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James
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Screen recordings (macOS ScreenCaptureKit, QuickTime, phone videos) are
commonly variable-frame-rate. When such inputs hit the extractor's
`-ss <start> -i <video> -t <dur> -vf fps=N` pipeline, the fps filter
can emit fewer frames than requested — for a 4-second 30fps segment
starting mid-file, the output was ~90 frames instead of 120.
`FrameLookupTable.getFrameAtTime` returns null for out-of-range indices,
so the compositor held the last valid frame and the user perceived the
video as freezing. This matches the bug report from an X community post
where a user said "all of them freezes" on their screen recording scenes.
The engine already detects VFR via `metadata.isVFR` in ffprobe.ts but
never acted on it — the compiler only logged a warning. This change
mirrors the existing SDR→HDR normalization pattern: when a source is
detected as VFR, re-encode only the used segment with
`-fps_mode cfr -r <fps> -preset fast -crf 18` before extraction.
Scoping the re-encode to `[mediaStart, mediaStart+duration]` means a
30-second clip cut from a 60-minute screen recording pays ~1s of
transcode cost, not 18s. Benchmarked locally:
Baseline (current): 32-39% duplicate frames, 25% frame-count
shortfall on mid-file segments.
Tier 1 (flag changes only): ~same — fps filter issue is not flag-fixable.
Tier 2 (CFR preflight): 1.7-6% duplicate frames, correct frame
count in every scenario tested.
The compiler warning that previously told users to manually re-encode
is downgraded to `console.info` since the engine now handles it.
— Rames Jusso