fix: preserve the capture clock epoch - #102
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What changed
The first retained desktop frame used the recorder clock. When the screen thread started, it restarted that same clock. The next frame could then look older than the initial frame, and the Windows live seal was right to reject the capture.
The recorder process now initializes its clock once. Its screen, window, input, and processor threads keep that epoch. Child processes still initialize their own process-local clocks. This doesn't sort timestamps or relax video and seal validation.
Tests
An optional interactive macOS run on a two-monitor host hit the existing 30-second video-writer startup limit before it reached the clock assertions. The hosted Windows live run remains the platform gate for this fix.