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peter 3cf8f04d73 chore: 0.87.1 release notes 2026-09-16 04:41:10 +02:00
peter 2b56c5c2eb fix: name the error yt-dlp actually raises for a cookie-emptied client set
A review round read yt-dlp's source and found the comment behind the previous commit's safety-net
marker did not match it. Measured in the worker with a real account cookie and
`player_client=android_vr`: yt-dlp logs `Skipping client "android_vr" since it does not support
cookies`, drops it, and the request left with no client fails with "Requested format is not
available" — not "No player clients have been requested". That raise sits EARLIER in yt-dlp, before
the cookie-capability removal, so the cookie path can never reach it; and an unknown or renamed
client is skipped with a warning and replaced by yt-dlp's defaults, so the other scenario the
comment named cannot reach it either.

So the marker bought nothing: the symptom that does occur was already retriable here before this
branch. It is dropped, the comment now states what was measured, and the test asserts the real
symptom instead of a message the code cannot produce. The cookie-capability filter itself is
vindicated by the same measurement — without it every signed-in download would burn its first
attempt on a client yt-dlp discards.

Also from the round: an enqueue test for a `source_kind="youtube"` job, the one join nothing else
made (a YouTube job stores a bare 11-char ref and the URL the cookie gate keys on is rebuilt by the
adapter — both ends were pinned apart, the join was not, and a break there would stop every YouTube
cookie silently while signed-out downloads kept working). And copy corrections: the group's only
unhedged claim is hedged, "described the video" loses the pipeline vocabulary, and four Hungarian
phrasings that read as translated English are rewritten.
2026-09-16 04:29:13 +02:00
peter c06a456a9a fix: a YouTube stream refused after extraction is the gate, not a network fault
Measured on the isolated test stack the same night, on the very same video ~90 minutes after it was
answering with the bot message: yt-dlp got the player response and picked its formats, and the CDN
then refused the stream itself — "unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden".
Signed out it did that on every attempt; with the owner's cookie attached the video downloaded in
full. So the wall moves between the player response and the stream, and the text it wears there was
costing the download twice.

retriable: the format URLs belong to the client that minted them, so the next client set is a real
second chance — but this text classifies as `network` and nothing in the YouTube marker list matched
it, so the ladder ended the job on attempt 1 and never tried the fallback.

catalog: `youtube.media_forbidden` for the cookie-less case, so the UI stops calling it a network
error when nothing was wrong with the network, and names what actually gets past it. Scoped exactly
as narrowly as the measurement: another host keeps the generic `network` category, and so does a
download that already carried a cookie — telling a signed-in user to sign in is the failure the
catalog exists to avoid. EN + HU copy.
2026-09-16 03:43:29 +02:00
peter 864f673ef5 fix: a YouTube video behind the bot wall is downloadable with cookies
A YouTube link can fail with "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" while every
other YouTube download works — YouTube gates INDIVIDUAL videos behind a
signed-in session. Measured on prod job 273: all twelve of yt-dlp's player
clients fail on that one video while its neighbours download fine, the bgutil
PO-token sidecar is live and answering, and the newest yt-dlp fails identically.
So the download is not broken by our stack or a stale yt-dlp, and no retry,
client switch or upgrade gets past it. A cookie is the only way in.

The failure copy already sends the user to Settings -> Account -> Download
authentication, but YouTube was not in the cookie host registry, so that
dropdown could not help them: the app asked for something it did not offer.

credentials: YouTube joins SUPPORTED_HOSTS (youtube.com, youtu.be,
youtube-nocookie.com). The Settings dropdown, the SEC-12 host scope and the
private-asset cache salt all derive from the row, so that is the whole wiring.

adapters: a signed-in YouTube download runs only cookie-capable player clients.
Measured against yt-dlp's own INNERTUBE_CLIENTS table: with account cookies
attached yt-dlp REMOVES every client whose SUPPORTS_COOKIES is False, and a set
it empties that way raises "No player clients have been requested" — which is
not a per-client flake it retries past. Our primary set is android_vr, one of
those, so without this the cookie would have failed the download on attempt 1
and never reached the POT-backed web fallback it exists for. A test pins the
client list against the installed yt-dlp so a version bump turns the gate red
instead of silently un-authing every YouTube download, and the empty-set message
joins the retriable markers as the second line of defence.

errors: catalog entries for the wall with and without a cookie, so a user who
has already added cookies is told they were rejected (YouTube rotates exported
ones) rather than to add some. The marker is quote-agnostic: YouTube writes the
apostrophe as U+2019, so "you're not a bot" with a straight quote never matches
the real text. EN + HU copy.
2026-09-16 02:03:00 +02:00
peter 595490cb98 release: 0.87.0 (improvement/watch-background-audio)
gate / frontend (push) Failing after 3m19s
gate / backend (push) Successful in 4m25s
2026-09-15 03:02:19 +02:00
peter 7537882235 chore(release): 0.87.0 2026-09-15 03:01:59 +02:00
peter 47d968eeea fix: review round 4 — an account switch unloads as the old account, a share link's lockout costs five networks
Deep-review round 4, targeted at round 3's changes (f569b19c..e7f38396).

Accounts
- Switching, adding or signing out an account moved the tab's pin before
  the page unloaded, so the players' resume beacons fired on the way out
  under the NEW account: one account's playback position saved into the
  other. The pin is now handed to the next page (pinOnNextPage) and taken
  over at import; clearActiveAccount is gone.
- Switching to a suspended account was refused but left it in the
  switcher, refused on every click; a deactivated one was not refused at
  all, and made the default it signed every account in the browser out on
  the next request. Every account _session_user would refuse — gone,
  deactivated, suspended, revoked — is refused and dropped from the list.

Share page (/watch)
- An IPv6 client is limited by its /64 (client_ip becomes client_key, for
  every limiter): keyed on the full address, one subscriber could rotate
  through endless identities. The comments now state what the per-link
  ceiling costs: guessing from five networks can keep a link shut for its
  window, and guesses already running when it fills are still checked.
- The link is looked up before the limiter records the attempt, so made-up
  tokens no longer grow it by an entry each.

Forms
- Failing the same way twice is announced again: the sign-in, passphrase
  and setup errors are keyed on the attempt (a clear and a set in one
  handler left the alert node untouched).
- The install wizard's own validation showed the generic error — it threw
  plain objects its catch did not read. It sets the step's message.

Tests: a re-pin leaving the previous account's notices behind; the pin
hand-over; switching to an ended account; the /64 viewer; made-up tokens;
the repeated alerts. Each mutation-checked RED for its own reason.
2026-09-15 02:53:22 +02:00
peter e7f38396a2 fix: review round 3 — a new tab keeps its account's notices, a revoked tab account lands on the default
Deep-review round 3 over main..improvement/watch-background-audio.

Account boot
- The notification history and settings, and the hints toggle, are read
  when their modules load, which in a new tab (bookmark, typed URL) is
  before BootGate pins the account: they read as nobody's, and the tab's
  first notice replaced the account's stored history (up to 100 entries)
  with a one-item list. They now read again when the tab is pinned
  (onAccountPinned, run by setActiveAccount); a notice raised before the
  pin stays, after the history.
- A tab pinned to an account still in this browser's wallet but whose
  session ended (suspended, deleted, or revoked by "log out everywhere")
  got "signed out" from /api/me while the default account was still
  signed in, and signing in again as anyone else left it there. A refused
  per-tab account now leaves the wallet, and the probe answers as the
  default, so the tab reloads onto it.

Share page (/watch)
- The password unlock is limited per viewer (link + client IP), under a
  per-link ceiling that counts only wrong passwords. Keyed on the link
  alone, ten wrong guesses every five minutes locked out every viewer,
  the ones with the password included. client_ip moves to app.ratelimit
  so the public routes can key on it.
- Its failure messages and the load-failure screen are announced
  (role=alert, the password input described by its error). The sign-in,
  passphrase, password-change and setup form errors get role=alert too.

Comments that still described removed machinery are corrected: App's
collapse flags, SettingsPanel's Save bar, ConfigPanel, authed_format_sig.

Tests: the account's history and hints across the pin; a revoked and a
suspended pinned account; the per-viewer limit and the ceiling; the
limiter's exhausted(); the share page's announced failures; a share
link's feed filters persisted. Each mutation-checked RED for its own
reason.
2026-09-15 02:25:00 +02:00
peter f569b19c49 fix: review round 2 — a signed-out tab acts as nobody, honest share-page failures
Deep-review round 2 over main..improvement/watch-background-audio.

Account resolution (server)
- A request naming an account that is no longer signed in to this browser
  (X-Siftlode-Account or ?account=) now acts as nobody instead of the
  session's default account. A tab still pinned to an account signed out in
  another tab went on acting as the default: its player checkpoints and
  preference saves landed in that account, the messages socket and Plex
  playback ran as it, and its Sign out signed THAT account out. A hidden tab
  never polls /api/me, so a tab playing in the background kept doing it.
  The /api/me bootstrap probe alone keeps the fallback, which is how such a
  tab learns who it now is: the app's 401 handler reloads, and BootGate
  re-pins the tab.

BootGate
- On an identity change the tab reloads without moving its pin first. The
  tree being torn down still runs its unmount saves before the page goes,
  and with the pin already moved they wrote into the new account's local
  keys (a player volume still pending). The reloaded page corrects the pin.

Share page (/watch)
- Only a 404 says the link is gone. A 5xx, a dropped connection, and the
  unlock's own rate limit all rendered "no longer available ... expired or
  revoked" to a viewer with a valid link, with no way to try again. A load
  failure now offers Retry; too many password tries says so and keeps the
  form; an unlock that gets no answer says so instead of doing nothing.
  Strings in en/hu/de.

Downloads
- A cookie-authed asset is recognised under the current signature version
  and the one before it, so a job queued before a deploy that bumps the
  version still downloads with its cookie instead of failing on the login
  wall with an error that says no cookie was used.

The app chunk is preloaded through lazyWithPreload, so a failed fetch no
longer leaves an unhandled rejection beside the ErrorBoundary. The panel
layout seed is one helper (seedLayout).

Tests: the stale-tab refusal, its harmless Sign out and the probe fallback;
the pre-bump authed asset; BootGate keeping the pin on reload and staying
mounted through a same-account change; the reveal clock's later-commit
hand-off; the prefs, panel layout and demo-scope seeds from the me cache;
the share page's failure states. Each mutation-checked RED for its own
reason.
2026-09-15 01:35:25 +02:00
peter e795d191c5 fix(boot): review round 1 — reconcile the tab pin, one loading clock, honest probe failures
Deep-review round 1 over main..improvement/watch-background-audio.

BootGate
- The tab's account pin is corrected to the account the server answered as.
  The server honours the pin only for an account still signed in to this
  browser and otherwise answers as the default, so a tab pinned to an account
  signed out in another tab ran as the default on the server while reading
  and writing the gone account's local state.
- A mounted tab whose identity changes (its session ended, or the case above)
  reloads instead of rebuilding the tree in place, like every account switch;
  that also drops the previous account's query cache. The account key on the
  tree goes: the readyFor gate already unmounted it on every change.
- An unanswered setup probe shows the error with Retry, like an unanswered
  account probe, instead of the signed-out landing to a signed-in user.
- Comments: /api/me never 401s; the ended-session path is identity → nobody.

Loading states
- LoadingState's reveal delay is one clock across loading states that hand
  over to each other (boot screen → page-chunk fallback → the page's own
  fetching state), instead of a CSS delay restarted by each, which blanked a
  visible spinner for another 300 ms at every hand-off. BootScreen is now the
  shared loading visual, full screen, counting from navigation start.

Plex shared link
- Persists only the dimensions the link carries again. Writing the default
  filters for an omitted `pf` created the stored-filters key, which is what
  tells SavedViewsProvider the account picked filters, so the account's
  default Plex saved view was never applied again.

Watch page
- The Repeat toggle uses the shared pressed-pill paint (a solid fill when on)
  instead of Button variants that differ only in colour, and its flag goes
  through storage.ts readJSON/writeJSON.
- The actions wrap under the title when the row is too narrow, instead of
  squeezing the title into a column a word wide on a phone; the title breaks
  long words.

Comments that still justified code by the removed adopt effects (usePref,
PrefsProvider, FeedViewProvider) are rewritten against the seed-once model.

Tests: BootGate error/retry for both probes, setup mode, a failed background
refetch keeping the app, the pin correction and the reload on an identity
change; the shared reveal clock; the Plex link persist; the audio signature
actually moved off version 4; a video download (av and v) still remuxed to
an mp4. Each mutation-checked RED for its own reason.
2026-09-15 00:53:15 +02:00
peter 4ad7183102 feat(players): keep a video playing in the background on Brave iOS; repeat on the watch page
On iPad Brave, a shared video stopped the moment the browser left the
foreground, even with Brave's "Enable Background Audio" on, while an mp3
kept playing. Brave iOS keeps a web <video> going by re-playing one the OS
paused (brave-core ios/browser/web/media/resources/media_backgrounding.ts),
but it only hooks a <video> present at document start or added as a
MutationObserver addedNode that IS a video. React inserts a player's
<video> inside its freshly mounted wrapper in one go, so Brave never saw it.

lib/browserBackgroundPlay re-inserts a mounted <video> at its own position,
once per element: it becomes an added node, the DOM React manages does not
change, and playback is not interrupted. The watch page, the downloads
library player and the Plex player hand their <video> to it. Measured on the
owner's iPad (Brave) with a prototype of the same idea: the video kept
playing in another app and with the screen locked. The YouTube modal is not
ours to change: its <video> lives in YouTube's cross-origin iframe, and
nothing of ours pauses it on backgrounding.

The prototype's two audio-element variants (a muted video following an
<audio>, and an <audio> taking over on hide) went silent in the background on
the iPad and are removed.

The watch page gets a Repeat toggle, on by default and remembered per
browser (LS.watchRepeat; the page has no account): it sets `loop` on the
<video> or the audio-only <audio>.
2026-09-14 23:58:30 +02:00
peter 2c3aaec62d feat(watch): prototype background sound for a shared video on iPad (dev only)
On iPad Brave a shared mp3 keeps playing when the browser leaves the
foreground, but a shared h264 video stops at once, even with Brave's own
"Enable Background Audio" on. Three variants behind a `?bg=` param on the
/watch page, for a real-iPad comparison; without the param the page is
unchanged.

  a: the sound comes from a hidden <audio> on the same file, the <video> runs
     muted and follows it (drift correction, user seeks and mute moved onto
     the audio; our own catch-up seeks are not copied back, which re-seeked
     the sound on every correction and sent both back seconds in WebKit).
  b: the <video> plays with sound; an <audio> unlocked by the start tap takes
     over while the page is hidden and hands back on return.
  c: no audio trick: the <video> is inserted as a node of its own into an
     already-mounted wrapper. Brave iOS's background play only hooks a video
     present at document start or added as a MutationObserver addedNode that
     IS a video (brave-core ios/browser/web/media/resources/
     media_backgrounding.ts); the page inserted the video inside a new wrapper
     in one go, so Brave never saw it. A re-implementation of that detection
     rule reports the default page's video unhooked and mode c's hooked.

Modes a and b were driven in Chromium and WebKit with a simulated backgrounding
(document.hidden forced plus the OS's pause): sound continues, the picture
catches up on return, a user pause stops both. iPadOS's own media policy can
only be judged on the iPad.
2026-09-14 23:40:51 +02:00
peter 70598d47a3 fix(dev): proxy the messages WebSocket through Vite, which stops a reset killing the dev server
The Vite dev proxy had no `ws: true` on /api, so the in-app messages socket
(/api/messages/ws) was an upgrade nobody handled: it never connected on :5173,
and the first reset on it (a closed tab, a dropped connection) threw an
unhandled ECONNRESET that took the whole dev server down. Reproduced with a raw
upgrade + RST (dev server dead); with `ws: true` the backend answers the
upgrade, the dev server survives the reset and a closed tab, and the signed-in
socket is accepted through the proxy.
2026-09-14 23:08:41 +02:00
peter 5858e7b513 test(e2e): run the net on WebKit and an iPad profile; opt the account out of Home
The Playwright net now runs every flow in three projects: chromium (Desktop
Chrome), webkit (Desktop Safari) and ipad (iPad gen 7 landscape: touch, mobile
viewport). WebKit catches the engine-level differences every iOS browser
inherits; the config and the README say plainly what it does NOT catch: iPad
media refusals. Playwright's WebKit decodes through the host OS, and on Windows
it played an mp3-in-mp4 and an AV1 mp4 that a real iPad refuses, so media
formats are checked on a real iPad against the dev stack over the LAN.

global.setup opts the e2e account out of starting on Home (the Startup setting),
which the feed, channel and player specs need since E24. It only takes effect
with the new-tab boot fix: before it, all twelve of those specs landed on Home
in every project. 49/49 green on :8080 across the three projects.
2026-09-14 22:29:33 +02:00
peter 5346efcd10 fix(boot): a new tab knows its account before anything renders
With Settings -> Appearance -> Startup turned off, every NEW tab or window still
opened on Home; only a same-tab reload honoured it. The provider tree mounted
before /api/me answered, so NavigationProvider's initializer could not read the
per-account opt-out, landed on Home and mirrored ?page=home into the address bar.
When App pinned the account a moment later, the re-hydrate re-read that mirror
and stayed on Home. The same mount-then-patch shape made a new tab start on
default filters, the default theme and the browser language, and correct each
after the first paint.

BootGate (main.tsx, above the providers) now owns the setup-status and /api/me
queries and mounts the tree only once the identity is settled: it pins the tab's
account and adopts the account's language in a layout effect, so the first frame
of the app is already right. The tree is keyed on the account id, which makes
"per-account state is read once, for this account" a structural guarantee.

With that, the whole re-hydrate machinery is gone: useAccountRehydrate, the
reactive active-account store, the markDirty guards, the pin-deferred saved-view
seed and the present-dimension bookkeeping of the shared Channels/Plex links.
PrefsProvider, FeedFiltersProvider, usePref and App's panel layouts seed from the
me cache instead of adopting it in an effect; the theme is applied in layout
effects. The app chunk is fetched in parallel with the probe, and the boot screen
only fades its label in after 400 ms, on one clock across the gate and the
Suspense fallback.

Module switches no longer flash a placeholder either. Measured frame by frame
in Chromium and WebKit, every first visit to a module showed "Loading..." for
17-70 ms: the lazy chunk's Suspense fallback, then often the first fetch's
LoadingState. Pages are now lazyWithPreload components, and App fetches the
chunks of every module the account can reach (plus the channel page) once the
first page is idle; a preloaded page renders synchronously and never suspends.
LoadingState, the one shared loading visual, fades in only after 300 ms, so a
fast load shows nothing in between and a slow one still gets its spinner.
2026-09-14 22:29:33 +02:00
peter 6169e32ca5 fix(downloads): a signed-in Facebook reel keeps its title, and an mp3 stays an mp3
Since a Facebook cookie was added on prod, every reel came down titled
"Video": measured on dev, a signed-in read gives yt-dlp the placeholder
"Video" (an 18+ reel read as Chrome gives "Facebook") while the post's text
is still in the description. A new SourceAdapter.title hook takes the whole
first line of the description in that case, and both title writes (the early
fill and the finished download) go through it, so the row, the file name and
the share preview carry the post's text again. The line is not cut with an
ellipsis: normalize_title's NFKC turns "…" into "..." and collapses it to
".", which read as a finished sentence (seen in dev UAT).

The "Audio (MP3)" profile's extracted .mp3 was remuxed into an .mp4 by the
browser-safe step (the audio spec is clamped to container mp4 too) and served
as video/mp4, which iPad's WebKit will not play (prod job 268). Audio mode now
skips that step, so an .mp3 is served as audio/mpeg and an .m4a as audio/mp4.
Audio downloads version their cache identity on their own (v5), so a cached
remuxed audio re-derives without re-downloading every cached video.
2026-09-14 17:46:46 +02:00
peter 90523284ab release: 0.86.0 (feature/e11.5-download-failures)
gate / frontend (push) Failing after 3m17s
gate / backend (push) Successful in 4m17s
2026-09-14 01:53:06 +02:00
peter 17bfea8754 release: 0.86.0 notes 2026-09-14 01:52:34 +02:00
peter 2a9ddb78ac fix(downloads): E11.5 epic-end review round 2
Pause now re-reads the job under the same asset-then-job row lock as resume,
cancel, delete and redownload. Its unlocked write waited for a concurrent
cancel's lock and then set the released job back to paused, a holding status,
so a later delete released the same hold again and could free a file another
user's job still held (measured: the overlapping-request test ends 'paused'
instead of 'canceled' with the old read). The lock test now calls the route
handlers, so it also pins which helper each route uses.

Comments follow the code: resolve_url's contract names both verdicts and that a
failed page read is raised as itself; the inherited-failure diagnosis asks the
cookie gate as it stands when the job is claimed, so its advice fits the cookie
that job's Retry would use; the undecryptable-cookie warning no longer claims a
download goes ahead, since the worker parent reaches it only to diagnose.
2026-09-14 01:42:57 +02:00
peter e887233210 fix(downloads): E11.5 epic-end review round 1
A refused Facebook cookie on a group post is no longer "no video in this post":
measured on dev, Facebook answers with its login page (no post id at all), so the
adapter now raises its own POST_NOT_SHOWN verdict and the catalog explains it as
the refused cookie. The adapter owns both post verdicts and the "cannot parse
data" wall wording, so the Chrome retry and the catalog read one constant. The
group-post "no formats" entry is cookie-scoped (with a cookie yt-dlp only gets the
post's video link) and uses the adapter's own group-post test instead of a
"/groups/" substring.

Job transitions that move an asset's ref count (resume, cancel, delete,
redownload) re-read the job under a row lock, asset first, so two overlapping
requests can no longer release the same hold. get_or_create_asset loses an insert
race inside a SAVEPOINT instead of rolling back the caller's pending writes (Retry
lost its cleared error). Every worker-side job failure goes through
finalize_if_running and writes error_detail, so a cancel that landed first is kept
and a failure never shows an earlier one's copy. The worker asks the download
child's own cookie gate (credentials.usable_cookie) when a job inherits a failed
asset.

UI: the Facebook copy no longer points at a Retry button the failure window does
not have, says "paste" like Settings, and the HU wording is fixed
("Újraletöltés" on the re-download confirm). A category this client has no copy
for falls back to the generic sentence instead of a raw key.

Tests: route serialization of error_detail, the probed duration through a real
_download, the page-read cap and a failed read, a Retry off a pending asset, the
confirm-button labels, the lock and savepoint races.
2026-09-14 00:50:05 +02:00
peter b17d92d7c2 fix(downloads): confirm dialogs name the action on their confirm button
The download center's confirm button repeated the dialog's question
("Re-download this file?"). It now reads the action: Stop download,
Re-download, Remove, Remove from my list.
2026-09-13 23:38:11 +02:00
peter 90ee34a1b4 feat(downloads): a Facebook group post downloads its own video, or says it has none
Given a group post's link, yt-dlp either found no formats or took another
video from the page's feed data, so a "successful" retry of such a post was a
wrong download. With the user's cookie the Facebook adapter now reads the post
page, takes the single video node in the script blocks that carry the post id,
and downloads that video's watch link (the Chrome retry does the rest). No
single video in the post fails with its own message and the group-post copy,
reworded to say the post has no video; the post link is never handed to yt-dlp
as a fallback. Without a cookie nothing changes.
2026-09-13 23:38:11 +02:00
peter 118fc70e08 fix(downloads): take the duration from the file when yt-dlp gives none
A Facebook or Instagram reel extracts with no duration, so the asset kept a
NULL duration_s although the file plays for minutes, and the Library row had
no trim action. The finalize probe now returns the duration with the codecs
(the file wins, info fills a gap), and runs before the sidecars so the .nfo
runtime gets it too.
2026-09-13 23:12:16 +02:00
peter 636372511b chore: remove the unreferenced backend/Dockerfile
Nothing builds from it: both compose files build the root Dockerfile, and the
test image has its own Dockerfile.test. It installed the unpinned
requirements.txt, contradicting the lock header that every image installs
requirements.lock.
2026-09-13 23:12:16 +02:00
peter 1354f5b503 feat(downloads): a Facebook cookie download stuck at "Cannot parse data" is retried as Chrome
Measured on dev: with the user's cookie some reels still answer "Cannot parse
data" and only extract when the request impersonates Chrome. Impersonation is
a second attempt behind that one error, only when a cookie is attached — links
that already download with the cookie keep their plain path, and without a
cookie the same error is the login wall.

curl_cffi is pinned inside yt-dlp's supported range (0.10-0.15; outside it
every target silently reports "unavailable"); the lock only gains the new
packages. A test fails the gate if the locked pair can no longer impersonate.
2026-09-13 22:48:21 +02:00
peter 98ec1ffcab fix(downloads): Retry and Re-download take a cookie added after the failure
The login-wall copy tells the user to add their cookies and press Retry, but
Retry kept the job on the shared asset the worker never attaches a cookie to,
so it failed on the same wall. Resume now moves a pending/errored job onto the
asset enqueue would pick with the cookie (never off a file or a download in
flight).

Re-download salted its fresh asset with the job's previous asset id, which the
cookie gate cannot recompute, so even a cookie download rebuilt without the
cookie. The rebuild salt is now the new asset's own id (plus the user's cookie
salt when one applies), and is_authed_asset recognises it.
2026-09-13 22:31:49 +02:00
peter 18c11ca437 feat(downloads): a per-site failure catalog — Facebook's walls say why and what to do
A failed Facebook download read "Download failed": yt-dlp words the login wall
(18+ reel, closed group) as "Cannot parse data", which no category matched.
Measured on dev with the owner's cookie before writing a rule — the same text is
the login wall without a cookie and a refused cookie with one.

- errors.diagnose(msg, url, cookie_attached) tries a host-scoped catalog first
  (all-of markers, cookie state, link fragment) and falls back to the category.
  First entries: facebook.login_wall, facebook.cookie_rejected,
  facebook.group_post_video. The module doc is the recipe for the next entry.
- download_jobs.error_detail (0084) + backfill of the stored Facebook parse
  failures that were unknown.
- The pipeline's failure branch passes the link and whether the cookie went
  with it; resume and redownload clear code and detail (redownload never
  cleared error_code).
- A job meeting an already-failed asset got the text but no code, so it read
  "Download failed" where the first job said why. It is diagnosed again, with
  the cookie state from credentials.is_authed_asset (now shared with the
  cookie gate); the redacted network text classifies back to network.
- FE: failCopyKeys gives the row and the failure window one lookup — catalog
  copy, else the category. Copy in EN and HU; a contract test pins every
  backend entry to both locales.
2026-09-13 21:53:25 +02:00
peter ca5e446fbd release: 0.85.0 (feature/e11-power-navigation)
gate / frontend (push) Failing after 3m13s
gate / backend (push) Successful in 4m36s
2026-09-13 21:02:22 +02:00
peter 4c7ab12a3e release: 0.85.0 — E11 Power Navigation
Back, dialogs and menus keep your place, and the keyboard walks every list: five sprints plus three epic-end review rounds (19 → 14, 18 → 12, 14 → 14). Minor: j/k list navigation, s and g-chords, and Back-to-item are features.
2026-09-13 21:02:22 +02:00
peter c6b552e75f fix(keys): epic-end review round 3 — the part-way clip count shows, busy buttons keep focus, cards say their names
Targeted round over 3cd0c525's fix surfaces: 14 raised, 14 fixed.

- VideoEditor: the "only X of Y clips" toast went silent exactly on the job-cap/quota refusal it was
  written for (req had already reported the error); it now always shows. The cut list holds still while
  Create queues, and a retry continues the "(i/N)" series.
- ChannelPage: Subscribe/Unsubscribe use Button `loading`, "Load more" and ChannelDiscovery's Subscribe
  block the click with aria-disabled instead of native disabled; busy Block/Hide no longer light up on
  hover.
- listNav: an item can name itself (`navItemAttrs(i, name)`) — Plex posters, seasons, episodes, message
  rows and download rows pass their title; focus on a toast's Undo keeps the removed card's slot.
- AnchoredPopover: the hand-back only for focus-managed surfaces (a hover card no longer pulls focus
  back); the dead panel-ref check is gone.
- AccountPanel: no confirmation mail offered to the demo account; send_failed copy no longer blames
  the message for an unreachable server. Pager comment points at scrollParent.
2026-09-13 20:47:13 +02:00
peter 3cd0c525e2 fix(keys): epic-end review round 2 — focus comes back to the card, the right rail and the reason
Whole-epic deep-review of E11 (18 raised, 12 kept; B and G refuted, four latent test-hardening notes dropped),
plus the admin refusal copy gap round 1 surfaced.

- A context menu opened from a card the keyboard is on gives the focus back to the card. floating-ui returns
  focus through the opener's first tabbable descendant even when handed a ref, so for a non-tabbable opener the
  surface restores it itself (measured in Chrome: j, Shift+F10, Escape left it on the thumbnail link).
- Back finds a named list (a rail) by its name: a rail that appeared above it after the cache expired sent the
  focus into the wrong rail. An unnamed list is matched only when the page has the same number of lists.
- The slot kept for a removed item is forgotten once focus moves on to page content (search, a chip), so j after
  new results starts at the first visible item; a menu or dialog opened from the item keeps it.
- The list keys reach the cheat sheet only while a list has an item.
- A j-focused card root is a named group while it holds the focus.
- The channel page's Block and Hide toggles keep the focus while their request runs.
- A split export that fails part-way says how many clips were added and deselects them, so a retry adds only
  the rest.
- Config save, the one-click share link and "log out other sessions" report failures with their reason.
- VirtualGrid uses the one scroll-parent walk listNav measures against.
- Admin refusals (activate, resend, invite, set-password link) say why in HU and EN instead of "try again";
  the email-off special cases collapse into that one reason. The contract reads the codes from localizeDetail.
  HU copy points to Konfiguráció → E-mail / SMTP; HU "unreachable" matches the EN change of round 1.
2026-09-13 19:18:04 +02:00
peter f130a1c05a fix(keys): epic-end review round 1 — Back, menus and dialogs keep the focus where it belongs
Deep-review of E11 (19 raised, 14 confirmed; 2 refuted, 3 latent test-hardening notes dropped).

- Back from a sub-view (a Plex show page, a Messages thread) restores the item it was opened from
  even when focus was still inside the view: the first attempt now waits one task, past the
  sub-view's own popstate listener (measured in Chrome: it left focus on <body>).
- The restore listener is installed at load, so the first Back after a reload finds it; a push
  cancels a restore still waiting for the last landing's lists.
- Navigating over an overlay asks it again, a render apart, while its entry stays: the Plex
  player peels one panel per Back step, so Shift+W over info + stats closed one panel and dropped
  the navigation.
- j/k: a native <button> item keeps its own Tab stop; landing twice on the same item no longer
  leaks its tabindex; after the focused item is removed (a hidden card) the next j goes on from
  its slot when that slot is on screen.
- An abandoned `g` no longer swallows a modifier chord (g, then Mod+K opened the browser search).
- A hover card above a dialog no longer switches its Tab trap off (player, Modal, wizard,
  Lightbox): new layerStack `anyBlockingLayerAbove`.
- "Manage views…" closes its menu before opening the dialog, through a shared `closeThenAct`
  that ActionMenu now uses too.
- Copy: the EN welcome says "Feed"; the EN unreachable reason no longer claims a change;
  stale comments about PlayerModal's scroll lock and dialog contract.
2026-09-13 17:17:49 +02:00
peter bbd31c7143 feat(keys): Back returns focus to the item a view was opened from; "Feed" everywhere; every backend id named
Owner answers to the E11 S5 raises (2026-09-13): 1 → A, 2 → "Feed" in every language, 3 → translate the
proxy label and fix every config key missing in BOTH languages ("maintenance", "tmdb" — old bugs).

Focus across a view change (1-A). Opening a Plex title from Home's rail, a channel from the Channels
table or a title from a Plex grid switches the page or the sub-view, which unmounts the list; Back used
to hand focus to <body>, so the next `j` started over at the top. The YouTube player (an overlay)
already restored onto the card.
- `lib/listNav`: `navPosition()` (list's place in reading order, the page's list count, item index)
  and `restoreNavPosition()`: focuses the item once the page has as many lists on screen as when it was
  left, polls on a timer (a hidden tab runs no animation frames), gives up after 2 s or at once when
  something already holds focus, focuses without scrolling (the scroll restore owns the position).
- `lib/history`: `rememberNavPosition()` stamps `sfNav` onto the entry being left and returns the state
  without it (a new entry must not inherit it); one popstate listener restores and spends the stamp,
  so a later landing on the same entry (an overlay closing over it) cannot pull focus to an old item.
- Called before every view push: `setPage`, `openChannel`, `enterYtSearch`, `useHistorySubview.open`,
  the Channels tab push. `navPosition.wiring.contract.test` fails on any `history.pushState(` without
  it (the overlay stack's own push is the one exemption).

"Feed" (2). The module is "Feed" in both languages: every "hírfolyam" in the Hungarian UI (≈45 strings,
suffixed: Feedből, Feeded, Feedben…) and the prose "feed" in English that means the module ("your
Feed", "Hide from Feed"); "RSS feed" keeps its meaning. The welcome email says it too.

Backend ids without a name (3). The Configuration page showed `maintenance`, `tmdb`,
`maintenance_revalidate_batch`, `download_upload_max_bytes`, `audit_retention_days`, `plex_overlay_map`,
`tmdb_api_key` and `tmdb_language` as raw identifiers — the lookup falls back to the id, and the i18n
parity test stayed green because both languages missed the same keys. Added labels + hints (EN/HU),
the two groups (and their tab order), the missing `scheduler.jobDesc.demo_reset`, removed the stale
`plex_sync_interval_min` field, and "YouTube API kimenő proxy". `i18n/backendIds.contract.test` reads
`sysconfig.SPECS`, `scheduler.JOB_INTERVALS` and the audit/quota action enums from the backend sources
and fails on an id without its name in either language, or a name left for an id the backend dropped.
2026-09-13 07:36:41 +02:00
peter 8731508645 feat(keys): the conversation list walks with j/k; the cheat sheet names keys in the reader's language
E11 S5 — the HU/EN sweep and the keyboard-only pass over every module.

- The keyboard cheat sheet printed "Space" and "Menu" on a Hungarian sheet: a keycap that carries a
  WORD (not a legend every layout prints alike, like Esc, Ctrl or Enter) is now named by the caller in
  the reader's language (`formatChord(chord, words)`, `keys.cap.*`: Szóköz / Menü).
- The Plex player's ⌫/Esc line said "Stop & back to feed", but the player goes back to wherever it
  was opened from (Home, a Plex page): "Stop & go back" / "Leállítás és vissza".
- Messages: the conversation list is a keyboard list (NavGrid + navItemAttrs, the name button is the
  open element; the pop-out button keeps its own Enter). D1 covers every list whose rows open one
  thing; this one was missed in S4. Notification cards have no single open action and stay out, like
  the download queue.

Sweep, measured: every static `t("…")` key used in the source exists in both languages (the only
misses are template prefixes); the HU values equal to EN are proper nouns and loanwords (Admin, Plex,
Trakt, Shorts). Palette in Hungarian: "téma" makes "Téma: Midnight" the active row ahead of the channel
"Topik - mindig témában", live region "7 találat".

Keyboard-only pass in Chrome, Hungarian UI — 1024×768: every `g` chord lands on its module, `j` rings
the first item (solid 2px accent) on Home, Feed, Channels, Playlists, Plex and Downloads, `s` focuses
the search on Feed, Channels, Playlists and Plex, no page scrolls sideways. 3440×1440: `j` → → ↓
walks Home, Feed (8 columns: 0 → 1 → 9), Channels, Playlists, Plex and Downloads, no sideways scroll.
The help sheet lists every line translated; inside the Plex player "Szóköz / K" and "⌫ / Esc
Leállítás és vissza". Messages: a real `j` rings the row, Enter opens the thread.
2026-09-13 07:00:51 +02:00
peter b5d37ca142 feat(keys): j/k and the arrows walk the channel, playlist and download lists
Third and last slice of the E11 keyboard layer (S4c). S4a/S4b covered every card grid and rail; the
table-shaped pages — the channel manager, a playlist, the download center — were still Tab-stop
country: a channel row carries a priority stepper, four action buttons and a tag picker before the next
row's name.

- `ui/DataTable keyboardNav`: the rows are the items, Enter clicks the element a column marks
  `data-nav-open`. DataTable renders its rows twice (a table, and a card list below `md`); both register
  and `lib/listNav` now walks only lists on screen (`checkVisibility`), so `j` past the last row never
  carries on into the hidden copy.
- `lib/listNav` leaves a key something before it already handled (`defaultPrevented`): during a keyboard
  drag a playlist row's grip moves the row with the arrows, and dnd-kit takes the key on the document
  before listNav's window listener. Without the guard ↓ moved the focus off the grip and dropped the drag.
- `ui/NavGrid as="tbody"` for a table whose body is the list (the playlist, under dnd-kit's
  SortableContext).
- Wired: Subscriptions and Discovery tables, the card layout (`ChannelLayoutGrid` → VirtualGrid
  `keyboardNav`), Hidden/Blocked cards (the ChannelLink name is a channel's open element); a playlist's
  rows (the title plays; the grip keeps Space/Enter); the download queue, library and shared lists (the
  play button opens, `IconBtn open`; a row without one opens nothing).
- `listNav.wiring.contract.test`: `VirtualGrid` and `DataTable` must say `keyboardNav` like `Carousel`,
  `DownloadRow` is a card; the audit log's table is the one exemption (its rows open nothing), and an
  exemption that no longer matches a tag fails the test.

Measured in Chrome: Channels table j → row, ring round the whole row; a row walked down keeps 12px above
the viewport edge, walked up clears the sticky header by 35px; Enter opens the channel. Cards 3 columns:
→ 0→1, ↓ 1→4. Hidden and Discovery: j + Enter open the channel. Playlist: j + Enter plays, Escape returns
focus to the row; a keyboard drag (Enter on the grip, ↓) moves the row with focus kept on the grip, and
Escape cancels with the order unchanged. Downloads library: Enter plays a video row, does nothing on a
plain file row.
2026-09-13 06:08:05 +02:00
peter eb0507f942 fix(keys): a card reached by Tab rings the whole card, not just its poster
Owner report: on the Plex browse grid, Tab onto the first card ringed only the poster, and the first
arrow key then moved the ring round the whole card. The poster is the card's own role=button Tab stop,
so Tab gave it the app-wide button ring, while listNav's arrows focus the card root (D2: the ring goes
round the whole item).

The card's "open" element (`data-nav-open` — the Plex poster, a video card's title link) now stands
for the card: when it holds keyboard focus the card root wears the ring and the element's own ring is
transparent. Controls inside the card (watched toggle, actions) keep their own ring.

Measured in Chrome (jsdom evaluates neither :focus-visible nor :has): Plex browse, Tab from the sort
control → poster focused, card outline 2px accent, poster outline transparent; → moves to card 1 with
the same ring. Feed, Tab onto a card's title link → the card is ringed, the link is not.
2026-09-13 05:47:43 +02:00
peter 6d09b94bbb feat(keys): j/k and the arrows walk Home's rails and every Plex grid and rail
Second slice of the E11 keyboard layer (S4b). S4a gave the feed, the library and the channel page
`j`/`k`, the arrows and Enter; Home's shelves and the whole Plex module were still Tab-stop country —
a Plex poster is its own Tab stop, and a rail's cards sat behind every control of the cards before.

- `lib/listNav`: a list that mounts every item no longer declares a count or columns — both are
  measured off the DOM when a key is pressed, so an auto-fill grid's columns follow its width and a
  rail is one row. ↑ on a list's top row and ↓ on its bottom row go on to the neighbouring list, onto
  the item horizontally nearest the one left (owner decision D4: ←→ within a rail, ↑↓ to the rail
  above or below). The first `j` skips cards a rail has scrolled out to the left.
- `Carousel keyboardNav` registers the scroller; the scroller gets a 4px inset (against a -4px margin,
  layout unchanged) so the focus ring is not clipped, and `[data-nav-index]` a 2.5rem inline scroll
  margin so a card stepped into view clears the rail's edge fade and paging arrow.
- `ui/NavGrid`: the plain, fully mounted grid that registers itself.
- `navIndex` on PlexPosterCard / SeasonCard / EpisodeCard (the card root is the item, the poster the
  open element — the ring goes round poster and title, D2), PosterTile and Home's ShelfTile (the button
  is the item); cast, related and collection-strip buttons carry the attrs directly.
- Wired: Home's comfort and resume rails; Plex Browse titles + episodes, Discover rails + genres,
  collection view, playlists/collections browse, person known-for + filmography, show seasons, season
  episodes, cast/related strips, info-page cast + collection strips.
- `listNav.wiring.contract.test`: every `Carousel` says `keyboardNav`, every card says `navIndex`, and a
  card with `navIndex` sits inside a NavGrid / Carousel / VirtualGrid — both halves are opt-in, and
  either one missing leaves a list the keyboard silently skips.
2026-09-13 05:38:36 +02:00
peter 5274216981 feat(ui): PageUp/PageDown page through every dropdown list, not just the palette
The palette got PageUp/PageDown, and the same crawl stayed everywhere else a list opens under a
control: the sidebar's channel filter, the Plex genre/studio/collection pickers, the filter and sort
menus, submenus of every playlist you own. floating-ui's list navigation has only the arrows and
Home/End.

- `lib/listPaging`: the one definition of a page (the rows wholly in view minus one, a fixed 10 with
  no layout) and of where it lands (stops at both ends, never on a row it may not take, looking back
  toward the start rather than past it). The palette now uses it instead of its own copy, and
  `listNav` takes its scroll-parent helper from here.
- `AnchoredPopover`: one keydown handler on the reference AND the surface, so a combobox (keys on its
  input, `aria-activedescendant`) and a roving menu (keys on the focused row) both page. It runs after
  floating-ui's own, which has by then switched to keyboard modality and scrolls the new row in. A
  disabled row is never the target; a submenu's key does not also page the menu around it; with no
  mounted rows (closed, a hover card, a dialog) the key keeps its native meaning.

Measured in the browser: the channel filter shows 8 rows and pages by 7 with the active row in view
after the scroll; a menu pages to its last row and back, the page behind it does not scroll; the
palette still pages by 11 of its 12 visible rows.
2026-09-13 05:20:53 +02:00
peter 75d89613d0 feat(palette): PageUp/PageDown move a page of results at a time
The jump-to palette lists every module, channel, playlist, view and action — 461 rows on the
owner's account, ~11 of them in view — and the arrows were the only way through it: forty presses to
cross the channel group.

- PageDown/PageUp step by the rows that fit in the list right now, minus one, so the row you paged
  from stays in sight at the new page's edge. Measured per press (the list is 50vh and group headings
  eat into it); a fixed 10 when there is no layout to measure.
- Unlike the arrows they stop at the ends instead of wrapping: a page-sized jump that lands back at
  the top reads as having lost your place.
- Home/End stay the text field's own.

Measured in the browser: 0 → 10 → 20 rows, stops on row 461, PageUp from the end steps 9 (a group
heading is in view), the selected row stays visible throughout.
2026-09-13 05:03:35 +02:00
peter 8fb276aa90 feat(keys): j/k walk the feed, s finds the search box, g jumps to a module
A feed card cost ~10 Tab stops, so the tenth card sat ~135 Tabs from the top of the page, and the
only keyboard focus ring (a 60% accent outline on the thumbnail) all but vanished on the dark glass.
First slice of the E11 keyboard layer (S4a); Home, Plex and the tables follow in S4b/S4c.

- `lib/listNav`: one window listener over every registered list, walked in document order. `j`/`k`
  step item to item (on into the next list — owner decision D4), the arrows move around a grid, Enter
  clicks the item's own `data-nav-open` element, so it opens exactly like a click. An item root is
  never a Tab stop: it gets `tabindex=-1` only while the keyboard is on it, and keeps it until the next
  item takes it, so the player's focus restore lands back on the card. The first `j` takes the first
  card you can see, not the top of the list.
- `VirtualGrid` takes part with `keyboardNav` (column count + scrolling an unmounted row in);
  `VirtualFeed` turns it on, so the feed, the library and the channel page all have it.
- Keymap: two-step sequences (`g h`) whose pending step belongs to the scope that started it; the
  page-level scopes (`page`, `search`, `list`) are quiet while a layer that owns the keyboard is open,
  enforced in `dispatch`. A test pins the owner's rule that none of them needs a modifier on the
  Hungarian layout.
- `g h/f/c/p/x/n/m/d/s/,` jump to a module this account can reach; `s` focuses the header search box
  and selects the old query; Escape in it hands the keyboard back to the page (Plex's typeahead spends
  its first Escape on its panel).
- Hover popovers are passive layers: an open tooltip still takes Escape first but no longer silences
  the page keys.
- Focus ring (owner decision D2 = B): solid 2px accent around the whole item; the app-wide button/
  link/row ring goes from 60% to solid too. The item keeps a transparent resting outline because the
  video card transitions `all` — without it every `j` flashed a 3px white ring (measured in Chrome).
- Help sheet: the new keys, in a fixed order after the surface's own; a `g` chord only for a reachable
  module; opened over a player or dialog it leaves out the page-level keys and the context-menu key,
  which nothing can reach there (the latter pre-existing since E10).
- CLAUDE.md: a canonical-patterns row for list/grid keys (`useListNav` + `navItemAttrs` +
  `data-nav-open`, not a private arrow-key handler).
2026-09-13 04:16:20 +02:00
peter 78a9324381 fix(ui): the palette ranks what you typed, and lib stops leaning on components
Typing "theme" put the channel "The Meltzone Podcast" (matched only through its handle
`@themeltzone`) above every "Theme: …" row, and Enter opened the channel — the palette listed
matches in pure group order and always highlighted the first one.

- CommandPalette ranks each word: label starts with it > elsewhere in the label > only the hint,
  keywords or group name; an item ranks by its worst word, then the sum. The group order stays
  fixed, rows are ranked inside each group, and the best row overall starts highlighted. The
  highlight is held by id and follows the best match until the arrows or the pointer pick a row,
  so a channel list landing mid-typing no longer shifts it.
- A11y: result groups are `role="group"` named by their heading; `aria-expanded` is false with
  nothing to choose; the listbox stays mounted (hidden) so `aria-controls` never names a missing
  element, and "Nothing matches" sits outside it; a polite status announces the count once the
  typing pauses.
- `Column`/`FilterMap`/`filterRows`/`isActive` move from `ui/tableHeader` to `lib/tableColumns`,
  and the player's auto/loop modes from `playerModalControls` to `lib/playerModes` — three lib
  helpers imported the column contract from a ui component, and `playerModalHooks` its types from a
  feature component.
- eslint: `lib/` may not import from `components/` at any depth, type-only and re-exports included;
  the boundary contract test proves it fires. CLAUDE.md and the ui README say so.
- keymap: `dispatch`'s docblock sat stacked on `matchesShortcut`'s; moved onto `dispatch`.
2026-09-13 02:14:07 +02:00
peter 8a50538275 fix(ui): a write that fails says what failed and why, wherever it fails
`req` opens its blocking dialog for 400/409/422/5xx only. A 403/404/429 was left to the caller and a
502-504 or lost connection got just the self-clearing connection notice, so 34 mutations without a
reporting onError and 15 direct api writes with a bare or missing catch failed in silence: a hidden
channel that snapped back, a share link that never revoked, a confirmed account delete that ended
with nothing said.

- lib/queryClient: one MutationCache reporter. react-query awaits it BEFORE the mutation's own
  onError, so it waits a task and skips a failure the site already reported; the toast title comes
  from `meta.failTitle`, `meta.errorShownInline` opts out.
- notifyActionError: title names WHAT failed, the line under it says WHY (`failureReason`: a
  structured localized detail, else the status). It marks the error reported (`markReported`), so
  nothing reports one failure twice; `notifyKnownFailure` for a site's own specific sentence.
- Every silent site named (45 new HU/EN titles, 4 reasons). Stale "the global dialog shows it"
  comments corrected on the job actions, channel block, Plex sync, cookies, download enqueue,
  account delete and usePref.
- Channels passed the tag hook's channel id to the reporter as the error; the tag and priority hooks
  now report themselves, with the real error.
- A contract test keeps every useMutation naming its failure; CLAUDE.md gains the pattern row.
- history.dom.test: the "navigates only once the entries are back" assertion raced an async act's
  macrotask flush (1 in 5 runs); it now asserts from a later popstate listener.
2026-09-13 01:45:28 +02:00
peter b4aea7fa5b fix(ui): dialogs, menus and busy buttons keep the keyboard focus where it belongs
Measured in Chrome before each change:

- A dialog opened from a menu lost its focus: the menu row ran its action
  and closed in one batch, and floating-ui's focus return (a microtask)
  moved the focus to the row BEHIND the confirm dialog's scrim 7 ms after
  it opened, where Enter activated the row. MenuItemList now closes first
  and runs the action a task later; the dialog also captures the row, not
  a dying menu item, as its restore target.
- A side panel opened as a flyout collapsed the moment a dialog opened
  from inside it, unmounting the row the dialog hands the focus back to.
  useHoverFocusWithin holds while the focus is inside an aria-modal dialog.
- ui/Button's loading state set native disabled; Chrome moved the focus of
  the pressed button to <body> and never gave it back. Loading is now
  aria-disabled with a click guard that also cancels implicit submission.
- Escape/Enter in the playlist rail's rename field dropped the focus on
  <body>. The row refocuses from its ref callback when it re-attaches (a
  post-commit focus sticks; the earlier attempt ran before the button
  existed).
- PlayerModal was the one aria-modal shell without the dialog contract:
  it is now named by its title, traps Tab, restores the focus to its
  opener and shares one counted body scroll lock with every dialog.
2026-09-13 01:04:11 +02:00
peter 92c305bab9 fix(nav): a navigation closes every overlay before it pushes
The overlay history stack let a navigation land ABOVE open overlays and
"buried" their entries with a counter. Measured in Chrome: Shift+W over
About navigated under the still-open dialog, the next Back both undid the
navigation and closed About, and the Back after that did nothing; Shift+W
on Home with the player open did nothing at all. The counter could also be
spent by a different overlay closing first, and callers that could not
report whether they pushed were assumed to have.

setPage and openChannel now close every open overlay and push only once
the history is back in sync (one entry per live overlay, no programmatic
back() in flight, no reconcile queued), so nothing is ever buried and the
whole mechanism goes: navigateOverOverlays, closeThenNavigate, buryUnder,
setPage's boolean, and the three test files that pinned them. The palette
closes only itself before running a row, so a theme picked over the player
keeps the player. Shift+W on Home with the player open now closes it
(owner decision 2026-09-09).

The wait is on state, not on "a popstate": the old 250 ms fallback could
run with back()s still in flight. An overlay that refuses to close within
1.5 s drops the command instead of being navigated out from under.
2026-09-13 00:17:09 +02:00
peter 32fe0768b6 release: 0.84.0 (bug/hunt-2026-09)
gate / frontend (push) Failing after 2m45s
gate / backend (push) Successful in 4m5s
2026-09-12 16:44:01 +02:00
peter 415a6c16f9 release: 0.84.0 — the owner's sixteen-item bug hunt
Sixteen items written from real use: eleven fixed, one measured and closed without a code change
(the micro-stutter is a 23.976 fps film on a 120.0148 Hz display, reproduced identically outside
Siftlode), two parked for a reproducible case, one scoped out to its own sprint. Two of the eleven
were destroying user state — a YouTube video that rewound itself on reopen, and a "clear resume
point" that told Plex nothing about an in-progress item.

Then seven deep-review rounds over the fixes and over each other's fixes: 32 → 24 → 43 → 31 → 22 →
26 → 18 raised. Minor, not patch: item 14 added an admin knob, item 10 a sort control, and items
2/4/5/7 are features.
2026-09-12 16:43:54 +02:00
peter 8c51062e5b fix(api,ui): the demo refusal says why at every site, and the contract guard cannot fail open
Round 6 converted three of four `is_demo` 403s to a structured detail and wrote a docstring saying it
had converted all the sites there are. The account-delete route in `routes/me.py` still answered a
hand-written English sentence, which `notifyActionError` discards in favour of the caller's
translated fallback — so the demo user gets no hint that the demo account is the reason. It is
UI-gated today, so the string is unreachable; what was reachable was the false completeness claim,
which is precisely what stops the next reader from looking. The site is converted, and the list is
now DERIVED from the source: a new test walks `app/` for every `is_demo`-guarded 403, asserts each
raises a structured detail, and fails when the count moves — so this file cannot fall behind the code
the way it just did.

The same round's frontend contract guard was failing open. Its pattern required a bare identifier
before `.detail` and excluded `.detail` used as a last call argument, so `setErr(e.detail)`,
`(e as HttpError).detail`, `String(e.detail)` and four more idiomatic forms were invisible — and
because the file set is compared with `toEqual`, a file the pattern cannot see is simply never listed
and the gate stays green over a fresh copy of the contract. Widened to cover cast receivers, optional
chains and call-argument reads; the pinned set is unchanged, so the narrowing had removed no false
positive. A destructured `detail` stays out of reach (a pattern loose enough for it fires on
react-query's own `const { data: detail }`), and that hole is written into the test rather than
papered over with two innocent files.

Its anti-vacuity guard also did not guard anything: the comment says the glob must have matched
something, but the assertion under it read a sibling file by its own URL, which resolves whether or
not the glob enumerated anything. That only mattered while the pinned list was non-empty — the moment
the deferral sweep lands and it becomes [], the whole file would pass over a glob matching zero
files. The scan size is asserted now.
2026-09-12 16:22:27 +02:00
peter 63bf1bca78 fix(plex): an accepted reorder refetches the detail it just wrote
`commit`'s success handler writes the dragged list into the detail cache — round 6's fix, so a
re-entry inside the 30s staleTime renders the accepted order without a request — but then invalidated
only the LIST key, while the YouTube sibling it cites invalidates both. `next` is the membership of
the render that started the drag, and `reorder_playlist` only touches the rating_keys it is handed,
so it never ratifies that list: anything that landed meanwhile was clobbered by the write with
nothing scheduled to correct it. `commit` sets no busy flag either, so a removal really can complete
while a reorder is in flight, and with staleTime 30s and refetchOnWindowFocus off the phantom row
stayed on screen for as long as the view was mounted — and the next drag persisted an order built
from it.

Round 6's test had to be re-pointed, because it was written in a world with no refetch: its mock
answered the pre-reorder order forever, which a server that just accepted the write cannot do. It now
holds the refetch open instead, so it still pins what round 6 actually fixed — the cache is right
WITHOUT waiting for a request — and would fail if the write were deleted. Both halves are
mutation-checked against each other.
2026-09-12 16:22:27 +02:00
peter c7a377396b fix(ui): a closing dialog leaves the focus to the dialog standing above it
Round 6 widened dialog focus ownership to count focus inside ANY `aria-modal` subtree as ours, so a
dialog and the dialog stacked on it closing together would still hand the focus back. That clause has
no way to tell a layer closing WITH us from one that stays open, so a dialog closing on its own — an
in-flight mutation's `onSuccess`, not a click, since a scrim covers it — under a modal raised above it
pulled the focus onto its own pre-open trigger, behind that scrim, where Enter still activated it.
Three verifiers confirmed the mechanism and two corrected the severity down: it self-heals on the
next Tab, which is why this is a containment violation rather than a broken end state.

`lib/layerStack` cannot refine it. Measured against the real hook: at the instant the lower dialog's
focus cleanup runs, the both-closing case and the sibling-stays-open case give identical readings —
`anyLayerAbove` true, the upper layer topmost — because passive cleanups run parent-first and
`useDialogChrome` is declared before the effect that calls `removeLayer`. Gating on the stack turns
round 6's own test red. What separates them is the DOM: React detaches a deleted subtree before
passive cleanups, so a layer closing with us is already disconnected while one that stays open is
not. Both tests are green, and each was mutation-checked against the other.

Verified in Chrome on localdev: opening the cheat sheet from a sidebar button and closing it restores
that button; with the command palette stacked over the cheat sheet, closing the top one leaves the
focus neither on the background trigger nor on <body>, and closing both returns it to the trigger.

Welcome's Lightbox got the trap and the restore in round 6 but not the layer membership the other
shells have, so its Escape and Tab fired from a raw window listener whatever was on top — the shape
the wizard's comment records being bitten by, unreachable today only by a mount ordering nothing
enforces. It joins the stack. Its comment also read as though the four-shell sweep were finished:
`PlayerModal` is still an `aria-modal` surface with no name, no trap and no restore, which is on
ROADMAP.md now rather than implied to be done.
2026-09-12 16:22:06 +02:00
peter 8036251589 fix(plex): the reclaim window rolls, and a refused finish is not performed through a third route
Two ways round 6's own fixes did not bound what their comments said they bounded.

The reclaim budget's window anchor was written only where the window RESET, so it marked the window's
start rather than the last loss — a tumbling window, not the rolling one the constant is named for.
Any loss cadence slower than half the window satisfied the reset on every second loss, so the budget
never reached its bound: measured over 200 loss cycles, 61/70/90/119s apart all gave 200 reclaims and
never an error, while 5s and 30s apart correctly gave two and then the honest answer. The failing
band is exactly the case the ERROR handler names — a transcode that falls behind realtime — and both
committed tests spaced their losses 0s and 10min apart, i.e. outside it. The anchor now moves with
every loss.

And `finish`'s refusal handler lowered the play-through latch, which is the only gate on the 10s
interval, the page-hide beacon and `settle`. All three post `absRef`, which on the play-to-the-end
path IS the end of the media, and the backend reads a position within `_FINISH_MARGIN_S` of the
duration as a finish — so within ten seconds of the toast saying the mark had failed, the item was
marked watched, its position cleared and a scrobble sent to Plex. Round 6 closed the explicit
rollback write and left the other three open; the test it added set `upNext: false`, which tears the
effect down before any of them can fire. The refusal now takes back the CLAIM rather than the latch:
a second flag stops `settle` re-asserting watched, and playing again clears both.

`FINISH_MARGIN_S` duplicated the backend's constant in a second language with nothing relating them,
and its comment had the asymmetry backwards — if the BACKEND's margin grows, this guard starts
admitting a rollback the backend reads as a finish, i.e. re-opens the defect above. Pinned by a
contract test that reads the Python, and the comment corrected.
2026-09-12 16:21:51 +02:00
peter 71d7646bf1 fix(plex): a name this session cannot write fails at once, and the layout has one spelling
Round 6 turned `artifact_may_arrive` into a positive rule, but keyed it to the HLS vocabulary in
general rather than to what THIS session produces: the playlist regex accepted master/index/stream_*
for every session and the `seq == 0` branch accepted any variant token unconditionally. The two argv
branches are disjoint — a single-audio session is given `seg_%d.ts` + `index.m3u8` and no `%v` at
all, so `master.m3u8`, `stream_*.m3u8` and every `seg_<variant>_<n>.ts` are names it can never write,
and vice versa — so each of those was read as "an HLS name, so wait and see" and held a threadpool
worker, plus its pooled DB connection, for the full timeout. That is verbatim the round-5 outage the
route's own comment claims it prevents.

Measured through the real route against a live single-audio session, before: master.m3u8 404 after
30.0s, stream_q7z.m3u8 404 after 30.0s, seg_a0_0.ts / seg_zzzz_0.ts / seg_0_0.ts 404 after 20.1s
each. After, on the running localdev API: 404 in 44-316ms for all of them, while index.m3u8,
seg_0.ts and seg_1.ts still answer 200 — nothing is over-refused.

The session now carries the rendition names its ffmpeg was told to write, and `entry` is derived from
them instead of passed. And "one place" now means the argv BUILDS its patterns from the same
functions the parser reads back (`segment_name("%d", "%v")`, `variant_playlist_name("%v")`): the
layout was still spelled out independently in six places, with `_VIDEO_VARIANT` read by no consumer,
which is the drift that caused round 6's HIGH. A test asserts the argv's own patterns are what those
functions produce, and that every name they expand to is one the guard accepts.

The load-bearing MEASURED comment cited ffmpeg 8.1.1 — the Windows host's. The binary that writes
these files is the API container's 7.1.5; re-measured there, the conclusion holds.
2026-09-12 16:21:37 +02:00
peter 3eb0f41962 fix(plex): a Plex reorder the server accepted is the order the cache holds
The YouTube list got this rule in round 5 — one accepted write, one cache entry
that matches it — and the Plex list got only the rollback half of that fix. Its
success path invalidated `qk.plexPlaylists()`, a disjoint key root, and never
touched `qk.plexPlaylist(id)`: the key `putBack` rolls back to, and the one a
re-entry renders from without refetching.

So after an accepted drag the detail cache still held the pre-reorder order.
Leaving the playlist and coming back inside the 30 s staleTime showed the
reorder undone, and the next drag from there persisted that — silently undoing
an order the server had taken. Measured in jsdom: server 2,1,3, cache 1,2,3, no
refetch.

1 test, mutation-checked.
2026-09-12 05:50:40 +02:00
peter a0114deff1 fix(api,ui): a refused write says why, wherever the refusal happens
Round 5 taught `notifyActionError` to discard a plain-string `detail` in favour
of the caller's translated fallback, because `req` leaves 403/404/429 to the
caller and those routes hand-write English. Three places did not get the
message.

**The demo account lost its explanation.** `require_human` refused with a plain
string, so from that commit on the shared demo account got its caller's generic
"couldn't do that" and no hint that the demo account was the reason — and the
gate is not backed by a UI gate everywhere: the comfort shelf has no `is_demo`
check, so the pin button is live and simply fails. A structured `{code: "demo"}`
and an `errors.demo` string in both locales. The two auth routes that hand-roll
the same check were swept with it.

**`ChatThread` carried a second copy of the contract.** It filtered 404/429
itself and then did `e.detail || t(…)`, the pre-fix order, so the central fix
could not reach it and "That member hasn't set up messaging yet." stayed English
under a Hungarian UI. It goes through the shared helper now, and a contract test
pins the remaining raw-`detail` consumers as an explicit SET — never a count —
so a new copy fails the gate instead of shipping. The five on that list are
inline surfaces (a form field's error line, a setup banner) and are deferred
with the ~60 backend routes whose details they print.

**The Plex "Add to playlist" dialog was still silent.** Same shape as the
collection editor round 5 fixed and the YouTube twin that already had the fix:
no catch, so a playlist deleted on another device answered a structured 404 that
nothing reported — the tick never flipped, the gone row stayed, and the floating
promise became an unhandled rejection.

Also: the `ABORTED` sentinel's VALUE was asserted nowhere. The consumer test
hand-built the error it expected, so replacing `xhr.onabort`'s rejection with a
friendlier message left the lane green — and every upload the user cancels would
then raise a red "the upload failed" toast, which is what the sentinel prevents.
Both producer tests assert through `isAborted` now.

And two backend tests were pinning fewer sites than their own docstrings claimed:
the channel-404 loop said "all five" and issued three requests (explore and
subscribe unexercised, the excuse for subscribe naming a different call site
with a different reason slug), and the recipient/job test named three refusals
and requested two — `share_download`'s `not_found("recipient")` had no test in
the suite at all, nor did the locale keys added beside it. Every site named now
has a request behind it.

6 tests, mutation-checked against 7 mutations: the demo detail at both the gate
and an auth route, a re-hand-rolled ChatThread, the silent Plex dialog, the
abort sentinel, and each unpinned 404 — all red on the test that names them.
2026-09-12 05:50:31 +02:00
peter d89d887a9b fix(plex): the reclaim budget bounds what it says it bounds, and a refused finish is not performed anyway
`MAX_SESSION_RECLAIMS` was cleared by the first fragment of any session, and a
reclaimed session essentially always delivers one — `start_session` does not
return until its first segment exists. So the budget only ever bit where a
session parsed its manifest and then died before a single fragment, which is not
either case its own comment names. Measured: 40 loss cycles produced 41 sessions
and never an error. A transcode falling behind realtime, or two viewers of one
rating_key taking turns, respawned ffmpeg indefinitely — the round-5 behaviour,
still there behind the guard added to stop it.

It counts within a rolling window now. Two losses inside two minutes is a
session that keeps being lost; one an hour apart is not. And the window is reset
per item, because the player stays mounted across a queue advance — otherwise a
budget spent on one episode would deny the next its first legitimate reclaim.

Separately: `finish`'s rollback re-performed the write it was taking back. On
the play-to-the-end path the position it restores IS the end of the media, and
the backend reads a position within its finish margin as a finish — so the
branch named "take the finish back" set watched, cleared the position and
scrobbled to Plex through a second route, while the caller's error toast was
already on screen saying the mark had failed. There is no resume point at the
end of the media to restore; the cache drop is the whole of the rollback there.
The credits-skip caller captures a mid-episode position and still restores it,
which is the case that needs it.

7 tests, mutation-checked: the FRAG_LOADED reset, the missing window, and the
unguarded rollback each red on the test that names them.
2026-09-12 05:50:11 +02:00
peter f8a31d48cf fix(ui): a dialog keeps the focus it was given, and hands it back where it took it from
Round 5 extracted `ui/dialogFocus` so no shell would hand-roll the focus
contract, then introduced four ways to lose the focus anyway — all four measured
in jsdom against the real components.

**Ownership was narrower than the trap.** `ui/Modal` traps Tab over the whole
dialog on purpose, so a toast's Undo or ✕ stays reachable; ownership was tracked
over the panel alone. Tabbing to that ✕ therefore read as "the user left the
dialog", and since removing a toast fires no `focusin` to re-arm, closing
afterwards skipped the restore and left the focus on <body>. Before this hook
existed the restore was unconditional, so it was a regression.

**A dialog stacked above us is still ours.** A nested `ui/Modal` portals into its
own host, so it is outside the outer dialog's root however wide that scope is
drawn — widening alone could not fix it. Both closing in one commit left the
focus on <body>: the outer skipped its restore, and the child's own target (a
control inside the outer panel) was already detached, because passive cleanups
run parent-first. Ownership now means "inside my dialog, or inside a modal layer
above it", which is what the rule always intended.

**The wizard disagreed with `ui/Modal` on its first line.** `trapTab(e, panel)`,
with neither the dialog-root scope (so its own toast host was outside the cycle
— the connection notice never auto-dismisses, and its ✕ was unreachable from the
keyboard) nor the `container` argument the JSDoc exists for: `panel.contains(
panel)` is true, so focus sitting ON the tabIndex=-1 panel matched no branch and
a Shift+Tab walked into the app behind the scrim. Both call sites now pass the
same three arguments.

**The toast handover was a render-phase read-modify-write.** A `useMemo` read a
module global that the next line overwrote; React re-invokes a component body
and every `useMemo` factory in it on a StrictMode double render, and the LAST
invocation commits — so the second pass re-read what the first had just written,
the takeover host classified its OWN new toast as inherited, and the dev build
behaved exactly like the code round 5 replaced. Snapshotted through a ref keyed
on `isTop`, so a repeated invocation of one render is a no-op.

And the fourth `aria-modal` shell, `Welcome`'s screenshot lightbox, is finally
swept into the same contract: it declared itself a modal dialog while leaving
the focus on the thumbnail behind an 80%-black scrim and letting Tab walk the
landing page underneath.

The headline fix of the previous commit — StrictMode's re-mount taking the focus
off an `autoFocus` field — had no test at all; deleting it left all 1009 green.
It has one now.

9 tests, mutation-checked against 8 mutations, each red on the test that names it.
2026-09-12 05:49:58 +02:00
peter 7f17b17c13 fix(plex): an HLS session's file names are one vocabulary, and a name it cannot produce fails at once
Round 5 added a guard so a request for a segment beyond the produced region
answers instead of polling out the full timeout — the route is a SYNC one, so
every such wait parks a threadpool worker and, through `current_user`, a pooled
DB connection. Measured against real ffmpeg, the guard could not fire where it
mattered.

`-hls_segment_filename seg_%v_%d.ts` substitutes the VARIANT first: a dual-audio
session writes seg_0_0.ts (video) and seg_a0_0.ts / seg_a1_0.ts (the `name:aN`
renditions). The regex read those as sequence-first, so every video segment
parsed as segment 0 and every audio segment did not parse at all — the guard was
inert on every multi-audio item, which is most of this library. `_seg()` carried
the same inversion: the warm-up waited 8 s for `seg_1_0.ts`, a name ffmpeg never
writes, on every multi-audio session start AND every seek-restart.

The layout is now one constant plus one parser (`segment_name` /
`_SEG_NAME_RE`), with a test pinning them to each other, instead of three
comments that could drift — and they had drifted, all three ways.

The guard is also a positive rule now. It was a blocklist, so anything that was
not a single-audio segment name was waved through: `GET …/anything.m3u8` still
parked a worker for 30 s, while the route's comment claimed a flood of hopeless
names was what it prevented. A session produces its playlists and its segments
and nothing else. `.vtt` leaves `_HLS_CT` with it — ffmpeg runs with `-sn` and
subtitles are a separate route, so that extension could only ever name a file
that will not arrive.

Also here:
- A 5000-digit segment index reached the client as a 500: `int()` on an
  unbounded digit run raises past 4300 digits and only OSError was caught. The
  name is bounded on the route and the index in the regex — the same bug class
  the subtitle routes were bounded for.
- A session torn down between the wait and the read is a 404, not a 500. `_kill`
  rmtrees the directory and no lock spans those two steps; the player's recovery
  is keyed on the STATUS, so a 500 skipped the reclaim and ended playback with
  "couldn't play" instead of restarting at the playhead. The trigger is ordinary
  — `loadSession` awaits the new session before destroying the old hls instance.
- Two comments claimed an open player checkpoints every 10 s "whether or not it
  is playing", which is the stated reason the 30 s finished-idle reap is safe.
  `flush` sends nothing once the finish latch is up, or before a position is
  known. The states it does cover — playing or paused mid-item — are the ones
  the rule needs; the comments now say that instead of more.
- The route's tests leave the DB lane: the route reads nothing from the database
  since the auto-start was removed, and there those four regressions SKIP on a
  machine with no Postgres while pytest prints green.

14 tests, mutation-checked: the old parse, the old warm-up name, the blocklist,
both bounds off the absurd name, the unguarded read, and the route dropping
`proc` — each red on the test that names it.
2026-09-12 05:49:38 +02:00
peter 1f81684b6e fix(ui,plex): a dialog keeps the focus its child asked for, and a hopeless segment fails at once
Both found by UAT in a real browser, after the tests for them were already green — which is the
whole reason this repo settles focus and timing claims by running them.

- **The autoFocus fix worked, and then the dialog took the focus back.** React 18's StrictMode runs
  every effect mount→cleanup→mount in development: the cleanup handed focus back to the trigger, and
  the second mount, finding the focus outside the dialog, moved it to the first focusable — off the
  `autoFocus` field a beat after the browser had put it there. Chrome measured it: INPUT (commitMount)
  → BODY (cleanup) → ✕ (re-mount). The effect is idempotent now — it remembers what the dialog was
  focused on and restores THAT on a re-mount — and the close-time restore is conditional on the
  dialog still holding the focus, which it tracks as it changes rather than computing at cleanup,
  where the panel is already out of the document. A dialog no longer yanks focus back from wherever
  the user has since moved it.

- **Passing ffmpeg's handle to the segment wait only shortened the FINISHED case.** Measured against
  the running localdev API: a request for `seg_99999.ts` on a live session still took 20 195 ms,
  because that ffmpeg has not exited and the wait has no other reason to stop. ffmpeg writes segments
  in order, so a segment whose predecessor does not exist is not the next one and cannot arrive —
  and that is knowable at once. Same request now: 45 ms.

Verified on localdev against the real library (Westworld S01E06, remux, multi-audio): Mod+K opens the
command palette with the focus in its search field and typing reaches it; playback runs on the new
session-scoped HLS URL; a request naming a stale session id is a 404; and a viewer paused for longer
than the finished-session rule keeps their 2.4 GB session across two reaper passes — the progress
checkpoint touches it — and resumes cleanly.

vitest 1009, pytest 1127.
2026-09-12 04:31:51 +02:00
peter 33fddacee2 test(plex): the over-long-name guard is asserted the same way on every OS
Deep-review round 5. The assertion behind `subtitles._exists` was only red where pathlib re-raises
ENAMETOOLONG: on Linux it does, on Windows the same stat fails with ERROR_INVALID_NAME, which
pathlib's `exists()` already swallows — so the assertion passed with the fix reverted. It forces the
errno now instead of relying on the filesystem. (The gate's pytest lane is the Linux container, so
the branch was never actually unguarded; the test was just dishonest about why it passed.)
2026-09-12 04:18:35 +02:00
peter 12121255dd fix(playlists): a rejected reorder goes back to the order the server accepted
Deep-review round 5, over round 4's own fixes.

- Round 4 made a failed reorder roll the rows back to the CACHED detail, because a resync cannot do
  it (the server's list is unchanged, so the refetch is deep-equal, react-query keeps the same
  `data` object and the effect keyed on it never runs). But nothing wrote an ACCEPTED order into
  that cache — only the refetch that follows a successful reorder did. So a second reorder rejected
  while that refetch was still in flight rolled the rows back past the first one, which the server
  had accepted; the membership guard cannot correct an order (its key is the sorted id set), so the
  wrong order stayed on screen for good and the next drag persisted it. `onApply` now writes the
  accepted order into the cache before invalidating.

- `PlexPlaylistView.rename` had a `catch` no test could reach, and `commit` (reorder) was not gated
  by `busy` the way its siblings are — a reorder in flight while a removal completes is what makes a
  rollback ambiguous in the first place. The rename failure path is now covered; `commit` defers.

- `putBack` read `q.data` from the render that bound the failing handler instead of the cache at
  rollback time, unlike the sibling `restoreFromCache`. Aligned. Stated plainly: I could NOT drive
  that staleness in jsdom — a mutation that restores the old shape leaves every candidate test green
  — so this one ships as an alignment with the proven sibling, not as a fix with a red test behind
  it. The scenario and the harness limit are on ROADMAP.md.

Two regression tests, both mutation-checked red (the cache write, the rename catch). The
drag-reorder failure path still has no test: dnd-kit's pointer and keyboard sensors do not activate
under jsdom even with geometry and scrollIntoView stubbed, so a test there would have pinned the
harness, not the code. Logged, not faked.

vitest 1009.
2026-09-12 04:15:15 +02:00
peter 4a7b65d187 fix(api): a refused write is named, in the reader's language
Deep-review round 5, over round 4's own fixes.

- `notifyActionError` preferred the server's `detail` over the caller's translated fallback, and
  `reportFailure` deliberately leaves 403/404/429 to the caller — so for exactly those statuses the
  dozen call sites round 4 converted started printing whatever English a route hand-wrote into an
  otherwise Hungarian UI ("No user with that email.", "Not subscribed to this channel", "Unknown
  job"). A STRUCTURED detail is still preferred: `req` has already run it through `localizeDetail`,
  so it is both localized and more specific. A plain string is not.

- The other half of the same defect, on the backend: round 4's `get_or_404(what="channel")` sweep
  reached exactly ONE of the five identical sites in channels.py and shipped the HU/EN string with
  it, so the Block button said it in Hungarian and the four controls beside it in English. All five
  are converted, and the subscription / share-recipient / scheduler-job 404s with them (two new
  reasons in both locales).

- `PlexCollectionEditor`'s add/remove, take-over and delete were try/finally with no catch — in the
  very file round 4 edited to give `createNew` one. 403 and 404 are the caller's to report, so the
  tick simply never appeared and a CONFIRMED "delete collection" did nothing, silently.

- `UploadDialog` is the only `uploadReq` caller and kept an empty catch whose comment still claimed
  the global error modal had it. It had not since `reportFailure` became shared: a proxy 502 raised
  only the self-clearing connection notice and a 413/403/404 nothing at all, so the dialog snapped
  back to its pre-upload state with no error named. The user's own Cancel stays silent — and since
  a cancel and a network drop both carry status 0, that difference is now a named `isAborted`
  rather than a string literal at each end.

Regression tests for each (5 vitest, 2 pytest, plus two existing assertions corrected), all
mutation-checked: 6 mutations, each red on the assertion it is named after. vitest 1007,
pytest 1127.
2026-09-12 04:07:25 +02:00
peter 47af4d5c05 fix(plex): an HLS artifact names the session it belongs to, and a paused viewer says so
Deep-review round 5, over round 4's own fixes.

- Sessions are keyed by rating_key alone while a session's DIRECTORY is per (key, offset, tag), and
  the artifact URL carried no session identity — so once a seek-restart or a second viewer of the
  same item took the registry slot, the old viewer's request for `seg_12.ts` was answered 200 with
  the new session's twelfth segment: bytes from a different `-ss` offset under `-copyts`, on a
  timeline the client is not on. Wrong content with a success status is the one failure a player
  cannot notice, and round 4's reclaim-on-404 could never fire on it. The id is in the path now (so
  the playlist's relative names resolve back into the same session), a mismatch is a 404, and the
  player reclaims at the playhead. The entry playlist's auto-start is gone with it: it could only
  ever begin at 0, silently discarding the viewer's position.

- Round 4 exempted paused viewers from the reaper by keeping EVERY finished session for the full
  ten-minute idle window — one whole segmented copy of a film per item, on the volume the download
  center shares. The signal it needed already existed: an open player checkpoints its position every
  10 s whether or not it is playing, so that route now touches the session and the periodic pass is
  back on the short rule.

- POST /session's opportunistic reap was never scoped to the key being started: it walked the whole
  registry with the 30 s finished rule, so pressing play on ANY item — even a direct-play one, the
  call ran before that early return — killed another viewer's paused session. It is gone; the
  periodic pass owns reaping.

- A segment that can never arrive no longer polls out the full 20 s: the producer's handle is passed
  to `wait_for`, so a finished ffmpeg answers at once. This is a sync route, so each such wait parked
  a threadpool worker AND a pooled DB connection, and an ordinary seek past the produced region was
  enough to do it.

- The DataError handler's re-raise branch — the half that keeps a genuine DataError a 500 — is
  pinned, so simplifying it to an unconditional 422 cannot pass in silence.

Six regression tests (two route-level, in the DB lane), each mutation-checked red on the assertion
it is named after. pytest 1124, vitest 999.
2026-09-12 03:57:52 +02:00
peter 8a83bc0e9f fix(plex): a finished item is finished when the server says so, and a lost session is reclaimed a bounded number of times
Deep-review round 5, over round 4's own fixes.

- Round 4 added a `finish` latch so a played-through item records no checkpoint at the credits.
  On a NATURAL play-through it was raised a beat too late: per the HTML spec the browser sets
  `paused` and fires 'pause' BEFORE 'ended', so the pause checkpoint went out while the latch was
  still down and raced the watched mark — both requests read "not watched yet" from their own
  snapshot, so Plex counted one watch twice, and where Plex's reported duration runs more than the
  finish margin past the real media the checkpoint wrote a resume position AFTER the scrobble. The
  pause that ends the media no longer flushes. The regression test that was meant to cover this
  modelled the end as a bare 'ended' event — a browser that does not exist — and is now the real
  order.

- The watched mark was fired and forgotten (`.catch(() => {})`) while the latch patched the cached
  detail to watched / position 0 regardless, and round 4's once-per-id start guard meant the
  corrected detail arriving later was never used: an episode whose mark failed reopened at 0:00
  with a Watched badge the server disagreed with. `finish` now takes the in-flight write and takes
  itself back if the server refuses it — the real position is reported, the lying cache entry is
  dropped, and the failure is said out loud instead of swallowed. Both callers (the natural end
  and the credits auto-skip) hand it over.

- The reclaim of a 404'd HLS session had no bound. `parsed` cannot provide one — it belongs to one
  hls instance and every restart builds a fresh one — and the server answers 404 both for "the
  session is gone" and for "that segment is not there yet", so a transcode falling behind realtime,
  or two viewers of one item taking turns, respawned ffmpeg forever behind a spinner that never
  became an error. Two consecutive reclaims, reset by the first fragment that actually loads, then
  the honest failure.

Five regression tests, each mutation-checked red on the assertion it is named after.
2026-09-12 03:47:42 +02:00
peter 41b652f8fd fix(ui): a dialog opens focused where it said it would, and the wizard is a dialog
Deep-review round 5, over round 4's own fixes.

- Round 4 gave `ui/Modal` a persistent portal host so a fullscreen transition would stop tearing
  the dialog down. The host was attached in a `useLayoutEffect` — one commit phase AFTER React
  runs `autoFocus` in `commitMount`, and `focus()` on a disconnected node is a no-op. Every
  autoFocus in every dialog was dead: Mod+K opened the command palette with the focus on the ✕,
  so typing searched nothing and Enter closed it; the same for the download rename field and
  every non-danger confirm. The host is attached in a `useInsertionEffect` now, a whole phase
  earlier, and the whole re-parent — including the focus save/restore across the move, which
  `appendChild` needs because it is remove-then-insert — lives in one `useFullscreenPortalHost`.
  `ui/AnchoredPopover` had a second copy of that re-parent WITHOUT the focus restore, and a
  comment claiming focus survived it; both now come from the hook.

- `ui/Toaster` classified a toast raised in the SAME commit as a host takeover among the ones it
  inherits, because it read the store live at the takeover render. A dialog that notifies and
  closes in one handler (UploadDialog) therefore put its toast up with no role, into a region
  still `aria-live="off"` — announced by neither path. "Inherited" is now what the outgoing host
  last had on screen, and a toast that is NOT inherited is announced even inside the unarmed
  window.

- The onboarding wizard renders its own shell, and Escape ordering was all of the dialog contract
  it had: no role, no label, no initial focus, no trap, no restore. A keyboard user tabbed out of
  the first-login wizard into the app behind the scrim. The focus half of the contract is now one
  shared `ui/dialogFocus` that both `ui/Modal` and the wizard use.

Every fix has a regression test, each mutation-checked (6 mutations, all red on the assertion
they are named after).
2026-09-12 03:41:37 +02:00
peter 545996f807 fix(ui): a toast host ranks by when its overlay opened, and an overlay keeps its Escape, its dialog and its navigation straight
Deep-review round 4, the overlays.

- Toast hosts were ranked by mount time, and PlayerModal swaps its host on every fullscreen change:
  leaving true fullscreen with the download dialog open put the player's host back on top, so toasts
  were drawn under that dialog's scrim and a click on one closed the dialog. Each overlay takes a
  rank once, when it opens (`useOverlayOrder`), and hands it to every host it renders.
- A dialog open while fullscreen is left keeps a stable portal container (moved, not re-created):
  React tore the portal down when `fsRoot` changed, resetting a half-filled form and dropping focus
  to <body>. Focus is put back after the move.
- The onboarding wizard is a layer, not a raw document listener: one Escape used to dismiss the
  error dialog over it AND end onboarding, skipping the write-scope step.
- `navigateTo` (a toast's "View", clicked inside the player's own host) goes over the overlays it
  unmounts, so the player's Back-to-close cleanup no longer pops the page it just opened — the same
  fix Shift+W already had. The access-requests toast action too.
- The live region arms itself a task after it takes over inherited toasts: React flushes effects in
  the same task as that render, so the "silent inheritance" arming was a no-op.
- The overlay-host guard matches class tokens in any order (PlexPlayer's root was never checked),
  globs `ui/` too (ui/Modal was not checked either), and requires the rank.
2026-09-11 23:43:23 +02:00
peter 267fd7f70f fix(playlists): a refused edit is taken back on screen, and a gone list or tag is said, not swallowed
Deep-review round 4, the playlist surfaces.

- A failed move or reorder relied on the resync to put the rows back — but the server's list is
  unchanged, so the refetch comes back deep-equal, react-query keeps the same `data` object, and the
  re-seed effect keyed on it never ran: the moved row stayed gone, the rejected order stayed on
  screen. Both restore from the cached detail now.
- A failed removal puts its row back itself: when the server is unreachable the resync fails too,
  and round 3's "keep the list on a failed refetch" guard then kept showing it as removed.
- The Plex playlist page (remove / rename / delete / reorder), the add-to-playlist popover and the
  tag manager had no failure handling at all: a list or tag deleted elsewhere (a 404, now a
  structured `not_found` the request layer leaves to the caller) failed in silence and an
  optimistic removal stayed removed. Each says it and resyncs; deleting a Plex playlist that is
  already gone just leaves the page.
- Playlists' own loading/error branches use the shared `LoadingState` / `StateMessage` (the loading
  line had no live region).
- The "player stays mounted" tests count mounts: a remount ended with the same flag as staying up.
2026-09-11 23:34:33 +02:00
peter 6d49da17fe fix(api): a write that hit a connection failure is still reported, and every failure is reported once
Deep-review round 4, the "one report per failure" contract round 3 introduced.

- `req` marked gateway (502/503/504) and network failures "already reported" because they raise
  the connection notice. But that notice is about connectivity and removes itself on the very next
  answer — which every caller's own resync refetch fetches at once — so a delete that hit a
  keepalive reset flashed the notice and was then reported nowhere, the list still there. Only the
  durable reports (the error dialog, the 401 sign-out) count now; the caller says the action failed.
- A connection notice the user closed swallowed every later one for the rest of the visit; it is
  raised again.
- `req` and `uploadReq` share one failure policy (`reportFailure`). The upload copy had drifted: a
  502 opened the blocking "Server error (502)" dialog and cleared a notice that was still true.
- A taken Plex collection name is a structured 409, localized, and the create/rename calls are
  quiet: it was an English dialog plus a Hungarian toast. `notifyCollectionEditError` is gone.
- The mutation onErrors that toasted unconditionally after a non-quiet request (invite approve /
  deny / add, demo whitelist, audit clear, scheduler, share, full history, edit, config tests, tag
  attach) go through `notifyActionError`; the playlist delete's hand-rolled copy of it too (it takes
  a level now). The user role / suspend / delete actions had no onError at all: a user deleted in
  another tab failed silently and stayed listed — now said, and the list refetched.
2026-09-11 23:27:48 +02:00
peter 6a92585098 fix(plex): the player restarts a reaped session, finishes a played-through item as watched, and starts each item once
Deep-review round 4, the Plex player.

- A 404 on an HLS session that WAS playing means the server reaped it (a long pause, a deploy);
  hls.js never retries a 4xx, so playback ended with "couldn't play". A new session at the playhead
  now takes its place (the frontend half of the paused-viewer reap fix). A session that 404s before
  its manifest is still a plain failure, so it cannot restart itself in a loop.
- Leaving an item that ended, or that the credits auto-skip left, sent a final checkpoint at the
  credits (racing the watched mark, and pushing a resume point to Plex after the scrobble) and
  patched "new, at 49:55" into the cache — Prev reopened it at its last seconds. `finish` settles it
  as watched at 0, said before the pause whose own checkpoint could land first.
- An audio switch, an A/V offset change and every seek control read `abs`, which is 0 until
  playback ticks: a resume at 20:00 restarted from 0:00. They use the shared `playhead`.
- A seek while a restart is pending always restarts (the old media's `seekable` described the old
  session, and the pending answer overrode the newer seek).
- A superseded direct-play session's loadedmetadata/canplay are generation-gated and detached (they
  seeked the next item to the previous one's resume point).
- The session starts once per item: a reconnect refetch, the info panel's watched toggle or a
  language switch no longer restarts the film at the last checkpoint.
- Tests for the session generation's failure paths and the item-change bump, which had none.
2026-09-11 23:18:33 +02:00
peter 31dc4184f5 fix(api): a paused viewer keeps its HLS session, a refused subtitle publish backs off, and a NUL is a 422 everywhere
Deep-review round 4, backend half.

- The periodic HLS reaper (round 3) applied the "finished and unfetched for 30 s" rule that only a
  NEW session request may apply. A remux finishes long before the film, and a paused player with a
  full buffer fetches nothing, so a one-minute pause killed the session and playback died ~30 s after
  resuming. The periodic pass is `reap_abandoned` now (the long idle limit, finished or not).
- A subtitle `publish` that could not keep its output (full / read-only cache volume) returned
  quietly, so every poll queued the window and the whole-container pass again. It reports failure
  and the pass is backed off like a failed read; a cached VTT that cannot be READ is answered
  `unavailable` (`cache_unreadable`) instead of scheduling reads that can never land.
- The subtitle routes bound `rating_key` / `sub_ord` (they become a cache file name: a 250-digit
  one was ENAMETOOLONG, which pathlib's exists() re-raises -> a 500), and the cache helpers no longer
  throw on such a name.
- One app-wide handler turns psycopg's "text fields cannot contain NUL" DataError into a 422: round 3
  guarded only the by-rating_key lookup, and `contains=`, `contains_group=`, reorder/bulk key lists
  and the collection search still 500'd.
- The hand-written `db.get(...) is None -> 404 "Unknown ..."` siblings use `get_or_404` with a
  `what` (channel / video / user), so the Hungarian UI no longer shows English for a gone row.
2026-09-11 23:08:11 +02:00
peter 86971c574d fix(api): progress checkpoints past the int4 column are a 422, and idle HLS sessions are reaped on a timer
Deep-review round 3 of bug hunt 2026-09.

- The YouTube and Plex progress bodies are bounded by POSITION_MAX_S (the int4 position columns): a
  finite position of 2^31 or more was a DataError, i.e. a 500 — the sibling of round 2's non-finite
  fix.
- plex/stream.py promised "a periodic reaper", but reap_idle ran only inside the NEXT session
  request: after the last playback an abandoned session (its ffmpeg still working, its directory a
  whole segmented copy of the film) lived until someone pressed play again. A lifespan task reaps
  every 60 s.
- Tests for what round 2 left untested: the 422's body keeps the list shape the UI localizes, and
  stream_session refuses non-finite start/aoff.
2026-09-11 18:05:30 +02:00
peter 785080f3da fix(plex): a Surprise card whose watched toggle failed is put back
Deep-review round 3 of bug hunt 2026-09 — the sibling of the collection page's fix (d349bc90).
Discover's toggle flips the Surprise draw too, but its resync refetches only the rails (refetching the
draw would reshuffle it under the viewer), so a refused toggle stayed flipped there. toggleWatchState
takes an optional `revert`, called on a failure only; the queryKeys comment that claimed the watched
toggle invalidates the Surprise key now says what the code does.
2026-09-11 18:05:30 +02:00
peter 76b5f7c93e fix(playlists): a failed background refetch keeps the list on screen, and the player outlives every branch
Deep-review round 3 of bug hunt 2026-09.

- The detail's error branch applies only when there is nothing to show (`isError && <no data>`, the
  QueryState convention): one failed refetch — on focus, after a move or a removal — replaced a
  loaded list with "couldn't load". The error line is announced (role=alert).
- Tests for the two branches of "the player survives a change of selection" that round 2 left
  untested (a list that fails to load, no selection).
2026-09-11 18:05:19 +02:00
peter 1cfe6a7f59 fix(api): a gone row and a refused playlist action are said in the reader's language, and a failure is reported once
Deep-review round 3 of bug hunt 2026-09.

- get_or_404 / owned_or_404 answer a structured {code: "not_found", reason: <what>}
  (errors.notFound.* in HU+EN, generic fallback). The structured-404 fix of round 2 had gone into the
  ad-hoc `_own_playlist` (CLAUDE.md's "Not" pattern) while the shared helpers stayed string-only, so
  views, tags, pins, Plex playlists, invites and users still 404'd in English. `_own_playlist` now
  goes through owned_or_404; admin's hand-rolled user lookups use get_or_404.
- A move into a list that is gone names the TARGET (reason "move_target") — "this playlist doesn't
  exist any more" was read as the list on screen, which still exists.
- Every refusal in the playlists router is a {code: "playlist", reason} (playlists.errors.* HU+EN)
  instead of a bare English string shown verbatim in the Hungarian UI.
- `req` / `uploadReq` mark the errors they already put on screen (the error dialog, the connection
  notice, the 401 sign-out), and notifyActionError skips those. The watched toggles, the saved views
  and a playlist delete toasted a fault the dialog was already showing; Playlists' two hand-written
  status filters now go through the same check.
2026-09-11 18:05:19 +02:00
peter 33fe895539 fix(ui): every full-screen overlay hosts its own toasts, above the players' controls, without re-announcing them
Deep-review round 3 of bug hunt 2026-09 (the round-2 overlay toast host, finished).

- Inside an overlay the toast stack sits above the bottom band (bottom-24, the UpNextCard rung) and
  lets clicks between cards through: at the app's own spot it covered the Plex transport row and
  PlayerModal's docked bar and took their clicks while a toast was up (measured: play/pause, ±10,
  stop, prev/next, mute all hit the toast).
- ui/Modal and the onboarding wizard mount an overlay host too, so a toast raised under any dialog
  is readable and a click on it no longer closes the dialog; the Modal's Tab trap spans the whole
  dialog, so a toast's action and dismiss are keyboard-reachable. A test now enforces the
  convention: a component that covers the viewport at z-overlay must mount <Toaster overlay />.
- PlayerModal's host moves into the stage in true fullscreen (outside the element holding the lock it
  was painted under it).
- A host that takes over shows the toasts it inherits silently (no second role=alert, its region
  aria-live=off until they are in), and each countdown bar starts as far in as its toast already is
  instead of restarting while the real dismiss timer does not.
- The overlay-host registry uses lib/store instead of a hand-rolled listener triad.
2026-09-11 18:04:54 +02:00
peter 5c5cabbe5a fix(plex): the player drops a session answer that lands late, and Next neither loses nor lends a position
Deep-review round 3 of bug hunt 2026-09.

- loadSession checks, after its await, that it is still the newest call and the player is still
  mounted. A late answer used to replace what was playing (Next twice quickly: the slower transcode
  landed last and played the middle item under the last one's title, recording its progress there)
  or attach a stream to the detached <video> after Back, never destroyed.
- The <video>'s clock is trusted only once the new session has answered. go()'s pause() fires a
  timeupdate AFTER the reset to 0 (measured in Chrome), so the previous item's position was sent as
  the next item's subtitle position and saved as its progress (final, pushed to Plex).
- Next settles the item being left (final checkpoint + reopen-cache patch) before switching: the
  progress cleanup ran with the position already reset and skipped, so every Next dropped the last
  stretch watched.
- A seek-restart puts its target into the position state too; the ref alone was re-synced back to
  the pre-seek spot by the restart's own render.
- The unmount teardown captures the <video> at mount: React detaches refs before an unmount's
  cleanups, so the stop/detach never ran.
- The tracks panel exposes the selected audio/subtitle track via aria-pressed.

Verified in real Chrome on localdev (Westworld S1E6 → Next): the item left was settled at 783 s, the
next asked for subtitles at its own start (0), and no progress was written for it.
2026-09-11 18:04:41 +02:00
peter 4f37c41021 fix(plex): a subtitle failure about one position no longer ends the track, and windows are read ahead and never wait behind a full pass
Deep-review round 3 of bug hunt 2026-09.

- `failed` is now final only for a track that can never be text (bitmap, no item/track/file). A Plex
  hiccup or a stretch ffmpeg could not read answers `unavailable`: said, polled again every 5 s, and
  the <track> stays mounted when cues exist elsewhere (gen > 0). Re-picking the selected track asks
  the server again at once.
- Within LOOKAHEAD_S of a covered stretch's end the next window is read ahead, instead of only once
  the playhead has fallen off it (subtitles dropped out at every edge while the full pass was backed
  off or slower than a window lasts).
- Windows and full passes run on separate pools with separate in-flight caps, so a window never
  queues behind (or is refused by) minute-long full passes — the pool comment promised that and
  nothing enforced it.
- A pass that times out is TERMinated and keeps what it reached (published as partial) instead of
  being killed and discarded.
- Lapsed failure memos are swept on every write (they were only pruned when the same key was read
  again, so polling fresh keys grew the process without bound).
- `publish` no longer merges into a sidecar with no VTT behind it, or claims a region whose VTT write
  failed, or overwrites an unreadable track with one window.
- A NUL in a rating_key names no row (it was a DataError, a 500, on every Plex route) and no longer
  500s the status poll.

Tests: 16 new, each mutation-checked (18 mutations, all red on the test that names them).
2026-09-11 18:04:30 +02:00
peter f7faa19ee2 fix(plex): the player starts, and resumes after a session-restart seek, when React mounts it twice
The player's "still alive" flag — every play() is gated on it, so a late one cannot start a detached
<video> after Back — was only ever LOWERED, in an effect's cleanup. React may run a cleanup and mount
again (StrictMode does exactly that in development), and then the flag stayed false for the life of
the player: it never started by itself, and a seek back past the loaded region, which restarts the
session, left it paused. Found on localdev (Westworld S01E06: playing → seek back → the picture
settles, paused). Production does not double-mount, which is why only dev showed it — and why
several earlier localdev measurements "stayed paused".

The effect now raises the flag in its setup. A new test renders the real player under StrictMode and
checks it plays once the media is ready; red without the fix. Verified on localdev: it starts by
itself, and keeps playing through a backward session-restart seek.
2026-09-11 03:47:36 +02:00
peter 0b4b268678 test(feed): pin the sort options' default directions as literals
The feedSortOptions test compared each option's default direction against SORT_DEFAULT_DIR — the
implementation's own table, so a wrong entry passed — and that import was the export's only user
outside its module, which kept knip from seeing it had become dead after F3. The test now states the
directions, the table is private again.
2026-09-11 03:19:17 +02:00
peter d349bc9084 fix(plex): a collection's failed watched toggle is put back the way it was
C1 moved the optimistic flip onto the key the page reads — and so made visible that nothing corrects
it: the resync only invalidated `plex-library`, so a failed toggle stayed "watched" beside its own
error toast, and the collection's other cached sort orders stayed stale after a good one. The
resync now takes this page's `detail` prefix too, as the Discover and person pages do for theirs.
The C1 test holds the request open, so it still pins the optimistic write on its own.
2026-09-11 03:19:17 +02:00
peter dcd8a9566a fix(playlists): the player's Remove follows the list it was launched from, the player survives a change of selection, and a gone list is said in the reader's language
- D3 snapshotted the removal's TARGET, but whether the player offered Remove still followed the
  selected list: launched from Watch later (no Remove, by design), selecting another list under it
  made Remove appear — and delete from Watch later. The snapshot now carries the launch list's
  editability too.
- Selecting another list under an open player (the command palette works over it) put the page into
  "Loading…", and the player was rendered only in the loaded branch — it vanished mid-playback and
  came back at its launch video. It now sits at one place in the tree whatever the page is doing.
- A removal takes the video out of the CACHED list as well as the rows: the player's progress
  checkpoint rewrote that entry before the refetch landed, handing the membership guard a list that
  still held the video — the row came back and the undo history went.
- The watched-state callback refreshed the selected list, not the launch list (D3's sibling).
- `_own_playlist`'s 404 is structured (`{"code": "playlist", "reason": "not_found"}`) and localised:
  the bare "Unknown playlist" reached the Hungarian UI in English, which also made round 1's new
  `removeFailed` string unreachable. Both Remove and Move report through `notifyActionError` now.
- The "viewer moved on under the confirm" test stepped back only once, which lands on the same video
  whether or not the removed one left the queue; it now takes the second step that tells them apart.
2026-09-11 03:19:07 +02:00
peter 6de2cd950d fix(ui): toasts raised while a full-screen player is open show inside it, not under its scrim
The app's Toaster lives in the content column, which is a stacking context (its `@container` implies
layout containment), so both full-screen players — portalled to <body> at the same z-index — painted
over every toast. Round 1's "a failed Remove is reported" fix was therefore still silent inside the
player: its toast sat under an 80% black, blurred scrim (elementFromPoint returned the scrim), and a
click on it closed the player.

An overlay now mounts its own `<Toaster overlay />`, and exactly one host shows the toasts: the most
recently mounted overlay, else the app's. Same component, same look — and inside the aria-modal
dialog, where a screen reader can still reach it. A click on a toast inside an overlay stays there.
Both players get one (the Plex player's also works in native fullscreen, where nothing outside the
fullscreen element is drawn). Verified on localdev: the removal failure reads above the scrim,
bottom-left, and clicking it leaves the player open.
2026-09-11 03:18:55 +02:00
peter 645d14f45d fix(plex): a subtitle track's failed load is heard and retried with a pause, and the poll asks about the right item, position and failure
- The <track>'s `error` never reached `onSubTrackError`: it does not bubble, and React 18 attaches no
  listener of its own to a <track> (measured in Chrome and jsdom — `onError` 0 calls, `onErrorCapture`
  1). Round 1's remount-and-give-up was dead code behind it. The hook now hands the player
  `onErrorCapture`, and the test fires a real non-bubbling `error` at a rendered <track>.
- Once reachable, the retry burned its whole budget within milliseconds of an outage (a remount
  fetches at once) and the give-up outlived turning subtitles off and on. Retries now wait (2 s,
  doubling), running out is reported at once, and picking the track again starts a fresh budget.
- Until the first timeupdate the poll sent `sessionK` — still 0 while the session request was out,
  and the PREVIOUS item's start after a move to the next episode. It now sends where the session was
  asked to start, and the track choice belongs to the item it was made for, so the next item is not
  asked about the old ordinal at the old position.
- A failing poll over a stale `partial` answer was silent: react-query keeps the last good data, the
  track stayed "showable", and the notice only rendered for an unmounted track. The hook now decides
  what the player says (`subNotice`), independently of whether a window is mounted.
2026-09-11 03:18:42 +02:00
peter 7360339039 fix(api): a non-finite number in a JSON body is refused with a 422, not a 500
The JSON parser under FastAPI accepts `Infinity`/`NaN`, and both progress checkpoints truncate the
position with `int()` — a hand-written checkpoint came back as a 500 with a traceback. Their bodies
now refuse non-finite floats, and the app's validation handler — FastAPI's own shape — echoes a
non-finite input by name: the default one failed to serialise its own error (JSON has no NaN), which
was a 500 by another route. Sibling of the subtitle routes' non-finite query parameters.
2026-09-11 03:18:17 +02:00
peter 473d9f02f2 fix(plex): subtitle windows land where the full pass does, and the extractor stops re-reading, respawning and outliving the process
Deep-review round 2 of the 2026-09 bug hunt, over the round-1 fix diff.

- A window was LATE by the distance to the keyframe its input seek landed on, and then doubled for
  good once the full pass merged in: a cue already running at the window's start came out at a
  negative time, and the webvtt muxer's default shifted the whole output so it sat at 0. Measured on
  the real Westworld S01E06 at 25:00: every window cue +5.005 s, 682 cues merged instead of 608.
  `-avoid_negative_ts disabled` keeps the times exact (the parser reads ffmpeg's signed-field
  spelling of a negative time); now 608/608 on that file, and a real-ffmpeg test pins it.
- A full pass that failed was re-armed every minute while the viewer watched what it did publish —
  a whole-container read per minute. It now backs off for an hour; windows keep running meanwhile.
- A failed WINDOW set the track's failure memo, so any uncovered position read "failed" — a final
  answer that ends the player's poll, even with the full pass about to deliver, and one any account
  could plant with an absurd `at`. It now marks only the span it failed to read; "failed" is given
  once the full pass AND a window there have both failed.
- Windows join by what they COVER, not a bucketed identity: a backward seek no longer waits behind a
  window that cannot cover it, and a playhead crossing a bucket edge no longer queues a second read.
  The queue is bounded per track and overall.
- shutdown() sets a flag a worker checks before it spawns ffmpeg (one still in its Plex lookup used to
  start a read after the kill sweep); queued-job cancellation and the lifespan call are now tested.
- A window starts where ffmpeg is told to seek (rounded to the ms it gets), a rounded-up millisecond
  carries into the minute (no more `00:00:60.000`), a key's first publish claims nothing before its
  VTT lands, and `at`/`offset`/`start`/`aoff` refuse non-finite values (`at` also an absurd one).
2026-09-11 03:18:08 +02:00
peter d2e225666b test(playlists): let react-query's notify tick run inside act before the reopen click
The D1 regression test patched the cache and clicked at once; react-query delivers a cache write to
its observers on a setTimeout(0), so under the gate's parallel load the click could beat the page's
re-render and read the old row (748, not 830). Test-only race — a human reopen comes seconds later.
Stable across three full-suite runs; the D1 mutation still turns it red.
2026-09-11 01:45:53 +02:00
peter efd95fca01 fix(ui): the card's channel name is a real link too; call sites the bug hunt left untested now have tests
Deep-review R6 — the small items:

- The video card's channel name was still a <button> (pre-existing): ctrl/middle-click did nothing
  there while the title above it and the player's channel name honoured them. It renders through
  ChannelNameLink now, which grew a forwarded ref (the clamp measurement), pass-through attributes,
  a `tooltip`, and an opt-in `stopPropagation` so no click reaches the card's row.
- ChannelNameLink rendered an empty, still-tabbable <a> for a channel with no title yet (a stub first
  seen through a live search; pre-existing at this site). It falls back to the translated "Channel".
- The feed's SortKey→SortOption mapping existed twice in Feed.tsx; one `feedSortOptions` in
  feedSort.ts serves both modes (DIRECTIONLESS is module-private again).
- The backfill refresh's comment claimed a one-page cost. It refetches every loaded page of the
  grid, and that is the right price: backfilled videos are older, so they land below the head.

Tests for call sites that could be deleted with every lane green: the channel page running the
backfill refresh (knip had been blinded by the hook test's import), Feed handing the grid the live
results in the chosen key AND direction, the card using the link. Plus the alt-click arm of the shared
click predicate, and a plex filter-chip test that claimed it made no request while firing a real one.
Verified on localdev: the feed's channel names are anchors (same 14 px muted look), a plain click
opens the channel in-app. 7 mutations, each red on its assertion.
2026-09-11 01:38:31 +02:00
peter 060deb89d2 fix(playlists): "remove" inside the player targets the list it came from, reports failure, and keeps the cursor and focus honest
Deep-review R5 — five defects in the Remove button f76a2afb put inside the YT player:

- It removed from whichever playlist was selected by the time it was pressed, not the one the player
  was launched from; the selection can change under an open player (the command palette opens over
  it). The launch list is now part of the player snapshot, and the optimistic row removal only
  touches the list actually on screen.
- A 403/404 failed in total silence: the catch claimed the global dialog had reported it, but `req`
  deliberately leaves those to the caller. It now notifies, as moveItemTo already did (the silent
  catch predates this round; the full-screen consumer did not). New key playlists.removeFailed, HU+EN.
- It computed the next item from the cursor as it was when the button was pressed, but prev/next and
  auto-advance keep working under the confirm dialog: the viewer was thrown back onto a video they had
  moved past. It reads the live cursor, and if they moved on it just drops the item from the queue.
- The button was disabled for the confirm's lifetime, so the dialog's focus restore hit a disabled
  element and a keyboard user who cancelled was left on <body>, outside the aria-modal player. A ref
  guards the double press instead.
- Its accessible name was a bare "Remove"; it now names its object, like the row control.

The call-site wiring (step on, drop from the queue, close on the last item, leave everything alone
when the removal did not happen) finally has tests. Verified on localdev in the real YT player: a row
reopened at the 136 s it had just stored; Cancel returned focus to the Remove button; a confirmed
removal stepped 1/3 -> 1/2. 10 mutations, each red on its assertion. Scratch list and positions reset.
2026-09-11 01:28:27 +02:00
peter 4869d6c108 fix(player): the resume position reaches the playlist page and live search, not just the feed
Deep-review R4. 1630a3df wrote the YT player's stored position into the react-query cache so a
reopen could not rewind it — but only the feed actually read it back:

- Playlists renders from its own undoable copy of the list, re-seeded only when the SET of ids
  changes, so the patched position never reached it: close a video at 830 s, reopen it from the
  playlist, and it resumed at the old spot and the next checkpoint wrote that over the 830. A detail
  with the same membership now rebases its fresh rows into every snapshot, keeping order and undo
  history. (The ids-only guard is older than this round; the write that depended on it was new.)
- Live YouTube search results carry the same per-user position and open the same player, but their
  cache was never patched. It is now — patched only, never invalidated, since refetching an
  API-sourced search page spends 100 quota units.

Tests for what had none: a Playlists harness (PlayerModal stubbed to record its launch props) and a
PlayerModal harness with a fake IFrame API that records where each item is started — the latter pins
that stepping back to an item watched earlier in the same session resumes at THIS session's position.
3 mutations, each red on its assertion.
2026-09-11 01:19:14 +02:00
peter d20317e0f1 fix(plex): the collection page's watched toggle and Sort control survive the sort joining the query key
Deep-review R3. When 889d2acf put the sort into the collection detail's query key, two things on
the page did not follow it:

- The watched toggle's optimistic write kept the key's old spelling. setQueryData matches exactly,
  so it landed on an entry nothing reads, and its resync only invalidates the library root — the
  click succeeded server-side and changed nothing on screen (badge, icon, aria-label) until a
  reload; a second click toggled it back. One `detailKey` now serves the read and the write.
- Every sort change was a key with no data yet, so the whole page — hero, grid, and the Sort control
  with its open panel — was swapped for a spinner, and focus fell to <body>: key and direction could
  not be set in one visit. The previous page now stays on screen while the new order loads, for the
  SAME collection only (stepping to another must not show this one's hero meanwhile).

Verified on localdev (Rocky Collection): the toggle flips the poster; IMDb rating then Descending set
in one open panel, the hero never blanked, order reversed. 3 mutations, each red on its test.
2026-09-11 01:12:51 +02:00
peter d2ba65e383 fix(plex): the subtitle poll backs off on errors, a failed <track> is replaced, and a resume asks for the right window
Deep-review R2, plus one defect found while verifying it on localdev.

- The status poll re-armed every second after a FAILED request: `data` stays empty on an error,
  so it read as "still preparing" for as long as the player was open — and the request was not
  quiet, so a persistent 500 re-opened the global error dialog every second. It now backs off to
  10 s (a blip still heals on its own) and is quiet; the player already shows the failure inline.
- A <track> whose own VTT fetch failed never fetched again: with the server's answer unchanged its
  key was unchanged, so React kept the dead element — silently blank subtitles. The key (now built
  in the hook, where it is tested) carries a failed-load count; after two remounts the track is
  reported as unavailable instead.
- Found in UAT: until the first timeupdate `abs` is 0, so after a resume every poll said at=0 and
  the first window was cut around the head of the film (a resume at 20:00 polled at=0 for as long
  as it stayed paused). The poll reports the session's start until playback ticks. And the window's
  dedup identity is the track plus a window-length bucket of its start — keyed on the track alone
  (R1), the right window queued behind that wrong one.

The poll's start/stop rules finally have tests (every earlier one resolved a single fixed answer).
Verified on localdev against Westworld S1E6 resumed at 20:00: the polls carried at=1197, one
subtitle line on screen at 21:02, the poll stopped at `ready`; the real file's window (56 cues) +
full pass (608) merged to 608 — the old merge would have served 664. 11 mutations, all red.
2026-09-11 01:08:27 +02:00
peter cf7ec5e9ec fix(plex): the subtitle extractor's seams — doubled cues, a truncated track cached as whole, a poll that respawned ffmpeg
Deep-review of the bug-hunt round (R1). The background extractor from ed4ab4e1 held, but its seams
did not:

- Window + full pass doubled every cue in the first hour. merge_vtt de-duplicated on the raw timing
  text, and the two passes spell a timestamp differently (shift_vtt writes HH:MM:SS.mmm, ffmpeg's
  webvtt muxer drops the hour below 1 h; shift_vtt(-0.0) never normalised the full pass). Timing is
  now parsed and re-emitted canonically, keyed with the cue text so two cues sharing a time survive.
- A full pass that exited non-zero was published as complete: "ready" forever, subtitles ending
  where ffmpeg died, and no eviction to ever retry. It now covers only up to its last cue, is never
  complete, and records the failure memo.
- The window's dedup identity held the live playhead, so every 1 s poll queued another read of the
  file. It is keyed on the track now, and a queued job re-checks coverage before reading anything.
- A sidecar track waited behind an unrelated embedded full pass (the full job is per item). Its
  window job now fetches it whole — one small request.
- The <track> fetch ran the scheduler at position 0: an unrequested window over the head of the file,
  and a refusal of a window that was on disk. It is a pure read of the cache now.
- publish() is serialised (a lost update became permanent once complete was set); the pool is shut
  down and running ffmpeg children killed at app shutdown (they held interpreter exit for minutes);
  ?at=inf is a 422, not a 500; and both subtitle routes use current_user instead of the cookie-only
  poster gate, which let a suspended or epoch-revoked session keep scheduling reads (pre-existing).

_extract_and_publish finally has tests of its own — every earlier test stubbed it out. 19 mutations,
each red on the assertion that names it.
2026-09-11 00:52:59 +02:00
peter f76a2afbf1 feat(ui): the four small gaps — player delete, repeat-move, a real channel link, YT search sorting
Items 2, 4, 5 and 7 of the bug hunt, one round. They are independent, but they are all the same
kind of thing: an action that exists somewhere else in the app and is missing where you actually
want it.

**5 — the channel name in the YT player is a link again.** It was a `<button>`, so middle-click and
Ctrl/Cmd-click did nothing on a thing that looks exactly like a link (the YouTube icon beside it IS
an anchor and opens a tab). It is now a real `<a>` whose href is the same `?chan=<id>` URL
`openChannel` pushes, with a plain left click still taking the in-app path — that path does more
than navigate, since the player must close and reclaim its own Back-to-close history entry first.
The "is this click ours or the browser's" test is now ONE predicate (`isPlainLeftClick`), which
VideoCard's card link also uses, so a second such link cannot forget the middle-click arm.

**2 — "Remove" from inside the player.** The parent owns the removal (the SAME `removeItem` the row
menu and the inline ✕ use: one confirm, one optimistic update, one undo-stack rebase), and the
player owns what happens next, because it is the only side that knows which item is playing — its
launch queue is frozen at mount. It drops the item, plays what followed, and closes when the list
runs out. That forced a real fix in Playlists: the player's mount was derived from `shown` every
render, so anything that dropped the launch row yanked the player off the screen mid-playback. That
was a latent edge (change the view and it happens) and the normal case for this feature. The parent
now snapshots what it launched with, and only onClose takes the player down.

**4 — "Move to <the last list you moved to>".** The submenu is two levels deep and moving a run of
videos into the same list is the shape this gets used in. The remembered id is a per-account pref;
the row is derived from `moveTargets`, which already excludes the list you are looking at, so it
cannot offer a move to where the video already is. Remembered only on a SUCCESSFUL move — a
shortcut to a move that failed is a shortcut to failing again. Absent, not disabled, when there is
nothing to repeat: there is nothing to explain.

**7 — the live-YouTube results can be sorted.** Client-side, over the page already loaded. Not a
new `order=` param, and this is the decision worth recording: the owner's case is "even one page of
results", i.e. reorder what is on screen; a re-query would REPLACE the results, which is not what
"sort these" means; and the zero-quota scrape source has no order parameter at all, so a
server-side control would silently do nothing (or quietly cost 100 quota units) depending on which
source served the page. Only keys a search hit carries are offered — `subscribers`/`priority`
describe a subscription, which a search hit is not, and `shuffle` on a ranked list is noise. Its
own pref, so sorting a search page never re-sorts the library behind it.

Verified in the browser on localdev against the real account: the channel name renders as
`<a href="…&chan=…">` and a ctrl-click / middle-click is left to the browser while a plain click
still opens the channel in-app; removing from the player stepped 1/3 → 1/2 onto the next video and
closed on the last one; the row menu grew "Move to “…”" only after a move and only on a list that
is not the target; and the results sort reordered by views 41.7M → 29.8M → 24.2M → 15.8M. (The
pane's own ctrl-click arrives without the modifier — a harness limit, so the modifier cases were
driven as real MouseEvents.) Scratch playlists and the touched prefs were cleaned up afterwards.

22 vitest, mutation-checked against 14 mutations (no href at all · href without the rest of the
query · every click hijacked in-app · the middle-click arm dropped from the predicate · plain click
no longer in-app · always jumping to the top of the list · the removed item left in the queue · no
clamp when the last item goes · an empty queue not reported as "nothing left" · sort-then-reverse
flipping ties · unknown values first · titles compared numerically · shuffle offered on search
results · direction ignored) — each red on exactly the test that names it. Item 4 has no test of
its own: its rule is enforced by construction, not by a check.
2026-09-10 22:34:12 +02:00
peter 889d2acf52 feat(plex): the collection page sorts, and a linked collection has a name
Two halves of the same report ("Collectionben nem működik a rendezés?"). The pasted browse URL
sorts correctly — that part was working. What did not:

The Collection INFO page had no sort control at all and a hardcoded release-year-ascending order.
It now shows the browse grid's Sort control, with the browse grid's vocabulary, because a second
sort vocabulary on a neighbouring surface is exactly the kind of drift this repo keeps paying for:
`PLEX_SORT_KEYS` is now one tuple in `plex/query.py`, and a test pins BOTH implementations to it —
browse's key→column map (extracted from the handler to be reachable) and the collection page's
key→member map. A key added to the vocabulary without teaching one of them fails the gate instead
of putting a dead option in the menu.

Ordering a collection cannot be a single ORDER BY: its two legs are different tables, so the merged
member list is sorted in Python. Members with no value for the key sink to the END in both
directions (a movie with no rating is not "the worst rated" — the browse grid's `nullslast()`), and
ties always resolve title-ascending, so flipping the direction reverses the ranking rather than the
alphabet inside it. `lastwatched` needed the show leg's `resumed_at`, so the page now takes ONE
rollup pass that yields both the badge status and the recency instead of the status alone — without
it that menu entry would have ordered every show as never-watched. The default stays release-year
ascending: a franchise reads in release order, and that is what the page did before.

The other half: a shared Plex link carries the collection filter as bare rating_keys, so a link
opened cold had no name for them — the sidebar token rendered `17045` and the chip could only say
"Collection". `GET /api/plex/collections` takes a `keys=` CSV now, and a display-only hook resolves
just the missing ids. It deliberately does NOT write them into `collectionTitles`: that map is
hashed into the Plex query keys, so storing a resolved label there would split the cache from the
identical state and refetch the grid for a piece of text.

Verified in the browser on localdev against the real Plex library: the movie collection's menu
offers Length and the show collection's does not (the same scope rule as browse); rating-ascending
reorders 8.1/7.4/7.2/6.6/6.5 correctly; `lastwatched` on a show collection brings the in-progress
shows up; the choice survives a reload (it is a server pref, on its own key so opening a collection
never re-sorts the library behind it); and the reported URL now reads "Pirates of the Caribbean
Collection" in both the sidebar and the chip.

12 pytest + 8 vitest, mutation-checked against 14 mutations (direction ignored, nulls first, no
stable tiebreak, unknown key untouched, wrong default, show recency dropped, empty `keys=` falling
through to everything, a key missing from either sort map, every id refetched, ids unsorted,
fetched titles unmerged, the chip ignoring them, the hook's result never reaching the builder) —
each red on exactly the test that names it.
2026-09-10 22:05:39 +02:00
peter 782362b808 fix(channels): the video grid follows a running backfill instead of freezing until F5
"Get full history" on a channel page left the list on the cards the channel already had. The
count above it climbed into the thousands, the grid did not move, and only a browser F5 brought
the rest in.

The mechanism: the backfill runs in a BackgroundTask, so the PATCH that starts it returns before
a single row is written — and the mutation invalidates `qk.feed()` on that RESPONSE, which just
refetches the OLD catalogue. Nothing afterwards refetches it: the feed's infinite query has no
interval, and the app-wide defaults are `staleTime: 30s` + `refetchOnWindowFocus: false`. The job
emits no event either (the realtime layer only carries messages today), so the channel detail's
4s live poll is the only thing in the app that sees the job progress — and it refreshed only
`qk.channel`.

So the poll now drives the grid too: on a tick where the stored count moved (or the backfill
finished), it invalidates `qk.feed()` and the `qk.feedSummary()` behind the count pill. The window
is the poll's own (`deep_requested && !backfill_done` on the previous reading), so a detail
refetch caused by some other mutation — each of which invalidates the feed itself — cannot come
through here twice.

Measured on localdev against the real account, same instrument, `document.visibilityState`
forced visible (the poll deliberately pauses on a hidden tab, and a headless pane reads hidden —
without that the first measurement was about the harness, not the fix):

  before — CASCADA 19 -> 176 stored: the header updated live to "162 normal", the grid and its
           count pill sat on "5 items" for 50s.
  after  — fern 54 -> 139 stored: "54 items" -> "139 items" by ~12s, no reload.

6 vitest, mutation-checked against six mutations (no invalidation at all; grid only, count pill
forgotten; predicate ignored; no channel-identity guard; completion with an unchanged count
dropped; poll-window guard dropped) — each one red on exactly the test that names it.
2026-09-10 20:56:16 +02:00
peter 5a42d76e8a feat(plex): an off-by-default loudness normalisation toggle for playback
Bug hunt 2026-09, item 14 — "how does the multichannel downmix work, and is it
normalised?" It isn't: `plex/stream.py` has always encoded `-c:a aac -ac 2 -b:a
192k`, i.e. fixed stereo with ffmpeg's default downmix matrix and no loudness
handling at all, which is why a film mastered for a cinema arrives with whispered
dialogue and deafening action.

New admin knob `plex_audio_loudnorm` (Configuration → Plex), DEFAULT OFF: it makes
a film markedly louder and narrows its dynamic range, which is a taste call rather
than a fix. It sits at the end of the Plex group, after the software-transcode
knobs — it is an audio concern, not one of the libx264 ones.

  -af aformat=channel_layouts=stereo,loudnorm=I=-16:TP=-1.5:LRA=11,aresample=48000

Three things about that chain are load-bearing and each has a test:

  * the downmix is FORCED FIRST rather than left to `-ac 2` — measuring 5.1 and
    folding it down afterwards would normalise something other than what is heard;
  * the trailing resample is not decoration: `loudnorm` runs its own resampler at
    192 kHz internally, which the AAC encoder will not take;
  * one `-af`, no stream index, so EVERY audio rendition of a multi-audio file is
    normalised — not just the first.

The knob is also part of the session directory name (`…_multi-ln_+0.00`), because
it changes the audio the segments contain, and a session left over from before the
admin flipped it must not be mistaken for one that honours it. The suffix is
appended with a DASH: `_SESSION_DIR_RE` treats the tag as one underscore-free
field, and that regex is the only thing keeping the orphan sweep off what may be a
shared scratch path. A test pins both halves — the name changes, and the sweep
still recognises it.

Measured end-to-end on the app's own HLS segments (a real 5.1 AC3 file, same item,
same 160 s offset, same ten segments): OFF -35.2 LUFS, ON -17.2 LUFS. On a 60 s
bench: I -27.6 → -16.6 LUFS with LRA 13.3 → 9.8 LU. A/V sync is untouched — under
this pipeline's own `-copyts` the audio start PTS is identical with and without the
filter, so the 3 s lookahead desyncs nothing.

Direct-played files are served untouched and stay so; a 5.1 mix is always `remux`,
so the reported case is fully covered.
2026-09-10 20:02:06 +02:00
peter ed4ab4e13c fix(plex): subtitles stop blocking the request, and stop re-reading the file
Bug hunt 2026-09, items 8 and 12 — the two things the Plex player was measurably
lying about.

Item 8: picking a subtitle track showed nothing for a long time, and the reported
workaround was to stop/start until it suddenly worked. Measured on prod against a
17.06 GB MKV with two embedded SubRip tracks:

  full pass, one track                154 s
  full pass, both tracks in ONE run   111 s
  -c:s copy (no WebVTT conversion)    143 s
  from 1:00:00 to the end of file      66 s
  a 630 s window at 1:00:00, both       8 s

So the conversion was never the cost: ffmpeg streams every byte of the container
between its seek point and its stop point, and the array delivers ~140 MB/s. The
only lever is reading less. Three changes follow from that:

  * a window around the playhead is extracted and published FIRST (seconds), and
    the full pass completes behind it;
  * every embedded text track rides that same single read — picking Hungarian used
    to cost a full pass and then switching to English cost another one;
  * none of it happens inside a request any more. The endpoint answers 202 while a
    background worker extracts, the player polls /status (carrying its position, so
    the window follows the viewer), and one ffmpeg run finally has a timeout.

-copyts is deliberately absent from a windowed pass: with it ffmpeg ignores -t and
reads the whole container anyway (measured — a [0, 600 s] window still took the
full 145 s), so a window comes back on a zero-based clock and is shifted to
absolute time here. Cached tracks written by older builds have no coverage sidecar
and count as complete, so nothing is re-extracted after the upgrade.

The <track> is no longer mounted before the server has something to put in it; a
"Preparing subtitles: …" notice stands in, and a track that can never be shown says
why instead of leaving the viewer to conclude the picker does nothing.

Item 12: "Bitrate" read a constant 211 kbps on every remux, because it was the
master playlist's BANDWIDTH — which ffmpeg derives from the one stream whose rate
it knows, the -b:a 192k AAC track, plus 10%. It is a measurement now: bytes per
second of MEDIA from hls.js FRAG_LOADED, accumulated per fragment type and summed
(a multi-audio session's video and audio renditions cover the same media seconds,
so pooling them would report half the truth), and an honest dash until the first
fragment lands. The panel also finally names the audio and subtitle track in play.

Verified in the browser against the real Plex library, and every new test
mutation-checked.
2026-09-10 19:31:05 +02:00
peter b8bff504d8 fix(plex): "Clear resume point" now tells Plex about an in-progress item
The button deletes the local row and mirrors the un-mark to Plex, but it decided whether
to push from the previous STATUS alone (prev_status != "new") — and an in-progress item's
row is status="new" carrying a position, which is exactly how the importer maps a bare
viewOffset. So for the single case the button exists for, nothing was ever sent to Plex:
the offset stayed, and the next pull imported it straight back. The user cleared Protector
twice and it returned to Continue watching at 92s both times.

Push now when Plex holds anything to clear — a view count, or a resume point. "hidden"
stays Siftlode-only and pushes nothing, which is what this endpoint's docstring always
claimed and the status-only guard contradicted.

One unscrobble clears BOTH viewCount and viewOffset — measured against the live server from
a watched+offset state and an offset-only one, so the push itself needed no change. The
client docstring that claimed "clears viewCount" is what sent the first diagnosis down a
wrong path (a timeline write with time=0, which does not clear an offset at all); it now
records what the server actually does.

Verified end to end on the real Plex server: the button leaves viewCount=None viewOffset=None,
and a full 44,885-item re-import brings back no row for it.
2026-09-09 23:55:51 +02:00
peter 1630a3df3c fix(player): the YT progress checkpoint reaches the cache, so a reopen cannot rewind it
The player checkpointed every 5s and the server stored it, but nothing wrote the new
position back into react-query: the close path only marked qk.feed() stale with
refetchType "none", and nothing refetches the feed until it remounts (staleTime 30s,
refetchOnWindowFocus off). So the resume read the position the cache had been FETCHED
with, and the next checkpoint then persisted that older value over the newer one.

Measured on localdev: played to 830s, closed (server had 830), reopened the same card
without a reload -> the row was back to 751s. 79 seconds of progress destroyed by a
reopen, and the card's progress bar never moved either.

The Plex player already solved this for its detail query, with a comment describing the
identical failure; this is the feed-side twin that was missed in that sweep. patchCachedProgress
writes the position the SERVER stored (the endpoint clears trivially-early and near-finished
checkpoints to 0, so mirroring our own reading would disagree with the row) into every cached
feed page and playlist detail, keeping array identity where nothing changed. A session map
covers the second half: the launch queue is frozen at mount, so stepping next->prev back to an
item played earlier in the same session resumed from that snapshot.

Verified in the browser: 811 -> close 816 -> reopen 825, and the card now shows Continue/Restart.
2026-09-09 23:55:51 +02:00
peter 14b5fe2e31 release: 0.83.0 (feature/e24-anti-paralysis)
gate / frontend (push) Failing after 2m5s
gate / backend (push) Successful in 7m0s
2026-09-09 22:04:14 +02:00
peter d260aabfd7 chore(release): 0.83.0 — the Home surface 2026-09-09 22:01:33 +02:00
peter d832bb19ce fix(e24): review round 4 — a test that pinned nothing, and prose still ahead of the code
Round 4 reviewed round 3's commit. Nothing in production behaviour was wrong; what was wrong
was the round's own test and its comments, which is the failure class this loop keeps
finding.

- The new NavigationProvider case named after the `&& !channelViewRef.current` clause never
  reached it. With storage cleared and a bare URL the provider lands on "home" (E24's own
  default), not "feed", so asking for "feed" was an ordinary page change and the guard's
  first conjunct short-circuited. Deleting the clause left all 828 tests green — a dead nav
  control (the rail's own module stops closing an open channel page) with no red anywhere.
  The test now asserts the precondition and calls `setPage` with the page that IS current.
- Both new Home cases rejected a promise and then asserted after one fixed macrotask.
  React-query notifies through `notifyManager`'s own `setTimeout(0)`, registered after any
  timer the test schedules, so the assertion raced it; two reviewers measured intermittent
  reds. They poll for a signal that the rejection LANDED instead — the reroll button
  releasing, which is also the honest one for the empty-answer case, where the empty state is
  already on screen while the press is in flight and asserting it early would pass either way.
- `buryUnder`'s comment still opened with "one rule for both entry points" ten lines above the
  paragraph saying the rule is complete only for one of them, listed the non-reporting palette
  rows without `openChannel` — which has its own `replaceState` no-push branch and is reached
  from PlayerModal too — and pointed at a ROADMAP.md this repository does not contain.
- `history.dom.test.ts`'s header claimed its layers close by genuine Backs only, which two of
  its own tests contradict; and `CommandPalette.ordering.dom.test.tsx` still claimed to be
  "the only assertion in the suite" doing what the file corrected in round 3 also does. Round
  3's message said that pair was handled and only one side had been.

The provider test was re-mutation-checked (dropping the clause now goes red), and both
hardened Home tests still go red against their own reverts. Seven consecutive full runs green.
Gate: ruff, ruff format, 3x tsc, eslint (0 errors), prettier, knip, vitest 828, pytest 1005.
2026-09-09 01:02:22 +02:00