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fix(timeline): coalesce scrub state updates per frame - #520

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Summary

  • keep the scrub playhead's direct DOM movement at pointer-event speed
  • move the optimistic React timecode state into the existing requestAnimationFrame seek
  • publish only the latest pending pointer position once per frame
  • add a React Profiler regression test that measures commits before and after a controlled frame

Root cause

Timeline scrubbing already had two performance protections: direct DOM movement for the playhead and an animation-frame-coalesced store/native seek. setScrubbingTimeSec, however, sat between them and ran on every pointermove, forcing the timeline subtree to re-render at raw pointer frequency.

Pointer-down remains immediate. During a drag, local scrub state and the store/native seek now publish together once per animation frame, while the direct playhead write preserves zero-latency visual tracking.

Related issue

Fixes #407

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • Feature
  • Enhancement
  • Documentation
  • Refactor / maintenance
  • Performance
  • Security

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  • Major / breaking change
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  • Linux
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Screenshots / video

No visual change. The timecode still follows the latest pointer position each rendered frame.

Testing

  • TDD red phase: three pre-frame pointer moves produced three extra Profiler commits (8 observed vs 5 expected)
  • the same test now observes no pre-frame commits, one post-frame commit, and one seek to the latest position
  • npx vitest --run src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.geometry.test.tsx src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.waveform.test.tsx — 17 passed
  • npx tsc --noEmit
  • npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit
  • npm run lint — no errors (14 pre-existing warnings)
  • npm run test — 181 files, 2,164 passed, 2 skipped
  • git diff --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved timeline scrubbing performance by coalescing state updates during rapid pointer movement.
    • Reduced unnecessary rendering during pointer dragging while keeping playhead movement responsive.
    • Scrubbing now provides smoother, more consistent feedback.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for deferred and consolidated scrubbing updates across multiple animation-frame scenarios.
    • Verified that timeline state updates occur only when the corresponding animation frame is processed.

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V4Timeline now throttles scrubbing React state updates through requestAnimationFrame. Tests verify deferred commits and one time update per animation frame across two scrubbing scenarios.

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Timeline scrubbing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scrubbing update throttling
src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.tsx
seekToClientX updates scrubbingTimeSec immediately only for immediate seeks. Throttled seeks update it inside the existing animation-frame callback with setCurrentTime.
Deferred scrubbing test coverage
src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.geometry.test.tsx
The test helper supports profiling and returns the time-update mock. Tests verify that pointer moves defer updates until the animation frame, then publish one update per frame for two scrubbing scenarios.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0acba

Ending a drag after a frame flush can issue one redundant current-time update. This is a bounded timeline-performance regression, but should be fixed or accepted before merge.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #407 requires one setScrubbingTimeSec update per animation frame, immediate DOM playhead movement, and immediate pointer-down updates. V4Timeline.tsx keeps the direct style.left write befo…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reviewed changes are limited to V4Timeline.tsx and its geometry test. The production change implements issue #407. The Profiler test verifies the required frame coalescing behavior. No unrelated…
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Needs a rebase on main — two files conflict. Nothing wrong with the change itself, it just sat while the editor moved.

I could not do it for you: my token lacks the workflow scope and your fork is missing a workflow file main has since added, so any push carrying main's history is rejected.

MinhOmega added a commit to MinhOmega/Capturia that referenced this pull request Sep 11, 2026
…models and upstream fixes (#13)

Capturia 2.1: new editor and capture features, plus the upstream open PRs that were worth taking.

## New features
- **Record an area of the screen**: an Area tab in the source picker opens an overlay on the chosen display. You drag, move and resize a rectangle, and it shows the live size in physical pixels. The rectangle is validated and clamped in the main process, and the recording opens already cropped to it. Auto-zoom stays inside the area. Not offered on Wayland.
- **Saved looks**: save the current appearance (background and frame, camera layout, cursor, caption style, and optionally the format) as a named preset, apply it in one undo step, and star one as the default for new projects. Regions, trims, zooms, crop and the transcript are never touched.
- **Zooms at flagged moments**: Auto-enhance adds a zoom at every moment flagged while recording, using the same placement rules as auto-zoom. A flag that falls in a trim or on an existing zoom is reported, not duplicated.
- **Right-click menu** on region pills and clips: Copy, Paste at playhead, Split, Delete. These call the same functions as the keyboard shortcuts. Also fixes Ctrl+C on audio pills, which did nothing before.
- **Poster frames**: the project list and media cards show real thumbnails. They are generated by ffmpeg in the main process, cached, and made one at a time.
- **Speech model choice**: Fast / Balanced / Accurate in AI settings. Each model is pinned to a SHA-256 digest and verified before it becomes active, and a failed switch keeps the previous model.
- **Recordings folder**: choose where new takes are saved. The folder is set only through the OS picker. In that folder, only files Capturia itself names are reachable, after resolving symlinks, and it is never auto-cleaned. If the folder is unavailable, the app offers to use the default before the take starts.
- **Pre-release update channel**: opt-in, and it never downgrades (`allowDowngrade` stays false).

## Taken from upstream open PRs
Each one was rebuilt on our code where it no longer applied, and each carries its `Upstream-PR:` trailer:
getopenscreen/openscreen#302, #386, #519, #520, #571, #617, #632, #640, #641, #642, #644.
- #617 drops `node_modules` from `app.asar`. Verified: every npm dependency is bundled by Vite, since externals are Node builtins plus `electron`. `electron-updater` is a bundled chunk, and native addons load from `resourcesPath`.

## Fixes
- **Windows Store verify step**: it looked the package up by the pre-rename name, `EtienneLescot.OpenScreen`, which is what failed the RC.3 Store job. It now reads the name from the generated `AppxManifest.xml`.
- **Linux export on Intel Arc**: iHD accepts the dmabuf and then returns EIO on every encode, so every hardware export died at the first frame. Each export now probes one real frame and falls back to software if it fails. The mapped frame is also freed when `send_frame` fails.
- **Windows microphone drift**: the 44.1→48 kHz path rounded every packet on its own, which added up to 3.75 s/h of growing mic lag. It now carries the position across packets with exact integer totals. 88.2/176.4/352.8 kHz devices now snap to 44.1 kHz, so they go through the anti-alias decimator.
- **PipeWire test**: the vendored SPA 1.0.5 compares 64-bit values through an `int`, so the old probe modifier matched Intel X_TILED. The test now uses a modifier that cannot collide. CI now runs this crate's tests.

## Review and audit
The integrated branch got an independent security audit and a separate bug hunt. Both were read-only, and every finding was verified by tracing the code. Fixed here:
- **Self-update**: it could install a version other than the one the dialog named, or error out instead of falling back to "View Release". It now self-updates only when electron-updater's version matches.
- **Recordings folder**:
  - The writable check always passed on Windows, because libuv ignores directory ACLs. It now creates and deletes a real probe file.
  - Renderer-named writes are contained after resolving symlinks.
  - A take keeps the path it opened with, so changing the folder's availability mid-take no longer reports "missing on disk".
  - The folder cannot be changed while a take is running.
- **Poster cache**: one entry per source file, with no flicker when the duration arrives.
- **Speech models**: switching is single-flight, and a settings dialog reopened mid-download joins the running download.
- **Timeline**: a shift-click that deselects a pill no longer leaves it focused, which had made the menu delete the wrong pill.
- **Area recording**: a flag zoom with no telemetry now centres on the recorded area.
- **Saved looks**: applying a look is optimistic, so an edit made during its save is no longer lost.
- **Saved-looks probe document**: it was invalid at import time. Caught in review before it could crash the editor.

## Verification
- Both tsc projects exit 0. Biome is clean; the 26 warnings are the same as on main. The i18n check passes, with real translations in all 13 locales.
- Vitest: 255 files, 3099 passed, 1 skipped, on the integrated branch.
- Rust: compositor 216 lib tests plus integration tests, and pipewire-capture 84 tests. Both pass locally.
- C++ `audio_sample_utils_test`: 97/97 under g++ on Linux, using stub headers. MSVC coverage comes from the `build.yml` dispatch on this branch, which never publishes without `release_tag`.
- Every agent-reported claim was re-checked independently. For example, the model digests were checked against Hugging Face's LFS oids, and the electron-updater downgrade path was read in 6.8.9.

## Release note
The speech-model change adds a `--dtw-preset` flag to the whisper helper. An older helper ignores unknown flags, so Balanced keeps working. The 2.1 release must still be cut **after** `build-whisper-stt.yml` has finished on main, so the installers stage a helper that understands the flag.

Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#302
Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#386
Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#519
Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#520
Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#571
Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#617
Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#632
Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#640
Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#641
Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#642
Upstream-PR: getopenscreen/openscreen#644
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Correction to my comment above: I could rebase this myself after all. The push had been rejected over HTTPS because git's HTTPS credential lacks the workflow scope, not the account itself. Over SSH it goes through.

I merged main into your branch and pushed it (25b9096). The only conflict was in V4Timeline.geometry.test.tsx: main had wrapped the timeline in ShortcutsProvider and added onAddVoiceover, and both are kept alongside your setCurrentTime mock and Profiler wrapper. CI will re-run on it.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.geometry.test.tsx`:
- Line 208: Update the scrub seek publication flow to clear
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expect(onRender).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(commitsAfterPointerDown + 1);
expect(setCurrentTime).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
expect(setCurrentTime).toHaveBeenCalledWith(720);
fireEvent.pointerUp(window);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear consumed scrub values before pointer-up.

The rAF callback publishes pendingSeekTimeRef.current but does not clear it. The pointerup handler then publishes the same value again. The test checks the call count before fireEvent.pointerUp, so it does not detect this duplicate.

Clear the ref after both immediate and rAF publications. Keep the pointerup fallback for a pending move when no rAF has run.

Proposed fix
 if (isImmediate) {
 	...
 	setScrubbingTimeSec(targetTime);
 	setCurrentTime(targetTime);
+	pendingSeekTimeRef.current = null;
 	return;
 }

 ...
 if (pendingSeekTimeRef.current !== null) {
-	setScrubbingTimeSec(pendingSeekTimeRef.current);
-	setCurrentTime(pendingSeekTimeRef.current);
+	const pendingTime = pendingSeekTimeRef.current;
+	setScrubbingTimeSec(pendingTime);
+	setCurrentTime(pendingTime);
+	pendingSeekTimeRef.current = null;
 }
 fireEvent.pointerUp(window);
+expect(setCurrentTime).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
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In `@src/components/ai-edition/v4/V4Timeline.geometry.test.tsx` at line 208,
Update the scrub seek publication flow to clear pendingSeekTimeRef.current after
both immediate and requestAnimationFrame publications, preventing pointerup from
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The failure after the merge with main came from the Radix tooltips main added to the timeline toolbar, not from this change. On React 18 their asChild trigger re-attaches its ref on every commit, so every V4Timeline commit is followed by one tiny nested commit (mount and pointer-down included), and the hardcoded + 1 became + 2.

I kept the component as is and made the test measure what one scrub-state update costs at pointer-down, then assert over two frames that pointer moves add no commit and each frame adds exactly that cost. Putting setScrubbingTimeSec back on every pointermove still fails it (13 commits instead of 7).

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Main's toolbar tooltips (Radix asChild triggers) re-attach their ref on every commit on React 18, so each V4Timeline commit is followed by a nested one and the hardcoded +1 no longer held. The test now measures what one scrub-state update costs at pointer-down and asserts, over two frames, that pointer moves add no commit and each frame adds exactly that cost.
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Rebased onto main as linear history and force-pushed: this repo only allows rebase merges, and my earlier merge commit made GitHub refuse to rebase. The file contents are unchanged.

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EtienneLescot merged commit ea01ad4 into getopenscreen:main Sep 14, 2026
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[Bug]: scrubbing the timeline fires a React state update per pointermove

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