Refactor LiveAPI sample for cleaner async flow and robust audio/video handling

[ved015]

Closes Issue #982

Refactored the existing Get_started_LiveAPI.py sample to improve readability, structure, and runtime robustness—especially around async flow and real-time audio/video handling.

What’s changed

• Readability & structure

1. Introduced clearer sectioning and consistent naming (e.g. audio/video capture loops).
2. Grouped related logic (audio, video, streaming, shutdown) more logically.
3. Minor cleanup to make the async flow easier to follow.

• Async & streaming robustness

1. Improved async task structure to avoid blocking the event loop.
2. Safer handling of audio/video queues to prevent buildup during long sessions.
3. Clearer producer–consumer flow for real-time streaming.

• Error handling & shutdown

1. Added finally blocks to ensure audio/video resources are always released.
2. More graceful shutdown behavior when tasks are cancelled or interrupted.

Please review @Giom-V @markmcd if there are any changes please let me know

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Summary of Changes

Hello @ved015, I'm Gemini Code Assist¹! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed!

This pull request significantly refactors the Get_started_LiveAPI.py sample to enhance its overall quality. The changes focus on improving code readability and structure, bolstering the robustness of asynchronous audio and video streaming, and implementing more comprehensive error handling and graceful shutdown procedures. The goal is to provide a more stable and maintainable example for interacting with the LiveAPI.

Highlights

• Improved Readability and Structure: The sample code has been refactored with clearer sectioning, consistent naming conventions (e.g., audio/video capture loops), and more logical grouping of related functionalities like audio, video, streaming, and shutdown processes. The asynchronous flow is also made easier to follow.
• Enhanced Async and Streaming Robustness: The pull request introduces an improved async task structure to prevent blocking the event loop. It also implements safer handling of audio/video queues, including a mechanism to prevent buildup during long sessions by dropping older frames when the queue is full, ensuring a clearer producer-consumer flow for real-time streaming.
• Robust Error Handling and Graceful Shutdown: Added finally blocks to various asynchronous functions to guarantee that audio/video resources are always released, even if tasks are cancelled or interrupted. This ensures more graceful shutdown behavior.
• Updated LiveAPI Configuration: The genai.Client now retrieves the API key from environment variables, and the CONFIG for the live session has been updated to use types.LiveConnectConfig. This includes specifying response modalities, configuring a prebuilt voice ('Zephyr'), and implementing context window compression with trigger tokens and a sliding window to maintain context in long conversations.
• Class and Function Renaming for Clarity: The main class AudioLoop has been renamed to AudioVideoLoop to better reflect its responsibilities. Similarly, video capture functions like _get_frame and get_frames have been renamed to _capture_frame and capture_frames respectively, along with screen capture functions, for improved clarity.

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Code Review

This pull request is a solid refactoring of the LiveAPI sample, significantly improving its structure, asynchronous flow, and robustness. The logical grouping of audio, video, and streaming functionalities, along with better error handling and resource management, makes the code much cleaner and more reliable. The renaming of classes and methods also enhances readability. I've provided a few minor suggestions related to Python style guide adherence to further improve code consistency. Overall, this is an excellent update.

[ishaanxgupta]

This PR focuses on code clarity and correctness, without changing the external behavior of the code

[ved015]

hi @Giom-V awaiting your review on this

[ishaanxgupta]

@patrickloeber @linhkid could you please review this one?

[ved015]

hi @patrickloeber awaiting your review on this