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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to If the webcam stream becomes inactive during startup, recording can remain stuck instead of recovering. Fix the pending-stop handling before merging unless this edge case is explicitly accepted. Pre-merge checks |
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- Around line 647-653: Update cleanupCapturedMedia around webcamRecorder.current
so it does not clear the inactive webcam recorder reference before its pending
stop promise resolves. Preserve the existing stopActiveMediaRecorder call and
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🟡 Minor · Preserve the pending webcam path when cleanup stops an active… · useScreenRecorder.ts:650-653
src/hooks/useScreenRecorder.ts:650-653
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the pending webcam path when cleanup stops an active recorder.
When
cleanupCapturedMedia()stops an activeMediaRecorder,stop()changes its state to inactive beforeonstopruns. The followingstopWebcamRecorder()call can therefore resolve the pending promise with the oldresolvedWebcamPath.currentvalue beforeonstopsaves the chunks. Session finalization then loses the saved webcam recording association.Resolve the inactive branch only when
webcamStartTime.current === null. A prepared recorder that never started still needs this branch because it does not emitonstop.Suggested fix
- } else if (pending && webcamStopResolver.current) { + } else if ( + pending && + webcamStopResolver.current && + webcamStartTime.current === null + ) {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 650-653: Update the inactive-recorder branch in stopWebcamRecorder
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🟠 Major · Resolve the pending webcam stop before clearing its reference. · useScreenRecorder.ts:1672
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winResolve the pending webcam stop before clearing its reference.
If unmount occurs after
prepareWebcamRecorder()creates an inactive recorder but beforebeginWebcamCapture(),stopActiveMediaRecorder()does not callstop(). This line then clears the recorder reference without resolvingwebcamStopPromise. The cancelledstartRecording()path later awaits that promise instopWebcamRecorder(), so itsfinallyblock never releases recording startup.Resolve the pending promise before clearing the reference, or retain the reference until
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- Line 1672: Update the unmount cleanup in `useScreenRecorder` to ensure an
inactive webcam recorder’s pending `webcamStopPromise` is resolved before
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🟡 Minor · Clear webcamStartTime when webcam startup fails. · useScreenRecorder.ts:974-980
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winClear
webcamStartTimewhen webcam startup fails.If
MediaRecorder.start()throws synchronously,beginWebcamCapture()leaveswebcamStartTime.currentnon-null.cleanupCapturedMedia()preserves the inactive recorder, butstopWebcamRecorder()then skips its resolver because the start time is still set. The pending stop promise remains unresolved. Clear the start time before rethrowing the startup error.Suggested fix
if (recorder && recorder.state === "inactive") { webcamStartTime.current = Date.now(); - recorder.start(RECORDER_TIMESLICE_MS); + try { + recorder.start(RECORDER_TIMESLICE_MS); + } catch (error) { + webcamStartTime.current = null; + throw error; + } }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Summary
Ensures active webcam
MediaRecorderinstances are stopped and dereferenced during component unmount and captured media cleanup.Problem
In
useScreenRecorder, unmounting the recorder while active stoppedmediaRecorder.currentand severed media stream tracks incleanupCapturedMedia(). However,webcamRecorder.currentwas never stopped on unmount or incleanupCapturedMedia(), leaving an activeMediaRecorderattached to already stopped tracks.Solution
stopActiveMediaRecorderutility to safely stop active (recording|paused) recorders and ignore any inactive or terminated states.webcamRecorder.currentalongsidemediaRecorder.currentduring hook unmount.cleanupCapturedMedia()disposes ofwebcamRecorder.currentacross all abort and error cleanup paths.useScreenRecorder.test.tscovering active, paused, inactive, and error-swallowing scenarios forstopActiveMediaRecorder.Summary by CodeRabbit