fix: avoid AV1 clip-switch crashes on Windows - #602
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Playing H.264 into the malformed AV1 clip and out again, a package built from the PR base terminates with 0xC0000005 without reaching the third clip; the same package built from this branch crosses the boundary, renders the third clip, and exits 0. Hashing all 181 packaged files shows the compositor addon is the only path that differs between the arms. The row states what the run does not cover: it is script-driven rather than a manual OS-input pass, each arm ran once, the media is the synthetic fixture rather than the reporter's recording, and the host build is not the reporter's.
A bare 554 next to a blank table row reads as a line reference; it is the upstream issue number, as the PR body already says.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 7 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Windows compositor now uses D3D11VA only for H.264, routes AV1 and VP9 through ChangesWindows decoder stability
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to Windows playback now uses software decoding for AV1 and preserves hardware decoding for H.264, preventing the legacy AV1 clip-boundary crash while maintaining successful H.264 playback. The documented regression coverage indicates the change is ready to merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Timeline
participant DecoderOpen as Decoder::open
participant CodecPath as d3d11va_for_codec
participant CpuFrames
participant D3D11VA as attach_d3d11va
Timeline->>DecoderOpen: open clip decoder
DecoderOpen->>CodecPath: check codec_id
alt H.264 on hardware backend
CodecPath-->>DecoderOpen: select D3D11VA
DecoderOpen->>D3D11VA: attach hardware device
else AV1, VP9, or CPU backend
CodecPath-->>DecoderOpen: select software path
DecoderOpen->>CpuFrames: open software decoder
end
DecoderOpen-->>Timeline: return opened decoder
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In `@crates/compositor/src/pipeline_windows.rs`:
- Around line 2195-2196: Introduce a shared hardware_gpu_or_skip() helper that
attempts strict Gpu::create(false) and skips the test when creation fails, then
replace all five direct Gpu::create(false).expect("Hardware GPU") usages with
this helper. Preserve the strict hardware backend requirement and existing
assertions so hardware-capable machines still execute the AV1 software-path and
D3D11VA tests; do not use create_auto.
- Around line 88-92: Update decode_frame_n_inner to give RAII ownership to every
FFmpeg resource: use DecoderOpenResources for fmt, dctx, and the hwdev returned
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Summary
AV1 and other codecs.
dependency order, transferring ownership only after decoder construction succeeds.
and H.264 to malformed AV1 to H.264 clip switching.
Related issue
Fixes #554
The reporter's original recording is not available. Validation used a synthetic WebM fixture
matching the reported AV1 configuration version 127, missing frame-rate metadata, and malformed
unknown-sized EBML element. This does not claim compatibility with every legacy AV1 WebM or an
exact reproduction of the reporter's file.
Type of change
Release impact
Desktop impact
Screenshots / video
Not applicable; this changes native decoder selection and failure-path ownership without changing
the UI.
Testing
All five hardware test bodies completed on this host; unsupported-hardware simulation
explicitly reported them as not executed, and an injected core assertion still failed.
4 tests skipped.
keyboard/mouse input sought to AV1 source 0.400 s and played H.264 -> malformed AV1 -> H.264.
Read-only pixel/time sampling observed third-clip green at timeline 1.571 s; normal window
Close exited 0. HUD pointer targeting failed, so Studio was opened with native keyboard input.
Capture/webcam/tray/export were not rerun. Exact-endpoint clip-identity synchronization showed
an existing discrepancy in unchanged code and is outside this resource/preflight follow-up;
no endpoint-correctness claim is made.
differing only in
compositor_view.node. Playing H.264 into the malformed AV1 clip and out intoH.264 again, a build of the PR base terminates with exit code 3221225477 (0xC0000005, access
violation) without reaching the third clip, and an older pre-fix addon reproduces the same code;
the then-current branch build crosses at 1.908 s, renders the third clip, and exits 0. The arms,
hashes and limits are recorded in the 2026-09-04 A/B row of
technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md.
The A/B was driven by an injected script rather than real OS input, each arm ran once, and the
media is the synthetic fixture rather than the reporter's unavailable recording, so it reproduces
and clears that reproduction rather than the reporter's own file.
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