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Small desktop PiP windows still encode and send the full preview capture. A 1400×800 page displayed in a 400×225 window sends a roughly 69 KB JPEG every changed frame, although most of those pixels cannot be displayed.

Fit the delivered JPEG to the PiP content size multiplied by its display scale, preserving the source aspect ratio and never upscaling. Read the size on each capture so window resizes and display changes affect the next delivered frame. Keep source dimensions for aspect fitting and frame metadata. Screenshots, recording exports, source capture, timers, throttling and cleanup stay on their existing paths.

Keep the existing full-source CRC from #20070 before resizing: measuring a resize before the CRC regressed static-page cost. Add destination pixel dimensions to the fingerprint so a static page is delivered again after a size/scale change. Only frames requiring delivery are resized, using Electron's default best quality. This does not duplicate #20070 or change the CDP transport addressed by #28518.

Scope

Submitted under CONTRIBUTING's focused obvious-bug exception: encoding pixels beyond an existing window's display capacity is reproducible waste in that delivery path. This adds no setting, workflow or product default. No prior maintainer approval is claimed; eligibility and acceptance remain the maintainers' decision. Live PR and discussion searches found no destination-sizing proposal.

Proof

• The focused Manager regression fails on base 47f2c8d29e98: it receives 1280×720 encoded pixels where the fitted destination needs 523×294. It passes after the change, including static-frame deduplication, window resize, 1×/1.25×/2× display scale, no upscaling, orientation changes and source dimensions remaining intact. All 60 Manager tests pass.
• vp run check:changed: format, lint, both unused-code checks, affected typechecks and the 60 Manager tests pass.
• Isolated Electron 44.10.0 on Linux arm64/Wayland, synthetic animated 1400×800 page, offscreen BrowserWindows, quality-80 JPEG. Each size uses 8 warmup + 56 measured captures, with both paths processing the same image and alternating processing order. All 56 captures changed. Processing includes CRC, resize, JPEG and base64; capture and renderer IPC/decode are excluded. The host was concurrently busy, so these are workload measurements, not an app-wide CPU/FPS claim.

PiP content at 1×	JPEG pixels before → after	JPEG bytes before → after	Processing median before → after	Main-process CPU median before → after
400×225	1400×800 → 394×225	68,584 → 12,112	10.22 → 7.51 ms	9.18 → 6.66 ms
800×450	1400×800 → 788×450	68,586 → 32,083	10.82 → 12.62 ms	9.94 → 11.67 ms

The larger destination reduces payload but costs more processing in this run. For a separate saved 2800×1600 native 2× capture fitted into 800×450 physical pixels, 80 measured paired processing iterations produced 182,210 → 32,817 JPEG bytes and 50.57 → 29.32 ms median processing. That snapshot benchmark excludes capture/IPC and does not establish final 2× PiP sharpness or mixed-display behavior. Unchanged frames skip resize/JPEG on both paths.

Before and after at 400×225 (same captured source frame):

Four-second comparison replay presents 48 native fixture frames at 12 fps; it is not a wall-clock throughput recording. Native results, snapshot benchmark results, and reproduction scripts/conditions.

The original fixture mirrors the native capture/encode/IPC path; it does not instantiate the full manager. The parent additionally ran the actual built desktop main entry and backend on an isolated Xvfb display at forced 1× and 2× scales, through the shipped preload/IPC bridge and real guest/manager/PiP renderer. Small/large/small resize, portrait source, close/reopen, and full-source screenshot export passed; exported PNGs remained 720×1280 and 1440×2560 respectively. The driver inserted the guest into the actual desktop renderer, so this is native-path integration rather than the regular React preview-host workflow. Parent screenshots, raw observations and reproduction driver. Recording-video export, macOS, Windows, P3, physical Retina output and mixed-display moves remain unverified. Forced scale on Xvfb is synthetic scale testing, not a physical Retina or mixed-display check.

Reviewed with review-loop: 1 round with Claude Opus 5.5. Reviewer verdict: approved.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at dcd45ac

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — PiP JPEGs are sized to the window's display resolution while preserving source dimensions for layout and refreshing frames when the destination size changes. The change is confined to transient preview rendering, with no obvious material risk requiring human judgment.

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Walkthrough

PiP capture sizes encoded JPEG frames for the destination window’s content dimensions and display scale. It caps encoded dimensions at the source frame size and retains source dimensions for layout.

Changes: PiP Frame Sizing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Compute and test destination-sized frames apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts	PiP capture sizes encoded frames using window content dimensions and display scale, capped at the source dimensions. The fingerprint includes the computed preview size. Tests cover scale factors, content-size changes, and portrait orientation.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Refactor

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#9661: The issue tracks full-size PiP capture and JPEG encoding costs. This change reduces delivered JPEG dimensions but does not change source capture.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, t3dotgg, juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Low · up to ebbab

The change is mergeable with owner awareness: PiP previews may appear blurry or larger than necessary on mixed-scale Wayland setups.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the main PiP JPEG sizing change.
Description check		The description covers the problem, change, scope, verification, evidence, and agent details. The section headings differ from the template, but the required information is present.
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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Track resize calls in the PiP sizing test so unchanged frames cannot resize unnoticed.

2254-2312: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Track resize calls in the PiP sizing test so unchanged frames cannot resize unnoticed.

The test has no record of resize calls. A regression that resizes each unchanged capture before deduplication would still pass. The current assertions only cover JPEG encoding, so the resize work on unchanged frames stays unchecked.

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           const encodedSizes: Array<{ width: number; height: number }> = [];
+          const resizeTargets: Array<{ width: number; height: number }> = [];
           const imageAt = (size: { width: number; height: number }): TestCapturedPreviewImage => ({
             getSize: () => size,
             toBitmap: () => Buffer.from("unchanged page"),
             toJPEG: () => {
               encodedSizes.push(size);
               return Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(size));
             },
-            resize: ({ width, height }) => imageAt({ width, height }),
+            resize: ({ width, height }) => {
+              resizeTargets.push({ width, height });
+              return imageAt({ width, height });
+            },
           });
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           expect(encodedSizes).toEqual([{ width: 523, height: 294 }]);

+          const resizesBeforeUnchangedTick = resizeTargets.length;
           yield* TestClock.adjust(84);
           expect(encodedSizes).toHaveLength(1);
+          expect(resizeTargets).toHaveLength(resizesBeforeUnchangedTick);

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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts around lines 2254 -
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Update the “sizes PiP pixels” test’s `imageAt` helper to record each `resize`
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🤖 GPT-6.1 Sol responding on behalf of voltcrash

Leaving the optional resize-spy assertion out of this PR. At dcd45ac, the unchanged-frame return runs before the encoding callback containing image.resize, so the current implementation skips resize as intended. The existing test covers unchanged-frame deduplication and destination size/scale invalidation. The suggested counter would guard a future reordering; it does not identify a current behavior defect.