With MEM1-MEM3 twelve clips on a timeline still took 5.1 GB, only 2.5 GB of
it live: each decoded picture allocated three planes, each eviction freed
them, and the system allocator kept the freed pages.
filmcraft_frame::pool keeps the planes of frames the GOP caches evict (up to
192 MiB per sample type; a frame something else still holds is left alone).
The H.264 decoder, through a plane allocator hook that keeps the crate free
of dependencies, and the VideoToolbox path take their output planes from it.
perf.stats reports decode.planePoolMB and decode.planesReused.
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Each GOP cache keeps up to 384 MB of decoded frames (at least 64), and
nothing bounded the total: twelve clips on a timeline held 3.8 GB of frames
nobody was looking at, and no perf.stats counter showed it.
The pool now counts the frames of every cache against a 1 GiB budget. Over
it, caches idle for 3 s give up frames, least recently used cache first.
Caches in use keep their own budget, since a frame evicted before it is
shown costs a re-decode from the keyframe.
perf.stats reports decode.cacheMB and decode.cacheBudgetMB.
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Every source kept its decoder for good once it had decoded a frame, with its
reference pictures and the pictures its frame threads hold in flight: about
290 MB per H.264 clip, 3.5 GB for twelve clips on a timeline.
The GOP caches now share a pool. Beyond four live decoders, the least
recently used caches that have been idle for 3 s drop theirs and make a new
one when asked again (a restart at the sync sample, as after a seek). Caches
in use keep their decoder whatever the count, so a composite of many layers
never restarts decoders per frame. Other caches are only try-locked, so two
caches trimming each other cannot deadlock.
perf.stats reports decode.liveDecoders.
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The desktop host had no Services::reader, so MediaPool::open_file read every
clip whole and kept its bytes for as long as the source stayed open: 2.9 GB
for twelve clips on a timeline (malloc_history, 15 allocations in open_file).
FsServices::reader now returns a FileReader that keeps the file open and
serves positional reads, so MP4/MOV, Matroska and the other reader openers
load the index and then single samples, as the web host already does.
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A media clip whose enabled standard effects all have a GPU implementation
plans as a GPU layer carrying them (render::plan::LayerFx): parameters are
evaluated on the CPU at the frame's time (render::gpufx::FxOp::eval, shared
with the CPU path so both clamp hostile values identically), the source is
drawn into an Rgba32Float working image at the size the CPU decodes it, the
effects run as WGSL compute passes (gpu::fx, fx.wgsl) with the CPU
reference's math, and the result is placed with Motion, opacity and blend
mode as before. Layers without effects keep the single draw.
GPU effects: Brightness & Contrast, ProcAmp, Tint, Black & White, Color
Balance, Leave Color, Change to Color, Color Pass, Color Replace, Channel
Mix, ASC CDL, Gamma Correction, Levels, Extract, Invert, Posterize, Alpha
Adjust, Gaussian / Camera / Directional Blur (+ legacy aliases), Sharpen,
Unsharp Mask, Crop, Edge Feather, Transform, H/V Flip, Mirror, Offset.
Masked effects, opacity masks, non-finite parameters and minifying
Transform/Crop zooms stay on the CPU. Devices without compute shaders run
the effects on the CPU inside the compositor.
Also fixes a debug-build overflow in Image::transformed for non-finite maps.
Parity tests (exact f32 checks and composited plans), a golden test that
plans effect chains as GPU layers, and the stack3-fx playback benchmark.
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- New crates/platform (filmcraft-platform, L5): OS media FFI only. The one
crate allowed `unsafe` (own [lints] with unsafe_code = "deny",
#[allow(unsafe_code)] only on the videotoolbox module, SAFETY comment on
every block, safe Result-returning public API). AGENTS.md §0.3 names the
exception; docs/adr/0001-platform-ffi.md records why and the rules.
- VideoToolbox decoder for avcC / hvcC, 8/10-bit 4:2:0 and 4:2:2: session from
the sample entry's parameter sets with hardware required, asynchronous
decode (2 in flight), biplanar CVPixelBuffer copied to planar Yuv8/Yuv16,
reorder buffer of the stream's own depth, RASL skipped after a starting CRA.
Output callback under catch_unwind.
- HybridDecoder: transparent mid-stream fallback to the software decoder
(replays samples since the last restart point, drops already-returned
pictures). New codecs::software_video_decoder (built-in factories only) and
codecs::hw (switch, counters, NalStreamInfo shared with software decoders;
vui_color / sar_par helpers now used by both).
- Settings ▸ Playback ▸ Hardware decoding: Auto / Off (engine applies it to
the codecs switch); desktop app, CLI/MCP and bench call register().
- perf.stats decode.framesDecoded and decode.hardware counters.
- Tests: bit-exact parity with the software decoders (H.264 High, HEVC Main
open GOP, Main 10; resets, reseeks, flushes), forced-failure fallback,
mutation fuzz of samples and parameter sets, cross-platform fallback with a
stand-in decoder, setting Off, HEVC 4:2:2 vs ffmpeg.
- Bench --hw auto|off; results in docs/performance.md (4K CPU/frame
~86-119 ms -> ~4 ms).
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All 27 blend modes now composite on the GPU instead of sending the
whole frame to the CPU.
- render::plan: PlanLayer carries its Blend; plan_frame no longer falls
back to a CPU frame for non-Normal modes. Media, graphic clips,
multicam angles and CPU-rendered layer images (standard effects) keep
their clip's mode; inside a transition the mode is Normal, as in the
CPU reference. execute_cpu composites with each layer's mode.
- gpu: Normal keeps the single fixed-function pass. Dissolve also uses
fixed-function "over": the CPU's 64-bit pixel hash is reproduced in
WGSL on u32 pairs (pattern bit-exact). The other 25 modes copy the
accumulator region under the layer's quad into a backdrop texture and
composite in fs_blend with the CPU math (sRGB-encoded straight colour,
W3C formulas, back to linear, same premultiplied mix and clamping).
- Tests: per-mode GPU-vs-CPU parity (gpu crate: overlapping transformed
layers, partial opacity/alpha, empty/partial backdrop; golden: every
mode through plan_frame incl. an effect layer, blended clips in a
cross dissolve), exact-value edge cases (black/white, Divide by 0,
Dodge/Burn at 0 and 1, zero alpha) within 4.9e-4, Dissolve pattern
exact, off-output layers, quad bounds.
- Bench: new stack3-blend playback scenario (V2 Screen, V3 Overlay);
CPU ms/frame 151-214 -> 86-89, Full 19/173 and 138/54 -> 191/1, 192/0.
- Docs: architecture §5, gpu crate docs, testing, performance.
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Interleaved before/after bench (decode, playback incl. 1/4 and draft cases,
4K cold seeks) and decoder cycle counts in docs/performance.md; threading,
draft mode and 4K numbers in crates/h264/README.md; bench cases in
docs/testing.md.
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- HEVC inverse transform: sum basis rows of non-zero coefficients with a
const-generic size (bit-exact, tested against the direct product);
SAO edge offset gets a check-free interior loop. HEVC CPU/frame -60%.
- H.264/HEVC/VP9 planes are moved into VideoFrames, not copied.
- Catch-up decoding: frame jobs tell sources which frames are late
(filmcraft_media::cancel::with_catch_up); the GOP cache skips
non-reference samples of late frames (H.264 nal_ref_idc 0, HEVC
sub-layer non-reference pictures). Scrubs keep the last 2 s decoded.
- perf.stats: engine query + UI/control method (decode counters,
playback shown/dropped, frame-worker decode/render ms, cache use).
- Timeline waveform source peak cached; bench seek section and --only.
- docs/performance.md with before/after results.
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