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+/**
+ * Screencaster — CDP Page.startScreencast wrapper for live video.
+ *
+ * Attach a CDP session to a Playwright Page, start emitting JPEG
+ * frames at the configured frame rate, forward each frame to a
+ * callback, detach on stop. Used by the dashboard's click-to-watch
+ * feature: when a user clicks a player tile, the runner calls
+ * `start(key, page, frame => ws.send(...))`; when they close the
+ * modal it calls `stop(key)`.
+ */
+
+import type { Page, CDPSession } from 'playwright-core';
+import type { Logger } from './types';
+
+export interface ScreencastOptions {
+  format?: 'jpeg' | 'png';
+  quality?: number;
+  maxWidth?: number;
+  maxHeight?: number;
+  everyNthFrame?: number;
+}
+
+export type FrameCallback = (jpegBase64: string) => void;
+
+export class Screencaster {
+  private sessions = new Map<string, CDPSession>();
+
+  constructor(private logger: Logger) {}
+
+  /**
+   * Attach a CDP session to the given page and start forwarding frames.
+   * If a screencast is already running for this sessionKey, no-op.
+   */
+  async start(
+    sessionKey: string,
+    page: Page,
+    onFrame: FrameCallback,
+    opts: ScreencastOptions = {},
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.sessions.has(sessionKey)) {
+      this.logger.warn('screencast_already_running', { sessionKey });
+      return;
+    }
+    const client = await page.context().newCDPSession(page);
+    this.sessions.set(sessionKey, client);
+
+    client.on('Page.screencastFrame', async (evt: { data: string; sessionId: number }) => {
+      try {
+        onFrame(evt.data);
+        await client.send('Page.screencastFrameAck', { sessionId: evt.sessionId });
+      } catch (err) {
+        this.logger.warn('screencast_frame_error', {
+          sessionKey,
+          error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err),
+        });
+      }
+    });
+
+    await client.send('Page.startScreencast', {
+      format: opts.format ?? 'jpeg',
+      quality: opts.quality ?? 60,
+      maxWidth: opts.maxWidth ?? 640,
+      maxHeight: opts.maxHeight ?? 360,
+      everyNthFrame: opts.everyNthFrame ?? 2,
+    });
+    this.logger.info('screencast_started', { sessionKey });
+  }
+
+  async stop(sessionKey: string): Promise<void> {
+    const client = this.sessions.get(sessionKey);
+    if (!client) return;
+    try {
+      await client.send('Page.stopScreencast');
+      await client.detach();
+    } catch (err) {
+      this.logger.warn('screencast_stop_error', {
+        sessionKey,
+        error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err),
+      });
+    }
+    this.sessions.delete(sessionKey);
+    this.logger.info('screencast_stopped', { sessionKey });
+  }
+
+  async stopAll(): Promise<void> {
+    const keys = Array.from(this.sessions.keys());
+    await Promise.all(keys.map((k) => this.stop(k)));
+  }
+}