If the PSAPI_VERSION macro is not set to 1 when using
GetProcessImageFileName, it will attempt to import it as
K32GetProcessImageFileName from kernel32.dll instead of psapi.dll, which
breaks compatibility with vista and xp.
Having macros that state what these numbers mean is much more ideal than
just having a random number thrown in there, wondering why it was used
and what its purpose is (magic numbers).
The activate button is just silly for configuration in retrospect. It's
confusing to users, and was even confusing to some other developers.
Instead of using an 'Activate' button for game capture every time you
want to capture a window, just make the 'window' list have a default 'no
window' value (empty), and then have it always active when an actual
window is selected. The way syphon handles this on mac is actually
where I took the idea from (as suggested by Palana).
With the new code that checks to see if the source is visible, I didn't
realize that I actually didn't set the source variable, so it would end
up never actually drawing.
If shared memory file mapping fails, I've found that it's somewhat
normal due to something in windows -- usually the capture will always
eventually start up after a few tries. Only seems to apply to some
games though, for example seems to happen with counterstrike a lot for
some strange reason. Capture always eventually starts back up though.
I remember seeing this with OBS1 as well in many cases but always
thought it was some sort of fluke
If using the auto-fullscreen feature to hook in to a fullscreen, I found
that if you don't wait a few seconds before initializing the hook that
you can catch the process when it's just starting up and loading
important libraries (especially things such as steam/uplay/etc), which
can cause a little bit of interference with the process and on rare
occasions cause it to crash.
To help prevent the likelihood of that happening, this just makes it so
that the hook waits at least 3 seconds before even attempting to inject
the hook when using auto-fullscreen mode. After some extensive testing
I haven't had any issues since.
The design to not retry the hooks on most general error is just bad.
There are plenty of legitimate cases where it should retry the hook.
This changes it so that if a general failure occurs or if it isn't
capturing when the inject helper exits, it retries and increases the
length of time between retries.
Variables that track time should not have the name 'interval', they
should have the name 'time' instead so it's crystal clear that the
variable is tracking time.
Adds a variable 'retry_interval' to game capture that allows the
interval at which game capture checks to update to longer intervals if
the hook initialization has some sort of failure.
The reason why I want to do this is because I don't really like it when
the hook updates too often in failure, it just leads to log file spam
that I feel can be reduced, and it frequent updates feel a bit invasive.
I just generally feel more comfortable reducing the interval at which
the hook retries after failure.
This makes a minor adjustment to the interval at which the inject helper
tries to post the inject message to the target process. Only 2 seconds
before, now up to 4 seconds, with the PostThreadMessage called every
half second for the duration.
The reason I did this is because I noticed that on rare occasions that
it wouldn't hook due to the low interval; usually just because the
target process is busy and isn't able to process its message queue, and
therefor the hook wouldn't go through due to the fact that
SetWindowsHookEx won't inject until the set event has occurred. The
inject helper program would just close before the thread message had
finally been processed, which would cancel the SetWindowsHookEx hooking.
The code neglected to take in to account that start_capture can also be
called when the texture updates its size/format in the hook and 'ready'
is signaled again, so it's possible that existing variables in the game
capture structure could be overwritten with new ones unintentionally.
The game capture 'Activate' button is likely to fool users in to
thinking it's not actually active if the game capture displays black, so
if it's active, rename the button to 'Reactivate' in order to sort of
hint at the user that it's actually active.
This is a bit of an optimization to reduce load a little bit if any of
the video capture sources are not currently being displayed on the
screen. They will simply not capture or update their texture data if
they are not currently being shown anywhere.
The mac and window game capture sources don't really apply due to the
fact that their textures aren't updated on the source's end (they update
inside of the hooks).
Uses the output duplicator API in order to get a high performance
monitor capture on windows 8+. This is actually designed to be
interchangeable with regular GDI-based monitor capture (uses the same
source id).
This adds the windows version of game capture.
New features:
- An option to hook any fullscreen application automatically (that
doesn't have borders) so that no specific window configuration is
required. Definitely a sorely needed feature
- An option to force memory capture for the sake of compatibility with
things such as SLI, multi-adapter setups (usually laptops), as well as
the ability to be used with the OpenGL renderer
- An optimization option to force scaling on the GPU before texture
transfer, reducing the transfer bandwidth (which is especially
important for compatibility capture)
- An optimization option to limit framerate to the current OBS framerate
to improve capture performance (mostly useful for compatibility
capture)
- An option to capture third-party overlays (such as steam)
- Logging improvements, game capture log will now be sent via pipe
instead of written to a separate file, making diagnosing problems a
little bit easier
This library is a completely refactored and rewritten version of the
original graphics hook. The code is more clean, readable, and has a
variety of new features, such as scaling and forcing memory capture.
Currently, only D3D9, 10, and 11 are implemented. (This commit may be
updated on this branch)
Before, game capture would find addresses to important graphics
functions by creating a graphics context for the desired API inside of
the hook, and then find the function addresses that way.
The big problem with that is that the context could often cause the
hooked application to crash, especially if another hook was active.
This bypasses that entire need by a simple console application that
creates the contexts, finds the hook address offsets and then returns
them via console output.
This header contains global defines, structures, and helper inline
functions for the graphics hook that will be shared between game
capture, the hook, and the get-graphics-addrs helper application.
These functions allow the safe hooking of windows functions,
specifically windows API functions that may or may not have built-in
machine code to help aid in reverse chain hooks.
If a new hook is applied to an existing forward hook, that hook will be
preserved to prevent that new hook's data from being removed
unintentionally.
Hopefully with all these precautions this will reduce the likelihood of
crashes and abnormal hook behavior, while allowing existing hooks to be
preserved, and allowing new hooks to be applied.
This fixes a bug where if INCLUDE_MINIMIZED was set and the window size
was (0, 0), the window would still be excluded from the resulting list
that was created.
This adds obfuscation functions primarily for use with GetProcAddress.
This takes an obfuscated string and uses a simple integer key to
de-obfuscate it to the intended function name string, which is then
loaded dynamically using GetProcAddress.
This is typically only used with functions such as OpenProcess,
SetWindowsHookEx, and the like, which can often be misinterpreted the
wrong way by security programs if those strings are found within the
strings segment of a scanned executable.
When getting the class/title/exe of a particular window handle in the
build_window_strings function, always set the class/title/exe pointers
to null to prevent any potential references to invalid values if any of
them do not happen to be set for whatever reason.
Because other capture methods may end up needing to share this code,
separate the window finding source code to window-helpers.c and
window-helpers.h.
This include a function to fill out a property list with windows, a
function to find a window based upon priority/title/class/exe, and a
function to decode the window title/class/exe strings from a window
setting string.
Typedef pointers are unsafe. If you do:
typedef struct bla *bla_t;
then you cannot use it as a constant, such as: const bla_t, because
that constant will be to the pointer itself rather than to the
underlying data. I admit this was a fundamental mistake that must
be corrected.
All typedefs that were pointer types will now have their pointers
removed from the type itself, and the pointers will be used when they
are actually used as variables/parameters/returns instead.
This does not break ABI though, which is pretty nice.
API Removed:
- graphics_t obs_graphics();
Replaced With:
- void obs_enter_graphics();
- void obs_leave_graphics();
Description:
obs_graphics() was somewhat of a pointless function. The only time
that it was ever necessary was to pass it as a parameter to
gs_entercontext() followed by a subsequent gs_leavecontext() call after
that. So, I felt that it made a bit more sense just to implement
obs_enter_graphics() and obs_leave_graphics() functions to do the exact
same thing without having to repeat that code. There's really no need
to ever "hold" the graphics pointer, though I suppose that could change
in the future so having a similar function come back isn't out of the
question.
Still, this at least reduces the amount of unnecessary repeated code for
the time being.
jp9000
dodgepong
Manuel Kroeber
Ben Torell
Palana
BtbN