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fix(moq-video): print GPU-composited windows instead of copying a black DC - #3370

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Root cause

Windows window capture copied pixels from GetWindowDC and then sent WM_PRINT cross-process. Neither path reaches content rendered through DirectComposition, so Chrome, Edge, Electron, and UWP windows produced black frames.

Separately, WindowIdentity required SetPropW on a foreign window. UIPI rejects that write for a higher-integrity target, so opening an elevated window failed even when GDI could capture it.

Summary

  • Render the selected window over the existing BitBlt copy with PrintWindow(hwnd, dc, PW_RENDERFULLCONTENT). A target that declines to print leaves the GDI copy intact.
  • Probe the target with a bounded WM_NULL before calling PrintWindow, so an already-unresponsive or cross-integrity target skips the synchronous render attempt.
  • Keep an exact per-window property marker when Windows permits it. Fall back to process id plus process creation time only when UIPI rejects the marker, allowing elevated-window capture without weakening ordinary-window identity.
  • Add the Win32_Storage_Xps metadata feature required by the Windows bindings for PrintWindow.
  • Complete the Windows black-capture quest and update related quest documentation.

Public API changes

None. All implementation changes are private to moq_video::capture::window.

Verification

  • Manually verified on a Windows host before merge.
  • The identity repair was type-checked against the real windows 0.62 bindings for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.
  • cargo fmt --all --check: passed after the final rebase.
  • cargo run --locked -p quest -- check: 249 documents passed after the adjacent X11 quest merged.
  • PR CI covers the cross-platform check, test, OBS, and Swift gates.

Known platform limitation

PrintWindow is synchronous and Windows exposes no timeout or cancellation form. The WM_NULL probe avoids calling it for a target that is already unresponsive, but cannot eliminate the race where a target hangs inside PrintWindow. Capture runs on its dedicated pump thread rather than the async runtime. Replacing this path with Windows.Graphics.Capture, including its consent and WinRT requirements, remains a separate decision in /quest/m2/capture-windows.md.

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The Windows capture backend now identifies windows through process id and creation time instead of a writable window property. It probes responsiveness before calling PrintWindow with PW_RENDERFULLCONTENT, and it returns captured pixels without disabling printing after failures. The Windows crate configuration adds the required metadata feature. Quest documentation now reflects the landed capture behavior and removes obsolete quest references.

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Windows capture can switch to an unselected same-process replacement window or become stuck during capture and shutdown. These correctness, privacy, and availability issues should be fixed before merge.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: using PrintWindow to capture GPU-composited Windows content instead of copying a black device context.
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In `@rs/moq-video/src/capture/window.rs`:
- Around line 258-266: Update WindowIdentity::matches to reject an HWND
recreated by the same process instead of treating matching process and
creation-time data as sufficient; terminate capture when the original target
window is destroyed, or compare a per-window-instance discriminator that changes
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kixelated and others added 3 commits September 4, 2026 10:47
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ck DC

`capture/window.rs` took its pixels with `BitBlt` from `GetWindowDC` and then
hand-sent `WM_PRINT` to the window. A window composed by DirectComposition
(Chrome, Edge, Electron, every UWP app) puts nothing in its window DC, so the
copy is black, and a hand-sent `WM_PRINT` is not a documented cross-process
contract and does not reach that content either.

Call `PrintWindow(hwnd, dc, PW_RENDERFULLCONTENT)` over the existing `BitBlt`.
Layering rather than replacing keeps the order the old `BitBlt` + `WM_PRINT`
used, so a window that declines to print is no worse off than before. The
bounded `SendMessageTimeoutW` becomes a `WM_NULL` responsiveness probe in front
of `PrintWindow`, which has no timeout of its own and would otherwise let a hung
window wedge the pump thread's join. The per-capture latch that disabled
printing after one failure is gone: it is the thing that would leave a composited
window black for the rest of a capture.

`WindowIdentity` also stops writing to a foreign window. `SetPropW` is refused
by UIPI on a higher-integrity window, so `Capture::open` failed outright on an
elevated window that plain GDI could have read. Identify the window by its
owning process id plus that process's creation time instead, both read-only.

Unverified: PR CI is Linux-only and `just rs windows` must run on Windows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Keep the per-window property marker for ordinary windows, and fall back to process identity only when UIPI rejects the marker for a higher-integrity target.\n\nCo-Authored-By: GPT-5.6-sol <noreply@openai.com>
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if !responding(handle) {
return;
}
let _ = unsafe { PrintWindow(handle, target, PRINT_WINDOW_FLAGS(PW_RENDERFULLCONTENT)) };

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P1 Badge Add regression coverage for composited-window capture

This bug fix changes the Windows-only rendering path and retires the tracking quest without adding a test that proves a DirectComposition target produces non-black, updating frames. Since ordinary CI does not execute this backend and the Windows recipe only compiles it, future changes to the flag or print sequencing can silently restore the original failure; add a Windows regression that fails with the previous WM_PRINT path and exercises this PrintWindow(PW_RENDERFULLCONTENT) call. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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