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Drops Electron 42, React 19 and the @moq/* transport stack. The client is now a plain Vite + TypeScript web app that runs in any browser with WebTransport and WebCodecs, matching the agent's MoQ-less raw WebTransport protocol. - src/transport.ts: one bidirectional stream for newline-delimited JSON control, server-initiated unidirectional streams for H.264 Annex B - src/decoder.ts: WebCodecs VideoDecoder fed from Annex B, SPS/PPS to avcC, rendered to canvas - src/ui/: multi-connection sidebar, stream panel, stats and debug overlays, replacing the single App.tsx - devDependencies reduced to typescript + vite; no runtime dependencies
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe client changes from an Electron React desktop app to a browser-based Vite viewer. It adds WebTransport streaming, WebCodecs H.264 decoding, browser input handling, persistent connections, reconnect logic, and static DOM-based UI components. ChangesWeb viewer implementation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The refactor enables direct browser-based WebTransport viewing and reconnects, but stale video data may affect a replacement session and malformed or incomplete media input can grow browser memory or disrupt decoding. The documented browser support also includes Firefox versions that do not provide the required WebCodecs API, so the PR needs explicit owner follow-up or fixes before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Operator
participant StreamPanel
participant Transport
participant DistanceAgent
participant Decoder
Operator->>StreamPanel: Select connection
StreamPanel->>Transport: Connect with certificate settings
Transport->>DistanceAgent: Request displays
DistanceAgent-->>Transport: Return displays
StreamPanel->>Transport: Request selected display stream
DistanceAgent-->>Transport: Send H.264 video bytes
Transport->>Decoder: Forward video chunks
Decoder-->>StreamPanel: Render frames and update FPS
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In `@README.md`:
- Line 34: Update the Safari requirements in the README to separately state that
Safari 16.4 or later is required for WebCodecs with H.264 and Safari 26.4 or
later is required for WebTransport, replacing the stale combined statement.
- Around line 20-23: Update the README connection instructions to reserve
“Trusted certificate” for certificates trusted by a public or configured CA, not
self-signed certificates supplied via --cert/--key. Document that self-signed
custom certificates require entering the SHA-256 certificate fingerprint,
including how to compute it, and note that --fingerprint does not print the
fingerprint in custom-certificate mode.
In `@src/decoder.ts`:
- Line 77: Update feed() and decodeNal() so Annex B NAL units are aggregated by
access unit, including all slices belonging to one picture, before creating a
single EncodedVideoChunk and calling VideoDecoder.decode(). Preserve SPS/PPS
prepending for IDR pictures and ensure timestamps are assigned once per complete
access unit rather than per NAL.
In `@src/transport.ts`:
- Line 71: Update both WebTransport.closed callbacks to notify the message
handler only when their captured transport still matches this.wt and the
transport is not closed, preventing stale transports from emitting stream-ended
after replacement.
In `@src/ui/sidebar.ts`:
- Line 202: Update the validation condition near trustedCert and fp so untrusted
connections reject every fingerprint that isValidFingerprint does not accept,
including empty or missing values; preserve trusted-certificate behavior and
prevent saving an invalid fingerprints array.
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The viewer received video but decoded nothing: 0 fps, no VideoDecoder error. Two defects, both fatal on their own. - The codec string was hardcoded to avc1.42E01E (Baseline 3.0) while the agent's ffmpeg emits Main 3.2 (SPS 67 4d 40 20). Profile and level are now derived from the SPS, giving avc1.4d4020 for this stream. - Only IDR NALs were given start codes; P-frames were passed bare. With no `description` set, VideoDecoder is in Annex B mode and needs start codes on every NAL, so all 145 delta frames per keyframe were malformed. Rather than patch both, adopt the approach the agent's own embedded viewer uses: build an AVCDecoderConfigurationRecord from the SPS/PPS, pass it as `description`, and convert each access unit to AVCC with 4-byte length prefixes. Also fixes framing and timing: - NALs are grouped into access units (new AU at the first VCL NAL after a non-VCL NAL) and emitted as one EncodedVideoChunk per frame, instead of one chunk per NAL. Verified against a real 1277483-byte capture: 297 NALs -> 146 access units, 1 keyframe + 145 delta, 0 without a VCL NAL. - Timestamps derive from a frame index at the negotiated rate rather than a fixed 33333us tick, which described 30fps for a 60fps stream. The requested fps is now passed from the start request into the decoder so the two cannot disagree. - Access units arriving before the SPS/PPS are queued and flushed on configure, so a mid-stream join doesn't drop its first frames.
…ame data Two decoding failures, both exposed by switching captured to a PipeWire source (ffmpeg High 4.0) after only ever testing against KMS (Main 3.2). Access-unit grouping keyed off "a VCL NAL following a non-VCL NAL", which silently depends on the encoder emitting SEI or parameter sets between frames. The Main-profile stream does, so it worked; the High-profile stream emits none, and 294 consecutive P-frame slices collapsed into a single access unit. Boundaries now come from the slice header's first_mb_in_slice == 0, which is the actual picture-start signal. Verified on both real captures: 295 access units for PipeWire (was 3), 146 for KMS (unchanged), zero access units containing more than one VCL NAL in either. Access units arriving before the first keyframe are now discarded. A viewer always joins mid-GOP because the agent's encoder is already running, so the first data received references frames and a PPS that were never sent — ffprobe on a capture reports "non-existing PPS 0 referenced" / "no frame!". Feeding those to VideoDecoder raises a fatal error, which moves it to 'closed' and kills the IDR immediately behind them, so nothing ever decoded. The previous commit's pre-config queue made this worse by replaying them on configure; that queue is now bounded to 8 and only holds post-keyframe data. Also recover from fatal decoder errors instead of leaving a closed decoder in place: clear the SPS/PPS and keyframe state so the next parameter sets reconfigure from scratch.
- Guard stale WebTransport.closed callbacks. The shared `closed` flag does not identify which transport settled, so a transport whose `closed` promise resolved after a reconnect had already replaced `this.wt` would emit stream-ended and make scheduleReconnect tear down the *new* transport. Both callbacks now verify they still own `this.wt`. - Require a fingerprint when trusted-certificate mode is off. The form accepted an empty fingerprint and saved `fingerprints: []`, producing a connection that StreamPanel.connect then always rejected. Anything isValidFingerprint does not accept is now refused at entry, with a distinct message for empty versus malformed. - Scope 'Trusted certificate' to CA-trusted certificates in the README and the form hint. That mode omits serverCertificateHashes and relies on browser PKI, so a self-signed certificate passed via --cert/--key is rejected; document computing its SHA-256 from the DER bytes, since --fingerprint does not print one in custom-certificate mode. - Correct the Safari requirements: WebTransport needs 26.4+, WebCodecs H.264 needs 16.4+, rather than 'no WebTransport support'. CodeRabbit's remaining finding, that each EncodedVideoChunk must be a complete access unit, it marked as already addressed in b064378.
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180-180: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winBound the incomplete NAL buffer.
Line 180 retains the full NAL until another start code arrives.
feed()then copies and appends every later chunk. A faulty stream with one start code and no later delimiter causes unbounded memory use and can make the viewer tab unavailable. Set a maximum buffered-NAL size and discard or reset decoder state when it is exceeded.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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249-255: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winKeep SPS and PPS in one AVC parameter-set location.
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In `@src/decoder.ts`:
- Line 180: Bound the incomplete NAL accumulation in the decoder around the
buffer update in feed(). Enforce a maximum buffered-NAL size after appending
data, and discard the oversized NAL or reset the decoder state when the limit is
exceeded so a missing start code cannot cause unbounded memory growth.
- Around line 249-255: Update emitAU() so SPS and PPS NAL units are excluded
from avcc/EncodedVideoChunk.data and remain only in the AVC parameter-set
description. Track SPS/PPS byte changes independently of codec changes and
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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The WebCodecs API, including the VideoDecoder interface, is officially supported in Firefox for desktop platforms starting with Firefox 130 [1][2][3]. This release enabled the API by default across all desktop platforms (Windows, macOS, and Linux), allowing web developers to have low-level control over media encoding and decoding, such as processing video frames or audio chunks [4][1][5]. While the core WebCodecs functionality for audio and video is supported, the image-related parts of the API were not included in this initial shipping milestone [4]. Additionally, while desktop support was enabled in Firefox 130, WebCodecs support for Firefox for Android remains disabled as of that release [1][5].
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Raise the Firefox minimum to Firefox 130+ for desktop.
Firefox 130 added desktop WebCodecs support, including VideoDecoder, which this viewer requires. Firefox for Android remains unsupported.
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Video never reached the decoder. incomingUnidirectionalStreams yields a WebTransportReceiveStream, which *is* a ReadableStream and has no `.readable` property, so `recv.readable.getReader()` threw a TypeError on the first video stream. readVideoLoop's outer catch swallowed it as 'stream closed', which is why there was no console error: the control plane stayed healthy, the UI reported 'Streaming', and the canvas stayed blank at its default 300x150 while zero bytes were ever handed to Decoder.feed. Verified the stream shape against a live agent from a real browser: constructor WebTransportReceiveStream, instanceof ReadableStream true, 'readable' in stream false, and reading it directly yields 179 chunks / 40494 bytes opening with 00 00 00 01 67 64 00 28. Each stream is now drained in its own task rather than inline, so a second video stream after a stop/start cycle is picked up promptly instead of waiting for the previous one to end, and per-stream read errors are reported instead of silently ending the whole loop. End to end in headless Chromium against the deployed bundle: 779 chunks submitted, 777 frames output, decoder configured avc1.640028, canvas resized to 1360x768 with 344 distinct colours sampled, and the stats overlay reporting 60 fps / 170 ms rtt / 423 kbps.
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Suppress stale video chunks.
readVideoLoop launches an independent pumpVideoStream for each stream. Each pump forwards chunks without checking stream, transport, or closed state. A late chunk from stream A can therefore reach the shared decoder after stream B starts or after reconnect. Track the current transport and video-stream generation, and drop chunks from inactive pumps.
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Summary
Refactors
clientfrom an Electron 42 + React 19 +@moq/*desktop app into apure Vite + vanilla TypeScript web viewer, and brings it in line with the
MoQ-less raw WebTransport protocol introduced in
agent#1.
The transport is now one bidirectional stream carrying newline-delimited JSON
control messages, plus server-initiated unidirectional streams carrying raw
H.264 Annex B, decoded with WebCodecs onto a canvas. No runtime dependencies;
devDependenciesaretypescriptandviteonly.Protocol changes
ConnectionConfig.fingerprintsis passed as a
serverCertificateHashesentry, not just the first. Afingerprint-refreshmessage now appends to the stored list (newest first,deduped on normalized lowercase hex, capped at 4) instead of only raising a
toast, so a cert rotation observed while connected doesn't lock the client out
on its next connect.
trustedCertflag onConnectionConfigand a "Trusted certificate / behind reverse proxy" checkboxthat hides the fingerprint field. When the fingerprint list is empty the
client constructs
new WebTransport(url)with noserverCertificateHashes,which is required to reach an agent started with
--cert/--keyor frontedby a reverse proxy holding a publicly trusted certificate.
cap, 8 attempts, guarded so
wt.closedand a failedconnect()can't botharm a retry. Previously the client reported
stream-endedonce and gave up.displays. The agent pushesfingerprint-refreshand thendisplaysimmediately on connect, before anylist-displays. The client nowhandles that pair arriving unprompted.
protocols: ['moq-lite-04']is offered on the WebTransport handshake.This is forward-compat only, not a fix: the agent's upgrader treats
ApplicationProtocolsas a negotiation allow-list, and omitting the headerentirely also succeeds. Offering it means the client keeps working if the
agent ever starts requiring negotiation.
{"type":"error","message":"unknown type: ..."}is logged and ignored rather than tearing down the session, so probingfor a not-yet-implemented message type can't kill a working stream.
src/types.tsreconciled with the agent'ssrc/web/src/types.ts:InputMessage,ConnectPayloadandpongadded;codec/bitratedocumented on
start.ConnectionConfigandConnectionStatusare retainedsince the agent's embedded viewer has no equivalent.
Input
src/input.tsis ported from the agent's embedded viewer (pointer lock,keyboard lock, wheel, multi-touch) and wired to the stream canvas, but it is
disabled behind an off-by-default toggle — see below.
Verification
The single remaining match is the protocol string literal described above — no
MoQ, React or Electron imports remain.
Control-flow behavior was also exercised in a headless browser against a stubbed
WebTransport: unsolicited connect-timefingerprint-refresh+displayshandled and cached; mid-stream rotation appended a third fingerprint;
unknown type: inputandunknown type: pingleft the session streaming while agenuine error (
no such display: 7) surfaced to the user;stoppedreturned tothe display picker and re-issued
list-displays; a dead host produced jitteredbackoff with a reconnecting indicator.
The transport and control protocol were verified against a live agent on
Linux —
captured --source kms→agent --backend captured— confirmingWebTransport upgrade, cert-fingerprint match, the control message sequence, and
~2 Mbps of H.264 Annex B arriving on a server-initiated unidirectional stream
over a 60 s run.
Server-side work still needed
None of these are regressions; they are gaps this PR had to work around.
inputhandler.session.go's control switch handles onlylist-displays,startandstop. Aninputmessage falls through todefault:and returns{"type":"error","message":"unknown type: input"}.The client's input plumbing is therefore complete but gated off by default and
self-disables when it sees that error. Remote control needs an agent-side
handler plus a platform injection path.
pinghandler. Samedefault:fallthrough, so thepongtype isdeclared for parity but unreachable. There is currently no application-level
liveness check.
broadcastControlMsgreturnsearly when
state == nil, andstateis only non-nil while a stream isactive; subscribers are likewise only registered when a stream exists at
connect time. A connected-but-idle client receives no
fingerprint-refreshonrotation. Client-side caching covers the connect-time push and rotations seen
mid-stream, but closing this properly needs the agent to track sessions
independently of stream state.
Note on
AGENTS.mdin the agent repoWorth a follow-up there — the protocol doc is stale in three ways this PR ran
into: it presents
displaysas only a response (it is also an unsolicitedconnect-time push), it says rotation notifies "all connected clients" (only
stream subscribers), and it doesn't mention that
--cert/--keydisables thecert manager along with the fingerprint push, the rotation loop and the
:52022web UI.
startalso acceptscodecandbitrate, which aren't documented.Summary by CodeRabbit
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