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Adds the Groundwork for USB grabber as a PictureService source.

  • usb capture in Source, marked in kRunsInTask
  • the decode task on core 1, writing each frame into beginWrite() then endWrite()
  • endWrite(w, h) for a source that cannot hit the size it asked for, and abortWrite() for a frame that never arrived — both usable by the GIF and browser sources too
  • the platform seam in src/platform: a desktop stand-in the tests drive, stubs on ESP32 and Teensy
  • CONFIG_MM_USB_VIDEO gates the flash cost, as CONFIG_MM_USB_MIDI_HOST does
  • 5 tests: scaling to fit, no grabber attached, a refused frame and its recovery, the status line, task teardown

Note

The UVC transport and the MJPEG decoder are not here. Together with this they come to ~930 lines, so they follow as their own PR. If you would rather have it as one PR over the limit, I'll update the PR

Note

PictureService's picture is at most 512 a side and a grabber's smallest mode is larger (640x480), so videoCaptureDecodeInto takes a ceiling and answers the size it wrote — which is why endWrite(w, h) is here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added USB MJPEG capture as a picture source on supported ESP32 devices, with a selectable frame rate and captured images scaled to fit the requested dimensions.
    • Added capture status reporting, including image dimensions and frame-loss information.
    • Added clear feedback when no camera is attached, no suitable capture mode is available, or decoding cannot start.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Stopping or switching capture now releases active decoding cleanly, and failed decodes no longer publish incomplete frames.

The option in Source, the decode task on core 1 writing each frame into
beginWrite() then endWrite(), and the seam the UVC transport will implement.
endWrite(w, h) publishes the size a source actually produced, since a grabber's
smallest mode is larger than the picture a board holds, and abortWrite() gives
the buffer back for a frame that never arrived.

A desktop stand-in drives the source in tests; ESP32 and Teensy link stubs,
with the capture gated on CONFIG_MM_USB_VIDEO so only the images that set it
carry the flash cost.
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The change adds a platform-level USB video capture API and integrates USB MJPEG capture into PictureService. Capture frames are decoded into bounded buffers and published with actual dimensions. Desktop test controls and unit tests cover mode selection, decode failures, status reporting, and switching back to the test pattern.

Changes: USB Video Capture

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture API and platform availability
src/platform/platform.h, src/platform/{desktop,esp32,teensy}/platform_config.h, src/platform/esp32/platform_esp32_usbvideo.cpp, src/platform/teensy/platform_teensy.cpp, esp32/main/CMakeLists.txt
The platform API defines capture handles, formats, decoding, and statistics. Platform flags and unsupported-platform stubs expose capture availability. The ESP32 build includes its USB video source file.
Desktop capture implementation
src/platform/desktop/platform_desktop.cpp
The desktop capture seam advertises formats, selects a mode, decodes bounded frames, tracks statistics, and exposes test controls for formats, output color, and decode failures.
PictureService capture lifecycle
src/core/services/PictureService.h, test/unit/core/unit_PictureService.cpp
PictureService adds USB source selection, capture task lifecycle, dimension-aware frame publication, and periodic status reporting. Tests cover scaling, missing capture modes, decode failures, status, and switching back to the test pattern.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PictureService
  participant VideoCaptureAPI
  participant PictureFrame
  PictureService->>VideoCaptureAPI: Initialize capture
  PictureService->>VideoCaptureAPI: Decode into bounded buffer
  VideoCaptureAPI-->>PictureService: Decoded frame and actual dimensions
  PictureService->>PictureFrame: Publish frame with actual dimensions
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b2085

This adds USB capture groundwork to the picture source. Changing the picture size during capture can corrupt memory, and on low-memory boards capture can starve effects of frames. Turning on the ESP32 capture flag currently breaks the build. These paths are mostly inactive until the transport lands, but the buffer sizing and locking should be fixed before merge.

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Review comments at @src/core/services/PictureService.h:
- Around line 275-277: Update startCapture to check that back_ exists before
initializing or running capture; if it is missing, report the missing second
picture buffer with an error status and return without starting the capture
task.
- Around line 272-279: Snapshot the capture dimensions in startCapture before
spawning the task, and have runCapture pass that snapshot to
videoCaptureDecodeInto instead of reading the live width and height fields.
Ensure the snapshot matches the dimensions used by prepareBuffers so decoding
cannot exceed the allocated buffer.

Review comments at @src/platform/desktop/platform_desktop.cpp:
- Around line 2902-2904: Update videoCaptureInit to reject initialization when
g_grabber is already open, so a second handle cannot claim it. In
videoCaptureDeinit, close the grabber only when the handle being deinitialized
owns g_grabber; preserve normal cleanup for the owning handle.
- Around line 2874-2876: Synchronize access to the desktop capture test state:
protect decodeFails between setTestVideoCaptureDecodeFails() and
videoCaptureDecodeInto(), and protect stats between capture-task updates and
PictureService::tick1s() reads via videoCaptureStats(). Use atomics or a mutex,
keeping frame pacing and pixel writes outside the lock.

Review comments at @src/platform/esp32/platform_config.h:
- Around line 214-215: Update the CONFIG_MM_USB_VIDEO branch that defines
hasUsbVideo so it remains disabled until the ESP32 USB video transport
implementation is linked; alternatively, provide the enabled-build definitions
for the six capture functions declared in platform.h in
platform_esp32_usbvideo.cpp.

Review comments at @test/unit/core/unit_PictureService.cpp:
- Around line 199-200: In the refusal test, replace the sleep with polling
`videoCaptureStats().failed` until at least two refusals are recorded, then
verify the generation is unchanged. In the switch test, record
`videoCaptureStats().decoded` after `prepare()` and verify it remains unchanged
without sleeping; also assert the exact lost-frame count instead of checking a
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Comment on lines +272 to +279
void runCapture() {
while (!stop_.load(std::memory_order_acquire)) {
uint16_t w = 0, h = 0;
uint8_t* px = beginWrite();
if (platform::videoCaptureDecodeInto(capture_, px, width, height, w, h, kDecodeWaitMs)) endWrite(w, h);
else abortWrite(); // no frame: the lights keep the one they have rather than a new generation of nothing
}
}

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rg -n -F --glob '*.h' --glob '*.cpp' -e 'PictureService' -e 'stopCapture' -e 'startCapture' -e 'videoCaptureDecodeInto' -e 'prepare()' src lib || test "$?" -eq 1
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Snapshot the capture size before starting the decode task.

runCapture() passes the live control fields to videoCaptureDecodeInto(), but prepareBuffers() sizes the buffers from the earlier values. A control update can increase the decode limits while the task still writes into the old buffer. The desktop decoder writes w * hh * 3 bytes without another destination-size check. The live reads and control writes are also unsynchronized.

🐛 Proposed fix
--- "a/src/core/services/PictureService.h"
+++ "b/src/core/services/PictureService.h"
@@ -269,14 +269,14 @@
     static void captureTrampoline(void* self) { static_cast<PictureService*>(self)->runCapture(); }
 
     /// Decode each frame straight into the back picture and publish it, until prepare or release stops it.
     void runCapture() {
         while (!stop_.load(std::memory_order_acquire)) {
             uint16_t w = 0, h = 0;
             uint8_t* px = beginWrite();
-            if (platform::videoCaptureDecodeInto(capture_, px, width, height, w, h, kDecodeWaitMs)) endWrite(w, h);
+            if (platform::videoCaptureDecodeInto(capture_, px, capW_, capH_, w, h, kDecodeWaitMs)) endWrite(w, h);
             else abortWrite();   // no frame: the lights keep the one they have rather than a new generation of nothing
         }
     }
 
     /// Whether an optional picture of `bytes` fits one free block with the heap's reserve intact, the rule the mapping uses; 0 from the platform means no limit.
     static bool secondFits(size_t bytes) {
// in startCapture(), before spawnPinnedTask:
capW_ = width;
capH_ = height;

// members:
uint16_t capW_ = 0;
uint16_t capH_ = 0;
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Review comment at @src/core/services/PictureService.h around lines 272 - 279:
Snapshot the capture dimensions in startCapture before spawning the task, and
have runCapture pass that snapshot to videoCaptureDecodeInto instead of reading
the live width and height fields. Ensure the snapshot matches the dimensions
used by prepareBuffers so decoding cannot exceed the allocated buffer.

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Comment on lines +275 to +277
uint8_t* px = beginWrite();
if (platform::videoCaptureDecodeInto(capture_, px, width, height, w, h, kDecodeWaitMs)) endWrite(w, h);
else abortWrite(); // no frame: the lights keep the one they have rather than a new generation of nothing

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With only one picture buffer, the decode holds the reader lock for the whole frame wait, so readers almost never get the lock.

When secondFits() fails, back_ is null. Then beginWrite() takes lock_ and keeps it during videoCaptureDecodeInto. That call can block for up to kDecodeWaitMs (200 ms), or about one frame interval at 30 fps.

endWrite/abortWrite release the lock, and the next loop takes it again straight away. As a result, Reader gets the lock almost never, and effects skip nearly every tick. The test pattern has no task, so it never hits this case. Boards with little memory are the ones that fall back to one buffer.

Fix: do not run the capture task without a back picture. Report the missing buffer instead.

🐛 Proposed fix
     void startCapture() {
+        if (!back_) { setStatus("no memory for a second picture", Severity::Error); return; }
         if (!platform::videoCaptureInit(capture_, width, height, fps)) {
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Review comment at @src/core/services/PictureService.h around lines 275 - 277:
Update startCapture to check that back_ exists before initializing or running
capture; if it is missing, report the missing second picture buffer with an
error status and return without starting the capture task.

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Comment on lines +2874 to +2876
bool decodeFails = false;
bool open = false;
VideoCaptureStats stats;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Synchronize desktop capture test state.

setTestVideoCaptureDecodeFails() can write decodeFails while videoCaptureDecodeInto() reads it. PictureService::tick1s() reads videoCaptureStats() while the capture task updates stats. These plain fields have no synchronization, which can cause undefined behavior and flaky tests. Protect them with atomics or a mutex. Keep frame pacing and pixel writes outside the lock.

This is a desktop test-seam reliability issue, not a production capture failure. The correction is localized.

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Review comment at @src/platform/desktop/platform_desktop.cpp around lines 2874 -
2876:
Synchronize access to the desktop capture test state: protect decodeFails
between setTestVideoCaptureDecodeFails() and videoCaptureDecodeInto(), and
protect stats between capture-task updates and PictureService::tick1s() reads
via videoCaptureStats(). Use atomics or a mutex, keeping frame pacing and pixel
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Comment on lines +2902 to +2904
g_grabber.open = true;
g_grabber.stats = VideoCaptureStats{};
h.impl = &g_grabber;

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Enforce one owner for the stand-in grabber.

If a second handle calls videoCaptureInit while the first is open, both handles claim g_grabber. A later videoCaptureDeinit through either handle closes capture for the other. Reject a second claim, and close the grabber only when deinitializing its owning handle.

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Review comment at @src/platform/desktop/platform_desktop.cpp around lines 2902 -
2904:
Update videoCaptureInit to reject initialization when g_grabber is already open,
so a second handle cannot claim it. In videoCaptureDeinit, close the grabber
only when the handle being deinitialized owns g_grabber; preserve normal cleanup
for the owning handle.

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Comment on lines +214 to +215
#if defined(CONFIG_MM_USB_VIDEO)
constexpr bool hasUsbVideo = true;

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Provide an implementation before enabling USB video.

When CONFIG_MM_USB_VIDEO is defined, hasUsbVideo enables the capture path, but platform_esp32_usbvideo.cpp provides the six capture functions only when that symbol is not defined. The ESP32 build includes this file, so an enabled image has no definitions for the declarations in platform.h and can fail to link. Keep the capability disabled until the transport implementation is linked, or add the enabled-build definitions.

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Comment thread test/unit/core/unit_PictureService.cpp Outdated
Comment on lines +199 to +200
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(80)); // the task has looped many times by now
CHECK(generationNow(settled) == settled);

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These checks depend on sleep timing and can pass even when the code is wrong.

Both checks sleep 80 ms and then assert that no frame was published.

  • Lines 199-200: if the decode loop has not run yet, the check passes without testing anything.
  • Lines 229-230: prepare() → stopCapture() → stopPinnedTask already joins the task. The sleep therefore adds nothing.

publishedPast also uses a 2 s wall-clock timeout. The path instruction says: "Tests should not depend on timing or network."

Fix: wait on desktop-seam counters instead of time. In the refusal test, poll until videoCaptureStats().failed >= 2, then assert that the generation did not change. In the switch test, record videoCaptureStats().decoded after prepare() and assert it stays the same, with no sleep.

Line 216 is also weak: the format string always contains " lost". Assert the exact count instead, for example ", 0 lost".

♻️ Proposed change (refusal test)
--- "a/test/unit/core/unit_PictureService.cpp"
+++ "b/test/unit/core/unit_PictureService.cpp"
@@ -195,9 +195,9 @@
     Picture p(64, 48);
     p.svc.source = mm::PictureService::kUsbCapture;
     p.svc.prepare();
     const uint32_t settled = current().generation;
-    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(80));   // the task has looped many times by now
+    while (mm::platform::videoCaptureStats().failed < 2) std::this_thread::yield();   // two refusals seen
     CHECK(generationNow(settled) == settled);
     mm::platform::setTestVideoCaptureDecodeFails(false);
     CHECK(publishedPast(settled));
     p.svc.release();

As per path instructions: "Tests should not depend on timing or network."

Also applies to: 229-230

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Review comment at @test/unit/core/unit_PictureService.cpp around lines 199 -
200:
In the refusal test, replace the sleep with polling `videoCaptureStats().failed`
until at least two refusals are recorded, then verify the generation is
unchanged. In the switch test, record `videoCaptureStats().decoded` after
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The capture task waits for a frame without holding the picture, so with one picture a reader is only ever kept out for the decode itself. The desktop stand-in is shared through atomics, which clears ThreadSanitizer's race, and the tests wait on the grabber's own counters rather than on sleeps.

- **Core**: PictureService splits the frame wait (`videoCaptureAwaitFrame`, 50 ms, which bounds a stop) from the decode; the capture reads the size the pictures were allocated at, never a control changed since; `endWrite` clamps to it; `tick1s` reads the frame size under the lock and names a one-picture run in its status; `kSourceCount` is the enum's own last entry; the unused `videoCaptureFormats` seam is gone.
- **Platform**: the desktop stand-in uses atomics for what the test thread and the capture task share, opens for one owner at a time and closes only by the owning handle; its halving is a named step. The ESP32 and Teensy stubs gain `videoCaptureAwaitFrame`.
- **Tests**: counter-based waits, a stricter status test (frames counted, 0 lost, Status severity), a one-picture capture test where readers still read, and the switch test proves the grabber was released.
- **Docs/CI**: help.json regenerated; the width help fits 100 characters; an NDI comment cut to 250; code.md refreshed. The large-file rise (unit_MoonLiveLayout.cpp) comes from main.
- **Reviews**: 🐇 CodeRabbit on MoonModules#151: size snapshot → done; one picture and the lock wait → done (the wait holds no lock); stand-in synchronization → done; one owner for the stand-in → done; `CONFIG_MM_USB_VIDEO` without an implementation → accepted, it has no Kconfig entry, so nothing can set it until the transport PR adds both; timing-based tests → done. 👾 Reviewer: the two races, the lock across the wait and the stop latency → done.

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Hi @Gohnnyman, thanks, this is the groundwork exactly as we hoped for it: usb capture as a PictureService source, marked in kRunsInTask, decoding into beginWrite()/endWrite(), behind a platform seam with a desktop stand-in the tests drive. One topic, 10 files, on main. I also checked it against our comments on #139: the Teensy stubs, no freeze without a grabber, the task on core 1 and mm::formatTo are all in. Nice work.

We pushed one commit on your branch (e8027ad) to finish it, so nothing is needed from you before the merge:

  1. The ThreadSanitizer failure was a real data race. The test thread and the capture task shared the desktop stand-in's flags and counters, and tick1s() read the frame size outside lock_. The stand-in now uses atomics, tick1s() reads the size under the lock, and the stand-in opens for one owner at a time.
  2. The task waits for a frame first, then takes the picture. With one picture buffer, beginWrite() used to hold lock_ through the 200 ms frame wait, which locked out PictureEffect's reader. The seam is now videoCaptureAwaitFrame(h, 50), then beginWrite(), then videoCaptureDecodeInto(...) with no timeout, so the lock covers only the decode. A new test runs a capture on one picture with a reader loop.
  3. Smaller items:
    • kSourceCount is the enum's last member.
    • The task decodes at the size the pictures were allocated at.
    • endWrite clamps to that size.
    • The status names a one-picture run.
    • The tests wait on the grabber's own counters instead of sleeps.
    • CodeRabbit's findings are processed.

For the transport PR:

  • CONFIG_MM_USB_VIDEO needs its Kconfig entry and the P4 fragment line, with the flash cost measured.
  • The ESP32 implementation goes behind videoCaptureAwaitFrame / videoCaptureDecodeInto.

An idea for later: a V4L2 backend in the desktop platform. A grabber shows up there as /dev/video0, so the same source would run on a Raspberry Pi, a NanoPC or a Docker container (--device /dev/video0).

These review steps follow our contributor processes in MoonWalk: "Contribute a pull request" on your side, "Review and finish a contribution" on ours. MoonWalk is still work in progress and a new version is coming. We'd love your feedback: what helped, what was missing, what was unclear?

Thanks again!

ThreadSanitizer caught tick1s reading back_ after releasing the lock while the capture task swaps it in endWrite. The one-picture flag is now read under the lock, and startCapture clears its status before the task starts.

- **Core**: PictureService::tick1s reads back_ with the frame size, under lock_; startCapture's clearStatus moves before spawnPinnedTask.

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ewowi merged commit 3ad8fc8 into MoonModules:main Oct 19, 2026
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Hi @Gohnnyman , let me know if it works and show some pics or vids and some info how to set it up, maybe with a link to which usb grab device you used , so we can add that to the docs so others can also build it

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Hi @ewowi, yep, tomorrow or the day after I'll write PR for UVC video decoding, check it on my setup and share the info what hardware I used. Hopefully I'll have time for this

ewowi added a commit to TouchMyLight/MoonLight that referenced this pull request Oct 19, 2026
Main moved on with MoonModules#151, so the pull request no longer merged and CI could not run. The code merges cleanly; the four generated files are regenerated on the merged tree: help.json from the headers, and the code, docgen and prose reports. Tested before this commit: the desktop build, 2652 unit tests and the JS tests pass.

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