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shadowdaoandClaude Sonnet 5 af7d2c6d24 fix: pin video quality to stop OBS source resizing; add audio-only mode
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Live testing (2026-09-07) showed two real problems in one root cause:
LiveKit's default subscriber behavior lets the SFU switch simulcast
layers on its own bandwidth/adaptive logic, and this plugin never told
it not to. For a real camera, that showed up as the OBS source's
received frame size visibly hopping between 320x180/640x360/1280x720
mid-show -- OBS's async video source resizes to match, breaking any
manual crop/position a director had set up. For the soundboard (a
Camera-source track that exists only to satisfy RTMP's video
requirement -- Soundboard.tsx -- with no real visual content), the
same instability, plus the video showing at all, was pure noise: there
was no way to pull just its audio.

Both come from RemoteTrackPublication (livekit/remote_track_publication.h
in the pinned SDK), on the exact publication object TrackSubscribedEvent
and attachExistingTracks already hand this code:

  - setVideoQuality(VideoQuality::HIGH) on every wanted video track,
    unconditionally, so the SFU always sends the top simulcast layer
    instead of switching layers underneath a source with no
    rendered-size hint to give it (this is a native subscriber, not a
    sized <video> element).
  - A new SessionConfig::subscribe_video (mirrors subscribe_audio):
    when false, the wanted video track is never attached, and its
    publication is explicitly setEnabled(false) -- the SFU stops
    sending it, not just "decoded and discarded here". Wired to a new
    "Audio only (no video)" checkbox in the source's properties.

Both call sites (a fresh TrackSubscribedEvent, and attachExistingTracks
sweeping tracks already up when the session starts watching) go
through one new handleWantedVideoTrack() so they can't drift apart.

Not unit-testable without a real LiveKit connection (RemoteTrackPublication
isn't fakeable, matching why test_integration_livekit.cpp already needs a
real server) -- verified instead by a full local build against real
libobs-dev + the pinned SDK (clean compile, all 6 existing tests still
pass) and CI. The actual behavioral fix -- stable resolution, no video
for an audio-only source -- needs the same real-OBS verification every
other claim in this repo's "What is verified, and how" section does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RL8abRmgFXkVASHkkqiJbE
2026-09-07 10:43:54 -07:00
shadowdaoandClaude Sonnet 5 a484abec61 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
2026-09-06 21:54:11 -07:00
shadowdaoandClaude Sonnet 5 105f1041ab Scaffold core/OBS-adapter split, prove CMake toolchain, add 3-platform CI
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First pass on the streamer-tools OBS camera plugin: a minimal but real
CMake project matching the design doc's core-library/OBS-adapter split
(docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-06-obs-camera-plugin-design.md in the
streamer-tools repo). No LiveKit FFI integration yet -- this proves the
toolchain works.

- core/: dependency-free C++17 library (no OBS dependency), unit tested
  via CTest with no external test framework.
- obs-adapter/: adapted from obsproject/obs-plugintemplate (commit
  3e7d7ac, 2025-12-09). Registers a real, stubbed OBS source type;
  builds as a genuine dynamically-linked OBS module against Ubuntu's
  system libobs-dev (confirmed via ldd/nm, not a fake stand-in).
- Simpler hand-written top-level CMakeLists.txt in place of the
  template's full buildspec-driven bootstrap (which downloads full OBS
  source + prebuilt deps) -- find_package(libobs) alone is enough on
  Linux; falls back to core-library-only when libobs isn't found
  (expected on macOS/Windows CI for now).
- .gitea/workflows/build.yml: 3-platform matrix (ubuntu-latest,
  macos-latest, windows-latest) matching the runners confirmed
  available to this repo under the CyberCoveLLC org.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RL8abRmgFXkVASHkkqiJbE
2026-09-06 20:46:08 -07:00