feat(recording): record several cameras at once on Windows - #1025
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Each camera of the webcams list (or the legacy single-camera fields) gets its own capture and encoder on the recording's T0. A camera that cannot be opened is dropped with an indexed webcam-unavailable warning; one whose samples fail mid-take is disabled on its own. recording-stopped keeps webcamPath and adds webcamPaths. MFEncoder now only balances an MFStartup it made: a dropped camera's never-initialized encoder ran an unmatched MFShutdown from its destructor and stopped every other encoder in the process.
A camera whose encoder initialize() or capture start() fails is now warned about with the indexed webcam-unavailable event and dropped, instead of ending the take; its encoder is finalized and its empty file removed. The screen encoder's failure stays fatal. mf_encoder_color_test pins the MFEncoder fix: finalizing a never-initialized encoder must leave a live one able to write and finalize.
Two webcams of the same model report the same name, and the browser id never matches a device path, so every such camera selected the first device and the second open failed as busy. The take now owns a claim set: each camera that opens adds its device (MF symbolic link or DirectShow DevicePath, normalized so both paths agree), and later cameras pick the best unclaimed match. The selection rule lives in device_selection.{h,cpp} with its own unit test.
A label already used by camera 1 or an earlier extra gets " (2)", " (3)" by occurrence, so unavailable and dropped cameras of the same model can be told apart.
The recorder caps at three extra cameras, but a validator that ships with a cap cannot be loosened later for older builds. The HUD and Electron still cap.
Two webcams of the same model share a name. When an extra carries a deviceId and camera 1 does not, the name says nothing about whether they are the same device, so the extra is no longer dropped as a duplicate of camera 1.
The helper deletes the file of a camera it drops at start, but ignored a failed DeleteFileW. It now logs a WARNING with the path and GetLastError, and Electron keeps the dropped cameras' paths so stop and discard remove a 0-byte stub left behind.
A camera the helper disables mid-take keeps its partial file in the take, but nobody was told. A camera whose file was kept (size > 0) yet is missing from recording-stopped.webcamPaths is now named in a "Stopped early" notice after the take, camera 1 included. Paths compare case-insensitively with either separator. Only an event that carries webcamPaths can say so, so the helper now prints the list, possibly empty, whenever a camera wrote a file of its own; an older helper or a missing event never produces the notice.
The checklist now notes that with several identical cameras plugged in the recorded ones follow Windows' enumeration order, adds a 1-vs-2-camera screen pacing comparison at 4K (getopenscreen#945) and a stopped-early check. The helper README says the camera index counts after entries without camPath are skipped, and the extras-need-camera-1 assumption (R6) is noted where links drop them.
A failed ReadSample was counted and retried forever, so an unplugged camera kept its file running to the end on its last picture and stayed in webcamPaths. The Media Foundation capture now latches lost on a device invalidated or hardware start failure, on end of stream during the take, or after a second of consecutive read failures; the DirectShow fallback latches it on EC_DEVICE_LOST (removal), EC_ERRORABORT or EC_STREAM_ERROR_STOPPED. The writer loop disables a lost camera like any mid-take failure, so its file ends at the loss and the app names it as stopped early.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 🧰 Additional context used📚 Code guidelines (3)📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds support for selecting, recording, reporting, storing, and restoring up to three additional webcams for native Windows recordings. It also adds camera-loss handling, indexed helper events, project-track persistence, UI controls, localization, and tests. ChangesMulti-camera recording
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Change: Feature Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Multi-camera recording looks mergeable. Two small follow-ups remain. A saved camera can appear unselected while it is still being recorded. Old extra-camera links can also persist after a recording is registered again without extra cameras. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Recording several cameras exposes gaps in device identity and failure isolation. A fallback may not bind to the selected camera, and losing camera 1 can hide otherwise successful camera recordings. The assessed impact is confined to local Windows recording; unauthorized file access or a remote attack is not established. Retained concerns
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Review comments at @electron/media/mediaLinksRegistry.ts:
- Around line 250-261: Update registerMediaLinks so a registration with no
normalized additionalWebcams clears any previously stored extras when merging
the matching entry. Ensure the latest registration is authoritative while
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- Around line 39-41: Update isSameCamera to match devices by id first, then fall
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unavailable, consistent with resolveAdditionalWebcams.
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| lastKnownPath: videoPath, | |||
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| ...(additionalWebcams.length > 0 ? { additionalWebcams } : {}), | |||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
A re-registration without extras keeps stale additionalWebcams.
registerMediaLinks merges with { ...e, ...entry } at Line 266. entry leaves out additionalWebcams when the normalized list is empty. If a fingerprint already has extras, a later registration with no extras does not clear them. The stale camera paths stay in the entry. The fallback at handlers.ts resolveMediaLinksForVideo can register again from a session that no longer lists those extras. In that case the old extras remain and relinking can restore them. If the latest call is meant to be authoritative, set the field explicitly.
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- ? file.entries.map((e, i) => (i === existingIndex ? { ...e, ...entry } : e))
+ ? file.entries.map((e, i) => {
+ if (i !== existingIndex) return e;
+ const { additionalWebcams: _old, ...rest } = e;
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Review comment at @electron/media/mediaLinksRegistry.ts around lines 250 - 261:
Update registerMediaLinks so a registration with no normalized additionalWebcams
clears any previously stored extras when merging the matching entry. Ensure the
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| function isSameCamera(choice: AdditionalCameraChoice, device: CameraDevice): boolean { | ||
| return choice.id !== null ? choice.id === device.deviceId : choice.name === device.label; | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Match picks the same way the recording resolver does.
isSameCamera compares only choice.id when the stored id is not null. resolveAdditionalWebcams in src/lib/additionalWebcams.ts (lines 27-30) first tries the id and then falls back to pick.name. Its test "falls back to the name when the id changed" shows that a changed id is an expected case.
If a saved pick has a stale id, the following happens:
- The list shows the camera as unchecked and leaves it out of
present. The cap count is therefore wrong. - The native Windows request still resolves the pick by name, so the camera is recorded.
The user sees a camera as not selected while the take records it. If the user then toggles any other camera, onChange(present…) removes the saved pick without notice.
Use the resolver's id-then-name rule here so that both sides agree.
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function isSameCamera(choice: AdditionalCameraChoice, device: CameraDevice): boolean {
- return choice.id !== null ? choice.id === device.deviceId : choice.name === device.label;
+ if (choice.id !== null && choice.id === device.deviceId) return true;
+ return choice.name === device.label;
}The fallback can match a different camera that has the same label. The resolver already accepts that risk, so the UI now shows what the recording will do.
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| function isSameCamera(choice: AdditionalCameraChoice, device: CameraDevice): boolean { | |
| return choice.id !== null ? choice.id === device.deviceId : choice.name === device.label; | |
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| function isSameCamera(choice: AdditionalCameraChoice, device: CameraDevice): boolean { | |
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Update isSameCamera to match devices by id first, then fall back to matching
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Summary
Record up to four webcams at once on Windows — for example one on your face and one pointed at the desk. Each camera is written to its own file on the same clock as the screen, and the recording session and the project keep all of them. The editor still shows camera 1 exactly as before; showing several cameras in the picture follows in a separate PR.
wgc-capture): reads awebcamslist (keys prefixedcam*, the legacy single-camera fields are still filled, so an older helper keeps recording camera 1), runs one capture + encoder per camera on the shared T0, and reports per-camera events with anindexand every camera path at stop (webcamPaths).MF_E_VIDEO_RECORDING_DEVICE_INVALIDATED, DirectShowEC_DEVICE_LOST).MFShutdownand broke a working camera's file.…-webcam.mp4,…-webcam-2.mp4…-4; empty or missing files are dropped and named after the take ("Not recorded: …", "Stopped early: …"); cleanup and media links know the numbered files; the session (additionalWebcams) and the project (additionalCameraTracks) keep the extra cameras as optional, additive fields — no schema-version bump, older builds ignore them.Related issue
None — new feature.
Type of change
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Desktop impact
Screenshots / video
Can follow on request (HUD section and the files of a four-camera take).
Testing
npm run test(305 files, 4196 passed), bothtscconfigs,npm run lint(0 errors),npm run i18n:check.node scripts/build-windows-wgc-helper.mjs), including newwebcam_config_test,device_selection_test,webcam_loss_testand anMFEncodercase for the ref-count fix; WGC smoke tests incl. a new--webcam --missing-second-webcamcase.technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md:Known limitations (noted in the checklist):