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Finishes quest/m1/camera-nv12-macos.md.

Problem

moq_video::capture on macOS built its AVCaptureVideoDataOutput without videoSettings, so AVFoundation passed the camera's native format through. A MacBook Air camera delivers 2vuy, and Output::Render failed at the first frame with cannot download pixel format 0x32767579; expected NV12. Found by moq-dev/studio's first Mac capture run (moq-dev/studio#70).

Approach

• rs/moq-video/src/capture/avfoundation.rs: open sets videoSettings to nv12_settings(), which is kCVPixelBufferPixelFormatTypeKey = kCVPixelFormatType_420YpCbCr8BiPlanarVideoRange, so AVFoundation converts any native format to NV12 before the frame reaches us. This matches the display source, which already sets the same format through SCStreamConfiguration::setPixelFormat (screencapture.rs).
• Test the_output_requests_nv12 checks the dictionary open passes to setVideoSettings. Choice made without asking: the quest asked to read videoSettings back from the output, but AVFoundation returns nil for that getter until a device is connected, even after it was set. The macOS runner proved this: the read-back version panicked with unexpected NULL returned from -[AVCaptureVideoDataOutput videoSettings] (run 42457503952). CI has no camera, so the real read-back rests on the reporter's hardware run (see Decisions).
• Module doc updated: it claimed frames reach VideoToolbox "with no color conversion", which is no longer true for a non-NV12 camera.
• rs/justfile macos-test now runs capture::avfoundation::tests (with capture). No CI job ran them before, so the existing notification tests and this one never ran anywhere. None of them need a camera; the two disconnect tests skip without one.
• Deletes the quest and its link in quest/m1/README.md.

Verified from Linux: cargo check and cargo clippy -p moq-video --target aarch64-apple-darwin --no-default-features --features capture pass, using the official 1.98.1 rust-std for that target. The test body was type-checked by compiling it as a lib function, then reverted. Dev-dependencies pull in aws-lc-sys, which can't cross-compile its C for macOS here, so the test target itself was not built. just ci passes locally. The AVFoundation tests run on a real Mac through platform.yml dispatched on this branch: run 42460163571 on the current head. macOS passes there, all 8 capture::avfoundation::tests included. Windows fails there and on every dispatch of this branch, from two causes outside this diff: moq-vaapi compiled on Windows (std::os::fd, std::os::unix), and moq-relay's tests/integration/memory.rs warnings (unused Duration, unused run) under build.warnings = deny. The Platform Windows job fails the same way on main's latest nightly (run 42377867523, b5805859aa).

Impact

• No public API or wire change.
• Behavior: macOS cameras now always deliver NV12. A camera that was already NV12 is unchanged. One whose native format differs (for example 2vuy) now pays an AVFoundation conversion per frame instead of failing at the renderer.

Alternatives

• Teach the Metal import and the CPU download to read 2vuy and other native formats. Rejected: the encoder, the Metal import, and the CPU download all take NV12, and AVFoundation's conversion is the one place that handles every camera format.
• Pick an NV12-native activeFormat on the device. Rejected for now: many cameras offer none, and this backend doesn't choose formats yet (it already warns that width, height, and framerate are ignored).

Caused by

• moq-dev/moq#1691 - added the AVFoundation camera backend without videoSettings, assuming cameras deliver NV12 natively

Decisions

• Hardware evidence: ✅ accept the reporter's hardware run of the same change (frames rendered correctly at 1280x720 and 640x360 H.264, 30 fps) (rejected: the maintainer testing on a Mac; skipping). Reason: it exercised this exact videoSettings change on a real camera, and CI's macOS runners cover the configuration test. Decided by the maintainer on 2026-11-09.

Follow-ups

• Platform's Windows job is red on main: moq-vaapi isn't gated to Linux under --all, and moq-relay's memory integration test leaves Windows-only unused items. Recommendation: plan it. Every platform.yml dispatch and release PR fails until it's fixed, which hides real Windows breaks.
• moq-dev/studio bumps its moq pin once this lands. Recommendation: drop as a quest here, since it is studio's own work, already planned there.

Models

Size: S
Implementer: Claude Code, Claude Opus 5.5, medium effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, low effort (iterate, S)
Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort

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Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort
• Session: 01a1b9d3-27a9-7961-8e9e-815059634a8f, round 3
• Head: 7fc216d
• Base: origin/main at 1f038c4
• Score: 9/10, The refactor preserves the NV12 capture configuration and makes its test independent of an attached camera, with no actionable defects found; builds and tests were not run as instructed.
• Findings: none

[kixelated]

Mac camera run: blocked by camera permission (TCC)

• Host: kixtop, a MacBook Air (Darwin 25.6.0 arm64, macOS 26.6.2, build 25G83)
• Camera: built-in "MacBook Air Camera" (6C707041-05AC-0010-000D-000000000001, which moq devices lists)
• PR head: 7fc216d345b698c46aad9e8212520bd47ff1fc50
• Build: scratch clone at that head, nix develop -c bash -c 'cd rs && cargo build --release -p moq-cli --features capture,play' (passed)

What ran: publisher moq --listen-unix-bind <sock> --auth-public '**' --broadcast cam import capture --camera --width 1280 --height 720 --fps 30 --audio off, subscriber moq --connect unix://<sock> --broadcast cam export mp4 --output pr-720.mp4. The plan was to decode a few frames to PNG with ffmpeg and look at them, at 1280x720 and 640x360, on this head and on main.

Result: the publisher exited before it got a frame:

Error: capture permission denied: camera access; enable it in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Camera

The process started over ssh, and macOS ties its camera permission to sshd, which has no Camera grant. The Camera grants in TCC.db cover only GUI apps (Ghostty, Chrome, OBS, T3 Code, and others). I didn't try to get around the permission system, so no frames were captured and I can't say whether the colors are right. The scratch checkout was removed.

What the maintainer needs to do once: run the same commands from an app that already has the Camera grant, for example a Ghostty window on kixtop:

cd <checkout at 7fc216d3> && nix develop -c bash -c 'cd rs && cargo build --release -p moq-cli --features capture'
B=$(pwd)/target/release/moq
$B --listen-unix-bind /tmp/cam.sock --auth-public '**' --broadcast cam import capture --camera --width 1280 --height 720 --fps 30 --audio off &
sleep 3; $B --connect unix:///tmp/cam.sock --broadcast cam export mp4 --output pr-720.mp4   # Ctrl-C after ~8 s, then: kill %1
ffmpeg -i pr-720.mp4 -vf fps=1 -frames:v 3 pr-720-%d.png

Then repeat with --width 640 --height 360. If you'd rather let agents do this over ssh, the alternative is to grant Camera to the ssh path, but the Camera pane has no "+" button, so that would mean a TCC profile or a terminal-launched helper. I'd skip that and do the one Ghostty run.

The wait stays open.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5 with medium effort)

[kixelated]

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Reviewed head: c15f4a7
Base: d9800c1

No actionable findings in the current PR diff. The NV12 request is applied to the output before session startup (rs/moq-video/src/capture/avfoundation.rs:104), and the macOS test recipe enables capture and selects the AVFoundation tests. After accounting for base changes, these code changes match the earlier review recorded in the PR body.

Direction: keep this focused capture-boundary fix; no renderer or public-API redesign is needed for this issue.

Limits: GitHub-only static review; I did not run builds, tests, or camera capture. The dictionary test verifies the requested configuration, not actual frame conversion or colors; the hardware/CI evidence in the PR was not independently reproduced.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• NV12 requested from the macOS camera — open now passes nv12_settings() to AVCaptureVideoDataOutput::setVideoSettings, so AVFoundation converts any native format (a MacBook Air's 2vuy) to 420v before delivery, matching the format the display source already requests.
• Test for the requested format — the_output_requests_nv12 asserts the settings dictionary carries kCVPixelFormatType_420YpCbCr8BiPlanarVideoRange, since videoSettings reads back nil without an attached device.
• macOS CI coverage — macos-test now runs capture::avfoundation::tests, which previously ran nowhere; the recorded macOS Platform run shows all 8 tests passing.
• Doc and quest cleanup — the module doc's "no color conversion" claim is corrected, and the finished quest file and its link are deleted.

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Walkthrough

AVFoundation capture now requests NV12 output and converts differing native camera formats before frames enter the shared channel. A test checks the configured pixel format, and the macOS test recipe runs the AvFoundation capture tests. The README entry and quest document about the macOS camera format issue were removed.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to c15f4

NV12 capture appears mergeable; follow up with a test of the output configuration path.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: requesting NV12 for macOS camera capture.
Description check		The description explains the camera format problem, the NV12 change, testing, and related documentation updates.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Nitpick comments: 1

rs/moq-video/src/capture/avfoundation.rs: 1

470-480: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Test the settings passed by the capture path

The test checks a separate dictionary, not the argument passed by open to setVideoSettings. If that call is removed or miswired, the AVFoundation tests can still pass, leaving the camera format regression undetected. Add a test that observes the settings passed by the capture path.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-video/src/capture/avfoundation.rs around lines 470 -
480:
The test only validates the separately created dictionary from nv12_settings,
not the settings supplied to setVideoSettings by open. Update the AVFoundation
tests to observe the settings passed by the capture path and verify NV12 there,
ensuring the test fails if open omits or miswires that call.

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Review comments at @rs/moq-video/src/capture/avfoundation.rs:
- Around line 470-480: The test only validates the separately created dictionary
from nv12_settings, not the settings supplied to setVideoSettings by open.
Update the AVFoundation tests to observe the settings passed by the capture path
and verify NV12 there, ensuring the test fails if open omits or miswires that
call.

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