Encoders and the segment output are created when the capture source first
has a picture, at its own size (portrait monitors record portrait) unless a
resolution is configured, so nothing is written while waiting for a source.
SPEC.md records both decisions; validation docs cover how sessions should end
when the game closes.
Hyprland's portal shows its picker during SelectSources, so a timeout before
the picker step cut users off while choosing. A wedged portal backend looks
the same; recording stays in Waiting for capture and the app must prompt.
Hyprland's portal sometimes creates the session and never answers source
selection, before any picker appears. Recording now fails if the portal has
not reached its picker within 10 s; time in the picker is not limited. The
motion check uses the segment with the most motion, since capture can start
late.
The portal reports refusals only in OBS's log; a denied, cancelled or failed
source selection now fails with an actionable reason instead of waiting
forever. check --expect-motion rejects black or frozen footage, and the
hardware script checks only runs that recorded, tests restore tokens in their
own step, and treats closing a window as informational: on Hyprland the
stream keeps its last frame, so sessions must end on game exit.
Runs encoder verification, Wayland and X11 capture with segment and remux
checks, and five failure scenarios that must end in an honest failed status:
source lost, window closed, unwritable segments, low disk space and a portal
that grants no source.
Matroska output can stay buffered until a segment closes, so progress counts
bytes across all segments and the stall limit scales with segment length.
Unknown capture source types now fail instead of recording an empty
placeholder. The rig gains an Xwayland mode for Xcomposite window capture.
PipeWire capture keeps its size and last frame after its stream stops, so the
recorder follows the stream state OBS logs. Recording fails when the segment
on disk stops growing (OBS kept counting bytes into a dead muxer and missed a
full disk) and stops while enough space remains to finalise the last segment.
Failures stay visible after the output stops.
Adds a check command that verifies keyframe-aligned segments and a remux
across segment boundaries, and gives the rig desktop audio.
clipbin-obs starts the pinned libobs on a dedicated thread, opens exactly the
bundled plugin allowlist, and records official capture sources through one
hardware encoder into keyframe-aligned Matroska segments. Status reaches
Recording only once the source has a picture and the segment grows on disk.
clipbin-probe lists and verifies hardware encoders and records from a real
capture source, printing status, health and segment events for validation.
harry