fix(recording): size the capture buffer from the filter, not the display mode - #423
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…lay mode `SCStreamConfiguration.width`/`height` are pixels and `scalesToFit` defaults to false, which the SDK header spells out as "the output only scales down". A buffer bigger than the frame therefore gets that frame drawn at its native size in one corner, with background black everywhere else — and it is baked into the file, so the editor and every export show it too. The helper sized that buffer from `CGDisplayPixelsWide`/`High`, which follows the display MODE rather than the filter. On a 1x display the two agree, which is why nothing here or in CI ever saw this; on a Retina panel they do not, and a whole desktop recording comes out as a small picture inside a large black rectangle (#418 — a 3024x1898 file, correct dimensions, wrong inside). The filter already knows the answer: `contentRect` x `pointPixelScale` is by definition the pixel size ScreenCaptureKit is about to rasterise. Ask it (macOS 14+, with an explicit points-times-scale fallback on 13), and set `scalesToFit` so a source whose size we mispredict later comes out scaled rather than cornered. The per-axis clamp goes with it. Capping each axis on its own changes the SHAPE of the buffer, and a buffer whose aspect differs from the frame hits the same wall from the other side: the downscale preserves aspect, so the surplus returns as black bars. The reporter's second monitor is a 5120x1440 ultrawide, which that clamp would have handed a 3840x1440 buffer and drawn as 3840x1080 between 180 black rows. The arithmetic lives in the core library because that is the half `swift test` can reach, and the nine cases it now covers are all cases this machine cannot produce: the checklist carries the two a human still has to run on real hardware. Closes #418
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds proportional capture sizing with even dimensions and maximum bounds. Display and window capture now use ScreenCaptureKit filter geometry, with macOS 13 fallbacks. Stream configuration enables scaling to fit. Unit tests and manual DPI checks cover the new behavior. ChangesCapture sizing alignment
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The capture-buffer sizing change is narrowly scoped and supported by focused tests. A macOS 13 Retina smoke test remains a useful follow-up for the fallback path, but no actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ScreenCaptureRecorder
participant SCContentFilter
participant captureOutputSize
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ScreenCaptureRecorder->>SCContentFilter: Create display or window filter
SCContentFilter-->>ScreenCaptureRecorder: Return content size and pixel scale
ScreenCaptureRecorder->>captureOutputSize: Calculate bounded even dimensions
captureOutputSize-->>ScreenCaptureRecorder: Return output width and height
ScreenCaptureRecorder->>StreamConfiguration: Set dimensions and scalesToFit
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419-420: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a macOS 13 smoke-test case.
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ScreenCaptureRecorder.swiftLines 754-756 runs only on macOS 13. The current items can pass on macOS 14 or later without executing that path. Add an explicit real macOS 13 Retina test for both display and window capture.As per coding guidelines, “CI runs on Linux only — manual smoke test on real macOS/Windows is required for native changes.”
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In `@technical-documentation/testing/manual-e2e-checklist.md`:
- Around line 419-420: Add an explicit manual smoke-test checklist item
requiring real macOS 13 on a Retina/HiDPI display, covering both display capture
and single-window capture so the macOS 13 fallback in ScreenCaptureRecorder is
exercised; retain the existing edge-to-edge frame validation.
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Closes #418.
The preview is not the bug
The reporter's footage is "shrunk into a corner inside a solid black frame". That is what the file contains — the editor is showing it faithfully.
Two things establish it:
plan_framecannot produce that rect from any preset, zoom or layout; the closest combination is off by 0.53 in normalised units."Padding is 50% — why is there no wallpaper?"
Because a zoom region is active at the playhead, and since #179 the zoom is carried by the box, not by the source crop: the box grows past the padding and off the frame. The pill in the reporter's timeline reads 1.80×, which is
ZOOM_DEPTH_SCALES[3]— the default you get from pressingzonce. At that scale the padded box (0.72 × 0.80 of the frame) becomes 1.29 × 1.44, so it covers the wallpaper completely and the black you see is the video's own black.Adding one default zoom region to the reproduction above removes the wallpaper edge to edge and lands on the reporter's screenshot exactly — no wallpaper, no rounded corner, no shadow anywhere, because every edge of the layer is now off-frame. That also explains the forensic result: the attachment has zero non-black pixels outside the small rectangle.
What actually happens
SCStreamConfiguration.width/heightare pixels, andscalesToFitdefaults tofalse(verified on macOS 26.5). The SDK header is blunt about what that means:So a buffer configured larger than the frame gets the frame drawn at its native size in one corner and background — black — everywhere else.
makeCaptureTargetsized that buffer fromCGDisplayPixelsWide/High, which follows the display mode, not the filter. On a 1× display the two numbers agree, which is why neither CI nor any 1× dev machine ever saw this. On a Retina panel they do not.The fix
Ask the filter, which is the only thing that knows:
contentRect × pointPixelScaleis by definition the pixel size ScreenCaptureKit is about to rasterise. macOS 14+ exposes both; on 13 the fallback is the region's own point size times the display's scale factor — the same product, one step further from the source.scalesToFitis set as a safety net so a future mispredicted source comes out scaled rather than cornered.The per-axis clamp goes too. Capping each axis independently changes the shape of the buffer, and a buffer whose aspect differs from the frame hits the same wall from the other side: the downscale preserves aspect, so the surplus returns as black bars. The reporter's second monitor is a 5120×1440 ultrawide — that clamp would have handed it a 3840×1440 buffer and drawn 3840×1080 between 180 black rows.
The arithmetic lives in
OpenScreenCaptureCorebecause that is the halfswift testcan reach.Verification
tsc --noEmiton both configs,swift build -c release,check-docs— all clean.What I could not verify: there is no HiDPI display on the machine this was written on, so the Retina path rests on the SDK contract plus unit tests, not on a real Retina recording. Both gaps are now explicit checks in the macOS section of the manual e2e checklist, including the reason they are unfalsifiable on a 1× machine — the reporter's
.mp4had exactly the dimensions everyone would have checked, and was still wrong inside.Summary by CodeRabbit
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