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## Problem and outcome / 问题与结果 Native sharing could start capture before discovering that the browser could not create its local media connection. Connected Viewer routes could also be retired solely because decoded frames stopped advancing, including quiet or backgrounded game sources. This maintenance phase acquires the browser bridge before capture, preserves connected routes through frame silence, scopes Native keyframe recovery to the requested outputs, and reports terminal Browser sender failures to the existing connection owner. It also includes the accepted narrow-screen layout and tooltip corrections. ## Release notes ### 中文 这是一次维护更新，重点修复分享启动、观看连续性和手机窄屏布局。 - 修复浏览器媒体连接无法初始化时，App 仍启动采集后立即停止的问题，并保留更明确的失败原因。 - 避免仅因画面暂时没有更新，就断开已连接的观看线路；适用于游戏切后台等静止画面场景。 - 修正原生画面恢复请求的范围，避免某一路请求关键帧时影响其他输出；浏览器发送失败也会及时通知现有连接处理流程。 - 修复窄屏下房间号与操作按钮的排布，改善长标题和提示浮层的显示。 短时模糊与部分用户报告的偶发断流仍在调查，本次更新不代表所有相关情况均已解决。升级 App 或自部署 Server 后刷新页面即可，无需修改配置。 ### English This maintenance update focuses on sharing startup, viewing continuity, and compact layouts on phones. - Fix capture starting and immediately stopping when the browser cannot initialize its local media connection, and preserve clearer failure details. - Keep connected viewing routes alive when the picture temporarily stops updating, including quiet or backgrounded game sources. - Keep Native keyframe recovery scoped to the requested outputs and report terminal Browser sender failures to the existing connection handler. - Fix room-code and action layout on narrow screens, and improve long headings and tooltip placement. Brief quality drops and some reports of intermittent stream loss remain under investigation; this update does not claim to resolve every reported case. Update Piik App or your self-hosted Server and refresh the page. No configuration changes are required. ## Verification / 验证 - `npm run check`: 76 files / 1,133 tests, TypeScript and production Web build passed. - Targeted Browser sender/pool checks: 97 tests passed on maintenance and interaction candidates. - Go mediaedge/nativehost/nativecapture/forwarding tests and scoped vet passed; output-scope regression tests reject the old behavior. - Matched Chrome 152 VP8/H264 ordinary/pool tests with two viewers and a one-second network constraint completed with healthy sibling isolation. VP8's deeper pooled quality dip remains open. - Physical startup/resource-exhaustion and quiet-game reproduction boundaries are documented in the existing research owners. - `npm run check:go`: formatting, Go tests/vet, Windows/Linux builds, Windows native capture compilation/probes and regressions passed. Darwin packaging and Go race checks run on the native CI runners. - Actual Windows App H264 and VP8 Host gates passed: decoded video, live/paused profile changes, quiet/background-source recovery, source replacement, failure cleanup and subsequent sharing; all experiment-owned processes and ports closed. - Website build and repository hygiene checks passed. Independent full-phase frontend and native reviews found no release-blocking regression. ## Impact / 影响 Patch release v1.6.6. Browser/server v23, Native control v9, capture v7 and SQLite schema 2 remain unchanged. No interaction prototype, route-selection policy, new quality heuristic, or configuration migration is included. Real-phone and heterogeneous network/device coverage remain bounded by the existing verification record.
Piik
Share the good stuff.
Private screen sharing for you and up to 20 friends.
Website · Download · Gitee mirror · Use online · Documentation
English · 简体中文
Piik is a free, open-source screen sharing tool for games, movie nights, drawings and photos. Choose what to share and send an invitation. Your friends watch in their browsers.
A little room · Show / hide animation
Features · Get started · Self-hosting · Contributing
Features
- Watch without installing. Friends join by invitation in a desktop or mobile browser.
- Share from Piik App or an existing Piik site. Choose a screen, window, browser tab or camera; available sources and audio depend on the platform.
- Direct connections first. Media travels between participants where possible (P2P). A self-hosted server can provide automatic media forwarding (SFU) as a fallback.
- Rooms you control. Invitations, room codes and optional room passwords, for one host and up to 20 viewers.
- Flexible viewing. Light and dark themes, playback controls, picture-in-picture and a connection topology view.
- One program to host a site. Web UI, room management and optional media forwarding are packaged together.
Interface preview · Sample room with a generated game scene
Get started
To watch: open the invitation your friend sends you. Select Play if the picture does not start automatically.
To share: download Piik App to get started. To share without installing, you can also create a room in the online version.
| Start here | What you need to do |
|---|---|
| Use Piik online | Share from a desktop browser, or choose Camera on a phone with browser camera support. |
| Download Piik App | Extract and open the App, choose Public invite, then Open Piik to create a temporary room. |
| Host your own site | Advanced: deploy Piik Server on a Linux x64 server with your own domain, then connect through Piik App or a browser. |
- Select Start sharing, then choose the picture and audio to share.
- Select Copy invite link and send it to your friends. Keep the sharing tab open.
Turn on the Microphone for commentary; its settings let you choose the input device and adjust your voice volume.
Piik follows your system language: Chinese or English, with English as the fallback. Use 中 / EN / ✦ in the header to switch language or try the visual mode. The App offers a local room, a temporary public link, or a connection to your own site. Keep the App running while sharing through it.
Download a ZIP beginning with piik-app. The filename also identifies the platform:
| Filename contains | Platform |
|---|---|
windows-amd64 |
Windows x64 |
darwin-arm64 |
Apple silicon; native capture requires macOS 13+ |
linux-amd64 |
Linux x64 |
Full setup guide → · Open online →
Browser capture requires HTTPS or localhost. Windows App and desktop browser
sharing are the primary tested paths. The macOS and Linux apps have not yet been
tested on physical devices; test results and feedback are welcome.
P2P-only modes, including the App's temporary public
link and the online version, may not connect on restrictive networks.
Self-hosting
Piik Server is a standalone binary with the web interface built in.
Download the Linux x64 Server package (piik-<revision>-runtime.tar.gz),
extract it, and run:
./piik-server
Open http://localhost:8787 to try it locally. For a public site, configure your
domain, HTTPS reverse proxy and STUN address. Room data is stored in SQLite.
For containers, use the Docker Compose setup.
Deploy your own site → · Configuration · Run from source
Contributing
Bug reports, translations, documentation improvements and pull requests are welcome. See ways to contribute or help translate Piik. Use the repository layout to find your way around.
License
Piik-owned code is MIT licensed. Dependencies retain their own licenses and notices.