so OBS cannot silently clear a working setting just
because the room happens to be dark.
- The status line is the OBS_TEXT_INFO property's description (which is what
OBS actually renders) and switches to the warning info type on a real error.
Threading: OBS's UI and graphics threads are never blocked on the network.
Each source owns a worker thread that mints, connects, and reconnects with
exponential backoff (1s -> 30s), waking early on any settings change via a
generation counter. Frames are pushed from LiveKitSession's reader threads
directly; obs_source_output_video/_audio are thread-safe.
Two details that matter operationally:
- A null frame is pushed whenever the session leaves Connected, so a camera
that stopped publishing clears instead of leaving its last frame on screen.
Leaving stale media up is precisely the failure this plugin exists to avoid.
- The SDK's own logging is routed into OBS's log file via
livekit::setLogCallback, instead of stderr where a director would never
see it. The adapter also logs the first frame and every later geometry
change, so a log answers "did video ever arrive, and at what size".
Packaging: the build now stages a runnable layout into build/package/ --
the module (RPATH $ORIGIN / @loader_path, so it resolves the LiveKit
libraries from beside itself rather than from the build tree), liblivekit +
liblivekit_ffi, the locale data, and the licence files. third_party/livekit/
carries client-sdk-cpp's Apache-2.0 LICENSE and NOTICE from the pinned tag.
Its README records a correction to the design doc: the "bundled LICENSE.md
with ~28 third-party licence blocks" the doc expects DOES NOT EXIST at
v1.10.1 -- not in any of the five release archives (which contain only
include/, lib/, bin/ and build-info.json) and not in the repo at that tag,
which has only LICENSE and NOTICE. The aggregated third-party notice covering
the WebRTC/OpenH264 code inside liblivekit_ffi.so has not been located, and
that is flagged as an open licensing question rather than papered over.
Verified on Ubuntu 24.04 against real libobs 30.0.2, a real
livekit-server 1.13.6, and a stand-in API serving plugin.routes.ts's exact
shapes, using a headless libobs harness (obs_startup + obs_reset_audio +
obs_reset_video + obs_open_module + obs_source_create):
registered=1 output_flags=0x87
[streamer-tools-camera] connected to ws://127.0.0.1:7880 as
obs:main-room:qY85r9D0PaPt, watching cam-test
[streamer-tools-camera] video frame 640x360 I420
camera dropdown has 3 items:
[0] (no camera selected) =
[1] Test Camera = cam-test
[2] Dark Camera (offline) = other-cam
status: connected (info_type=0)
and with a deliberately wrong read key:
status: unknown room slug, or the read key is wrong or has been rotated
(info_type=1)
with retry-and-backoff and no crash. ctest: 6/6 passed.
Still unverified, and the README says so plainly: the OBS GUI on any platform,
macOS/Windows beyond compiling, A/V sync, and end-to-end latency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RL8abRmgFXkVASHkkqiJbE
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