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Session Management Module	Real-time audio-video session abstraction layer
WebRTC Peer Manager	Manage WebRTC peer connections for session participants
WebRTC P2P Connections	WebRTC DataChannel transport for ACIP packets
Platform Abstractions	Cross-platform abstractions for threading, sockets, system calls, and hardware access
Lifecycle with Sync Primitives	Combined lifecycle + sync primitive initialization and shutdown
ANSI Utilities
▼OS Abstractions
Webcam Module	📷 Cross-platform webcam capture API
annotations in the source code.
▼Discovery Service (ACDS)	🔍 ascii-chat Discovery Service for session management and NAT traversal
ACDS Server	🌐 Discovery server TCP connection manager
ACDS Database	💾 SQLite-based session management
ACDS Signaling	🎬 WebRTC SDP/ICE signaling relay
ACDS Identity	🔑 Ed25519 identity key management
ACDS Session Strings	🏷️ Human-friendly session string generation
▼Utilities	🛠️ Core utility functions for string manipulation, paths, IP parsing, and formatting
Utility Functions	🛠️ String, path, IP, UTF-8, CRC32, and formatting utilities
▼Data Structures	📦 High-performance data structures for memory and packet management
Buffer Pool	🗃️ Pre-allocated memory buffers for efficient allocation
Packet Queue	📬 Thread-safe per-client packet queues
Ring Buffer	🔁 Lock-free circular buffers for audio/video
Abstraction Layers	🔌 Cross-platform abstraction for threading, sockets, and system APIs
▼Cryptography	🔐 End-to-end encryption and secure communication
Handshake Module	🤝 Cryptographic handshake implementation for key exchange and authentication
Keys Module	🔑 SSH key, GPG key, and key validation APIs
▼video	📹 Video capture, ASCII conversion, and frame layout
Grid Layout System	⏹️ Arranging the clients nicely
Character Palettes	🎨 Character palettes for video-to-ASCII conversion
▼Video to ASCII Conversion	🖼️ Everything necessary to turn pixels into text art
Video Frame Buffers	📹 High-performance video frame management with double-buffering and lock-free operations
Video Frame Buffers	📹 High-performance video frame management with double-buffering and lock-free operations
▼Audio Processing	🔊 Audio capture, playback, and multi-client mixing
Audio	🔊 Audio system for real-time audio capture and playback
▼Core Infrastructure	⚙️ Core functionality including error handling, logging, and configuration
Common Definitions	⚙️ Code shared throughout the library
Buffer Sizes	Standard buffer size constants
Error and Exit Codes	Error codes and status values for ascii-chat
Application Limits	Limits for clients, frame rates, display names, and other constraints
Logging Rate Limits	Standard rate limits for log_*_every() macros
Protocol Constants	Protocol version, feature flags, compression, and frame constants
Shutdown System	Clean shutdown detection without library accessing application state
String Literal Constants	Common string literal constants for boolean and value comparisons
Logging System	📝 Logging API with multiple log levels and terminal output control
Config Module	The toml text file configuration file module
Options Module	⚙️ Command-line option parsing with unified mode detection, builder API, and RCU-based thread-safe access
▼Validation Helpers	Reusable validation macros for protocol handlers
Image Validation Functions
main()	🚀 The binary's entry point
▼Network	🌐 Network I/O, packet protocol, and audio/video streaming
Network Module	🌐 Core network I/O operations with timeout support
Shared Packet Parsing Utilities	📡 Shared protocol parsing utilities for server and client packet handlers
Compression Module	📦 Network compression utilities for ascii-chat
Packet Types	📨 Network protocol packet type definitions and structures
▼Application: Client	💻 Client application for connecting to servers and streaming media
Audio Processing	🔊 Audio capture, playback, and sample processing
Media Capture	📹 Webcam video capture and transmission to server
Connection Management	🔗 Server connection establishment, packet transmission, and state tracking
Cryptographic Operations	🔐 Client-side cryptographic handshake and key management
Terminal Display	🖥️ Terminal rendering, TTY management, and frame output
Connection Keepalive	💓 Ping/pong keepalive and timeout detection
Client Main Entry Point	🚀 Main entry point and lifecycle orchestration for the client application
Client Handler	📡 Client-side packet processing and data reception thread
▼Application: Server	🖥️ ascii-chat server implementation and architecture
Server Main Entry Point	🚀 Server initialization, signal handling, and connection management
Client Management	👥 Per-client lifecycle management and threading coordination
Protocol Handler	📡 Network packet processing and protocol implementation
Stream Generation	🎬 Multi-client video mixing and ASCII frame generation
Render Threads	🎨 Per-client rendering threads with rate limiting
Statistics and Monitoring	📊 Performance monitoring and resource utilization tracking
Cryptographic Operations	🔐 Per-client cryptographic handshake and session encryption management
▼Development & Debugging	🔧 Build system, testing infrastructure, and debugging utilities
Build System	🔨 Compile human-readable code into machine-executable code
Debugging	🐛 Tools to help you figure out what's going on with the code
Defer Statements	🔄 Go/Zig-style defer statements for automatic cleanup in C
Dependencies	⛓️ External projects we rely on
Error Handling	⚠️ Thread-Local Error Number System with Context
Errors	❌ When things go wrong and ending the program unsuccessfully
Lock Debugging and Deadlock Detection	🔒 Lock debugging infrastructure with backtrace capture and interactive monitoring
Panic Instrumentation	🚨 Per-statement logging for crash debugging in C programs
Query Tool	HTTP-based runtime variable inspection using external LLDB
Tests	🧪 Unit, integration, and performance tests
Crypto Module	🔐 Core cryptographic operations for ascii-chat
Debug
Debug_named
Debug_sync
Media
Acds
Acds_client
Acip
Stun
Turn
Query