[EtienneLescot]

Refs #1445

On COSMIC, xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic picks the modifier-carrying EnumFormat even when it is offered second, but only offers MemFd buffers for it. Our Buffers param asks for DmaBuf only on that format, so allocation fails with error alloc buffers: Invalid argument. The shared-memory retry from #1069 offered the same two objects, so it failed the same way.

Change

• The retry now offers the shm EnumFormat alone (n_params = 1), so the producer negotiates the plain, modifier-less format and the existing MemPtr|MemFd Buffers param applies.
• The retry is armed whether or not the VAAPI DMA-BUF import is preferred, since the DMA-BUF object is offered (second) in both cases.
• The first attempt is unchanged, so GNOME/KDE and the DMA-BUF import path ([Bug]: Whole-screen recordings freeze/judder on GNOME/Wayland (AMD) — capture forced onto shm, mutter under-delivers vs dmabuf #507, [Bug]: Screen recording fails on Niri/Wayland with PipeWire (no more input formats) #287) negotiate exactly as before.

Deliberately not done

• Adding MemFd|MemPtr to the Buffers param on a modifier format: per the report, COSMIC then delivers solid black frames, and the allocation would succeed, so the retry would never fire.
• No new env variable.

Verified

• Code review of the negotiation path only. The Linux build of the helper is left to the nix build check on this PR (my Linux box was unreachable).

Not verified

• No COSMIC session available: the fix follows @jkbprwl's analysis and their working local patch, but has not been run on COSMIC. A test from them would be welcome.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved PipeWire screen capture recovery when buffer allocation fails. Capture now retries using shared-memory buffers only, whether or not DMA-BUF is preferred, rather than offering both buffer types during the retry.

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The PipeWire capture path retains a shared-memory fallback grant and retries format negotiation with only the shared-memory format after buffer allocation fails.

Changes: PipeWire shared-memory retry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared-memory-only format negotiation electron/native/pipewire-capture/csrc/pw_shim.h, electron/native/pipewire-capture/csrc/pw_shim.c, electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs	osc_pw_start and Session::start accept a shared-memory-only option. When enabled, the C shim offers only the shared-memory format and passes the selected format count to stream_connect.
Fallback grant and retry electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/main.rs, electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs	begin_stream retains an available shared-memory fallback grant. Initial attempts pass false; the fallback retry passes true. The integration test passes false.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 6687d

The retry consistently selects shared-memory negotiation and cannot retry indefinitely. No merge-blocking issue was identified; normal build checks remain necessary.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs: 1

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Test the shared-memory-only offer directly.

The current ignored integration test does not exercise shared_memory_only = true. A negotiated buffer-type assertion is insufficient because a producer can select the plain format when the modifier-carrying format is also offered.

Add a deterministic test seam around stream_connect that asserts this path offers exactly one plain EnumFormat. Keep the live PipeWire test separate from this assertion.

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Review comment at @electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs at line 1700:
Add a deterministic test seam around stream_connect that verifies
shared_memory_only = true offers exactly one plain EnumFormat, rather than
relying on the negotiated buffer type. Keep this assertion separate from the
live PipeWire integration test.

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Review comments at @electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/main.rs:
- Around line 561-569: Update the warning in the one-shot PipeWire
buffer-allocation retry path associated with shared_memory_fallback so it does
not attribute every failure to DMA-BUF; use a format-neutral message indicating
allocation failed and capture is retrying with shared-memory buffers, while
preserving the retry behavior.

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shared_memory_only = true offers exactly one plain EnumFormat, rather than
relying on the negotiated buffer type. Keep this assertion separate from the
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@EtienneLescot tested on COSMIC (Pop!_OS 24.04, xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic 1.11.0, PipeWire 1.6.8, AMD iGPU) with the helper built from 6687d86. It works: the first attempt still fails with error alloc buffers, then the retry negotiates uses_dmabuf=0 modifier=0x0 and records the screen correctly. Logs and details: #1445 (comment)