The framecache ring delivers frame-accurate frames at exactly the SDI clock
rate. -use_wallclock_as_timestamps was wrong for this source — it stamped
frames by ffmpeg arrival time rather than capture time, causing the recorded
file to report wrong framerates (e.g. 56.06 instead of 59.94) and a
glitchy first second at startup (NVENC cold-start backlog bunched timestamps).
Fix: remove -use_wallclock_as_timestamps from the rawvideo (pipe:0) input
and rely on -framerate for correct CFR timestamps from frame 0.
Audio keeps its FIFO wallclock; aresample=async=1 on the master output
resamples audio to align with the CFR video PTS.
Sidecars now spawn at recorder CREATE time instead of /start time.
The container boots in STANDBY=1 mode (idle preview only, no ffmpeg master).
On /start, mam-api sends per-session params (CLIP_NAME, ASSET_ID, PROJECT_ID)
to the running sidecar via HTTP POST /capture/start — ffmpeg starts in <1s.
On /stop, mam-api calls HTTP POST /capture/stop — container stays alive in
standby, ready for the next take immediately.
Container is only killed on recorder DELETE.
This eliminates: Docker create/start overhead (~1-2s), bridge startup (~2-5s),
and pre-roll wait (~5s). Latency from 'record' click to first encoded frame
drops from ~10s to ~1s.
Changes:
- capture/src/index.js: boot in standby when STANDBY=1 env is set; still
start idle preview (live thumbnail visible before recording)
- capture/src/routes/capture.js: POST /start accepts full codec params and
asset_id in body (skips mam-api asset creation when asset_id provided)
- node-agent/index.js: handleSidecarStandby() + POST /sidecar/standby route;
warms bridge at recorder create time
- recorders.js POST /: spawn standby sidecar after DB insert (non-fatal)
- recorders.js POST /:id/start: HTTP fast-path to standby sidecar; falls
back to on-demand spawn if standby not available
- recorders.js POST /:id/stop: HTTP /capture/stop, keep container in standby
- recorders.js GET /:id/status: use port-based URL for local capture status
Reverts the local-temp+faststart approach from 549ca6c. Masters now stream
ffmpeg stdout directly to S3 via multipart upload — no local disk consumed
on the worker. Uses +frag_keyframe+empty_moov+default_base_moof which
Premiere Pro 25.x handles natively (to be confirmed separately).
Zero /tmp/capture files. Worker disk stays flat during recording.
fc_slot_create, fc_slot_destroy, fc_slot_open, fc_slot_close, and
fc_slot_write_frame were defined in slot.c but never declared in slot.h.
Any translation unit calling them without seeing a proper prototype
would fall back to implicit int return (32 bits), truncating 64-bit
pointers and causing SIGSEGV on dereference.
This affected framecache.c (POST /slots → fc_slot_create, DELETE
→ fc_slot_destroy) and other callers.
The struct fc_slot was defined only in slot.c, making it an incomplete type
in slot.h. The inline accessor functions (fc_slot_id, fc_slot_header, etc.)
in slot.h could not compile because they referenced incomplete struct
members. The compiler fell back to implicit int return type, truncating
64-bit pointers to 32 bits, causing SIGSEGV in registry_add() when
strncpy received a truncated slot_id pointer.
Fix: move the struct definition to slot.h and add proper function
declarations for the accessors (definitions stay in slot.c).
- services/capture/src/capture-manager.js:
- Added 5s pre-roll delay for Deltacast, Blackmagic, and SDI capture paths.
- Activates when is present.
- Spawns the process immediately, drains/discards the unstable frames for 5 seconds, and then pipes the stdout of the to the actual process.
- Keeps the master output perfectly clean from frame 0.
- services/web-ui/public/screens-ingest.jsx:
- Removed currentFps framerate display from both recording and idle status states.
The scheduler tick loop updates a schedule's status to 'starting' and 'stopping'
in the database while it initiates the API calls to the recorder container. The
original CHECK constraint in recorder_schedules rejected these two statuses,
causing the scheduler to crash on constraint violation and never start the job.
- services/framecache/src/net_ingest.c: new network ingest process
- Spawns ffmpeg to decode SRT/RTMP → raw UYVY422 stdout
- Reads decoded frames and writes into framecache slot via shm
- Registers slot with framecache HTTP API on startup
- Deregisters slot on clean exit (SIGTERM)
- Reconnect loop for listener mode (stays alive between sessions)
- --url, --slot-id, --fc-url, --width, --height, --fps-num/den,
--source-type, --listen, --listen-port, --stream-key args
- Emits format JSON to stderr on first frame
- services/framecache/CMakeLists.txt: add net_ingest target
- services/framecache/Dockerfile: copy net_ingest to runtime image
- services/node-agent/index.js:
- startNetIngest() / stopNetIngest(): lifecycle management per recorder
- Spawns net_ingest before sidecar start for srt/rtmp sourceTypes
- Injects FC_SLOT_ID=net-<containerId> into sidecar env
- Sets IpcMode=host for network sidecars using framecache
- Maps temp id → real containerId after container create
- stopNetIngest() called on sidecar stop
- NET_INGEST_BIN env var (default: docker exec framecache net_ingest)
- services/capture/src/capture-manager.js:
- _buildInputArgs srt/rtmp: framecache path when FC_SLOT_ID set
(spawns fc_pipe, uses pipe:0 rawvideo input — same as SDI path)
- Falls back to direct URL when FC_SLOT_ID not set (legacy path)
- audioMap: network via framecache uses '0🅰️0?' (video-only fc_pipe,
no audio FIFO — audio-in-shm is roadmap)
- HLS tee: sdiHlsDir covers network-via-framecache; legacy tee gated
on !FC_SLOT_ID to avoid duplicate HLS outputs
- fc_pipe piped to ffmpeg stdin for network framecache path
- docker-compose.worker.yml: FC_URL + NET_INGEST_BIN in node-agent env
- fc_writer.h/fc_writer.c: new framecache slot writer module
- Registers slot via POST /slots to framecache HTTP API on signal lock
- Opens shm file returned by API (O_RDWR + mmap MAP_SHARED)
- fc_writer_write(): atomic write_cursor advance + sem_post per frame
- fc_writer_close(): DELETE /slots/:id + munmap + sem_close
- HTTP calls via raw POSIX sockets (no libcurl dependency)
- Parses host:port from FC_URL env var or --fc-url arg
- main.c changes:
- PortState gains slot_id, fc_url, fc_writer fields
- --fc-url CLI arg + FC_URL env var (default http://localhost:7435)
- On signal lock: fc_writer_open() before thread launch;
falls back to FIFO if framecache unreachable (fc_writer == NULL)
- video_thread: shm path primary (fc_writer != NULL),
FIFO path fallback (fc_writer == NULL or LEGACY_FIFO=1)
- Format JSON now includes slot_id field for node-agent consumption
- Cleanup: fc_writer_close() before VHD_CloseBoardHandle
- CMakeLists.txt:
- Add fc_writer.c to build
- Link rt (shm_open, sem_open)
- LEGACY_FIFO option (OFF by default) for nodes without framecache
Audio thread unchanged — audio stays in FIFO (shm audio is roadmap).
