[Kevin-Liu-01]

this fixes two audio bugs: a recording over a still screen loses its ending, and exports put the audio 44 ms behind the video. this pr started as a fix for dropped audio, and main's new AudioSampleQueue covers that now, so i merged main and kept only these two on top of it.

i recorded a still screen for 5 seconds. on main the video stops at the last screen change and the audio in the mp4 stops 2 s after that. with this pr both run to the stop.

still screens

screencapturekit only sends a frame when something on screen changes. when you talk over a still slide, the newest frame is from the last change, and main ends the recording there, with at most 2 s of audio after it.

• while the screen is still, the recorder writes the last frame again once a second
• when you hit stop, the recording ends at the stop, and the last frame is held up to it
• each repeat is stamped 100 ms in the past, so a real frame that's still on its way stays newer than it
• nothing is repeated while paused. after a resume it waits for the next real frame, same as main

a test window flashed and beeped at the same time. in the export from main the beep lands 44 ms after the flash. with this pr they line up within 1 ms.

exports

every aac file starts with 2112 samples of encoder priming, which is 44 ms at 48 khz. the .m4a files the recorder writes say the audio really starts at 0.044 s, but the export decoded from the very first packet and kept the priming. so exported audio ran 44 ms behind the video, even though the preview in the editor was in sync. the export now drops the frames decoded before the stream's start time.

how to check

• npx vitest run src/lib/exporter electron/native/ScreenCaptureKitRecorder.test.ts
• npm run build:native-helpers builds the helper. the binaries aren't in this pr
• record a few seconds of a still screen while some audio plays, then run ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream=codec_type,duration on the .mp4. on main the video ends at the last screen change. on this branch the video and audio both end at the stop
• export a recording with a clap in it and check that the sound lands on the picture

this pr and #1089 both touch ScreenCaptureKitRecorder.swift, so i'll rebase whichever lands second.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Screen recordings now preserve the last visible frame during pauses and extend through the recording’s stop time.
  • Exported audio is better aligned by skipping encoder priming samples, reducing unwanted leading silence.

[Kevin-Liu-01]

saw you landed AudioSampleQueue, nice! i merged main into this and dropped my audio track, so it builds on your queue now. what's left is two things main doesn't do yet: a recording over a still screen ends at the last screen change, so talking over a slide gets cut off, and exports put the audio 44 ms late because the aac priming is kept. updated the description with before and after charts. happy to split them into two prs if that's easier to review

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