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Summary

One ShaderEffect processor in the virtual-camera showcase takes a fragment shader as config, so a new look is a few lines of GLSL instead of a new processor.

  • examples/camera-virtual-camera/processors/shader_effect.py has a dataclass config: fragment_glsl, plus sampled_input_binding_name, which defaults to upstream_frame. setup() builds a graphics kernel from a shared fullscreen-triangle vertex stage and the configured fragment stage. Each frame is copied GPU-to-GPU into a texture the effect owns, drawn into its own output ring, and sent on as the upstream bag with only surface_id swapped. Capture stamp and colour metadata are kept, and texture_layout is dropped.
  • The copy step is needed because a camera frame is buffer-backed and a draw refuses a buffer-backed surface by name (resolve_planned_surface_bound_kernel_bindings). The copy goes through DLPack with cupy, the same way camera-halftone and camera-python-effects already do it. On the rig, both the frame and the landing texture report DLPack device (2, 0) (CUDA), so no pixel reaches the host.
  • To keep the frame's pixels held while forwarding the whole bag, the read goes through into=VideoFrameWithTheBagItArrivedIn. Its constructor builds VideoFrame(**bag) while the typed read is offering the claim.
  • A shader that fails to build is re-raised at setup() as ShaderEffect could not build its pass from fragment_glsl, followed by glslang's own diagnostic. The engine refuses that processor by display name and the rest of the graph keeps running. The same wrapper covers a wrong sampled_input_binding_name.
  • Three looks ship in processors/shaders/: grayscale.frag, vignette.frag, pixelate.frag.
  • The README gains a "One host, many looks" section: the rt.add form, the shader contract, and swapping a look into the running app over MCP.
  • pyproject.toml adds cupy-cuda13x, raises the floor to streamlib>=0.22.1 (config classes arrived in 0.21.0), and adds a dev pytest group.

The ticket body was corrected before implementation, and the owner confirmed the plan. Two claims had drifted: a draw can't sample a camera frame directly, and tests can't go in the wheel suite because a test never reaches into examples/ (§Consumers). The title moved from feat(sdk) to feat(examples).

Closes

Closes #2216

Exit criteria

  • rt.add(ShaderEffect, config={"fragment_glsl": ...}) between a source and a sink shows the shader's result at the source's rate, with no host copy of pixels per frame. DLPack devices were CUDA on both sides of the copy. Rates: 30 fps on a 640×480 camera feed through the showcase, and 30.3 fps published / 30.3 received from a synthetic 1920×1080 pixel-buffer source into a counting sink (reviewer's run, vignette).
  • A shader that fails to compile is refused at setup() naming the compiler's error, and the runtime keeps running.
  • Live-added over MCP into the virtual-camera showcase, the effect appears in the virtual camera. Swapping in another shader is one remove plus one add, and no other processor restarts (evidence below).
  • Grayscale, vignette and pixelate ship beside it, and the README shows the "one host, many looks" shape.

Test plan

Example-local tests (examples/camera-virtual-camera/tests/, uv run pytest, needs an NVIDIA GPU, no CI presence per §Consumers): 4 passed on the RTX 3090. They ran against the in-tree build, and review-pr reran them against the published 0.22.1 wheel from a fresh uv sync.

  • test_a_shipped_look_renders_the_cpu_reference_over_a_buffer_backed_frame[grayscale|vignette|pixelate]: a buffer-backed 64×48 known pattern (camera-shaped) goes through ShaderEffect into a sink that reads one pixel back with frame.cpu(), compared against the same maths on the CPU (±2). Each pixel is chosen where the look changes the pattern, so a pass-through can't pass.
  • test_a_look_that_does_not_compile_is_refused_at_setup_and_the_graph_keeps_running: a broken shader sits beside a working grayscale chain. The test asserts the engine's Setup failed … [ShaderEffect 2] record, the fragment_glsl-naming message and glslang's no_such_function diagnostic, then ten more correct frames from the working chain after the refusal.
  • review-pr mutation-checked these. Removing the copy step renders [0,0,0,0]. Flipping screen_uv.y fails grayscale and vignette. Removing the wrapper fails the refusal test.

Gates (local-ci-runner): 26 passed, 0 failed. That covers licence headers, rustfmt, all 11 xtask source-walking gates including check-no-in-process-placement, xtask fixture tests and cargo deny. The Rust, wheel and extension suites were skipped because the diff touches only examples/. ruff and pyright are clean over the new files.

Rig run, MCP live swap. A scratch feeder graph (a moving RGBA pattern into a VirtualCameraSink, since the rig has no camera and vivid needs root) fed /dev/video0. The showcase ran under streamlib dev with STREAMLIB_CAMERA_DEVICE=/dev/video0, and a JSON-RPC client on POST /mcp called remove_processor on InvertingEffect, then add_processor for processors.shader_effect:ShaderEffect (grayscale) and two connects. The same was then done again to swap in vignette. ffmpeg read both virtual cameras the whole time:

  • The passthrough camera had 1517 frames and zero gaps over 100 ms across both swaps.
  • The effect camera held 29.7 fps (grayscale) and 30.3 fps (vignette), against 29.6 fps with the numpy inverting effect at this size. Its only gaps were at the splices, about 0.7 s each.
  • CameraSource, both sinks and the API server kept the same thread ids (32/34/35/36) before, between and after the swaps.

Frames grabbed from the effect's virtual camera: vignette (centre ≈ passthrough, corner 11,1,11 vs 84,8,74) and grayscale (R=G=B), with the passthrough camera for comparison:

vignette through the virtual camera
grayscale through the virtual camera
passthrough camera at the same moment as the vignette grab

Pixelate was proven by its pixel test only, not grabbed live (see the first note).

Notes for owner

  • Reader churn wedges a VirtualCameraSink (existing issue, not caused by this change). After the effect upstream of a sink has been re-spliced, a one-shot reader (ffmpeg -frames:v 1) opening and closing on its device can leave the sink logging a frame arrived with every buffer queued for every frame, and the next reader of that device hangs. The same thing happened with InvertingEffect spliced four times, with no ShaderEffect involved. The passthrough sink, never re-spliced, was unaffected, and a reader held open across splices never saw it. Root cause is undiagnosed (reclaim_dequeued_buffers never gets the buffers back). Not filed; say if you want a ticket.
  • sustained GpuContextLimitedAccess::escalate rate warns for every per-frame kernel user. One draw per frame is one escalate round trip by design, so ShaderEffect logs the warning every 5 s at 30 fps, and InvertingEffect triggers it too. The warning's advice ("needs more pre-reservation in setup()") doesn't apply to a kernel dispatch.
  • A Python producer that acquires a fresh pixel buffer per frame exhausted device memory in a downstream VirtualCameraSink after about 9 minutes. It failed with Failed to create device-local image: A device memory allocation has failed. This was seen only in my scratch feeder (acquire per frame, close() the oldest of 6), not in a camera or anything in the tree. A fixed ring of 6 buffers did not reproduce it. Possibly per-surface-id caching in the sink; unverified.
  • Not added, by choice: a test that pins bag forwarding (color_info / timestamp_ns reaching the sink), and a guard against sliding back to as_numpy(). Neither is in the ticket's validation shape.
  • Follow-ups the shape invites: push constants (frame extent, elapsed time) for animated looks, and reloading a shader without a remove plus add. The ticket already names the publish-a-bag verb as plan-level and unaligned for the second.

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  • New Features

    • Added GPU-accelerated camera effects with configurable fragment shaders.
    • Added shipped grayscale, vignette, and pixelation looks.
    • Added support for switching camera looks live through MCP.
    • Added shader compilation diagnostics while allowing valid processing chains to continue.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded the camera example documentation with shader usage, configuration, performance, and troubleshooting guidance.
  • Tests

    • Added end-to-end verification for rendered output and invalid-shader handling.

tato123 and others added 4 commits September 12, 2026 23:22
…ries over every frame

One host processor in the virtual-camera showcase takes fragment GLSL as
config, lands each frame device-to-device in a texture it owns, and draws
the shader over it as one fullscreen pass. Grayscale, vignette and pixelate
ship beside it, each proven against a CPU reference over a buffer-backed
frame, and a shader that does not compile is refused at setup naming the
compiler's diagnostic while the rest of the graph keeps running.

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… carrying many looks

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…comments, proven README claims

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The camera example adds a configurable ShaderEffect processor. It compiles fragment shaders, renders frames through GPU textures, ships three looks, documents live replacement, and adds GPU-backed integration tests for rendered pixels and compilation failures.

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Configurable GPU shader effects

Layer / File(s) Summary
GPU processor pipeline
examples/camera-virtual-camera/processors/shader_effect.py
Adds ShaderEffectConfig and ShaderEffect. The processor compiles GLSL during setup, copies input frames into textures, renders a fullscreen pass, and forwards updated frame metadata.
Fullscreen shader assets
examples/camera-virtual-camera/processors/shaders/*
Adds the fullscreen-triangle vertex shader and grayscale, vignette, and pixelate fragment shaders.
GPU integration validation
examples/camera-virtual-camera/tests/*, examples/camera-virtual-camera/pyproject.toml
Adds known-pattern source and reporting sink processors, executable test scenarios, CPU reference checks, compiler-failure checks, subprocess cleanup, and pytest configuration with GPU dependencies.
Usage and live replacement documentation
examples/camera-virtual-camera/README.md
Documents shader configuration, bindings, compile failures, live MCP replacement, frame handling, and the GPU test procedure.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant FrameSource
  participant ShaderEffect
  participant GPU
  participant FrameSink
  FrameSource->>ShaderEffect: provide camera frame and metadata
  ShaderEffect->>GPU: copy frame into landing texture
  ShaderEffect->>GPU: execute fullscreen fragment shader
  GPU-->>ShaderEffect: return rendered texture surface
  ShaderEffect->>FrameSink: forward rendered frame and metadata
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In `@examples/camera-virtual-camera/processors/shader_effect.py` at line 29, Alias
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