release: 0.78.3 (feature/plex-playback-class-filter)

# Conflicts:
#	backend/app/plex/stream.py

Dockerfile

@@ -45,18 +45,34 @@ RUN adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" appuser \
     && mkdir -p /downloads \
     && chown appuser /app /downloads
 
-# ffmpeg: merge separate video+audio streams + postprocessing. Deno: the JavaScript runtime
-# yt-dlp uses to solve YouTube's "n" signature challenge for the web player clients (required
-# alongside the PO token, else only storyboards are offered). yt-dlp auto-detects deno on PATH.
+# ffmpeg: merge separate video+audio streams + postprocessing, and the Plex VAAPI transcode (E6 S1).
+# intel-media-va-driver (iHD): the VA driver ffmpeg's h264_vaapi needs — libva2 ships in the base but
+# no driver, so without this `vainfo`/`h264_vaapi` fail and transcode silently falls back to libx264.
+# Harmless on hosts with no /dev/dri (the driver just goes unused). Deno: the JavaScript runtime yt-dlp
+# uses to solve YouTube's "n" signature challenge for the web player clients (required alongside the PO
+# token, else only storyboards are offered). yt-dlp auto-detects deno on PATH.
 ARG DENO_VERSION=v2.9.1
 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ffmpeg unzip curl ca-certificates \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ffmpeg intel-media-va-driver unzip curl ca-certificates \
     && curl -fsSL "https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/download/${DENO_VERSION}/deno-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip" -o /tmp/deno.zip \
     && unzip -o /tmp/deno.zip -d /usr/local/bin \
     && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/deno \
     && rm /tmp/deno.zip \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+# Intel NEO OpenCL runtime (intel-opencl-icd) — needed by the Plex transcode's HDR/10-bit HW path, which
+# tone-maps HDR→SDR on the GPU via `tonemap_opencl` (Gen 9.5 / UHD 630 can't tonemap in the VAAPI VPP, so
+# OpenCL is the only HW route; without this the 10-bit branch drops to CPU libx264). NEO was REMOVED from
+# Debian trixie (this base = python:3.12-slim = trixie), so it's pulled from **bookworm** — the 22.43 there
+# still supports Gen 9.5 and its .deb runs on trixie (verified live on the prod UHD 630). The bookworm apt
+# source is added only for this one install and removed after, so it can't drift the rest of the image.
+# Harmless on hosts with no /dev/dri or no OpenCL use (the runtime just sits unused).
+RUN printf 'Types: deb\nURIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian\nSuites: bookworm\nComponents: main\nSigned-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.pgp\n' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bookworm.sources \
+    && apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends -t bookworm intel-opencl-icd \
+    && rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bookworm.sources \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
 # Install from the PINNED lock (requirements.lock, generated from requirements.txt) so the image is
 # byte-reproducible and the exact versions are the ones pip-audit scanned in CI — not whatever floats
 # up from the floor ranges on build day. Regenerate the lock when requirements.txt changes (see its header).

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.75.0
+0.78.3

backend/alembic/versions/0076_media_asset_kind.py

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+"""media_assets.media_kind (E7 S5a: the video|audio|file discriminator for the media library)
+
+Adds a stored media-kind to each asset so the library can gate its actions on it (play/edit for
+media, download-only for a generic uploaded file) instead of re-deriving from codecs in prose. The
+column is the single home of the invariant `downloads.mediakind.derive` computes at finalize.
+
+Backfill for existing rows: a stored video codec -> 'video', an audio-only codec -> 'audio', an
+editor derivative (source_kind='edit', which carries no codecs but is always a video clip) ->
+'video'. Rows still pending/errored (no codecs, not an edit) stay NULL — kind is set when they
+finalize. Empty `media_kind` never reaches the UI: only `ready`/`done` rows render actions, and
+those are all backfilled here.
+"""
+
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from alembic import op
+
+revision: str = "0076_media_asset_kind"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0075_playlist_sync_baseline"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    op.add_column("media_assets", sa.Column("media_kind", sa.String(length=16), nullable=True))
+    op.execute(
+        """
+        UPDATE media_assets
+           SET media_kind = CASE
+               WHEN vcodec IS NOT NULL THEN 'video'
+               WHEN acodec IS NOT NULL THEN 'audio'
+               WHEN source_kind = 'edit' THEN 'video'
+               ELSE NULL
+           END
+        """
+    )
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_column("media_assets", "media_kind")

backend/alembic/versions/0077_plex_playback_class.py

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+"""plex_items playback-class facet (E7: filter the feed by Direct Play / Direct Stream / Transcode)
+
+Adds the columns the playback-class filter needs:
+  * transcode_hw   — for a `playable="transcode"` item, whether the prod iGPU can hardware-transcode it
+                     (codec HW-decodable AND 8-bit SDR) vs software-only. NULL for non-transcode items.
+  * video_bit_depth — the source video bit depth (from the Plex media Stream), NULL until probed.
+  * media_probed_at — watermark for the bit-depth backfill (NULL = not yet probed).
+
+Backfill for existing rows: `transcode_hw` is derived from the ALREADY-stored `codec_video` alone (the
+same HW-decodable allow-list `plex.sync.HW_DECODABLE_CODECS` / `plex.stream` use), so the filter works
+immediately after migration. Bit depth is unknown for existing rows (the cheap Plex listing doesn't
+carry it), so a 10-bit/HDR HEVC is provisionally 'hw' here and later refined to 'sw' by the bit-depth
+backfill (`plex.sync._probe_media_batch`) once its Stream is probed. `video_bit_depth`/`media_probed_at`
+start NULL.
+"""
+
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from alembic import op
+
+revision: str = "0077_plex_playback_class"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0076_media_asset_kind"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    op.add_column("plex_items", sa.Column("transcode_hw", sa.Boolean(), nullable=True))
+    op.add_column("plex_items", sa.Column("video_bit_depth", sa.Integer(), nullable=True))
+    op.add_column(
+        "plex_items", sa.Column("media_probed_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True)
+    )
+    op.create_index("ix_plex_items_transcode_hw", "plex_items", ["transcode_hw"])
+    # Codec-only derivation for existing rows — keep this codec set identical to
+    # plex.sync.HW_DECODABLE_CODECS. Bit depth is unknown here, so provisionally 8-bit (→ hw for a
+    # decodable codec); the bit-depth backfill downgrades 10-bit/HDR HEVC to sw later.
+    op.execute(
+        """
+        UPDATE plex_items
+           SET transcode_hw = CASE
+               WHEN playable = 'transcode'
+               THEN lower(codec_video) IN ('h264','hevc','h265','vp9','vc1','mpeg2video')
+               ELSE NULL
+           END
+        """
+    )
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_index("ix_plex_items_transcode_hw", table_name="plex_items")
+    op.drop_column("plex_items", "media_probed_at")
+    op.drop_column("plex_items", "video_bit_depth")
+    op.drop_column("plex_items", "transcode_hw")

backend/app/config.py

@@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
     download_default_max_bytes: int = 5_368_709_120  # 5 GiB
     download_default_max_concurrent: int = 2
     download_default_max_jobs: int = 50
+    # Per-file cap for local uploads (E7). Unlike a download (whose size is unknown until the worker
+    # finishes), an upload's size is known at ingest, so this bounds a single file directly; the
+    # user's overall byte footprint is still governed by download_default_max_bytes.
+    download_upload_max_bytes: int = 524_288_000  # 500 MiB
     # Retention: an asset expires this many days after its last access; the GC job then
     # deletes it (once no job references it) after an additional grace window.
     download_retention_days: int = 30
@@ -254,9 +258,22 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
     # that catches what the incremental history feed can't — notably an un-watch done on the Plex
     # side — so it runs far less often (daily) than the incremental pass.
     plex_watch_reconcile_interval_min: int = 1440
-    # Max concurrent transcodes for the P3 fallback. Low by default — CPU-only transcode is
-    # expensive; direct-serve (browser-compatible files) has no such limit.
+    # Max concurrent transcode sessions (playable="transcode"). Low by default — the software-fallback
+    # re-encode is CPU-heavy (the VAAPI hardware path is far cheaper and could sustain more); direct-serve
+    # and remux (stream-copy) are not capped by this.
     plex_max_transcodes: int = 4
+    # --- Transcode (playable="transcode") re-encode tuning (E6 S1) ---
+    # Hardware-encoder policy: "auto" = VAAPI (h264_vaapi) when the iGPU render node is present AND the
+    # source codec is hardware-decodable, else libx264 software; "on" = force VAAPI wherever the render
+    # node exists (skip the decodability gate); "off" = always software. See plex/stream.py `_select_encode`.
+    plex_transcode_hw: str = "auto"
+    # Software-fallback libx264 tuning (IGNORED on the VAAPI path). `preset` trades CPU for size; `crf`
+    # trades quality for size (lower = better + bigger). `max_height` caps the SOFTWARE transcode's output
+    # height (0 = keep source) so a CPU re-encode of a tall source stays affordable — the GPU path always
+    # encodes at source resolution.
+    plex_transcode_preset: str = "veryfast"
+    plex_transcode_crf: int = 20
+    plex_transcode_max_height: int = 1080
     # Where on-the-fly HLS remux segments are written (transient, reaped). Empty → a `.plex-hls`
     # dir under download_root. On localdev the download_root is a slow Windows bind-mount, so point
     # this at a fast container-local path (e.g. /var/tmp/plex-hls); prod's download_root is fast

backend/app/downloads/edit.py

@@ -438,18 +438,42 @@ _BROWSER_SAFE_VCODEC = ("h264",)
 _BROWSER_SAFE_ACODEC = ("aac", "mp3")
 
 
-def parse_probe_streams(payload: str) -> tuple[str | None, str | None]:
-    """(video_codec, audio_codec) out of ffprobe's JSON stream list, lowercased.
-
-    JSON, not the flat `default=nw=1` output: there the fields arrive in ffprobe's own struct
-    order, which puts `codec_name` BEFORE `codec_type`, so a line-by-line "remember the last
-    codec_type" parser attributes every name to the PREVIOUS stream. Measured on real downloads:
-    an ordinary H.264+AAC mp4 probed as `v=aac a=None` — the browser-playability check then
-    believed the video stream was AAC and re-encoded a perfectly fine file on every download."""
+def run_ffprobe_json(
+    path: Path,
+    *,
+    show_streams: bool = False,
+    show_format: bool = False,
+    entries: str | None = None,
+) -> dict | None:
+    """One ffprobe call → its parsed JSON dict, or None on any failure (timeout, non-zero exit,
+    missing binary, unparseable output). The SINGLE ffprobe-JSON-invocation point in the downloads
+    package: the browser-playability codec probe here and the shared media probe (`probe.probe_media`,
+    used by both the download worker's finalize and the upload ingest) both go through it, so the
+    subprocess flags/timeout/error handling live in one place instead of drifting copies."""
+    args = ["ffprobe", "-v", "error"]
+    if show_streams:
+        args.append("-show_streams")
+    if show_format:
+        args.append("-show_format")
+    if entries:
+        args += ["-show_entries", entries]
+    args += ["-of", "json", str(path)]
     try:
-        streams = json.loads(payload or "{}").get("streams") or []
-    except ValueError:
-        return None, None
+        out = subprocess.run(args, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30, check=True).stdout
+        return json.loads(out)
+    except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError, ValueError):
+        return None
+
+
+def _codecs_from_streams(streams: list) -> tuple[str | None, str | None]:
+    """(video_codec, audio_codec) lowercased from an ffprobe JSON stream list — the first of each kind.
+
+    Parsed from the JSON `streams` list, NOT ffprobe's flat `default=nw=1` output: there the fields
+    arrive in ffprobe's own struct order, which puts `codec_name` BEFORE `codec_type`, so a line-by-line
+    "remember the last codec_type" parser attributes every name to the PREVIOUS stream. Measured on real
+    downloads: an ordinary H.264+AAC mp4 probed as `v=aac a=None` — the browser-playability check then
+    believed the video stream was AAC and re-encoded a perfectly fine file on every download. Reading each
+    stream dict by its own `codec_type` is immune to that ordering."""
     vcodec = acodec = None
     for s in streams:
         name = (s.get("codec_name") or "").lower() or None
@@ -464,26 +488,10 @@ def parse_probe_streams(payload: str) -> tuple[str | None, str | None]:
 def probe_codecs(path: Path) -> tuple[str | None, str | None]:
     """Return (video_codec, audio_codec) lowercased via one ffprobe call; None for a missing
     stream or if ffprobe fails (a failed probe is treated as 'leave it alone' upstream)."""
-    try:
-        out = subprocess.run(
-            [
-                "ffprobe",
-                "-v",
-                "error",
-                "-show_entries",
-                "stream=codec_type,codec_name",
-                "-of",
-                "json",
-                str(path),
-            ],
-            capture_output=True,
-            text=True,
-            timeout=30,
-            check=True,
-        ).stdout
-    except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError):
+    data = run_ffprobe_json(path, entries="stream=codec_type,codec_name")
+    if data is None:
         return None, None
-    return parse_probe_streams(out)
+    return _codecs_from_streams(data.get("streams") or [])
 
 
 def probe_duration(path: Path) -> int:

backend/app/downloads/formats.py

@@ -5,13 +5,16 @@ of truth for what file gets produced. `format_sig` hashes exactly the fields tha
 OUTPUT BYTES, so two users picking equivalent settings share one cached MediaAsset.
 `build_ydl_opts` turns a spec into a yt-dlp options dict (format selector + postprocessors).
 
-spec shape (all keys optional; defaults applied by `normalize`):
+spec shape (all keys optional; defaults + browser-playability clamp applied by `normalize`):
     mode           "av" (audio+video) | "v" (video-only) | "a" (audio-only)
     max_height     int | null (null = best)
-    container      "mp4" | "mkv" | "webm" | null (merge/remux target for av/v)
-    audio_format   "m4a" | "mp3" | "opus" | null (extract target for mode "a")
-    vcodec         "h264" | "vp9" | "av1" | null (preference, best-effort)
+    container      always coerced to "mp4" (the only universally browser-playable container)
+    audio_format   "m4a" | "mp3" (mode "a" extract target; anything else — e.g. opus — → "m4a")
+    vcodec         always coerced to null → H.264 selected (see `normalize`); no opt-out
     embed_subs     bool     embed_chapters bool     embed_thumbnail bool     sponsorblock bool
+
+`normalize` clamps container/vcodec/audio_format so EVERY download plays in-browser (E7); the
+`container`/`vcodec` keys survive only so an old stored profile deserializes without error.
 """
 
 import hashlib
@@ -50,10 +53,12 @@ _DEFAULTS = {
 # prefer H.264+AAC (browser/iOS-compatible) rather than yt-dlp's default VP9/Opus best.
 # v3: mp4 compat now *selects* H.264 (avc1) with a progressive fallback + re-encodes the rare
 # AV1/VP9-only result to H.264, so cached AV1 assets must re-derive (fixes iOS broken-player).
-_SIG_VERSION = 3
+# v4: EVERY download is clamped to the mp4/H.264/AAC compat profile (no more mkv/webm/VP9/AV1/Opus
+# opt-out), so any asset cached under an old non-compat spec — or a stale non-H.264 mp4 that slipped
+# the v3 net — must re-derive through the current browser-safe guarantee.
+_SIG_VERSION = 4
 
 _SPONSORBLOCK_CATEGORIES = ["sponsor", "selfpromo", "interaction"]
-_VCODEC_SORT = {"h264": "vcodec:h264", "vp9": "vcodec:vp9", "av1": "vcodec:av01"}
 
 
 def normalize(spec: dict) -> dict:
@@ -76,6 +81,18 @@ def normalize(spec: dict) -> dict:
     # Audio-only files can't embed subtitles/thumbnails as video; keep the flags meaningful.
     if s["mode"] == "a":
         s["embed_subs"] = False
+    # Browser-playability guarantee (E7): the Download module exists to download → share → PLAY
+    # in-browser, so every output must play in EVERY browser, iOS/Safari/WebKit included. The only
+    # universally-safe combo is mp4 + H.264 + AAC/MP3, so we CLAMP the spec to it HERE — the single
+    # point every path (picker, stored profile, raw API) flows through — instead of only hiding
+    # options in the UI. Non-mp4 containers (mkv doesn't play at all; webm/VP9/AV1 fail iOS) and any
+    # explicit vcodec are coerced to the compat profile; Opus audio (Safari-flaky as a bare file)
+    # falls back to AAC/m4a. A source that exposes no H.264 is still caught by the worker's
+    # browser-safe re-encode (`_ensure_browser_playable`), so playback is guaranteed end-to-end.
+    s["container"] = "mp4"
+    s["vcodec"] = None
+    if s["audio_format"] not in ("m4a", "mp3"):
+        s["audio_format"] = "m4a"
     return s
 
 
@@ -153,51 +170,33 @@ def build_ydl_opts(
         )
     else:
         hcap = f"[height<=?{h}]" if h else ""
-        # Compatibility-first for mp4 (the universal container): produce H.264 video + AAC audio
-        # so shared/downloaded files play in EVERY browser, including iOS/Safari. WebKit (which
-        # every iOS browser, Brave included, is forced to use) decodes only H.264/H.265 + AAC
-        # inside mp4 — a VP9/AV1-in-mp4 file shows a broken player there, even though Chromium
-        # plays it fine. A custom profile that explicitly sets `vcodec` opts out.
-        compat = s["container"] == "mp4" and s["vcodec"] is None
+        # Every video download is the mp4/H.264 compat profile (normalize() clamps container→mp4,
+        # vcodec→None), so shared/downloaded files play in EVERY browser, iOS/Safari included. WebKit
+        # (which every iOS browser, Brave included, is forced to use) decodes only H.264/H.265 + AAC
+        # inside mp4 — a VP9/AV1-in-mp4 file shows a broken player there — so H.264 is selected at the
+        # SELECTION level, not merely preferred: a sort key can't conjure an H.264 stream a source
+        # doesn't expose as video-only. A source that ships only non-H.264 is caught after download by
+        # the worker's browser-safe re-encode (`_ensure_browser_playable`).
         if s["mode"] == "v":
-            if compat:
-                # Video-only: keep it audio-free. Prefer an H.264 *video-only* stream, then any
-                # video-only, and only fall to a progressive (audio-bearing) `best` as a last
-                # resort — same audio-free-when-possible guarantee as the old `bestvideo/best`.
-                opts["format"] = (
-                    f"bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1]{hcap}/bestvideo{hcap}"
-                    f"/best[vcodec^=avc1]{hcap}/best{hcap}"
-                )
-            else:
-                opts["format"] = f"bestvideo{hcap}/best{hcap}"
+            # Video-only: keep it audio-free. Prefer an H.264 video-only stream, then any video-only,
+            # and only fall to a progressive (audio-bearing) `best` as a last resort.
+            opts["format"] = (
+                f"bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1]{hcap}/bestvideo{hcap}/best[vcodec^=avc1]{hcap}/best{hcap}"
+            )
         else:  # av
-            if compat:
-                # Prefer H.264 at the SELECTION level, not just via format_sort: a sort key is only
-                # a *preference* and can't conjure an H.264 stream a source doesn't expose as
-                # video-only. A non-YouTube source (e.g. Facebook) may ship AV1 as the best
-                # video-only stream and H.264 only as a *progressive* (a+v) format — which
-                # `bestvideo` skips — so `bestvideo+bestaudio` picked AV1 and iOS broke. This chain
-                # tries avc1 video-only, then the avc1 progressive, then anything.
-                opts["format"] = (
-                    f"bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1]{hcap}+bestaudio[acodec^=mp4a]"
-                    f"/best[vcodec^=avc1]{hcap}"
-                    f"/bestvideo{hcap}+bestaudio/best{hcap}"
-                )
-            else:
-                opts["format"] = f"bestvideo{hcap}+bestaudio/best{hcap}"
-        if s["container"]:
-            opts["merge_output_format"] = s["container"]
-        sort = []
-        # Keep the codec preference as a tiebreaker (ranks H.264/AAC above resolution among the
-        # selected candidates); the selector above is the hard guarantee, this is belt-and-braces.
-        if compat:
-            sort += ["vcodec:h264", "acodec:aac"]
+            # avc1 video-only + m4a audio, then the avc1 progressive, then anything (re-encoded).
+            opts["format"] = (
+                f"bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1]{hcap}+bestaudio[acodec^=mp4a]"
+                f"/best[vcodec^=avc1]{hcap}"
+                f"/bestvideo{hcap}+bestaudio/best{hcap}"
+            )
+        opts["merge_output_format"] = "mp4"
+        # Codec preference tiebreaker (ranks H.264/AAC among the selected candidates); the selector
+        # above is the hard guarantee, this is belt-and-braces.
+        sort = ["vcodec:h264", "acodec:aac"]
         if h:
             sort.append(f"res:{h}")
-        if s["vcodec"] in _VCODEC_SORT:
-            sort.append(_VCODEC_SORT[s["vcodec"]])
-        if sort:
-            opts["format_sort"] = sort
+        opts["format_sort"] = sort
 
     # SponsorBlock first (marks segments), then strip them from the media + chapters.
     if s["sponsorblock"]:

backend/app/downloads/links.py

@@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ def public_meta(
 
     Resolves the owner's per-download display overrides (custom title/channel) over the asset's
     auto-extracted values, and surfaces the source + any extra reference links as clickable URLs."""
-    from app.downloads import service
+    from app.downloads import mediakind, service
 
     source_url = service.reference_url(job, asset)
-    # Audio-only assets (mp3 rips, extracted audio) carry a codec but no video stream. WebKit (all
-    # iOS browsers) refuses to play them inside a <video> element, so the watch page must render a
-    # native <audio> instead — flag it here from the recorded codecs (a real video always has vcodec).
-    is_audio = asset.vcodec is None and asset.acodec is not None
+    # Audio-only assets (mp3 rips, extracted audio) can't play inside a <video> element on WebKit
+    # (all iOS browsers), so the watch page renders a native <audio> instead. A generic uploaded
+    # file (media_kind='file') has no player at all — the watch page shows file info + a download.
+    # Both branches read the stored media_kind (the single source), not a re-derived codec check.
     return {
         "title": (job and job.display_name) or asset.title,
         "uploader": (job and job.display_uploader) or asset.uploader,
@@ -96,7 +96,10 @@ def public_meta(
         "duration_s": asset.duration_s,
         "width": asset.width,
         "height": asset.height,
-        "audio": is_audio,
+        "audio": asset.media_kind == mediakind.AUDIO,
+        "media_kind": asset.media_kind,
+        "size_bytes": asset.size_bytes,
+        "container": asset.container,
         "allow_download": link.allow_download,
         "file_url": file_url,
         "poster_url": poster_url,

backend/app/downloads/mediakind.py

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+"""The media-kind discriminator for a library asset — the single home of one invariant.
+
+`MediaAsset.media_kind` is `"video" | "audio" | "file"`. It decides which library actions apply:
+media (video/audio) gets play/edit/share; a generic uploaded file gets download + share only, and
+is never rendered inline (see the force-download serving in the file/watch routes). Every finalize
+path computes it HERE — the download worker + the upload ingest via `derive`, the editor by
+carrying the source's kind over — so the rule lives in code, not in a comment that can drift (an
+earlier ad-hoc `vcodec is None and acodec is not None` audio check lived only in links.py).
+"""
+
+VIDEO = "video"
+AUDIO = "audio"
+FILE = "file"
+
+
+def derive(vcodec: str | None, acodec: str | None) -> str:
+    """Media kind from the probed codecs: a video stream -> video, audio-only -> audio, neither
+    (a non-media upload: pdf/zip/docx/…) -> file."""
+    if vcodec:
+        return VIDEO
+    if acodec:
+        return AUDIO
+    return FILE

backend/app/downloads/pipeline.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from app.config import settings
 from app.db import SessionLocal
 from app.downloads import edit as editmod
 from app.downloads import errors as dlerrors
-from app.downloads import adapters, credentials, formats, service, storage
+from app.downloads import adapters, credentials, formats, mediakind, probe, service, storage
 from app.downloads.jobdb import (
     _edit_staging_dir,
     _job_status,
@@ -475,15 +475,15 @@ def _download(
                 asset.rel_path = rel
                 asset.size_bytes = size
                 asset.duration_s = meta.duration_s
-                asset.width = int(info["width"]) if info.get("width") else None
-                asset.height = int(info["height"]) if info.get("height") else None
+                # Codecs/dims come from a PROBE of the finished file — the ground truth — NOT yt-dlp's
+                # `info` dict, whose codec fields are absent for some sources (Facebook among them):
+                # deriving media_kind from those nulls misclassified a real H.264 video as a
+                # download-only 'file' with no in-app play/edit. Same probe the upload ingest uses.
+                asset.vcodec, asset.acodec, asset.width, asset.height = probe.resolve_media_facts(
+                    final, info
+                )
                 asset.container = ext
-                asset.vcodec = (
-                    info.get("vcodec") if info.get("vcodec") not in (None, "none") else None
-                )
-                asset.acodec = (
-                    info.get("acodec") if info.get("acodec") not in (None, "none") else None
-                )
+                asset.media_kind = mediakind.derive(asset.vcodec, asset.acodec)
                 asset.title = meta.title
                 asset.uploader = meta.uploader
                 asset.uploader_url = adapter.uploader_url(info)

backend/app/downloads/probe.py

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+"""Ground-truth media probe for a produced library file — the SINGLE place both ingest paths ask
+"what is actually on disk?".
+
+`media_kind` (and the stored `vcodec`/`acodec`/`width`/`height`) must reflect the real file, not an
+extractor's metadata: yt-dlp's `info` dict omits codec fields for some sources (e.g. Facebook), and
+deriving the kind from those nulls misclassified a genuine H.264 video as a download-only `file`
+(no in-app play). So the download worker (`pipeline`) and the local upload ingest (`upload`) both
+probe the finished file here; `mediakind.derive` then turns the probed codecs into the kind.
+"""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from app.downloads import edit as editmod
+
+# ffprobe container formats that mean "this is a still image / image sequence", NOT playable media.
+# A standalone jpg/png/gif/webp/bmp reports a real video stream (codec mjpeg/png/…) with no
+# `attached_pic` flag, so without this guard it would classify as media_kind='video' and get a Play
+# button + a broken in-app <video> player (and inline serving on the public share). Keyed on the
+# container format so an animated gif/webp also lands as a generic 'file' (no browser plays those in
+# a <video> either). SVG and anything else ffprobe can't decode already fails the probe → 'file'.
+_IMAGE_FORMATS = {
+    "image2",
+    "image2pipe",
+    "png_pipe",
+    "mjpeg",
+    "mjpeg_pipe",
+    "jpeg_pipe",
+    "gif",
+    "webp_pipe",
+    "bmp_pipe",
+    "tiff_pipe",
+    "ico",
+    "svg_pipe",
+}
+
+
+def _facts_from_probe(
+    data: dict,
+) -> tuple[str | None, str | None, int | None, int | None, int | None]:
+    """(vcodec, acodec, width, height, duration_s) parsed from a NON-None ffprobe JSON dict. A still
+    image / image-sequence container yields no vcodec (→ generic 'file'); a video stream flagged
+    `attached_pic` (embedded cover art in an mp3/m4a) is skipped — it's a thumbnail, not a real video
+    track, so an audio file with album art still classifies as audio."""
+    fmt = data.get("format") or {}
+    fmt_names = {n.strip() for n in (fmt.get("format_name") or "").split(",")}
+    if fmt_names & _IMAGE_FORMATS:
+        return None, None, None, None, None
+
+    vcodec = acodec = None
+    width = height = None
+    for stream in data.get("streams", []):
+        kind = stream.get("codec_type")
+        if kind == "video" and vcodec is None:
+            if (stream.get("disposition") or {}).get("attached_pic"):
+                continue  # cover art, not a video track
+            vcodec = stream.get("codec_name")
+            width = stream.get("width")
+            height = stream.get("height")
+        elif kind == "audio" and acodec is None:
+            acodec = stream.get("codec_name")
+
+    duration = None
+    try:
+        raw = fmt.get("duration")
+        if raw is not None:
+            duration = int(float(raw))
+    except (TypeError, ValueError):
+        duration = None
+    return vcodec, acodec, width, height, duration
+
+
+def probe_media(path: Path) -> tuple[str | None, str | None, int | None, int | None, int | None]:
+    """(vcodec, acodec, width, height, duration_s) from one ffprobe call; all None if ffprobe fails
+    or the file isn't playable media (an unprobeable file — or a still image — is treated as a generic
+    non-media file, so it becomes a download-only 'file' rather than a broken 'video')."""
+    data = editmod.run_ffprobe_json(path, show_streams=True, show_format=True)
+    if data is None:
+        return None, None, None, None, None
+    return _facts_from_probe(data)
+
+
+def resolve_media_facts(
+    path: Path, info: dict
+) -> tuple[str | None, str | None, int | None, int | None]:
+    """(vcodec, acodec, width, height) for the stored download asset: PROBE the finished file on disk
+    (the ground truth). yt-dlp's `info` omits codec/dimension fields for some sources (Facebook among
+    them), so deriving media_kind from it there labelled a real H.264 video a download-only 'file'.
+
+    Precedence is by whether the probe RAN, not per-field: if ffprobe read the file, its codec verdict
+    is authoritative — INCLUDING a deliberate None (cover-art-only audio, a still image). A per-field
+    `probe or info` fallback would let `info`'s stale vcodec resurrect a video track the file doesn't
+    have (yt-dlp reports a progressive `vcodec` for an audio-mode download whose video it then strips),
+    mislabelling an audio download as a broken in-app 'video'. Only when ffprobe could NOT read the
+    file at all do we fall back to `info` (the pre-probe behaviour, a safety net); the cosmetic
+    dimensions still gap-fill from `info` in either case."""
+    data = editmod.run_ffprobe_json(path, show_streams=True, show_format=True)
+    info_v = info.get("vcodec") if info.get("vcodec") not in (None, "none") else None
+    info_a = info.get("acodec") if info.get("acodec") not in (None, "none") else None
+    info_w = int(info["width"]) if info.get("width") else None
+    info_h = int(info["height"]) if info.get("height") else None
+    if data is None:
+        # ffprobe could not read the file — fall back to the extractor's info entirely.
+        return info_v, info_a, info_w, info_h
+    pv, pa, pw, ph, _dur = _facts_from_probe(data)
+    # Probe ran → its codecs win outright (a None means "no such track", not "unknown"); info only
+    # gap-fills the cosmetic width/height the probe couldn't read.
+    return pv, pa, pw if pw is not None else info_w, ph if ph is not None else info_h

backend/app/downloads/quota.py

@@ -122,6 +122,22 @@ def check_enqueue(db: Session, user_id: int) -> None:
         raise QuotaExceeded("max_bytes", lim.max_bytes, used)
 
 
+def check_upload(db: Session, user_id: int, add_bytes: int) -> None:
+    """Like check_enqueue, but for an upload whose size is KNOWN at ingest: also reject when adding
+    this file would push the footprint over max_bytes. A download can't pre-check its size (unknown
+    until the worker finishes) so check_enqueue only compares the current footprint; an upload can,
+    so it's charged against the cap before it lands. Raises QuotaExceeded(max_jobs|max_bytes)."""
+    lim = resolve(db, user_id)
+    if lim.unlimited:
+        return
+    n = active_jobs(db, user_id)
+    if n >= lim.max_jobs:
+        raise QuotaExceeded("max_jobs", lim.max_jobs, n)
+    projected = footprint(db, user_id) + add_bytes
+    if projected > lim.max_bytes:
+        raise QuotaExceeded("max_bytes", lim.max_bytes, projected)
+
+
 def usage(db: Session, user_id: int) -> dict:
     """Compact usage snapshot for the UI (footprint + counts vs limits)."""
     lim = resolve(db, user_id)

backend/app/downloads/service.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from app.config import settings
 from app.downloads import adapters
 from app.downloads import credentials
 from app.downloads import edit as editmod
-from app.downloads import formats, quota, storage
+from app.downloads import formats, mediakind, quota, storage
 from app.downloads.status import HOLDING, JobStatus
 from app.models import Channel, DownloadJob, MediaAsset, Video
 
@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@ def enqueue_edit(
     src_asset = db.get(MediaAsset, source_job.asset_id) if source_job.asset_id else None
     if src_asset is None or src_asset.status != "ready" or not src_asset.rel_path:
         raise EditError("source_not_ready")
+    # A generic uploaded file (media_kind='file') has no timeline to trim/crop — the editor path is
+    # media-only. Reject here so an upload's file never reaches the ffmpeg edit worker.
+    if src_asset.media_kind == mediakind.FILE:
+        raise EditError("not_media")
 
     spec = editmod.normalize_edit_spec(edit_spec)
     if not spec:
@@ -232,6 +236,9 @@ def enqueue_edit(
         asset.thumbnail_url = src_asset.thumbnail_url
         asset.upload_date = src_asset.upload_date
         asset.duration_s = editmod.clip_duration(spec, src_asset.duration_s)
+        # A clip inherits its source's kind (a video edit stays video, an audio trim stays audio);
+        # the ffmpeg edit worker doesn't re-probe codecs, so set it here where the source is known.
+        asset.media_kind = src_asset.media_kind or mediakind.VIDEO
 
     job = DownloadJob(
         user_id=user_id,

backend/app/downloads/storage.py

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ from datetime import date
 from pathlib import Path
 from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
 
+from app.downloads import mediakind
+
 # Reserve room for the "_id.ext" suffix + parent dirs within the 255-char component limit.
 _MAX_TITLE = 120
 # User-facing (Content-Disposition) names can be longer than an on-disk component.
@@ -147,6 +149,81 @@ def edit_rel_path(user_id: int, asset_id: int, ext: str) -> str:
     return f".edits/{user_id}/clip_{asset_id}.{ext}"
 
 
+def _clean_upload_ext(filename: str) -> str:
+    """The upload's extension reduced to a shell-safe, lowercased, bounded token (``""`` when the
+    upload has no extension). The SINGLE definition feeding both the on-disk suffix and the stored
+    `container` — they must agree (the served Content-Disposition suffix has to match the container),
+    so the sanitize/truncation rule lives in one place, not two drifting copies."""
+    return _UNSAFE.sub("", Path(filename).suffix.lstrip(".")).lower()[:16]
+
+
+def upload_rel_path(user_id: int, asset_id: int, filename: str) -> str:
+    """On-disk path (relative to DOWNLOAD_ROOT) for a locally-uploaded file.
+
+    Kept in a per-user `.uploads/` tree — device-downloadable via the file endpoint, but NOT part of
+    the Plex library (an upload is arbitrary user content, not a canonical episode; no .nfo/poster
+    episode sidecars). The name is system-decided and bound to the asset id (`_a{id}` keeps two
+    same-named uploads apart); the original filename is display metadata only. The extension is
+    preserved (shell-safe, bounded) so the served file + its Content-Disposition carry a correct
+    suffix; an extensionless upload stays extensionless."""
+    stem = sanitize(Path(filename).stem, 80)
+    ext = _clean_upload_ext(filename)
+    suffix = f".{ext}" if ext else ""
+    return f".uploads/{user_id}/{stem}_a{asset_id}{suffix}"
+
+
+def upload_ext(filename: str) -> str | None:
+    """The stored `container` for an uploaded file: its shell-safe lowercased extension, or None when
+    the upload has no extension (a bare name). Shares `_clean_upload_ext` with `upload_rel_path` so the
+    stored container and the on-disk suffix can never diverge."""
+    return _clean_upload_ext(filename) or None
+
+
+# The Content-Type used to serve an inline-playable media asset, keyed by its stored `container`.
+# DELIBERATELY a strict allow-list of known audio/video containers: the served type is chosen from
+# the asset's ffprobe-verified media_kind + this table, NEVER guessed from the raw (user-controlled)
+# upload extension. Without this, an uploaded media/HTML polyglot named "evil.html" — a real MP3/MP4
+# that ffprobe classifies as media, so it dodges the generic-file force-download — would be served
+# with a Content-Type Starlette guesses from ".html" (text/html) and execute as stored XSS on the
+# serving origin. A media asset whose container isn't in this table falls back to a neutral
+# force-download attachment (see `served_media_type`), so nothing script-executable is ever inline.
+_MEDIA_MIME: dict[str, str] = {
+    # video containers
+    "mp4": "video/mp4",
+    "m4v": "video/mp4",
+    "mov": "video/quicktime",
+    "webm": "video/webm",
+    "mkv": "video/x-matroska",
+    "ogv": "video/ogg",
+    "avi": "video/x-msvideo",
+    # audio containers
+    "m4a": "audio/mp4",
+    "mp3": "audio/mpeg",
+    "aac": "audio/aac",
+    "ogg": "audio/ogg",
+    "oga": "audio/ogg",
+    "opus": "audio/ogg",
+    "weba": "audio/webm",
+    "wav": "audio/wav",
+    "flac": "audio/flac",
+}
+
+
+def served_media_type(media_kind: str | None, container: str | None) -> str | None:
+    """The Content-Type a library file MUST be served with — a real audio/video MIME for a recognised
+    media container, else ``None`` meaning "serve as a neutral force-download attachment".
+
+    Returns None for a generic ``file`` kind AND for any media whose container we don't positively
+    recognise as safe. Callers serve None as ``application/octet-stream`` + ``attachment`` so the
+    served Content-Type is NEVER derived from the (attacker-controlled) file extension — the guard
+    that stops uploaded HTML/SVG or a media/HTML polyglot from executing inline on the serving
+    origin. A ``None`` media_kind (a legacy asset before the discriminator was backfilled) is treated
+    as media so an old download keeps its inline player."""
+    if media_kind == mediakind.FILE:
+        return None
+    return _MEDIA_MIME.get((container or "").lower())
+
+
 def download_filename(display_name: str, container: str | None, path: Path) -> str:
     """The Content-Disposition filename for a served download: the cleaned display name carrying a single
     correct extension — the asset container, else the file's own suffix — without doubling it when the

backend/app/downloads/upload.py

@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+"""Local file ingest for the download center (E7 S5) — the non-yt-dlp path into the media library.
+
+A user-uploaded file joins the SAME library as a downloaded one, so it inherits the whole function
+set already built (metadata chips, share links, and — for media — in-app play/edit). Unlike a
+download it bypasses yt-dlp AND the worker entirely: the file is already on the host, so ingest
+probes it, places it on disk, and creates an already-`ready` MediaAsset + `done` DownloadJob in one
+step — the same "the file exists, mark it done now" shortcut `service.enqueue` takes on a cache hit.
+
+Kinds (the invariant lives in `mediakind`): a probe with a real video stream -> video, audio-only
+-> audio, neither -> a generic 'file' (pdf/zip/docx/…) that is download-only and never rendered
+inline (see the force-download serving in the file/watch routes). This module is the ingest seam a
+future sub-function (e.g. convert) plugs a new adapter into, mirroring how it sidesteps the worker.
+
+An upload does NOT get an `expires_at`: it's user-provided and may be irreplaceable (there's no
+source to re-download), so it doesn't age out on the retention clock the way a re-fetchable download
+does — it lives until the user deletes it.
+"""
+
+import secrets
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.downloads import edit as editmod
+from app.downloads import mediakind, probe, quota, service, storage
+from app.models import DownloadJob, MediaAsset
+
+
+def _title_from_filename(filename: str) -> str:
+    """A human display title from the original upload name: the stem with separators tidied to
+    spaces (kept as-is otherwise — this is display metadata, not the shell-safe on-disk name)."""
+    stem = Path(filename).stem.replace("_", " ").replace(".", " ").strip()
+    return (stem or "Upload")[:255]
+
+
+def ingest_upload(
+    db: Session,
+    user_id: int,
+    *,
+    filename: str,
+    src_path: Path,
+    size: int,
+    display_name: str | None = None,
+) -> DownloadJob:
+    """Ingest an already-uploaded file at `src_path` into `user_id`'s library and return the `done`
+    job. `src_path` is MOVED into place on success (the caller stages it to a temp file first).
+
+    Raises quota.QuotaExceeded (holdings/footprint cap) — checked BEFORE any disk write, so a
+    rejected upload leaves nothing behind and the caller just cleans up its temp file."""
+    quota.check_upload(db, user_id, size)  # the file's size is known → charge it up front
+
+    vcodec, acodec, width, height, duration = probe.probe_media(src_path)
+    kind = mediakind.derive(vcodec, acodec)
+
+    # An upload never dedups (each file is its own asset): a random ref makes the cache key unique,
+    # so `format_sig` is a constant marker rather than a format hash.
+    ref = f"{user_id}:{secrets.token_hex(8)}"[:512]
+    asset = MediaAsset(
+        source_kind="upload", source_ref=ref, format_sig="upload", status="pending", ref_count=0
+    )
+    db.add(asset)
+    db.flush()  # need asset.id for the on-disk path
+
+    rel = storage.upload_rel_path(user_id, asset.id, filename)
+    storage.place_file(src_path, settings.download_root, rel)
+    # From here the file is on disk under `.uploads/`. If the transaction fails before it commits, the
+    # asset/job rows roll back but the placed file would be ORPHANED — nothing references it, the
+    # per-user delete path keys off asset.rel_path (which is gone), and the GC orphan sweep skips the
+    # dot-prefixed `.uploads/` tree. So roll back the on-disk side too on any failure.
+    try:
+        final = storage.abs_path(settings.download_root, rel)
+        actual_size = final.stat().st_size if final.exists() else size
+
+        asset.status = "ready"
+        asset.rel_path = rel
+        asset.size_bytes = actual_size
+        asset.container = storage.upload_ext(filename)
+        asset.vcodec = vcodec
+        asset.acodec = acodec
+        asset.width = width
+        asset.height = height
+        asset.duration_s = duration
+        asset.media_kind = kind
+        asset.title = (display_name or "").strip() or _title_from_filename(filename)
+        asset.last_access_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+        # No expires_at — see the module docstring (an upload is irreplaceable, so it doesn't age out).
+        if kind == mediakind.VIDEO:
+            # A frame poster gives the library row a thumbnail + the share link an og:image. Audio has
+            # no frame and a generic file no player, so neither gets one. Best-effort (ffmpeg decodes
+            # server side even for a codec the browser can't play).
+            asset.poster_path = editmod.ensure_poster(asset, settings.download_root)
+
+        job = DownloadJob(
+            user_id=user_id,
+            asset_id=asset.id,
+            job_kind="upload",
+            source_kind="upload",
+            source_ref=ref,
+            profile_snapshot={},
+            display_name=(display_name or "").strip() or None,
+            status="done",
+            progress=100,
+            queue_pos=service.next_queue_pos(db),
+        )
+        db.add(job)
+        service.incr_ref_count(db, asset.id)
+        db.commit()
+    except Exception:
+        db.rollback()
+        # The rows are gone; remove the now-unreferenced file so no bytes leak. Clean the poster by its
+        # DETERMINISTIC path (rel with a .jpg suffix, the same path ensure_poster writes to) rather than
+        # ensure_poster's return value: it writes the frame directly to that path and returns None on an
+        # ffmpeg failure, so a partial poster can be on disk while the return is None — gating on the
+        # return would skip that orphan. unlink is missing_ok, so the poster path is a harmless no-op
+        # when none was generated (audio/file, or a video whose poster never started).
+        for leaked in (rel, str(Path(rel).with_suffix(".jpg"))):
+            storage.abs_path(settings.download_root, leaked).unlink(missing_ok=True)
+        raise
+    db.refresh(job)
+    return job

backend/app/models.py

@@ -708,6 +708,12 @@ class MediaAsset(Base, TimestampMixin):
     container: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String(16))
     vcodec: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String(32))
     acodec: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String(32))
+    # "video" | "audio" | "file" — the media-kind discriminator that drives which library actions
+    # apply (play/edit for media; download-only for a generic uploaded file). Null while an asset is
+    # still pending (kind is known once the file is probed at finalize). It is the single stored home
+    # of the invariant `downloads.mediakind.derive` used to compute — never re-derived in prose (an
+    # earlier ad-hoc `vcodec is None and acodec` check lived only in links.py; consolidated here).
+    media_kind: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String(16))
     nfo_written: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False, server_default="false")
     # Set once the GC has warned holders of the upcoming expiry, so it doesn't warn every run.
     gc_notified: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(Boolean, default=False, server_default="false")
@@ -1121,6 +1127,22 @@ class PlexItem(Base, TimestampMixin, UpdatedAtMixin):
     # Browser-playability class from ffprobe: "direct" | "remux" | "transcode" (None = unprobed).
     playable: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String(12), index=True)
     probed_at: Mapped[datetime | None] = mapped_column(DateTime(timezone=True))
+    # Transcode HW-capability facet (E7 playback-class filter). NULL for non-transcode items; for a
+    # `playable="transcode"` item: True = the prod iGPU can hardware-transcode it (codec is HW-decodable
+    # AND the source is 8-bit SDR), False = software libx264 only (AV1/XviD, or a 10-bit/HDR source that
+    # breaks the VAAPI nv12 pipeline — see plex/stream.py). Derived by `plex.sync.transcode_hw_capable`:
+    # set codec-only at sync (bit depth unknown from the cheap listing), then refined by the bit-depth
+    # backfill (`_probe_media_batch`) which downgrades a 10-bit/HDR HEVC to False. The one filterable
+    # home of the invariant `_want_hw`'s source gate computes at play time — kept in sync via the shared
+    # classifier so the catalog facet and the runtime encoder choice never disagree by codec.
+    transcode_hw: Mapped[bool | None] = mapped_column(Boolean, index=True)
+    # Video bit depth (8/10/12…) from the Plex media Stream, filled by the bit-depth backfill. NULL =
+    # not yet probed. Surfaced on the info page (e.g. "HEVC · 10-bit") and feeds `transcode_hw`.
+    video_bit_depth: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(Integer)
+    # Watermark for the bit-depth backfill: when this item's media Stream was last probed for
+    # bit-depth/HDR. NULL = never (the backfill's work-list). Only HW-decodable transcode items are
+    # probed (the rest are SW-only by codec and need no bit-depth); see `_probe_media_batch`.
+    media_probed_at: Mapped[datetime | None] = mapped_column(DateTime(timezone=True))
     # Intro/credit markers: [{"type": "intro"|"credits", "start_s": int, "end_s": int}, ...]
     markers: Mapped[list | None] = mapped_column(JSON)
     added_at: Mapped[datetime | None] = mapped_column(DateTime(timezone=True), index=True)

backend/app/plex/cards.py

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ def movie_card(it: PlexItem, st: PlexState | None) -> dict:
         "thumb": f"/api/plex/image/{it.rating_key}",
         "art": _art_url(it.rating_key, it.art_key),
         "playable": it.playable,
+        "transcode_hw": it.transcode_hw,  # HW/SW transcode split → the 4-way corner-dot badge
         "status": st.status if st else "new",
         "position_seconds": st.position_seconds if st else 0,
     }
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ def episode_card(e: PlexItem, st: PlexState | None) -> dict:
         "duration_seconds": e.duration_s,
         "thumb": f"/api/plex/image/{e.rating_key}",
         "playable": e.playable,
+        "transcode_hw": e.transcode_hw,  # HW/SW transcode split → the 4-way corner-dot badge
         "status": st.status if st else "new",
         "position_seconds": st.position_seconds if st else 0,
     }

backend/app/plex/query.py

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
 from sqlalchemy import and_, case, func, or_, select, type_coerce
 from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import JSONB
 
+from app.models import PlexItem
+
 TS_CONFIG = "public.unaccent_simple"
 
 # --- Language-aware column pickers (E5 S6) ----------------------------------
@@ -206,6 +208,33 @@ def apply_meta_filters(q, model, p: dict, lang: str = "en"):
     return q.where(*conds) if conds else q
 
 
+# --- Playback-class filter (E7) — MOVIE-ONLY (a show is an aggregate with no single class) ---------
+# The 4 classes the feed filter + facet expose, derived from the stored `playable` + `transcode_hw`.
+# ONE definition (this SQL CASE) so the filter WHERE and the facet counts can't drift: `playable_conds`
+# filters on it, `facets` groups by it. transcode_hw IS NOT True groups NULL (unprobed) with software.
+# Public — it is the shared source of truth imported by routes.plex.browse (facet order + zero-fill).
+PLAYBACK_CLASSES = ("direct", "remux", "transcode_hw", "transcode_sw")
+
+
+def playback_class_expr():
+    """SQL CASE mapping a PlexItem (movie) to its playback-class string, or NULL. The HW branch must
+    precede the generic transcode branch (ordered evaluation)."""
+    return case(
+        (PlexItem.playable == "direct", "direct"),
+        (PlexItem.playable == "remux", "remux"),
+        (and_(PlexItem.playable == "transcode", PlexItem.transcode_hw.is_(True)), "transcode_hw"),
+        (PlexItem.playable == "transcode", "transcode_sw"),
+        else_=None,
+    )
+
+
+def playable_conds(sel: list[str]) -> list:
+    """A one-element condition list (or empty) selecting the given playback classes — an OR via
+    `class IN (...)` over the shared CASE. Unknown keys are dropped."""
+    keep = [c for c in sel if c in PLAYBACK_CLASSES]
+    return [playback_class_expr().in_(keep)] if keep else []
+
+
 @dataclass
 class LibraryFilters:
     """The shared sidebar filter query-params for /library + /facets, declared once and injected via
@@ -228,6 +257,7 @@ class LibraryFilters:
     keywords: str | None = None  # TMDB keyword chips (E5 S5), CSV; language-neutral
     collections: str | None = None  # CSV of collection rating_keys
     collection_mode: str = "any"  # how multiple collections combine: any (OR, default) | all (AND)
+    playable: str | None = None  # CSV of playback classes: direct|remux|transcode_hw|transcode_sw
 
     def as_dict(self) -> dict:
         return {
@@ -247,6 +277,7 @@ class LibraryFilters:
             "keywords": self.keywords,
             "collections": self.collections,
             "collection_mode": self.collection_mode,
+            "playable": self.playable,
         }
 
 

backend/app/plex/stream.py

@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
 Playback is from the LOCAL physical file. Browser-compatible files (playable="direct") are served
 raw with HTTP range requests. Everything else that is h264 video (playable="remux") is remuxed on
 the fly to HLS with **video stream-copy** (cheap, I/O-bound — no video re-encode) and audio to AAC
-when needed. HEVC/VP9 (playable="transcode") needs a full re-encode and is deferred to P3.
+when needed. Non-h264 video (playable="transcode": HEVC/VP9/AV1/MPEG-2/XviD…) needs a full re-encode
+to H.264: on the prod host that runs on the Intel iGPU via VAAPI (`h264_vaapi`, near-zero CPU), with
+software libx264 as the automatic fallback where the render node is absent or the source codec isn't
+hardware-decodable. Same HLS session/seek machinery either way — only the video encoder differs.
 
 Seek model (Jellyfin-style): one ffmpeg session per item, started at a given offset via `-ss`
 (fast keyframe seek). A seek beyond the generated region restarts the session at the new offset,
@@ -16,6 +19,7 @@ CPU-only prod host; only P3's full transcode is CPU-heavy.
 """
 
 import logging
+import os
 import re
 import shutil
 import subprocess
@@ -27,8 +31,10 @@ from sqlalchemy.orm import Session as DbSession
 
 from app import sysconfig
 from app.config import settings
+from app.downloads.edit import encode_thread_cap
 from app.models import PlexItem
 from app.plex import paths
+from app.plex.sync import HW_DECODABLE_CODECS
 
 log = logging.getLogger("siftlode.plex")
 
@@ -83,11 +89,22 @@ _sessions: dict[str, "HlsSession"] = {}
 
 class HlsSession:
     def __init__(
-        self, key: str, directory: Path, proc: subprocess.Popen, start_s: float, entry: str
+        self,
+        key: str,
+        directory: Path,
+        proc: subprocess.Popen,
+        start_s: float,
+        entry: str,
+        transcode: bool = False,
+        hw: bool = False,
+        tonemap: bool = False,
     ):
         self.key = key
         self.dir = directory
         self.proc = proc
+        self.transcode = transcode  # video re-encoded (non-h264 source), not stream-copied
+        self.hw = hw  # transcode ran on the VAAPI hardware encoder (else libx264 software)
+        self.tonemap = tonemap  # HW HDR/10-bit path: OpenCL tonemap between VAAPI decode and encode
         self.start_s = start_s  # the REQUESTED seek offset
         # The REAL media start: with `-ss X -c:v copy` ffmpeg can only cut at the nearest earlier
         # keyframe K<=X, and hls.js zero-bases the timeline to K (so video.currentTime=0 is K, not X).
@@ -127,6 +144,269 @@ _HLS_TAIL = [
 ]
 
 
+# --- Transcode (playable="transcode") video re-encode -----------------------------------------
+# The remux path stream-copies the video (`-c:v copy`); a non-h264 source can't be copied and must be
+# re-encoded to H.264. The encoder + tonemap are chosen per-session by `_select_encode`:
+#   * VAAPI hardware (`h264_vaapi`) — the prod default once the iGPU is passed in. A full GPU pipeline
+#     (decode + scale + encode all on-device) offloads the CPU almost entirely, so several concurrent
+#     1080p transcodes are fine and the API stays responsive.
+#   * libx264 software — the automatic fallback where `/dev/dri` is absent (dev box, or prod before the
+#     iGPU enablement) or the source codec isn't hardware-decodable (AV1/XviD on Gen 9.5). CPU-bound, so
+#     it reserves a core via `-threads` (see encode_thread_cap).
+# Everything else — the `-copyts`/`_HLS_TAIL`/segment/seek-restart model and the AAC audio path — is
+# unchanged, so hls.js, subtitles, multi-audio and seeking keep working exactly as for remux.
+_VAAPI_DEVICE = "/dev/dri/renderD128"
+# Where an OpenCL ICD registers its driver. The Intel NEO runtime (intel-opencl-icd) drops an .icd file
+# here; its presence is the precondition for the HW HDR→SDR tonemap graph (see _opencl_present).
+_OPENCL_ICD_DIR = Path("/etc/OpenCL/vendors")
+# Codecs the prod iGPU (UHD 630 / Quick Sync Gen 9.5) can hardware-DECODE — the precondition for the
+# full-GPU VAAPI pipeline. A source outside it (AV1, MPEG-4 ASP/XviD…) falls back to software even with
+# the render node present, because the GPU can't decode it to feed its own encoder. THE single source is
+# plex.sync, so the runtime encoder choice here and the catalog `transcode_hw` facet can't disagree by
+# codec; aliased to the old name to keep the call sites below unchanged.
+_HW_DECODABLE = HW_DECODABLE_CODECS
+# Color-transfer values that mark a true-HDR source (PQ / HLG). A HW-decodable HDR source can't take the
+# plain scale_vaapi=format=nv12 path (Gen 9.5 VPP refuses it) — it needs the OpenCL tonemap graph
+# (_venc_opts tonemap branch) when the OpenCL runtime is present, else software libx264. A 10-bit source
+# WITHOUT one of these transfers is SDR, not HDR, and must not be tone-mapped. See _probe_video_kind.
+_HDR_TRANSFERS = {"smpte2084", "arib-std-b67"}
+
+
+# The three source classes that drive the transcode-pipeline choice (see _probe_video_kind).
+_VK_HWSAFE = "hwsafe"  # 8-bit SDR — the plain scale_vaapi=format=nv12 GPU path
+_VK_HDR = "hdr"  # PQ/HLG HDR — needs the OpenCL tonemap graph (or software if no runtime)
+_VK_SDR10 = "sdr10"  # 10-bit *SDR* — a plain 10→8-bit downconvert, NEVER the HDR tone curve
+
+
+def _probe_video_kind(src: Path) -> str:
+    """Classify the source for the transcode pipeline — one of `_VK_HWSAFE` / `_VK_HDR` / `_VK_SDR10`:
+
+      * `_VK_HWSAFE` — 8-bit SDR: safe for the plain VAAPI path (`scale_vaapi=format=nv12` + h264_vaapi).
+      * `_VK_HDR`    — PQ/HLG HDR (any depth): the plain scale path breaks on Gen 9.5 VPP, so it needs the
+        OpenCL tonemap graph (`tonemap_opencl=hable`) when the runtime is present, else software libx264.
+      * `_VK_SDR10`  — 10-bit but *SDR* (bt709 etc.): NOT HDR. Applying the HDR hable tone curve here would
+        visibly alter an SDR picture (crushed highlights/midtones) where only a 10→8-bit downconvert was
+        needed, so it must NOT take the tonemap graph — it goes to software libx264, which CPU-decodes and
+        downconverts to 8-bit yuv420p exactly. (Kept off the plain scale_vaapi 10-bit path too: that path
+        is unverified on Gen 9.5 VPP, and software is the known-correct downconvert.)
+
+    Ground truth from ffprobe (bit depth via pix_fmt / bits_per_raw_sample, HDR via color_transfer); the
+    Plex mirror doesn't store these. Returns `_VK_HWSAFE` on any probe failure: the runtime HW→SW fallback
+    in start_session backstops a HW session that still produces nothing, so a probe miss only costs the
+    rare wasted first attempt, never a stranded item."""
+    try:
+        out = subprocess.run(
+            [
+                "ffprobe",
+                "-v",
+                "error",
+                "-select_streams",
+                "v:0",
+                "-show_entries",
+                "stream=pix_fmt,bits_per_raw_sample,color_transfer",
+                "-of",
+                "default=noprint_wrappers=1",
+                str(src),
+            ],
+            capture_output=True,
+            text=True,
+            timeout=10,
+        )
+    except (subprocess.SubprocessError, OSError):
+        return _VK_HWSAFE
+    pix_fmt = bits = transfer = ""
+    for line in out.stdout.splitlines():
+        k, _, v = line.strip().partition("=")
+        v = v.strip().lower()
+        if k == "pix_fmt":
+            pix_fmt = v
+        elif k == "bits_per_raw_sample":
+            bits = v
+        elif k == "color_transfer":
+            transfer = v
+    if transfer in _HDR_TRANSFERS:
+        return _VK_HDR  # PQ/HLG — needs a real HDR→SDR tonemap, not a plain downconvert
+    # >8-bit but not HDR = 10-bit SDR. bits_per_raw_sample OR the pix_fmt bit-depth suffix
+    # (yuv420p10le, p010le, yuv444p12le…) signals >8-bit even when the other is absent.
+    if (bits.isdigit() and int(bits) > 8) or re.search(r"(?:10|12|16)(?:le|be)$", pix_fmt):
+        return _VK_SDR10
+    return _VK_HWSAFE
+
+
+def _opencl_present() -> bool:
+    """Whether an OpenCL runtime (Intel NEO / intel-opencl-icd) is installed — the precondition for the
+    HW HDR→SDR tonemap graph. Gen 9.5 VPP can't tonemap natively (tonemap_vaapi fails), so the working
+    HW path for a 10-bit/HDR source is VAAPI-decode → OpenCL tonemap → VAAPI-encode, which needs an ICD
+    registered here. Absent on the dev box and until the image bakes NEO in → those sources take
+    software libx264. Its own function so it's monkeypatchable in tests, mirroring _render_node_present."""
+    try:
+        return any(_OPENCL_ICD_DIR.glob("*.icd"))
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+
+
+def _hwaccel_in_opts(hw: bool, tonemap: bool = False) -> list[str]:
+    """VAAPI decode options, placed before `-i` so the source is decoded (and kept) on the GPU.
+    `-hwaccel_output_format vaapi` keeps frames as GPU surfaces all the way to `h264_vaapi` — no
+    round-trip to system memory. Empty for the software path.
+
+    The tonemap variant additionally derives an OpenCL device FROM the VAAPI one (`opencl=ocl@va`) so
+    tonemap_opencl can map the decoded surfaces zero-copy (see _venc_opts); it needs named devices, so it
+    uses `-init_hw_device` + `-hwaccel_device` rather than the plain path's implicit `-vaapi_device`."""
+    if not hw:
+        return []
+    if tonemap:
+        return [
+            "-init_hw_device",
+            f"vaapi=va:{_VAAPI_DEVICE}",
+            "-init_hw_device",
+            "opencl=ocl@va",
+            "-hwaccel",
+            "vaapi",
+            "-hwaccel_output_format",
+            "vaapi",
+            "-hwaccel_device",
+            "va",
+        ]
+    return ["-hwaccel", "vaapi", "-hwaccel_output_format", "vaapi", "-vaapi_device", _VAAPI_DEVICE]
+
+
+def _venc_opts(
+    transcode: bool,
+    hw: bool,
+    tonemap: bool = False,
+    preset: str = "veryfast",
+    crf: int = 20,
+    max_height: int = 0,
+) -> list[str]:
+    """The video-encoder args that replace `-c:v copy` for a transcode session (returns the copy args
+    when not transcoding). A re-encode must MINT its own keyframes at the segment boundaries — the copy
+    path leaned on the source's keyframes, but a re-encoded stream has none the HLS muxer can cut on
+    unless we force them (`-force_key_frames` every `_SEG_SECONDS`), else segments aren't independent and
+    seeking breaks. `preset`/`crf`/`max_height` (software only) come from admin sysconfig."""
+    if not transcode:
+        return ["-c:v", "copy"]
+    force_kf = ["-force_key_frames", f"expr:gte(t,n_forced*{_SEG_SECONDS})"]
+    if hw and tonemap:
+        # HDR/10-bit HW path: Gen 9.5 VPP can't tonemap (scale_vaapi=format=nv12 fails), so the decoded
+        # VAAPI surfaces are mapped to OpenCL (hwmap=derive_device=opencl), tone-mapped HDR→SDR to 8-bit
+        # nv12 there (tonemap_opencl, hable curve, bt709 out), then mapped back to VAAPI (reverse=1) for
+        # h264_vaapi. `-filter_hw_device ocl` tells the filter graph which device to run the OpenCL
+        # filters on. Full GPU pipeline — ~1 CPU core, several×realtime on the UHD 630 (measured).
+        return [
+            "-filter_hw_device",
+            "ocl",
+            "-vf",
+            "hwmap=derive_device=opencl,"
+            "tonemap_opencl=tonemap=hable:transfer=bt709:matrix=bt709:primaries=bt709:format=nv12,"
+            "hwmap=derive_device=vaapi:reverse=1",
+            "-c:v",
+            "h264_vaapi",
+            *force_kf,
+        ]
+    if hw:
+        # scale_vaapi with format=nv12 downconverts a 10-bit (p010) HEVC source to 8-bit nv12 so
+        # h264_vaapi (8-bit High) can encode it; for an 8-bit source it's a cheap format pass-through.
+        # The GPU encode is cheap, so it runs at source resolution (max_height is a software-only knob).
+        return ["-vf", "scale_vaapi=format=nv12", "-c:v", "h264_vaapi", *force_kf]
+    # Software fallback: same browser-safe recipe as downloads/edit.py (libx264). yuv420p forces 8-bit
+    # High (not High10) so any browser decodes it; -threads reserves a core so the CPU-bound encode can't
+    # starve request handling / playback on the shared box.
+    args: list[str] = []
+    if max_height and max_height > 0:
+        # Downscale-ONLY to the height cap (min(ih,H)), keeping aspect with an even width (-2), so a tall
+        # source doesn't make the software re-encode ruinously expensive. The comma in min() is escaped
+        # (\,) so ffmpeg's filter parser reads one filter, not two. Never upscales a smaller source.
+        args += ["-vf", f"scale=-2:min(ih\\,{max_height})"]
+    args += [
+        "-c:v",
+        "libx264",
+        "-preset",
+        preset,
+        "-crf",
+        str(crf),
+        "-pix_fmt",
+        "yuv420p",
+        "-threads",
+        str(encode_thread_cap()),
+        *force_kf,
+    ]
+    return args
+
+
+def _render_node_present() -> bool:
+    """Whether the VAAPI render node is available — i.e. `/dev/dri` was passed into the container.
+    Present on prod after the iGPU enablement; absent on the CPU-only dev box and in the localdev
+    Docker. Its own function so the selection is monkeypatchable in tests and one place for S1c's knob."""
+    return Path(_VAAPI_DEVICE).exists()
+
+
+def _select_encode(db: DbSession, item: PlexItem, transcode: bool, src: Path) -> tuple[bool, bool]:
+    """Pick the transcode video pipeline for this session — returns `(hw, tonemap)`:
+      * `(False, False)` → software libx264 (the fallback: no render node, non-decodable source, or a
+        10-bit/HDR source with no OpenCL runtime to tonemap on the GPU).
+      * `(True, False)`  → full-GPU VAAPI (`scale_vaapi=format=nv12` + `h264_vaapi`) — an 8-bit SDR source.
+      * `(True, True)`   → VAAPI decode → OpenCL tonemap → VAAPI encode — a true-HDR (PQ/HLG) source, when
+        the OpenCL runtime is present (Gen 9.5 VPP can't tonemap natively).
+
+    A 10-bit *SDR* source is deliberately NOT a `(True, True)` case: it needs a plain 10→8-bit downconvert,
+    not the HDR tone curve (which would visibly darken/flatten an SDR picture), so it drops to software.
+
+    Honours the admin `plex_transcode_hw` policy: "off" → always software; "on" → HW wherever the render
+    node exists (trusting the admin, skipping the decodability gate — the runtime HW→SW fallback still
+    backstops a session that produces nothing — but still routing a true-HDR source through the tonemap
+    graph so it doesn't hit the scale_vaapi wall); "auto" (default) → HW only when the render node is
+    present AND the iGPU can hardware-decode the source, with tonemap chosen only for a true-HDR (PQ/HLG)
+    source that has an OpenCL runtime, while a 10-bit SDR source drops to software."""
+    if not transcode:
+        return (False, False)
+    mode = (sysconfig.get_str(db, "plex_transcode_hw") or "auto").lower()
+    if mode == "off" or not _render_node_present():
+        return (False, False)
+    if mode == "on":
+        # Trust the admin: HW wherever the render node exists, skipping the decodability gate (the runtime
+        # backstop catches a miss). Only a true-HDR (PQ/HLG) source needs the tonemap graph — a 10-bit SDR
+        # source takes the plain scale path here, NOT the HDR tone curve. Probe only when OpenCL exists
+        # (short-circuit), so "on" stays probe-free where tonemap can't apply anyway.
+        tonemap = _opencl_present() and _probe_video_kind(src) == _VK_HDR
+        return (True, tonemap)
+    # auto
+    if (item.codec_video or "").lower() not in _HW_DECODABLE:
+        return (False, False)
+    kind = _probe_video_kind(src)
+    if kind == _VK_HWSAFE:
+        return (True, False)  # 8-bit SDR → full-GPU scale path
+    if kind == _VK_HDR:
+        # PQ/HLG: HW OpenCL tonemap when the runtime is present, else software libx264.
+        return (True, True) if _opencl_present() else (False, False)
+    # _VK_SDR10 — 10-bit SDR: a plain 10→8-bit downconvert, done exactly on the CPU. Never the HDR tone
+    # curve (it would alter an SDR picture), and off the unverified scale_vaapi 10-bit path — software.
+    return (False, False)
+
+
+def _want_hw(db: DbSession, item: PlexItem, transcode: bool, src: Path) -> bool:
+    """The HW gate on its own (the `hw` half of `_select_encode`). A readability shim for the tests that
+    assert only whether a session runs on the GPU (production decides via `_select_encode` directly)."""
+    return _select_encode(db, item, transcode, src)[0]
+
+
+# CPU-nice increment for the SOFTWARE transcode child. The Plex ffmpeg is a Popen in the long-lived API
+# process (which must NOT itself be niced), so — unlike the download worker's _deprioritize (run once in
+# its own main()) — we lower priority per-child via preexec_fn in the fork. The GPU path needs none of
+# this. Reuses the download child's nice default so all co-located re-encoders share one handicap.
+_SW_TRANSCODE_NICE = settings.download_child_nice
+
+
+def _sw_child_preexec() -> None:
+    """Runs in the forked child (POSIX) before exec: renice this software-transcode ffmpeg down so it
+    can't starve the co-located API / Postgres / playback. Best-effort — a failed renice must not fail
+    playback."""
+    try:
+        os.nice(_SW_TRANSCODE_NICE)
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+
+
 def _probe_audio_langs(src: Path) -> list[str]:
     """One entry per audio stream (its language tag, or "" if untagged). len() = audio-track count.
     Used to build the multi-rendition var_stream_map. Empty on probe failure → single-audio path."""
@@ -160,8 +440,19 @@ def _ffmpeg_cmd(
     audio_ord: int | None,
     aoff: float = 0.0,
     audio_langs: list[str] | None = None,
+    transcode: bool = False,
+    hw: bool = False,
+    tonemap: bool = False,
+    preset: str = "veryfast",
+    crf: int = 20,
+    max_height: int = 0,
 ) -> list[str]:
-    args = ["ffmpeg", "-nostdin", "-loglevel", "error"]
+    # For a transcode session the video is re-encoded (VAAPI or libx264) instead of stream-copied; the
+    # hwaccel decode options go before -i, the encoder args replace `-c:v copy` below. Everything else is
+    # identical to remux. `tonemap` is the HDR/10-bit HW variant (OpenCL tonemap between VAAPI decode and
+    # encode) — it needs matching decode-side (named devices) and encode-side (the OpenCL filter graph) opts.
+    venc = _venc_opts(transcode, hw, tonemap, preset, crf, max_height)
+    args = ["ffmpeg", "-nostdin", "-loglevel", "error", *_hwaccel_in_opts(hw, tonemap)]
     # Keep ORIGINAL timestamps on the output so the first segment carries the true absolute PTS of the
     # keyframe ffmpeg actually seeked to. hls.js still zero-bases playback to that PTS; we read it back
     # (see _probe_first_pts) to learn the real content offset. Without -copyts the segment PTS is
@@ -182,7 +473,7 @@ def _ffmpeg_cmd(
         args += ["-map", "0:v:0"]
         for i in range(len(audio_langs)):
             args += ["-map", f"{ai}:a:{i}?"]
-        args += ["-sn", "-c:v", "copy", "-c:a", "aac", "-ac", "2", "-b:a", "192k"]
+        args += ["-sn", *venc, "-c:a", "aac", "-ac", "2", "-b:a", "192k"]
         var = ["v:0,agroup:aud"]
         for i, lang in enumerate(audio_langs):
             entry = f"a:{i},agroup:aud,name:a{i}"
@@ -203,7 +494,7 @@ def _ffmpeg_cmd(
     else:
         ao = audio_ord if audio_ord is not None else 0
         args += ["-map", "0:v:0", "-map", f"{ai}:a:{ao}?", "-sn"]
-        args += ["-c:v", "copy", "-c:a", "aac", "-ac", "2", "-b:a", "192k"]
+        args += [*venc, "-c:a", "aac", "-ac", "2", "-b:a", "192k"]
         args += _HLS_TAIL + [
             "-hls_segment_filename",
             str(out_dir / "seg_%d.ts"),
@@ -258,12 +549,14 @@ def _kill(s: HlsSession) -> None:
 
 
 def _enforce_cap(cap: int) -> None:
-    # Caller holds _lock. Drop the least-recently-accessed sessions over the cap.
-    if len(_sessions) <= cap:
+    # Caller holds _lock. Only TRANSCODE sessions count toward plex_max_transcodes — remux
+    # (stream-copy) and direct-serve are cheap and deliberately uncapped (see config.py:
+    # plex_max_transcodes, and the user-facing config hint). Drop the least-recently-accessed
+    # transcode sessions over the cap, leaving any concurrent remux streams untouched.
+    tx = [(key, s) for key, s in _sessions.items() if s.transcode]
+    if len(tx) <= cap:
         return
-    for key, s in sorted(_sessions.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1].last_access)[
-        : len(_sessions) - cap
-    ]:
+    for key, s in sorted(tx, key=lambda kv: kv[1].last_access)[: len(tx) - cap]:
         _kill(s)
         _sessions.pop(key, None)
 
@@ -275,11 +568,14 @@ def start_session(
     audio_ord: int | None = None,
     aoff: float = 0.0,
     multi: bool = False,
+    transcode: bool = False,
 ) -> HlsSession | None:
-    """(Re)start the HLS remux for an item at the given offset. `multi` (item has >1 audio track) maps
-    every audio track as an HLS rendition so the client switches audio without a restart; otherwise a
-    single audio track (`audio_ord`) is muxed. Subtitles are separate WebVTT tracks (not muxed here).
-    Returns None if the local file can't be read."""
+    """(Re)start the HLS session for an item at the given offset. `transcode` (item is non-h264,
+    playable="transcode") re-encodes the video to H.264 (VAAPI or libx264) instead of stream-copying it;
+    otherwise the video is copied (remux). `multi` (item has >1 audio track) maps every audio track as an
+    HLS rendition so the client switches audio without a restart; otherwise a single audio track
+    (`audio_ord`) is muxed. Subtitles are separate WebVTT tracks (not muxed here). Returns None if the
+    local file can't be read."""
     src = paths.local_media_path(db, item.file_path)
     if src is None:
         return None
@@ -287,34 +583,102 @@ def start_session(
     start_s = max(0.0, float(start_s))
     audio_langs = _probe_audio_langs(src) if multi else []
     is_multi = len(audio_langs) > 1  # only worth a master playlist when there really are ≥2 tracks
-    with _lock:
-        old = _sessions.pop(key, None)
-        if old is not None:
-            _kill(old)
-        tag = "multi" if is_multi else str(audio_ord)
-        directory = _HLS_ROOT / f"{key}_{int(start_s)}_{tag}_{aoff:+.2f}"
-        shutil.rmtree(directory, ignore_errors=True)
-        directory.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-        proc = subprocess.Popen(
-            _ffmpeg_cmd(
-                src, start_s, directory, audio_ord, aoff, audio_langs if is_multi else None
-            ),
-            stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
-            stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
-        )
-        s = HlsSession(key, directory, proc, start_s, "master.m3u8" if is_multi else "index.m3u8")
-        _sessions[key] = s
-        # Admin-configurable concurrency cap (Configuration → Plex → Max concurrent transcodes);
-        # at least 1 so playback can't be capped to zero.
-        _enforce_cap(max(1, sysconfig.get_int(db, "plex_max_transcodes")))
+    tag = "multi" if is_multi else str(audio_ord)
+    directory = _HLS_ROOT / f"{key}_{int(start_s)}_{tag}_{aoff:+.2f}"
 
-    # Wait for the first video segment, then warm up a few more — all outside the lock (this blocks on
-    # ffmpeg producing them, and we must not hold up other sessions).
     def _seg(i: int) -> Path:
         # multi-audio: the video rendition is variant v0 → seg_{i}_0.ts; single-audio → seg_{i}.ts
         return directory / (f"seg_{i}_0.ts" if is_multi else f"seg_{i}.ts")
 
-    if wait_for(_seg(0), timeout=25.0):
+    def _spawn(
+        hw: bool, tonemap: bool = False, *, replace_only: "HlsSession | None" = None
+    ) -> "HlsSession | None":
+        # `replace_only` makes the supersede identity-aware for the runtime fallback: the whole
+        # check-and-replace happens under ONE _lock, so a newer same-key session (a concurrent
+        # seek-restart) installed between the fallback's decision and here is never clobbered. When the
+        # registered session is no longer `replace_only`, we abort and return None (the caller yields to
+        # whoever is registered now). The INITIAL spawn passes replace_only=None and always supersedes —
+        # that is the seek-restart's intended last-writer-wins.
+        # Software-fallback encode tuning — read only on the SW transcode path (the VAAPI path and
+        # remux ignore preset/crf/max_height, and remux must not touch the DB for them).
+        preset, crf, max_height = "veryfast", 20, 0
+        if transcode and not hw:
+            preset = sysconfig.get_str(db, "plex_transcode_preset") or "veryfast"
+            crf = sysconfig.get_int(db, "plex_transcode_crf")
+            max_height = sysconfig.get_int(db, "plex_transcode_max_height")
+        # Nice the SOFTWARE transcode child (not the HW path, and not remux) so a CPU-bound re-encode
+        # can't starve the co-located API/playback. preexec_fn runs in the forked child (POSIX); on a
+        # platform without fork (the API always runs in a Linux container in prod) it's simply omitted.
+        preexec = _sw_child_preexec if (transcode and not hw and os.name == "posix") else None
+        with _lock:
+            if replace_only is not None and _sessions.get(key) is not replace_only:
+                return None  # superseded/culled while we waited out of lock — don't clobber the newer one
+            old = _sessions.pop(key, None)
+            if old is not None:
+                _kill(old)
+            shutil.rmtree(directory, ignore_errors=True)
+            directory.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+            proc = subprocess.Popen(
+                _ffmpeg_cmd(
+                    src,
+                    start_s,
+                    directory,
+                    audio_ord,
+                    aoff,
+                    audio_langs if is_multi else None,
+                    transcode=transcode,
+                    hw=hw,
+                    tonemap=tonemap,
+                    preset=preset,
+                    crf=crf,
+                    max_height=max_height,
+                ),
+                stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+                stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+                preexec_fn=preexec,
+            )
+            s = HlsSession(
+                key,
+                directory,
+                proc,
+                start_s,
+                "master.m3u8" if is_multi else "index.m3u8",
+                transcode=transcode,
+                hw=hw,
+                tonemap=tonemap,
+            )
+            _sessions[key] = s
+            # Admin-configurable concurrency cap (Configuration → Plex → Max concurrent transcodes);
+            # at least 1 so playback can't be capped to zero.
+            _enforce_cap(max(1, sysconfig.get_int(db, "plex_max_transcodes")))
+        return s
+
+    s = _spawn(*_select_encode(db, item, transcode, src))
+    # Wait for the first video segment outside the lock (this blocks on ffmpeg, and we must not hold up
+    # other sessions). Pass the proc so a HW session that dies at VAAPI init fails fast (not after 25s).
+    ready = wait_for(_seg(0), timeout=25.0, proc=s.proc)
+    if not ready and s.hw:
+        # We waited on _seg(0) OUTSIDE _lock, so `s.proc` dying is ambiguous: it may have failed on its
+        # own (VAProfile/init/tonemap refusal), OR a concurrent same-key _spawn (a rapid seek-restart) or
+        # _enforce_cap may have killed it to install/keep a newer session. Respawn on libx264 (no HW, no
+        # tonemap) so a genuinely-failed GPU session never strands playback — but pass `replace_only=s` so
+        # the respawn is a no-op if we've been superseded: the identity check and the pop+replace share
+        # ONE lock in _spawn, so we can never tear down the newer session. s.hw is now False, so the route
+        # honestly reports "CPU" and the player's Preparing-stream state stays correct.
+        log.warning(
+            "plex transcode: HW session produced no segments — falling back to software key=%s", key
+        )
+        respawned = _spawn(False, False, replace_only=s)
+        if respawned is None:
+            # Superseded/culled mid-fallback — yield whoever is registered now (a newer seek-restart), or
+            # our own now-dead session if the key was cap-culled. Never None here: the POST /session route
+            # turns a None return into a "Media file not found on disk" 404 — dishonest for a file that
+            # exists. A (dead) session instead degrades to a retryable 404 ("No active playback session" /
+            # "Not available yet") the client re-requests.
+            return current_session(key) or s
+        s = respawned
+        ready = wait_for(_seg(0), timeout=25.0, proc=s.proc)
+    if ready:
         # For a seek (start_s>0) learn the REAL start offset K from the first segment's absolute PTS,
         # so the client's absolute clock + subtitle shift key off the true keyframe, not the requested
         # offset. On probe failure we keep the provisional requested offset (old behaviour, small drift).
@@ -326,15 +690,18 @@ def start_session(
         # at the first segment that isn't ready in time — ffmpeg produces them faster than realtime once
         # warm, so a miss means something slow and we proceed rather than block the request further.
         for i in range(1, _WARMUP_SEGMENTS):
-            if not wait_for(_seg(i), timeout=_WARMUP_SEG_TIMEOUT_S):
+            if not wait_for(_seg(i), timeout=_WARMUP_SEG_TIMEOUT_S, proc=s.proc):
                 break
     log.info(
-        "plex hls session start key=%s req=%.1f real=%.3f multi=%s audio=%s",
+        "plex hls session start key=%s req=%.1f real=%.3f multi=%s audio=%s transcode=%s hw=%s tonemap=%s",
         key,
         start_s,
         s.media_start_s,
         is_multi,
         audio_ord,
+        transcode,
+        s.hw,
+        s.tonemap,
     )
     return s
 
@@ -347,10 +714,14 @@ def current_session(key: str) -> HlsSession | None:
         return s
 
 
-def wait_for(path: Path, timeout: float = 20.0) -> bool:
+def wait_for(path: Path, timeout: float = 20.0, proc: subprocess.Popen | None = None) -> bool:
     """Wait until a session file (playlist / segment) exists and is non-empty. Segments are
     produced ~faster than realtime, so a segment just ahead of playback appears quickly; a segment
-    far beyond the generated region won't (the frontend restarts the session at a seek instead)."""
+    far beyond the generated region won't (the frontend restarts the session at a seek instead).
+
+    With `proc` given, also stop as soon as that ffmpeg exits: a VAAPI session that fails to init
+    (10-bit/HDR VAProfile refusal) dies within ~1s producing nothing, and without this we'd block the
+    whole `timeout` before the HW→SW fallback could kick in — turning the fix into a stall."""
     end = time.time() + timeout
     while time.time() < end:
         try:
@@ -358,6 +729,12 @@ def wait_for(path: Path, timeout: float = 20.0) -> bool:
                 return True
         except OSError:
             pass
+        if proc is not None and proc.poll() is not None:
+            # the producer exited — no more segments are coming; one last check then give up.
+            try:
+                return path.exists() and path.stat().st_size > 0
+            except OSError:
+                return False
         time.sleep(0.15)
     return path.exists()
 

backend/app/plex/sync.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ item-detail/player path (P2), not here.
 import logging
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
 
-from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy import func, select
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 
 from app import sysconfig
@@ -58,6 +58,57 @@ def classify_playable(vcodec: str | None, acodec: str | None, container: str | N
     return "direct"
 
 
+# Video codecs the prod iGPU (UHD 630 / Quick Sync Gen 9.5) can hardware-DECODE — the precondition for
+# the full-GPU VAAPI transcode pipeline. THE single source of this set: plex.stream imports it here so
+# the runtime encoder choice (`_want_hw`) and this catalog facet can never disagree by codec. A source
+# outside it (AV1, MPEG-4 ASP/XviD…) is software-only even on the iGPU (it can't decode it to feed its
+# own encoder).
+HW_DECODABLE_CODECS = frozenset({"h264", "hevc", "h265", "vp9", "vc1", "mpeg2video"})
+# Color-transfer values marking an HDR source (PQ / HLG). A 10-bit/HDR source breaks the VAAPI
+# scale=nv12 path on Gen 9.5 (see plex.stream) → software transcode, so it counts as NOT HW-capable.
+_HDR_TRANSFERS = frozenset({"smpte2084", "arib-std-b67"})
+
+
+def transcode_hw_capable(
+    playable: str | None,
+    vcodec: str | None,
+    bit_depth: int | None = None,
+    hdr: bool = False,
+) -> bool | None:
+    """The stored `PlexItem.transcode_hw` facet: for a `playable="transcode"` item, whether the prod
+    iGPU can HARDWARE-transcode it (else software libx264 only); None for a non-transcode item. HW needs
+    a HW-decodable codec AND an 8-bit SDR source — a 10-bit/HDR source (bit_depth>8 or an HDR transfer)
+    breaks the VAAPI nv12 pipeline and falls back to software. `bit_depth`/`hdr` are unknown at sync
+    time (the cheap listing carries no Stream), so they default to 8-bit SDR (codec-only) and the
+    bit-depth backfill refines a 10-bit/HDR HEVC to False later."""
+    if playable != "transcode":
+        return None
+    if (vcodec or "").lower() not in HW_DECODABLE_CODECS:
+        return False
+    if bit_depth is not None and bit_depth > 8:
+        return False
+    return not hdr
+
+
+def _video_stream_props(meta: dict) -> tuple[int | None, bool]:
+    """(bit_depth, is_hdr) from a FULL Plex metadata dict's video Stream (Media→Part→Stream, streamType
+    1). Only the rich metadata call carries Stream; the cheap listing does not — so this is read by the
+    bit-depth backfill, not the listing sync. (None, False) when absent/unparseable."""
+    for m in meta.get("Media") or []:
+        for part in m.get("Part") or []:
+            for s in part.get("Stream") or []:
+                if s.get("streamType") != 1:  # 1 = video
+                    continue
+                bd = s.get("bitDepth")
+                try:
+                    depth = int(bd) if bd else None
+                except (TypeError, ValueError):
+                    depth = None
+                hdr = str(s.get("colorTrc") or "").lower() in _HDR_TRANSFERS
+                return depth, hdr
+    return None, False
+
+
 def _epoch(v) -> datetime | None:
     try:
         return datetime.fromtimestamp(int(v), tz=timezone.utc) if v else None
@@ -217,6 +268,13 @@ def sync(db: Session) -> dict:
                 stats["people_enriched"] = _enrich_people_batch(db, plex)
             except Exception as e:  # best-effort — never fail the sync over the backfill
                 log.warning("Plex people enrich batch failed: %s", e)
+            # Probe a bounded batch of HW-decodable transcode items for bit-depth/HDR, so the
+            # playback-class filter's HW/SW split is precise (a 10-bit/HDR HEVC → software) over
+            # successive runs. Only HW-decodable-codec transcodes are probed — the rest are SW by codec.
+            try:
+                stats["media_probed"] = _probe_media_batch(db, plex)
+            except Exception as e:  # best-effort — never fail the sync over the backfill
+                log.warning("Plex media probe batch failed: %s", e)
     except PlexNotConfigured as e:
         return {"skipped": str(e)}
     except PlexError as e:
@@ -236,6 +294,49 @@ def sync(db: Session) -> dict:
 # How many titles to rich-fetch per sync run for the cast backfill — bounds the extra Plex load; the
 # whole library is covered over successive runs (each fetched item is stamped people_enriched_at once).
 _ENRICH_BATCH = 60
+# Same bounded-per-run pattern for the bit-depth probe. Only HW-decodable-codec transcode items are
+# probed (typically a small minority — the bulk of transcodes are old codecs that are SW by codec), so
+# a modest batch covers the work-list in a run or two; a stuck item retries next run (watermark unset).
+_PROBE_BATCH = 60
+
+
+def _probe_media_batch(db: Session, plex: PlexClient, limit: int = _PROBE_BATCH) -> int:
+    """Rich-fetch up to `limit` not-yet-probed HW-decodable transcode items, read the video Stream's
+    bit-depth + HDR, and store `video_bit_depth` + the refined `transcode_hw` (a 10-bit/HDR HEVC →
+    False/software). Stamps `media_probed_at` on every attempt (success OR a Plex miss with no Stream),
+    so an item is probed once and not re-fetched every sync; a transient fetch FAILURE leaves the
+    watermark unset to retry. Oldest-id first. Returns how many items were probed this run."""
+    rows = (
+        db.execute(
+            select(PlexItem)
+            .where(
+                PlexItem.playable == "transcode",
+                func.lower(PlexItem.codec_video).in_(HW_DECODABLE_CODECS),
+                PlexItem.media_probed_at.is_(None),
+            )
+            .order_by(PlexItem.id)
+            .limit(limit)
+        )
+        .scalars()
+        .all()
+    )
+    now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
+    n = 0
+    for row in rows:
+        try:
+            meta = plex.metadata(row.rating_key) or {}
+        except Exception as e:  # transient — leave media_probed_at NULL so it retries next run
+            log.debug("Plex media probe fetch failed for %s: %s", row.rating_key, e)
+            continue
+        bit_depth, hdr = _video_stream_props(meta)
+        row.video_bit_depth = bit_depth
+        row.transcode_hw = transcode_hw_capable("transcode", row.codec_video, bit_depth, hdr)
+        row.media_probed_at = (
+            now  # probed (even if Plex carried no Stream — don't re-fetch forever)
+        )
+        n += 1
+    db.commit()
+    return n
 
 
 def _enrich_people_batch(db: Session, plex: PlexClient, limit: int = _ENRICH_BATCH) -> int:
@@ -369,15 +470,41 @@ def _apply_item(row: PlexItem, lib_id: int, kind: str, meta: dict) -> None:
     row.added_at = _epoch(meta.get("addedAt"))
     _apply_facet_fields(row, meta)  # filterable/orderable extras (shared with shows)
     mf = _media_facts(meta)
+    new_vcodec = mf.get("codec_video")
+    new_part_key = mf.get("part_key")
+    # The physical file was replaced when its video codec changes OR — for a SINGLE-version item — when its
+    # Plex Part key changes (a re-encode / quality upgrade gets a new part id). Either way any probed
+    # bit-depth is stale, so reset the probe watermark and re-derive transcode_hw from codec alone until the
+    # backfill re-probes. Codec alone is NOT enough: a same-codec bit-depth re-encode (8-bit→10-bit HEVC)
+    # keeps the codec `hevc` but flips the HW class, and only the part-key move catches it.
+    #
+    # The part-key check is gated on single-version because `_media_facts` reads media[0]/part[0], and for a
+    # MULTI-version item (an original + a Plex "Optimized" copy) that order isn't guaranteed stable across
+    # listings — an unguarded part-key compare would then reset+re-probe every sync and oscillate the
+    # transcode_hw bucket between the two versions. A multi-version same-codec re-encode not self-healing is
+    # an acceptable rare edge; a per-sync re-probe loop is not.
+    single_version = len(meta.get("Media") or []) <= 1
+    codec_changed = (row.codec_video or "").lower() != (new_vcodec or "").lower()
+    if codec_changed or (single_version and row.part_key != new_part_key):
+        row.video_bit_depth = None
+        row.media_probed_at = None
     row.file_path = mf.get("file_path")
-    row.part_key = mf.get("part_key")
+    row.part_key = new_part_key
     row.container = mf.get("container")
-    row.codec_video = mf.get("codec_video")
+    row.codec_video = new_vcodec
     row.codec_audio = mf.get("codec_audio")
     row.size_bytes = mf.get("size_bytes")
     row.playable = classify_playable(
         mf.get("codec_video"), mf.get("codec_audio"), mf.get("container")
     )
+    # transcode_hw: keep the bit-depth backfill's authoritative value (it folds in bit-depth + HDR) once
+    # probed; otherwise (re)derive the provisional codec-only class. A non-transcode item is always None,
+    # even if it had been probed as a transcode before (an audio/container flip to remux without a codec
+    # change wouldn't reset the watermark, so pin it here).
+    if row.playable != "transcode":
+        row.transcode_hw = None
+    elif row.media_probed_at is None:
+        row.transcode_hw = transcode_hw_capable("transcode", row.codec_video, row.video_bit_depth)
 
 
 def _prune_stale(

backend/app/routes/downloads.py

@@ -6,11 +6,14 @@ worker is a separate process); this module never downloads — it enqueues, mana
 serves finished files (range-aware, with the user's custom display name), and shares them.
 """
 
+import os
 import re
+import tempfile
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+from pathlib import Path
 from urllib.parse import parse_qs, urlparse
 
-from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException, Request
+from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, File, Form, HTTPException, Request, UploadFile
 from fastapi.responses import FileResponse
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 from sqlalchemy import func, select
@@ -24,6 +27,7 @@ from app.downloads import credentials as dlcreds
 from app.downloads import edit as editmod
 from app.downloads import links as linksmod
 from app.downloads import quota, service, storage
+from app.downloads import upload as uploadmod
 from app.models import (
     DownloadJob,
     DownloadLink,
@@ -123,6 +127,9 @@ def _serialize(job: DownloadJob, asset: MediaAsset | None) -> dict:
             "width": asset.width,
             "height": asset.height,
             "container": asset.container,
+            # "video" | "audio" | "file" — the library gates play/edit on this (media only); a
+            # generic uploaded file is download-only. Null while still in flight (set at finalize).
+            "media_kind": asset.media_kind,
             "uploader_url": asset.uploader_url,
             "thumbnail_url": asset.thumbnail_url,
             "expires_at": iso(asset.expires_at),
@@ -354,6 +361,61 @@ def enqueue_download(
     return _serialize_job(db, job)
 
 
+# Read the upload in 1 MiB chunks so a large file never sits fully in memory, and the size cap is
+# enforced on the ACTUAL bytes read (a client-set Content-Length can't be trusted to gate it).
+_UPLOAD_CHUNK = 1024 * 1024
+
+
+@router.post("/upload")
+def upload_download(
+    file: UploadFile = File(...),
+    display_name: str | None = Form(None),
+    user: User = Depends(require_human),
+    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
+) -> dict:
+    """Ingest a local file into the caller's library (E7 S5). Any file type is accepted; media
+    (video/audio) gets the full function set, a generic file is download-only. The file is streamed
+    to a temp path under the download volume (enforcing the per-file cap as it goes), then handed to
+    the non-yt-dlp ingest which probes + places it and returns an already-`done` job.
+
+    A sync (threadpool) handler on purpose: the ingest does blocking work — an ffprobe of up to 30s
+    plus sync DB writes — so it must NOT run on the event loop. `file.file` is the sync file object
+    Starlette spools the multipart body into."""
+    cap = sysconfig.get_int(db, "download_upload_max_bytes")
+    staging = Path(settings.download_root) / ".staging" / "uploads"
+    staging.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    fd, tmp = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=str(staging))
+    tmp_path = Path(tmp)
+    try:
+        size = 0
+        with os.fdopen(fd, "wb") as out:
+            while chunk := file.file.read(_UPLOAD_CHUNK):
+                size += len(chunk)
+                if cap and size > cap:
+                    raise HTTPException(
+                        status_code=422, detail={"code": "upload_too_large", "limit": cap}
+                    )
+                out.write(chunk)
+        if size == 0:
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail={"code": "upload_empty"})
+        try:
+            job = uploadmod.ingest_upload(
+                db,
+                user.id,
+                filename=file.filename or "upload",
+                src_path=tmp_path,
+                size=size,
+                display_name=(display_name or "").strip() or None,
+            )
+        except quota.QuotaExceeded as e:
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=422, detail=_quota_detail(e))
+        return _serialize_job(db, job)
+    finally:
+        # Ingest MOVES the temp file into place on success (unlink is then a no-op); on any early exit
+        # — cap hit, empty, quota, probe/move error — this removes the abandoned staging file.
+        tmp_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
+
+
 class EnqueueEditIn(BaseModel):
     source_job_id: int = 0
     edit_spec: dict
@@ -544,8 +606,10 @@ def redownload_download(
     never deletes a file another job/user still shares: the old asset is only removed if THIS job
     was its last holder."""
     job = _own_job(db, user, job_id)
-    if job.job_kind == "edit":
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=409, detail="Editor clips can't be re-downloaded.")
+    if job.job_kind in ("edit", "upload"):
+        # Neither has a re-fetchable source: an editor clip is derived locally, an upload IS the
+        # source. Re-running yt-dlp against source_kind='upload'/'edit' would just fail.
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=409, detail="This item can't be re-downloaded.")
     if job.status in ("queued", "running", "paused"):
         raise HTTPException(status_code=409, detail="This download is still in progress.")
     service.redownload(db, job)
@@ -610,8 +674,21 @@ def download_file(
 
     asset.last_access_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
     db.commit()
-    # Starlette's FileResponse honours the Range header (206 partial content) for seek/resume.
-    return FileResponse(path, filename=filename)
+    # The served Content-Type comes from the ffprobe-verified media_kind + a container allow-list
+    # (storage.served_media_type), NEVER guessed from the file's own extension. A generic 'file' (and
+    # any media whose container we don't recognise — e.g. a media/HTML polyglot named "evil.html")
+    # returns None → a neutral force-download attachment, so uploaded HTML/SVG can't execute inline on
+    # this origin. Recognised media is served with its real type so the in-app player streams it. Both
+    # are range-aware (FileResponse → 206).
+    media_type = storage.served_media_type(asset.media_kind, asset.container)
+    if media_type is None:
+        return FileResponse(
+            path,
+            filename=filename,
+            media_type="application/octet-stream",
+            content_disposition_type="attachment",
+        )
+    return FileResponse(path, filename=filename, media_type=media_type)
 
 
 # --- editor filmstrip (scrub track) --------------------------------------------------------
@@ -823,7 +900,12 @@ def list_links(
 
 class CreateLinkIn(BaseModel):
     password: str = ""
-    allow_download: bool = False
+    # D1 (E7 S3): a newly shared download is downloadable by default — the common intent is "let the
+    # recipient have the file", not stream-only. Forward-only: this only sets the default for links
+    # minted from now on; existing links keep whatever `allow_download` they were created with (the
+    # column default stays False, so no back-catalogue link silently flips). The owner can still
+    # uncheck it in the Share dialog, and toggle any link stream-only afterwards.
+    allow_download: bool = True
     expires_days: int | None = None
 
 

backend/app/routes/plex/browse.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, Query
 from sqlalchemy import (
+    Boolean,
     Integer,
     String,
     and_,
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ from app.plex import rollup
 from app.plex.cards import episode_card
 from app.plex.query import (
     FIELD_COLUMNS,
+    PLAYBACK_CLASSES,
     TS_CONFIG,
     LibraryFilters,
     apply_meta_filters,
@@ -36,6 +38,8 @@ from app.plex.query import (
     genres_col,
     meta_filter_conds,
     movie_status_case,
+    playable_conds,
+    playback_class_expr,
     show_status_case,
     split_csv,
     summary_col,
@@ -135,6 +139,7 @@ def unified_library(
                 PlexItem.originally_available_at.label("rel"),
                 PlexItem.duration_s.label("duration_s"),
                 PlexItem.playable.label("playable"),
+                PlexItem.transcode_hw.label("transcode_hw"),
                 cast(null(), Integer).label("season_count"),
                 func.coalesce(st.position_seconds, 0).label("position_seconds"),
                 m_status.label("status"),
@@ -156,6 +161,8 @@ def unified_library(
             mq = mq.where(PlexItem.duration_s >= f.duration_min)
         if f.duration_max is not None:
             mq = mq.where(PlexItem.duration_s <= f.duration_max)
+        # Playback-class filter (movie-only — a show is an aggregate with no single class).
+        mq = mq.where(*playable_conds(split_csv(f.playable)))
         if tsq is not None:
             mq = mq.where(vector_match(PlexItem, lang, tsq))
         if recheck is not None:
@@ -179,6 +186,7 @@ def unified_library(
                 PlexShow.originally_available_at.label("rel"),
                 cast(null(), Integer).label("duration_s"),
                 cast(null(), String).label("playable"),
+                cast(null(), Boolean).label("transcode_hw"),
                 PlexShow.child_count.label("season_count"),
                 literal(0).label("position_seconds"),
                 s_status.label("status"),
@@ -237,6 +245,7 @@ def unified_library(
                         "duration_seconds": r.duration_s,
                         "thumb": f"/api/plex/image/{r.rk}",
                         "playable": r.playable,
+                        "transcode_hw": r.transcode_hw,
                         "status": r.status,
                         "position_seconds": r.position_seconds,
                     }
@@ -312,6 +321,7 @@ def facets(
         "genres": [],
         "content_ratings": [],
         "studios": [],
+        "playable": [],
         "year_min": None,
         "year_max": None,
         "rating_max": None,
@@ -338,6 +348,9 @@ def facets(
                 query = query.where(model.duration_s >= pp["duration_min"])
             if with_dur and pp.get("duration_max") is not None:
                 query = query.where(model.duration_s <= pp["duration_max"])
+            # Playback-class filter (movie-only) — applied for the OTHER groups so an active class
+            # narrows them; the playable facet itself passes pp with playable=None (self-exclusion).
+            query = query.where(*playable_conds(split_csv(pp.get("playable"))))
             # Join watch-state and reuse the grid's exact movie state filter (unified_library) —
             # hidden movies never appear in the grid, so they must not inflate facet counts/bounds either.
             st = aliased(PlexState)
@@ -356,6 +369,7 @@ def facets(
     genre_counts: dict[str, int] = {}
     cr_counts: dict[str, int] = {}
     studio_counts: dict[str, int] = {}
+    playable_counts: dict[str, int] = {}
     years: list[int] = []
     ratings: list[float] = []
     durs: list[int] = []
@@ -420,6 +434,23 @@ def facets(
         )
         for s, c in db.execute(stq).all():
             studio_counts[s] = studio_counts.get(s, 0) + c
+        # Playback class (movie-only) — exclude its own so each class stays an addable OR option.
+        if kind_movie:
+            pcls = playback_class_expr()
+            pcq = (
+                wsq(
+                    select(pcls.label("cls"), func.count()),
+                    model,
+                    ids,
+                    {**p, "playable": None},
+                    kind_movie,
+                    True,
+                )
+                .where(pcls.isnot(None))
+                .group_by(pcls)
+            )
+            for cls, c in db.execute(pcq).all():
+                playable_counts[cls] = playable_counts.get(cls, 0) + c
         # Year bounds — exclude the year filter.
         by = db.execute(
             wsq(
@@ -477,6 +508,11 @@ def facets(
     # Same for the actively-selected studios, so a selected studio stays removable even at zero matches.
     for s in split_csv(f.studios):
         studio_counts.setdefault(s, 0)
+    # Keep an actively-selected playback class visible even at zero matches (the sidebar hides the whole
+    # section when its facet list is empty, which would trap a zero-result selection with no way to undo).
+    for c in split_csv(f.playable):
+        if c in PLAYBACK_CLASSES:
+            playable_counts.setdefault(c, 0)
     return {
         "genres": [
             {"value": g, "count": c} for g, c in sorted(genre_counts.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[0])
@@ -488,6 +524,12 @@ def facets(
             {"value": s, "count": c}
             for s, c in sorted(studio_counts.items(), key=lambda kv: (-kv[1], kv[0]))
         ],
+        # Fixed good→heavy order (not by count), so the class list reads as a severity scale.
+        "playable": [
+            {"value": c, "count": playable_counts[c]}
+            for c in PLAYBACK_CLASSES
+            if c in playable_counts
+        ],
         "year_min": min(years) if years else None,
         "year_max": max(years) if years else None,
         "rating_max": max(ratings) if ratings else None,

backend/app/routes/plex/detail.py

@@ -411,6 +411,10 @@ def item_detail(
         "year": it.year,
         "duration_seconds": it.duration_s,
         "playable": it.playable,
+        # Playback-class detail: HW/SW transcode split + the codec/bit-depth the info-page chip shows.
+        "transcode_hw": it.transcode_hw,
+        "codec_video": it.codec_video,
+        "video_bit_depth": it.video_bit_depth,
         "thumb": f"/api/plex/image/{it.rating_key}",
         "art": f"/api/plex/image/{it.rating_key}?variant=art",
         "library": _lib_key(db, it.library_id),

backend/app/routes/plex/playback.py

@@ -532,15 +532,13 @@ def stream_session(
     db: Session = Depends(get_db),
 ) -> dict:
     """Prepare playback from `start` seconds. Direct-playable files are served raw; remux files
-    (re)start an HLS session at the offset (seek-restart); transcode (HEVC/VP9) is P3. Selecting a
-    non-default audio track (`audio` = stream ordinal) forces the HLS path so the chosen audio can be
-    muxed in. Subtitles are independent WebVTT tracks (GET /subtitle) — no session restart."""
+    (re)start an HLS session at the offset (seek-restart, video stream-copied); transcode files (non-h264:
+    HEVC/VP9/AV1/…) take the same HLS path but with the video re-encoded to H.264 (VAAPI or libx264).
+    Selecting a non-default audio track (`audio` = stream ordinal) forces the HLS path so the chosen audio
+    can be muxed in. Subtitles are independent WebVTT tracks (GET /subtitle) — no session restart."""
     plex_stream.reap_idle()  # opportunistic cleanup of idle sessions on each new playback
     it = item_or_404(db, rating_key)
-    if it.playable == "transcode":
-        raise HTTPException(
-            status_code=501, detail="This format needs transcoding (a later phase)."
-        )
+    transcode = it.playable == "transcode"
     # `multi` (item has ≥2 audio tracks) forces the HLS path so ALL audio tracks ship as renditions and
     # the client can switch audio without a restart — even for otherwise direct-playable files.
     if it.playable == "direct" and audio is None and not aoff and not multi:
@@ -551,15 +549,21 @@ def stream_session(
         }
     if plex_paths.local_media_path(db, it.file_path) is None:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Media file not found on disk")
-    s = plex_stream.start_session(db, it, start, audio, aoff, multi)
+    s = plex_stream.start_session(db, it, start, audio, aoff, multi, transcode=transcode)
     if s is None:
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Media file not found on disk")
     # Report the REAL media start (the keyframe ffmpeg landed on, which hls.js zero-bases to), not the
     # requested offset — the client's absolute clock and the subtitle cue-shift both key off this.
+    # `transcode`/`hw`/`tonemap` let the player show an honest cold-start ("Preparing stream…") and
+    # surface the active mode + encoder in the stats overlay (`tonemap` = the HW HDR→SDR path); both
+    # segment streams are otherwise identical.
     return {
         "mode": "hls",
         "start_s": s.media_start_s,
         "url": f"/api/plex/stream/{it.rating_key}/hls/{s.entry}",
+        "transcode": s.transcode,
+        "hw": s.hw,
+        "tonemap": s.tonemap,
     }
 
 

backend/app/routes/public.py

@@ -122,9 +122,25 @@ def watch_file(token: str, g: str | None = None, db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
         raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="This video is no longer available.")
 
     filename = storage.download_filename(asset.title or "video", asset.container, path)
+    # The served Content-Type comes from the asset's ffprobe-verified media_kind + a container
+    # allow-list (storage.served_media_type) — NEVER guessed from the file's own extension. A generic
+    # 'file' (and any media whose container we don't positively recognise, e.g. a media/HTML polyglot
+    # named "evil.html") returns None → a neutral force-download attachment, so arbitrary uploaded
+    # HTML/SVG can't execute inline on this login-free public origin. A recognised media container is
+    # served with its real audio/video type, inline unless the link forces a download so it can play
+    # in the watch page. Both are range-aware (FileResponse → 206) for seeking/resume.
+    media_type = storage.served_media_type(asset.media_kind, asset.container)
+    if media_type is None:
+        return FileResponse(
+            path,
+            filename=filename,
+            media_type="application/octet-stream",
+            content_disposition_type="attachment",
+        )
     disposition = "attachment" if link.allow_download else "inline"
-    # Starlette's FileResponse honours the Range header (206) for seeking/scrubbing.
-    return FileResponse(path, filename=filename, content_disposition_type=disposition)
+    return FileResponse(
+        path, filename=filename, media_type=media_type, content_disposition_type=disposition
+    )
 
 
 @router.get("/watch/{token}/poster.jpg")

backend/app/sysconfig.py

@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ SPECS: tuple[ConfigSpec, ...] = (
         min=1,
         max=100_000,
     ),
+    # min=1, NOT 0: the per-file cap is enforced as `if cap and size > cap`, so a stored 0 would read
+    # as falsy and SILENTLY disable the limit (an unbounded streamed write to the volume). Floor it at
+    # 1 so the cap is always active; the overall footprint is separately bounded by the byte quota.
+    ConfigSpec("download_upload_max_bytes", "int", "downloads", "download_upload_max_bytes", min=1),
     ConfigSpec(
         "download_retention_days", "int", "downloads", "download_retention_days", min=0, max=3_650
     ),
@@ -155,6 +159,14 @@ SPECS: tuple[ConfigSpec, ...] = (
     ConfigSpec("plex_overlay_map", "str", "plex", "plex_overlay_map"),
     # (plex_sync_interval_min is tuned from the Scheduler dashboard, not here — it's a scheduler job.)
     ConfigSpec("plex_max_transcodes", "int", "plex", "plex_max_transcodes", min=0, max=16),
+    # Transcode re-encode tuning (E6 S1). hw = "auto"|"on"|"off" (free-text, like search_source); the
+    # libx264 knobs apply only to the software fallback. crf 0–51 (x264 range); max_height 0 = source.
+    ConfigSpec("plex_transcode_hw", "str", "plex", "plex_transcode_hw"),
+    ConfigSpec("plex_transcode_preset", "str", "plex", "plex_transcode_preset"),
+    ConfigSpec("plex_transcode_crf", "int", "plex", "plex_transcode_crf", min=0, max=51),
+    ConfigSpec(
+        "plex_transcode_max_height", "int", "plex", "plex_transcode_max_height", min=0, max=4320
+    ),
     # NOTE: plex_watch_sync_interval_min is a config.py default read by the watch-sync scheduler job
     # (scheduler.py); it is intentionally NOT a runtime admin knob, so it stays out of SPECS.
     # --- TMDB enrichment (E5 S2; optional) — the API key is the only secret ---

backend/requirements.lock

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ pydantic-settings==2.15.0
 pydantic==2.13.4
 pydantic_core==2.46.4
 python-dotenv==1.2.3
+python-multipart==0.0.32
 requests==2.34.2
 starlette==1.6.0
 typing-inspection==0.4.4

backend/requirements.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 fastapi>=0.115,<1.0
+# Multipart form parsing — required by Starlette/FastAPI to accept file uploads (UploadFile/Form).
+# The download center's local-file Upload (E7) is the only multipart endpoint in the app.
+python-multipart>=0.0.9,<1.0
 uvicorn[standard]>=0.30,<1.0
 sqlalchemy>=2.0,<2.1
 psycopg[binary]>=3.2,<4.0

backend/tests/test_download_output.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ with "PosixPath('.') has an empty name" instead of downloading."""
 
 import pytest
 
-from app.downloads.edit import _concat_quote, parse_probe_streams
+from app.downloads.edit import _codecs_from_streams, _concat_quote, run_ffprobe_json
 from app.downloads.pipeline import _media_info, _produced_file
 from pathlib import Path, PurePosixPath
 
@@ -105,39 +105,76 @@ class TestMediaInfo:
         assert _media_info(info)["id"] == "vid"
 
 
-class TestParseProbeStreams:
+class TestCodecsFromStreams:
     # ffprobe emits codec_name BEFORE codec_type, so the old line parser shifted every name onto
     # the previous stream and an H.264+AAC mp4 came back as (aac, None) → a needless re-encode.
+    # _codecs_from_streams reads each stream dict by its own codec_type, immune to that ordering.
     def test_reads_each_stream_by_its_own_type(self):
-        payload = '{"streams":[{"codec_name":"h264","codec_type":"video"},{"codec_name":"aac","codec_type":"audio"}]}'
-        assert parse_probe_streams(payload) == ("h264", "aac")
+        streams = [
+            {"codec_name": "h264", "codec_type": "video"},
+            {"codec_name": "aac", "codec_type": "audio"},
+        ]
+        assert _codecs_from_streams(streams) == ("h264", "aac")
 
     def test_audio_first_ordering_is_handled(self):
-        payload = '{"streams":[{"codec_name":"AAC","codec_type":"audio"},{"codec_name":"H264","codec_type":"video"}]}'
-        assert parse_probe_streams(payload) == ("h264", "aac")
+        streams = [
+            {"codec_name": "AAC", "codec_type": "audio"},
+            {"codec_name": "H264", "codec_type": "video"},
+        ]
+        assert _codecs_from_streams(streams) == ("h264", "aac")
 
     def test_extra_streams_do_not_win_over_the_first_of_their_kind(self):
-        payload = (
-            '{"streams":[{"codec_name":"h264","codec_type":"video"},'
-            '{"codec_name":"vp9","codec_type":"video"},'
-            '{"codec_name":"mov_text","codec_type":"subtitle"},'
-            '{"codec_name":"opus","codec_type":"audio"}]}'
-        )
-        assert parse_probe_streams(payload) == ("h264", "opus")
+        streams = [
+            {"codec_name": "h264", "codec_type": "video"},
+            {"codec_name": "vp9", "codec_type": "video"},
+            {"codec_name": "mov_text", "codec_type": "subtitle"},
+            {"codec_name": "opus", "codec_type": "audio"},
+        ]
+        assert _codecs_from_streams(streams) == ("h264", "opus")
 
     def test_audio_only_and_video_only(self):
-        assert parse_probe_streams('{"streams":[{"codec_name":"opus","codec_type":"audio"}]}') == (
+        assert _codecs_from_streams([{"codec_name": "opus", "codec_type": "audio"}]) == (
             None,
             "opus",
         )
-        assert parse_probe_streams('{"streams":[{"codec_name":"av1","codec_type":"video"}]}') == (
-            "av1",
-            None,
-        )
+        assert _codecs_from_streams([{"codec_name": "av1", "codec_type": "video"}]) == ("av1", None)
 
-    def test_garbage_is_not_a_crash(self):
-        assert parse_probe_streams("") == (None, None)
-        assert parse_probe_streams("not json") == (None, None)
+    def test_empty_stream_list(self):
+        assert _codecs_from_streams([]) == (None, None)
+
+
+class TestRunFfprobeJson:
+    """The single ffprobe-JSON invocation point (shared by probe_codecs + probe.probe_media). A failed
+    probe or unparseable output must degrade to None, not raise — the malformed-input safety the old
+    parse_probe_streams string parser used to own now lives here."""
+
+    def test_unparseable_output_returns_none(self, monkeypatch):
+        import subprocess
+
+        class _R:
+            stdout = "not json"
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(subprocess, "run", lambda *a, **k: _R())
+        assert run_ffprobe_json(Path("x")) is None
+
+    def test_ffprobe_failure_returns_none(self, monkeypatch):
+        import subprocess
+
+        def _boom(*a, **k):
+            raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(1, "ffprobe")
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(subprocess, "run", _boom)
+        assert run_ffprobe_json(Path("x")) is None
+
+    def test_parses_streams_from_valid_json(self, monkeypatch):
+        import subprocess
+
+        class _R:
+            stdout = '{"streams":[{"codec_name":"h264","codec_type":"video"}]}'
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(subprocess, "run", lambda *a, **k: _R())
+        data = run_ffprobe_json(Path("x"), entries="stream=codec_type,codec_name")
+        assert _codecs_from_streams(data["streams"]) == ("h264", None)
 
 
 class TestConcatQuote:

backend/tests/test_formats.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-"""build_ydl_opts: the mp4 compat profile must SELECT H.264 (not merely prefer it), so shared
-downloads play on iOS/Safari, while custom vcodec / non-mp4 profiles opt out. See the iPad AV1
-broken-player fix."""
+"""build_ydl_opts: EVERY download is clamped to the mp4/H.264 compat profile (E7 browser-
+playability guarantee) and must SELECT H.264 (not merely prefer it), so shared downloads play in
+every browser incl. iOS/Safari. Non-mp4 containers and non-H.264 vcodecs are coerced, not honoured.
+See the iPad AV1 broken-player fix + E7 format narrowing."""
 
 from app.downloads import edit as editmod
 from app.downloads import formats
@@ -56,16 +57,37 @@ def test_max_height_caps_every_branch():
     assert fmt.count("[height<=?720]") >= 3  # applied to each avc1/fallback branch
 
 
-def test_explicit_vcodec_opts_out_of_avc1_selector():
+def test_explicit_vcodec_is_clamped_to_the_compat_selector():
+    # E7 browser-playability guarantee: a non-H.264 vcodec no longer opts out — normalize() coerces
+    # vcodec→None, so the avc1 selector (and mp4 merge) is used regardless of what was requested.
     opts = _opts({"mode": "av", "container": "mp4", "vcodec": "vp9"})
-    assert "vcodec^=avc1" not in opts["format"]
-    assert opts["format"] == "bestvideo+bestaudio/best"
-    assert "vcodec:vp9" in opts["format_sort"]
+    assert opts["format"].startswith("bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1]")
+    assert opts["merge_output_format"] == "mp4"
+    assert "vcodec:vp9" not in opts["format_sort"]
 
 
-def test_non_mp4_container_opts_out():
-    fmt = _opts({"mode": "av", "container": "webm"})["format"]
-    assert "vcodec^=avc1" not in fmt
+def test_non_mp4_container_is_clamped_to_mp4():
+    # A webm/mkv request is coerced to the mp4/H.264 compat profile (nothing plays mkv in-browser;
+    # webm/VP9 fails iOS), so the avc1 selector is used and the merge target is mp4.
+    opts = _opts({"mode": "av", "container": "webm"})
+    assert opts["format"].startswith("bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1]")
+    assert opts["merge_output_format"] == "mp4"
+
+
+def test_normalize_clamps_to_browser_playable():
+    n = formats.normalize({"container": "mkv", "vcodec": "av1", "audio_format": "opus"})
+    assert n["container"] == "mp4"
+    assert n["vcodec"] is None
+    assert n["audio_format"] == "m4a"
+    # A playable audio choice is preserved.
+    assert formats.normalize({"audio_format": "mp3"})["audio_format"] == "mp3"
+
+
+def test_non_playable_specs_dedup_to_the_compat_identity():
+    # Two requests that differ only in (now-clamped) non-playable fields share ONE cache asset.
+    a = formats.format_sig({"mode": "av", "max_height": 720, "container": "webm", "vcodec": "av1"})
+    b = formats.format_sig({"mode": "av", "max_height": 720, "container": "mp4"})
+    assert a == b
 
 
 def test_audio_only_unaffected():

backend/tests/test_links.py

@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ def _asset(**over):
         height=720,
         vcodec="h264",
         acodec="aac",
+        media_kind="video",
+        size_bytes=1000,
+        container="mp4",
         source_webpage_url=None,
         source_kind="url",
     )
@@ -74,12 +77,13 @@ def _asset(**over):
 
 class TestPublicMetaAudioFlag:
     """The watch page picks <audio> vs <video> from this flag; WebKit refuses an audio-only mp3 in a
-    <video>, so an audio-only asset (codec present, no video stream) must report audio=True."""
+    <video>, so an audio-only asset (media_kind='audio') must report audio=True. The flag now reads
+    the stored media_kind (the single source), not a re-derived codec check."""
 
     _link = SimpleNamespace(allow_download=True)
 
     def test_audio_only_asset_is_flagged_audio(self):
-        asset = _asset(vcodec=None, acodec="mp3", width=None, height=None)
+        asset = _asset(media_kind="audio", vcodec=None, acodec="mp3", width=None, height=None)
         meta = public_meta(self._link, None, asset, "/f.mp3")
         assert meta["audio"] is True
 
@@ -87,10 +91,29 @@ class TestPublicMetaAudioFlag:
         meta = public_meta(self._link, None, _asset(), "/f.mp4")
         assert meta["audio"] is False
 
-    def test_a_silent_video_is_not_audio(self):
-        # Video present but no audio track — still a video player, not the audio bar.
-        meta = public_meta(self._link, None, _asset(acodec=None), "/f.mp4")
+    def test_a_generic_file_is_not_audio(self):
+        # A non-media upload (media_kind='file') has no player at all — never the audio bar.
+        meta = public_meta(self._link, None, _asset(media_kind="file"), "/f.bin")
         assert meta["audio"] is False
+        assert meta["media_kind"] == "file"
+
+
+class TestCreateLinkDefault:
+    """D1 (E7 S3): a newly minted share link is downloadable by default. The one-click Share relies on
+    this — it POSTs no `allow_download`, so the API default decides. Forward-only lives here (the API
+    default), NOT in a migration: the DownloadLink column default stays False, so no existing back-
+    catalogue link silently flips to downloadable."""
+
+    def test_omitted_allow_download_defaults_downloadable(self):
+        from app.routes.downloads import CreateLinkIn
+
+        assert CreateLinkIn().allow_download is True
+
+    def test_explicit_false_is_respected(self):
+        # The owner can still uncheck it to mint a stream-only link.
+        from app.routes.downloads import CreateLinkIn
+
+        assert CreateLinkIn(allow_download=False).allow_download is False
 
 
 class TestIsExpired:

backend/tests/test_plex_playback_class.py

@@ -0,0 +1,495 @@
+"""The playback-class filter (E7): filter the Plex feed by Direct Play / Direct Stream / Transcode·HW /
+Transcode·SW. Covers the shared classifier + Stream parsing (unit), the sync derivation + codec-change
+reset, the bit-depth backfill, and the /library filter + /facets counts (DB lane).
+
+The HW/SW split is derived from the stored `transcode_hw` facet (codec at sync, refined by the bit-depth
+backfill). These tests pin that a 10-bit/HDR HEVC lands in SW even though its codec is HW-decodable —
+the exact case the runtime VAAPI path (plex.stream) also special-cases.
+"""
+
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import app.state as state
+from app.auth import current_user
+from app.db import get_db
+from app.main import app
+from app.models import PlexItem, PlexLibrary, User
+from app.plex import sync
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+
+class TestTranscodeHwCapable:
+    """The single classifier both the catalog facet and (by codec) the runtime encoder choice key off."""
+
+    def test_non_transcode_items_are_none(self):
+        assert sync.transcode_hw_capable("direct", "h264") is None
+        assert sync.transcode_hw_capable("remux", "h264") is None
+        assert sync.transcode_hw_capable(None, "hevc") is None
+
+    def test_hw_decodable_8bit_sdr_is_hw(self):
+        assert sync.transcode_hw_capable("transcode", "hevc") is True
+        assert sync.transcode_hw_capable("transcode", "vp9", bit_depth=8) is True
+
+    def test_non_decodable_codec_is_sw(self):
+        # AV1 / MPEG-4 ASP (XviD) can't be HW-decoded on Gen 9.5 → software regardless of bit depth.
+        assert sync.transcode_hw_capable("transcode", "av1") is False
+        assert sync.transcode_hw_capable("transcode", "mpeg4", bit_depth=8) is False
+
+    def test_10bit_or_hdr_hevc_is_sw(self):
+        # A HW-decodable codec that is 10-bit or HDR still breaks the VAAPI nv12 pipeline → software.
+        assert sync.transcode_hw_capable("transcode", "hevc", bit_depth=10) is False
+        assert sync.transcode_hw_capable("transcode", "hevc", bit_depth=8, hdr=True) is False
+
+
+class TestVideoStreamProps:
+    def test_reads_bit_depth_and_hdr_from_the_video_stream(self):
+        meta = {
+            "Media": [
+                {
+                    "Part": [
+                        {
+                            "Stream": [
+                                {"streamType": 2, "codec": "eac3"},  # audio — skipped
+                                {"streamType": 1, "bitDepth": 10, "colorTrc": "smpte2084"},
+                            ]
+                        }
+                    ]
+                }
+            ]
+        }
+        assert sync._video_stream_props(meta) == (10, True)
+
+    def test_8bit_sdr_stream(self):
+        meta = {"Media": [{"Part": [{"Stream": [{"streamType": 1, "bitDepth": 8}]}]}]}
+        assert sync._video_stream_props(meta) == (8, False)
+
+    def test_absent_stream_is_none_false(self):
+        assert sync._video_stream_props({}) == (None, False)
+        assert sync._video_stream_props({"Media": [{"Part": [{}]}]}) == (None, False)
+
+
+class TestSyncDerivation:
+    """`_apply_item` sets transcode_hw codec-only at sync (bit depth unknown from the listing), and a
+    changed video codec resets the probe watermark so a stale bit-depth can't linger."""
+
+    def _meta(self, vcodec, *, key="/parts/1/file.mkv", file="/m.mkv"):
+        return {
+            "title": "X",
+            "Media": [{"videoCodec": vcodec, "Part": [{"file": file, "key": key}]}],
+        }
+
+    def test_codec_only_derivation_at_sync(self):
+        row = PlexItem(rating_key="x", kind="movie")
+        sync._apply_item(row, lib_id=1, kind="movie", meta=self._meta("hevc"))
+        assert row.playable == "transcode" and row.transcode_hw is True  # decodable, 8-bit assumed
+        row2 = PlexItem(rating_key="y", kind="movie")
+        sync._apply_item(row2, lib_id=1, kind="movie", meta=self._meta("av1"))
+        assert row2.transcode_hw is False  # av1 not HW-decodable
+
+    def test_probed_value_survives_resync_when_codec_unchanged(self):
+        row = PlexItem(rating_key="x", kind="movie")
+        sync._apply_item(row, lib_id=1, kind="movie", meta=self._meta("hevc"))
+        # Simulate the backfill downgrading this 10-bit HEVC to software.
+        row.transcode_hw = False
+        row.video_bit_depth = 10
+        row.media_probed_at = sync.datetime.now(sync.timezone.utc)
+        sync._apply_item(row, lib_id=1, kind="movie", meta=self._meta("hevc"))
+        assert row.transcode_hw is False  # NOT re-derived back to True
+        assert row.video_bit_depth == 10 and row.media_probed_at is not None
+
+    def test_codec_change_resets_the_probe(self):
+        row = PlexItem(rating_key="x", kind="movie")
+        sync._apply_item(row, lib_id=1, kind="movie", meta=self._meta("hevc"))
+        row.transcode_hw = False
+        row.video_bit_depth = 10
+        row.media_probed_at = sync.datetime.now(sync.timezone.utc)
+        # The file was replaced with an h264 remux — the stale 10-bit probe must be cleared.
+        sync._apply_item(row, lib_id=1, kind="movie", meta=self._meta("h264"))
+        assert row.video_bit_depth is None and row.media_probed_at is None
+
+    def test_same_codec_reencode_with_a_new_part_resets_the_probe(self):
+        # A same-codec bit-depth re-encode (e.g. 8-bit→10-bit HEVC) keeps codec 'hevc' but replaces the
+        # physical file, so its Plex Part key changes. Codec-only reset would miss this and keep the stale
+        # 8-bit/HW verdict forever (the backfill only re-probes media_probed_at IS NULL rows) — the
+        # part-key move must reset the watermark so the new bit depth is re-probed.
+        row = PlexItem(rating_key="x", kind="movie")
+        sync._apply_item(row, lib_id=1, kind="movie", meta=self._meta("hevc", key="/parts/1/f.mkv"))
+        row.transcode_hw = True
+        row.video_bit_depth = 8
+        row.media_probed_at = sync.datetime.now(sync.timezone.utc)
+        # Re-encoded in place: same codec 'hevc', but a new Part key (new file).
+        sync._apply_item(row, lib_id=1, kind="movie", meta=self._meta("hevc", key="/parts/2/f.mkv"))
+        assert row.video_bit_depth is None and row.media_probed_at is None  # re-probe scheduled
+
+
+def test_migration_codec_set_matches_hw_decodable_codecs():
+    # Migration 0077 hardcodes the HW-decodable codec set in raw SQL and its comment mandates it stay
+    # identical to plex.sync.HW_DECODABLE_CODECS. A comment isn't enforcement (house rule) — pin the
+    # equality so adding/removing a codec from the frozenset without editing the migration fails here
+    # (else already-migrated prod rows keep a wrong transcode_hw the runtime derivation wouldn't catch).
+    mig = (
+        Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+        / "alembic"
+        / "versions"
+        / "0077_plex_playback_class.py"
+    )
+    m = re.search(r"lower\(codec_video\)\s+IN\s+\(([^)]*)\)", mig.read_text())
+    assert m, "could not find the codec IN(...) list in migration 0077"
+    codecs = {c.strip().strip("'\"").lower() for c in m.group(1).split(",")}
+    assert codecs == {c.lower() for c in sync.HW_DECODABLE_CODECS}
+
+
+class _FakePlex:
+    """Stands in for PlexClient.metadata — returns a canned full-metadata dict per rating_key."""
+
+    def __init__(self, by_key):
+        self.by_key = by_key
+
+    def metadata(self, rating_key, markers=False):
+        return self.by_key.get(rating_key)
+
+
+def test_probe_media_batch_refines_hw_to_sw_for_10bit(db):
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Movies", kind="movie", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.flush()
+    hevc8 = PlexItem(
+        rating_key="h8",
+        library_id=lib.id,
+        kind="movie",
+        title="8bit",
+        playable="transcode",
+        codec_video="hevc",
+        transcode_hw=True,
+    )
+    hevc10 = PlexItem(
+        rating_key="h10",
+        library_id=lib.id,
+        kind="movie",
+        title="10bit",
+        playable="transcode",
+        codec_video="hevc",
+        transcode_hw=True,
+    )
+    xvid = PlexItem(
+        rating_key="xv",
+        library_id=lib.id,
+        kind="movie",
+        title="xvid",
+        playable="transcode",
+        codec_video="mpeg4",
+        transcode_hw=False,
+    )
+    db.add_all([hevc8, hevc10, xvid])
+    db.commit()
+    plex = _FakePlex(
+        {
+            "h8": {"Media": [{"Part": [{"Stream": [{"streamType": 1, "bitDepth": 8}]}]}]},
+            "h10": {"Media": [{"Part": [{"Stream": [{"streamType": 1, "bitDepth": 10}]}]}]},
+        }
+    )
+    probed = sync._probe_media_batch(db, plex)
+    db.refresh(hevc8)
+    db.refresh(hevc10)
+    db.refresh(xvid)
+    # Only the two HW-decodable HEVC items are probed; the XviD is SW-by-codec and never fetched.
+    assert probed == 2
+    assert hevc8.video_bit_depth == 8 and hevc8.transcode_hw is True and hevc8.media_probed_at
+    assert hevc10.video_bit_depth == 10 and hevc10.transcode_hw is False  # downgraded to software
+    assert xvid.media_probed_at is None  # not in the work-list
+    # A second run has nothing left to do (watermarks set).
+    assert sync._probe_media_batch(db, plex) == 0
+
+
+def test_probe_stamps_even_when_plex_has_no_stream(db):
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Movies", kind="movie", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.flush()
+    item = PlexItem(
+        rating_key="ns",
+        library_id=lib.id,
+        kind="movie",
+        title="nostream",
+        playable="transcode",
+        codec_video="hevc",
+        transcode_hw=True,
+    )
+    db.add(item)
+    db.commit()
+    plex = _FakePlex({"ns": {"Media": [{"Part": [{}]}]}})  # no Stream array
+    assert sync._probe_media_batch(db, plex) == 1
+    db.refresh(item)
+    # Probed (watermark set so it isn't re-fetched forever); bit depth unknown → stays codec-HW.
+    assert item.media_probed_at is not None and item.video_bit_depth is None
+    assert item.transcode_hw is True
+
+
+def test_probe_media_batch_is_bounded_and_oldest_first(db):
+    # The per-run bound (limit) caps Plex load; oldest-id-first means successive runs cover the whole
+    # backlog without starving any item. Seed 3 eligible items, probe with limit=2.
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Movies", kind="movie", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.flush()
+    items = [
+        PlexItem(
+            rating_key=f"h{i}",
+            library_id=lib.id,
+            kind="movie",
+            title=f"m{i}",
+            playable="transcode",
+            codec_video="hevc",
+            transcode_hw=True,
+        )
+        for i in range(3)
+    ]
+    db.add_all(items)  # inserted in order → ascending ids
+    db.commit()
+    plex = _FakePlex(
+        {
+            f"h{i}": {"Media": [{"Part": [{"Stream": [{"streamType": 1, "bitDepth": 8}]}]}]}
+            for i in range(3)
+        }
+    )
+    assert sync._probe_media_batch(db, plex, limit=2) == 2  # exactly the bound
+    for it in items:
+        db.refresh(it)
+    # The two LOWEST-id rows were probed; the third waits for the next run.
+    assert items[0].media_probed_at is not None and items[1].media_probed_at is not None
+    assert items[2].media_probed_at is None
+    # The next run continues with the remaining item.
+    assert sync._probe_media_batch(db, plex, limit=2) == 1
+    db.refresh(items[2])
+    assert items[2].media_probed_at is not None
+
+
+class _RaisingPlex:
+    """metadata() raises for `bad_key`, returns a canned dict otherwise — to exercise the transient
+    fetch-failure branch (leave the watermark NULL so the item retries next run)."""
+
+    def __init__(self, by_key, bad_key):
+        self.by_key = by_key
+        self.bad_key = bad_key
+
+    def metadata(self, rating_key, markers=False):
+        if rating_key == self.bad_key:
+            raise RuntimeError("plex timeout")
+        return self.by_key.get(rating_key)
+
+
+def test_probe_media_batch_leaves_a_transient_failure_unstamped_to_retry(db):
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Movies", kind="movie", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.flush()
+    good = PlexItem(
+        rating_key="g",
+        library_id=lib.id,
+        kind="movie",
+        title="good",
+        playable="transcode",
+        codec_video="hevc",
+        transcode_hw=True,
+    )
+    bad = PlexItem(
+        rating_key="b",
+        library_id=lib.id,
+        kind="movie",
+        title="bad",
+        playable="transcode",
+        codec_video="hevc",
+        transcode_hw=True,
+    )
+    db.add_all([good, bad])
+    db.commit()
+    plex = _RaisingPlex(
+        {"g": {"Media": [{"Part": [{"Stream": [{"streamType": 1, "bitDepth": 10}]}]}]}}, bad_key="b"
+    )
+    # The raise on 'b' must not abort the batch: 'g' is still probed and counted; 'b' stays NULL.
+    assert sync._probe_media_batch(db, plex) == 1
+    db.refresh(good)
+    db.refresh(bad)
+    assert good.media_probed_at is not None and good.transcode_hw is False  # 10-bit → SW
+    assert bad.media_probed_at is None  # transient failure → retried next run, not stamped
+
+
+def _seed_classes(db):
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Movies", kind="movie", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.flush()
+    db.add_all(
+        [
+            PlexItem(
+                rating_key="d1", library_id=lib.id, kind="movie", title="Direct", playable="direct"
+            ),
+            PlexItem(
+                rating_key="r1", library_id=lib.id, kind="movie", title="Remux", playable="remux"
+            ),
+            PlexItem(
+                rating_key="thw",
+                library_id=lib.id,
+                kind="movie",
+                title="HW",
+                playable="transcode",
+                codec_video="hevc",
+                transcode_hw=True,
+            ),
+            PlexItem(
+                rating_key="tsw",
+                library_id=lib.id,
+                kind="movie",
+                title="SW",
+                playable="transcode",
+                codec_video="mpeg4",
+                transcode_hw=False,
+            ),
+        ]
+    )
+    return lib
+
+
+def _client(db, user, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(state, "_configured_cache", True)
+    app.dependency_overrides[get_db] = lambda: db
+    app.dependency_overrides[current_user] = lambda: user
+    return TestClient(app)
+
+
+def test_library_filters_by_playback_class(db, monkeypatch):
+    _seed_classes(db)
+    user = User(email="pclass@example.com")
+    db.add(user)
+    db.commit()
+    client = _client(db, user, monkeypatch)
+    try:
+        # Software-only transcodes.
+        sw = client.get("/api/plex/library?scope=movie&playable=transcode_sw")
+        assert sw.status_code == 200, sw.text
+        assert {i["id"] for i in sw.json()["items"]} == {"tsw"}
+        # HW transcode + Direct Play, OR-combined.
+        both = client.get("/api/plex/library?scope=movie&playable=transcode_hw,direct")
+        assert {i["id"] for i in both.json()["items"]} == {"thw", "d1"}
+        # The HW card carries the transcode_hw flag for the 4-way badge.
+        card = next(i for i in both.json()["items"] if i["id"] == "thw")
+        assert card["transcode_hw"] is True
+        # No filter → everything.
+        allm = client.get("/api/plex/library?scope=movie")
+        assert {i["id"] for i in allm.json()["items"]} == {"d1", "r1", "thw", "tsw"}
+    finally:
+        app.dependency_overrides.clear()
+
+
+def test_facets_count_playback_classes_in_severity_order(db, monkeypatch):
+    _seed_classes(db)
+    user = User(email="pclassfacet@example.com")
+    db.add(user)
+    db.commit()
+    client = _client(db, user, monkeypatch)
+    try:
+        resp = client.get("/api/plex/facets?scope=movie")
+    finally:
+        app.dependency_overrides.clear()
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    playable = resp.json()["playable"]
+    # Fixed good→heavy order (not by count), one per seeded class.
+    assert [p["value"] for p in playable] == ["direct", "remux", "transcode_hw", "transcode_sw"]
+    assert {p["value"]: p["count"] for p in playable} == {
+        "direct": 1,
+        "remux": 1,
+        "transcode_hw": 1,
+        "transcode_sw": 1,
+    }
+
+
+def test_unprobed_transcode_folds_into_sw(db, monkeypatch):
+    # transcode_hw NULL is the COMMON initial state (before the bit-depth backfill runs). The query's
+    # CASE has no explicit NULL arm — it relies on the `playable=='transcode'` else folding NULL in with
+    # software. Pin that fold for BOTH the filter and the facet, so a reorder can't silently drop the
+    # item from the feed (an honest-state violation).
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Movies", kind="movie", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.flush()
+    db.add(
+        PlexItem(
+            rating_key="tnull",
+            library_id=lib.id,
+            kind="movie",
+            title="Unprobed",
+            playable="transcode",
+            codec_video="hevc",
+            transcode_hw=None,
+        )
+    )
+    user = User(email="pnull@example.com")
+    db.add(user)
+    db.commit()
+    client = _client(db, user, monkeypatch)
+    try:
+        sw = client.get("/api/plex/library?scope=movie&playable=transcode_sw")
+        assert {i["id"] for i in sw.json()["items"]} == {"tnull"}  # NULL → SW bucket
+        hw = client.get("/api/plex/library?scope=movie&playable=transcode_hw")
+        assert hw.json()["items"] == []  # never HW
+        facets = client.get("/api/plex/facets?scope=movie")
+        counts = {p["value"]: p["count"] for p in facets.json()["playable"]}
+        assert counts.get("transcode_sw") == 1 and counts.get("transcode_hw", 0) == 0
+    finally:
+        app.dependency_overrides.clear()
+
+
+def test_facet_playable_self_excludes_the_active_selection(db, monkeypatch):
+    # A selected playable class must NOT narrow the playable facet's OWN counts (facet self-exclusion),
+    # otherwise picking one class would collapse the list and you couldn't OR-add a second. Selecting
+    # 'direct' must still return all four classes at their full, unnarrowed counts.
+    _seed_classes(db)
+    user = User(email="pself@example.com")
+    db.add(user)
+    db.commit()
+    client = _client(db, user, monkeypatch)
+    try:
+        resp = client.get("/api/plex/facets?scope=movie&playable=direct")
+    finally:
+        app.dependency_overrides.clear()
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    counts = {p["value"]: p["count"] for p in resp.json()["playable"]}
+    assert counts == {"direct": 1, "remux": 1, "transcode_hw": 1, "transcode_sw": 1}
+
+
+def test_active_playable_narrows_the_other_facets(db, monkeypatch):
+    # The flip side of self-exclusion: an active playable class DOES narrow the OTHER facet groups (so
+    # e.g. the year range reflects only the selected class). Seed a Direct movie (2000) and a
+    # software-transcode movie (2020); selecting playable=direct must collapse the year facet to 2000.
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Movies", kind="movie", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.flush()
+    db.add_all(
+        [
+            PlexItem(
+                rating_key="d2000",
+                library_id=lib.id,
+                kind="movie",
+                title="Direct2000",
+                playable="direct",
+                year=2000,
+            ),
+            PlexItem(
+                rating_key="s2020",
+                library_id=lib.id,
+                kind="movie",
+                title="SW2020",
+                playable="transcode",
+                codec_video="mpeg4",
+                transcode_hw=False,
+                year=2020,
+            ),
+        ]
+    )
+    user = User(email="pnarrow@example.com")
+    db.add(user)
+    db.commit()
+    client = _client(db, user, monkeypatch)
+    try:
+        wide = client.get("/api/plex/facets?scope=movie").json()
+        narrow = client.get("/api/plex/facets?scope=movie&playable=direct").json()
+    finally:
+        app.dependency_overrides.clear()
+    assert (wide["year_min"], wide["year_max"]) == (2000, 2020)  # both classes span the range
+    assert (narrow["year_min"], narrow["year_max"]) == (2000, 2000)  # narrowed to the Direct subset

backend/tests/test_plex_playback_session.py

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+"""The playback-session route's mode routing (E6 S1b).
+
+`POST /stream/{rk}/session` is the single switch that decides how an item plays: a browser-native
+file is served raw (`mode:"direct"`), everything else (re)starts an HLS session — and a
+`playable="transcode"` item (non-h264: HEVC/VP9/AV1/…) must take that HLS path with the video
+RE-ENCODED, not stream-copied. That routing replaced a former `HTTP 501`, and the only thing that
+tells `start_session` to re-encode is the `transcode=` flag this route derives from `it.playable`.
+The command-builder itself is unit-tested in `test_plex_stream.py`; here we pin the ROUTE decision
+(no ffmpeg spawned — `start_session` is stubbed to echo the flag it was handed).
+
+DB lane (`db` fixture) — skipped when no Postgres is reachable.
+"""
+
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+import app.state as state
+from app.auth import current_user
+from app.db import get_db
+from app.main import app
+from app.models import PlexItem, PlexLibrary, User
+from app.plex import paths as plex_paths
+from app.plex import stream as plex_stream
+
+
+def _item(db, *, playable, rating_key="m1"):
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Movies", kind="movie", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.flush()
+    it = PlexItem(
+        rating_key=rating_key,
+        library_id=lib.id,
+        kind="movie",
+        title="A Movie",
+        file_path="/media/a.mkv",
+        playable=playable,
+    )
+    db.add(it)
+    db.commit()
+    return it
+
+
+def _user(db, email="play@example.com"):
+    u = User(email=email)
+    db.add(u)
+    db.flush()
+    return u
+
+
+def _post(db, user, monkeypatch, rating_key, *, captured):
+    """Drive the endpoint with ffmpeg stubbed out. `start_session` records the `transcode` flag it
+    was called with into `captured` and returns a stand-in session echoing it back."""
+    monkeypatch.setattr(state, "_configured_cache", True)  # pass the request gate
+    monkeypatch.setattr(plex_stream, "reap_idle", lambda: None)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(plex_paths, "local_media_path", lambda db_, fp: "/local/a.mkv")
+
+    def fake_start(db_, it, start, audio, aoff, multi, transcode=False):
+        captured["transcode"] = transcode
+        return SimpleNamespace(
+            media_start_s=start, entry="index.m3u8", transcode=transcode, hw=False, tonemap=False
+        )
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(plex_stream, "start_session", fake_start)
+    app.dependency_overrides[get_db] = lambda: db
+    app.dependency_overrides[current_user] = lambda: user
+    try:
+        return TestClient(app).post(f"/api/plex/stream/{rating_key}/session")
+    finally:
+        app.dependency_overrides.clear()
+
+
+def test_transcode_item_routes_to_an_hls_reencode_session(db, monkeypatch):
+    # A non-h264 item (formerly HTTP 501) now plays: mode=hls, transcode=True threaded to start_session.
+    it = _item(db, playable="transcode")
+    user = _user(db)
+    captured: dict = {}
+    resp = _post(db, user, monkeypatch, it.rating_key, captured=captured)
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    body = resp.json()
+    assert body["mode"] == "hls"
+    assert body["transcode"] is True
+    assert captured["transcode"] is True  # start_session was told to re-encode
+
+
+def test_remux_item_stays_a_stream_copy_session(db, monkeypatch):
+    # A remux (h264) item takes the SAME HLS path but must NOT re-encode.
+    it = _item(db, playable="remux", rating_key="m2")
+    user = _user(db, "remux@example.com")
+    captured: dict = {}
+    resp = _post(db, user, monkeypatch, it.rating_key, captured=captured)
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    body = resp.json()
+    assert body["mode"] == "hls"
+    assert body["transcode"] is False
+    assert captured["transcode"] is False
+
+
+def test_direct_item_never_opens_a_session(db, monkeypatch):
+    # A browser-native file is served raw — start_session is never reached, so no transcode decision.
+    it = _item(db, playable="direct", rating_key="m3")
+    user = _user(db, "direct@example.com")
+    captured: dict = {}
+    resp = _post(db, user, monkeypatch, it.rating_key, captured=captured)
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    assert resp.json()["mode"] == "direct"
+    assert "transcode" not in captured  # start_session not called

backend/tests/test_plex_stream.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Since the sweep stopped being awaited at startup it also runs CONCURRENTLY with
 second half of this file pins what keeps it off a LIVE session's segments."""
 
 import os
+from pathlib import Path
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -164,10 +165,308 @@ class _FakeProc:
 
 
 class _FakeItem:
-    def __init__(self, rating_key="12345", file_path="/media/movie.mkv"):
+    def __init__(self, rating_key="12345", file_path="/media/movie.mkv", codec_video="h264"):
         self.rating_key = rating_key
         self.file_path = file_path
         self.playable = "remux"
+        self.codec_video = codec_video
+
+
+class _CapturingProc:
+    """Records the argv + kwargs each Popen was called with, then behaves like the ffmpeg proc."""
+
+    calls: list[tuple] = []
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        _CapturingProc.calls.append((args, kwargs))
+
+    def poll(self):
+        return None
+
+
+def _venc(cmd):
+    """The video codec ffmpeg was told to use (the value after the first `-c:v`)."""
+    return cmd[cmd.index("-c:v") + 1]
+
+
+class TestTranscodeCommand:
+    """The transcode video re-encode (playable='transcode'): the SAME HLS command as remux with the
+    video encoder swapped in for `-c:v copy`. The HW path can only be exercised on prod (VAAPI needs
+    Linux + Intel /dev/dri), so its SHAPE is pinned here; the software path is the one UAT'd locally."""
+
+    SRC = Path("/media/movie.mkv")
+    OUT = Path("/out")
+
+    def test_remux_still_stream_copies_the_video(self):
+        cmd = stream._ffmpeg_cmd(self.SRC, 0.0, self.OUT, None)
+        assert _venc(cmd) == "copy"
+        assert "libx264" not in cmd and "h264_vaapi" not in cmd
+        assert "-hwaccel" not in cmd  # no GPU decode on the copy path
+        assert "-force_key_frames" not in cmd  # copy leans on the source's own keyframes
+
+    def test_software_transcode_uses_libx264_and_mints_keyframes(self):
+        cmd = stream._ffmpeg_cmd(self.SRC, 0.0, self.OUT, None, transcode=True, hw=False)
+        assert _venc(cmd) == "libx264"
+        assert "copy" not in cmd  # the video is no longer stream-copied
+        # 8-bit High (yuv420p), not High10, so any browser decodes a 10-bit HEVC source.
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-pix_fmt") + 1] == "yuv420p"
+        assert "-threads" in cmd  # a core reserved for request handling / playback
+        assert "-hwaccel" not in cmd  # software path: CPU decode, no render node needed
+        # A forced keyframe at every segment boundary so the HLS muxer cuts independent segments.
+        assert (
+            cmd[cmd.index("-force_key_frames") + 1] == f"expr:gte(t,n_forced*{stream._SEG_SECONDS})"
+        )
+
+    def test_hardware_transcode_uses_the_full_vaapi_pipeline(self):
+        cmd = stream._ffmpeg_cmd(self.SRC, 0.0, self.OUT, None, transcode=True, hw=True)
+        assert _venc(cmd) == "h264_vaapi"
+        assert "libx264" not in cmd
+        # GPU decode options must precede the input so the source is decoded on-device.
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-hwaccel") + 1] == "vaapi"
+        assert "-hwaccel_output_format" in cmd
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-vaapi_device") + 1] == stream._VAAPI_DEVICE
+        assert cmd.index("-hwaccel") < cmd.index("-i")
+        # scale_vaapi=format=nv12 downconverts a 10-bit source to 8-bit nv12 for h264_vaapi.
+        assert "scale_vaapi=format=nv12" in cmd
+        assert (
+            cmd[cmd.index("-force_key_frames") + 1] == f"expr:gte(t,n_forced*{stream._SEG_SECONDS})"
+        )
+
+    def test_multi_audio_transcode_reencodes_the_video_variant(self):
+        cmd = stream._ffmpeg_cmd(
+            self.SRC, 0.0, self.OUT, None, audio_langs=["eng", "hun"], transcode=True, hw=False
+        )
+        assert _venc(cmd) == "libx264"  # video re-encoded…
+        assert "-var_stream_map" in cmd  # …but still multi-rendition (client-side audio switch)
+        assert "copy" not in cmd
+
+    def test_software_preset_and_crf_come_from_the_knobs(self):
+        cmd = stream._ffmpeg_cmd(
+            self.SRC, 0.0, self.OUT, None, transcode=True, hw=False, preset="slow", crf=18
+        )
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-preset") + 1] == "slow"
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-crf") + 1] == "18"
+
+    def test_software_max_height_caps_with_a_downscale_only_filter(self):
+        cmd = stream._ffmpeg_cmd(
+            self.SRC, 0.0, self.OUT, None, transcode=True, hw=False, max_height=720
+        )
+        # Downscale-only, aspect-preserving, even width; the comma in min() escaped so it's ONE filter.
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-vf") + 1] == "scale=-2:min(ih\\,720)"
+
+    def test_software_max_height_zero_means_no_scale_filter(self):
+        cmd = stream._ffmpeg_cmd(
+            self.SRC, 0.0, self.OUT, None, transcode=True, hw=False, max_height=0
+        )
+        assert "-vf" not in cmd  # source resolution kept
+
+    def test_hardware_ignores_max_height(self):
+        # The GPU encode is cheap, so it runs at source resolution; max_height is a software-only knob.
+        cmd = stream._ffmpeg_cmd(
+            self.SRC, 0.0, self.OUT, None, transcode=True, hw=True, max_height=720
+        )
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-vf") + 1] == "scale_vaapi=format=nv12"  # not a software scale
+
+    def test_hdr_tonemap_uses_the_opencl_graph(self):
+        # The HDR/10-bit HW path: VAAPI decode → OpenCL tonemap → VAAPI encode. Gen 9.5 can't tonemap in
+        # the VAAPI VPP, so this is the only HW route for a 10-bit/HDR source.
+        cmd = stream._ffmpeg_cmd(
+            self.SRC, 0.0, self.OUT, None, transcode=True, hw=True, tonemap=True
+        )
+        assert _venc(cmd) == "h264_vaapi"
+        assert "libx264" not in cmd
+        # Named devices + an OpenCL device DERIVED from the VAAPI one, all before -i.
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-init_hw_device") + 1] == f"vaapi=va:{stream._VAAPI_DEVICE}"
+        assert "opencl=ocl@va" in cmd
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-hwaccel_device") + 1] == "va"
+        assert cmd.index("-init_hw_device") < cmd.index("-i")
+        # The filter graph runs on the derived OpenCL device and tone-maps HDR→SDR to 8-bit nv12.
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-filter_hw_device") + 1] == "ocl"
+        vf = cmd[cmd.index("-vf") + 1]
+        assert "hwmap=derive_device=opencl" in vf
+        assert "tonemap_opencl=" in vf and "format=nv12" in vf
+        assert "hwmap=derive_device=vaapi:reverse=1" in vf
+        assert "scale_vaapi" not in vf  # the plain 8-bit path's filter must NOT be used here
+        assert (
+            cmd[cmd.index("-force_key_frames") + 1] == f"expr:gte(t,n_forced*{stream._SEG_SECONDS})"
+        )
+
+
+class TestWantHw:
+    """VAAPI is used only where the render node was passed in AND (in auto) the source is HW-decodable,
+    with an admin `plex_transcode_hw` policy (auto/on/off) on top. A HW session on a 10-bit/HDR source
+    tone-maps on the GPU via OpenCL (tonemap=True) when the OpenCL runtime is present, else drops to
+    software — see the `_select_encode` cases below."""
+
+    SRC = Path("/media/movie.mkv")
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _policy(monkeypatch, mode):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream.sysconfig, "get_str", lambda db, k: mode)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _kind(monkeypatch, kind):
+        # Pin the source classifier so the tests don't shell out to ffprobe. `kind` is one of
+        # stream._VK_HWSAFE / _VK_HDR / _VK_SDR10.
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_probe_video_kind", lambda src: kind)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _hwsafe(monkeypatch, safe):
+        # Back-compat convenience for the hw-gate tests that only care about 8-bit-SDR vs not: True →
+        # _VK_HWSAFE, False → _VK_SDR10 (a non-HDR non-hwsafe class, so the hw half still resolves).
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            stream, "_probe_video_kind", lambda src: stream._VK_HWSAFE if safe else stream._VK_SDR10
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _opencl(monkeypatch, present):
+        # Pin the OpenCL-runtime probe so the routing doesn't depend on the CI box's /etc/OpenCL.
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_opencl_present", lambda: present)
+
+    def test_no_hw_when_not_transcoding(self, monkeypatch):
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "auto")
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert (
+            stream._want_hw(None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=False, src=self.SRC)
+            is False
+        )
+
+    def test_no_hw_without_a_render_node(self, monkeypatch):
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "auto")
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: False)
+        assert (
+            stream._want_hw(None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC)
+            is False
+        )
+
+    def test_auto_uses_hw_for_a_decodable_8bit_source_with_the_render_node(self, monkeypatch):
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "auto")
+        self._hwsafe(monkeypatch, True)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert (
+            stream._want_hw(None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC)
+            is True
+        )
+
+    def test_auto_falls_back_to_software_for_a_non_decodable_source(self, monkeypatch):
+        # AV1 / MPEG-4 ASP (XviD) aren't decodable on Gen 9.5 → the GPU can't feed its own encoder.
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "auto")
+        self._hwsafe(monkeypatch, True)  # decodability gate must fire BEFORE the probe
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert (
+            stream._want_hw(None, _FakeItem(codec_video="av1"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC)
+            is False
+        )
+        assert (
+            stream._want_hw(None, _FakeItem(codec_video="mpeg4"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC)
+            is False
+        )
+
+    def test_auto_hdr_source_falls_back_to_software_without_opencl(self, monkeypatch):
+        # A decodable HEVC that is true-HDR (PQ/HLG) can't use scale_vaapi=format=nv12 (Gen 9.5), and with
+        # no OpenCL runtime to tonemap on the GPU it drops to software libx264 (BUG 1's behaviour).
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "auto")
+        self._kind(monkeypatch, stream._VK_HDR)
+        self._opencl(monkeypatch, False)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert stream._select_encode(
+            None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC
+        ) == (False, False)
+
+    def test_auto_hdr_source_uses_hw_tonemap_with_opencl(self, monkeypatch):
+        # With the OpenCL runtime present, a true-HDR HEVC tone-maps on the GPU (VAAPI decode → OpenCL
+        # tonemap → VAAPI encode) instead of dropping to CPU — the HW HDR path.
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "auto")
+        self._kind(monkeypatch, stream._VK_HDR)
+        self._opencl(monkeypatch, True)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert stream._select_encode(
+            None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC
+        ) == (True, True)
+
+    def test_auto_10bit_SDR_source_uses_software_not_tonemap(self, monkeypatch):
+        # F1 regression: a 10-bit *SDR* (bt709) source is NOT HDR, so it must NOT get the hable HDR tone
+        # curve even when the OpenCL runtime is present — that would visibly alter an SDR picture. It takes
+        # software libx264 (an exact 10→8-bit downconvert), never (True, True).
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "auto")
+        self._kind(monkeypatch, stream._VK_SDR10)
+        self._opencl(monkeypatch, True)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert stream._select_encode(
+            None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC
+        ) == (False, False)
+
+    def test_auto_8bit_source_uses_plain_hw_not_tonemap(self, monkeypatch):
+        # An 8-bit SDR source takes the plain full-GPU scale path — never the tonemap graph — even where
+        # OpenCL is available.
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "auto")
+        self._kind(monkeypatch, stream._VK_HWSAFE)
+        self._opencl(monkeypatch, True)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert stream._select_encode(
+            None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC
+        ) == (True, False)
+
+    def test_off_forces_software_even_for_a_decodable_source(self, monkeypatch):
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "off")
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert (
+            stream._want_hw(None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC)
+            is False
+        )
+
+    def test_on_forces_hw_and_skips_both_source_gates(self, monkeypatch):
+        # The admin override trusts the GPU; skips the decodability AND the bit-depth gate (the runtime
+        # HW→SW fallback still backstops it). Render node still required — HW is impossible without it.
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "on")
+        self._hwsafe(monkeypatch, False)  # would veto in auto; "on" ignores it
+        self._opencl(
+            monkeypatch, False
+        )  # pin: tonemap-half is irrelevant here, keep it deterministic
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert (
+            stream._want_hw(None, _FakeItem(codec_video="av1"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC)
+            is True
+        )
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: False)
+        assert (
+            stream._want_hw(None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC)
+            is False
+        )
+
+    def test_on_still_picks_the_tonemap_graph_for_an_hdr_source(self, monkeypatch):
+        # "on" trusts the GPU but must still route a true-HDR source through the tonemap graph (plain
+        # scale_vaapi would hit the VPP wall) when OpenCL is present.
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "on")
+        self._kind(monkeypatch, stream._VK_HDR)
+        self._opencl(monkeypatch, True)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert stream._select_encode(
+            None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC
+        ) == (True, True)
+
+    def test_on_10bit_SDR_uses_plain_hw_not_tonemap(self, monkeypatch):
+        # F1 regression under "on": a 10-bit SDR source is NOT HDR, so even with OpenCL present "on" must
+        # pick plain HW (True, False) — the HDR tone curve must never touch an SDR picture.
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "on")
+        self._kind(monkeypatch, stream._VK_SDR10)
+        self._opencl(monkeypatch, True)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert stream._select_encode(
+            None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC
+        ) == (True, False)
+
+    def test_on_without_opencl_is_plain_hw(self, monkeypatch):
+        # "on" with no OpenCL runtime → plain HW, tonemap=False, regardless of source class (the runtime
+        # HW→SW fallback backstops a source the plain path can't actually handle). Pins the tonemap half
+        # of the "on" tuple, which test_on_forces_hw_and_skips_both_source_gates only checks via _want_hw.
+        self._policy(monkeypatch, "on")
+        self._kind(monkeypatch, stream._VK_HDR)  # even HDR: no runtime → can't tonemap on the GPU
+        self._opencl(monkeypatch, False)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_render_node_present", lambda: True)
+        assert stream._select_encode(
+            None, _FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), transcode=True, src=self.SRC
+        ) == (True, False)
 
 
 class TestColdStartWarmup:
@@ -190,7 +489,7 @@ class TestColdStartWarmup:
     def test_warmup_waits_for_the_first_few_segments(self, fake_env, monkeypatch):
         waited = []
 
-        def spy(path, timeout=20.0):
+        def spy(path, timeout=20.0, proc=None):
             waited.append(path.name)
             return True
 
@@ -203,7 +502,7 @@ class TestColdStartWarmup:
     def test_warmup_stops_at_the_first_segment_that_isnt_ready(self, fake_env, monkeypatch):
         waited = []
 
-        def spy(path, timeout=20.0):
+        def spy(path, timeout=20.0, proc=None):
             waited.append(path.name)
             return path.name != "seg_1.ts"  # seg_1 never appears → warm-up gives up there
 
@@ -217,7 +516,7 @@ class TestColdStartWarmup:
         # still returned so the client's own segment requests can drive it, as before.
         waited = []
 
-        def spy(path, timeout=20.0):
+        def spy(path, timeout=20.0, proc=None):
             waited.append(path.name)
             return False
 
@@ -225,3 +524,347 @@ class TestColdStartWarmup:
         s = stream.start_session(db=None, item=_FakeItem(), start_s=0.0)
         assert s is not None
         assert waited == ["seg_0.ts"]
+
+
+class TestTranscodeStartSession:
+    """The seam TestTranscodeCommand can't reach: start_session reading the three admin knobs
+    (plex_transcode_preset/crf/max_height) and threading them + transcode/hw into the ffmpeg argv and
+    the HlsSession. A swapped knob here is a SILENT mis-encode (still plays), so pin the whole wiring
+    end-to-end with a real (captured) Popen argv — not just _ffmpeg_cmd called with literals."""
+
+    @pytest.fixture
+    def capturing_env(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_HLS_ROOT", tmp_path)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_sessions", {})
+        src = tmp_path / "movie.mkv"
+        src.write_bytes(b"x")
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream.paths, "local_media_path", lambda db, fp: src)
+        # Distinct sentinels per knob so a crf<->max_height swap (both ints, both via get_int) fails.
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            stream.sysconfig,
+            "get_int",
+            lambda db, k: {
+                "plex_transcode_crf": 18,
+                "plex_transcode_max_height": 480,
+                "plex_max_transcodes": 4,
+            }[k],
+        )
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            stream.sysconfig,
+            "get_str",
+            lambda db, k: {"plex_transcode_preset": "slow"}.get(k, "auto"),
+        )
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "wait_for", lambda path, timeout=20.0, proc=None: True)
+        _CapturingProc.calls = []
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream.subprocess, "Popen", _CapturingProc)
+        return tmp_path
+
+    def test_software_transcode_threads_the_knobs_into_the_command(
+        self, capturing_env, monkeypatch
+    ):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            stream, "_select_encode", lambda db, item, transcode, src: (False, False)
+        )
+        s = stream.start_session(
+            db=None, item=_FakeItem(codec_video="mpeg4"), start_s=0.0, transcode=True
+        )
+        assert s is not None and s.transcode is True and s.hw is False
+        (cmd, *_), kwargs = _CapturingProc.calls[0]
+        assert _venc(cmd) == "libx264"
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-preset") + 1] == "slow"  # plex_transcode_preset
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-crf") + 1] == "18"  # plex_transcode_crf, NOT max_height
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-vf") + 1] == "scale=-2:min(ih\\,480)"  # plex_transcode_max_height
+        # The CPU-bound child is niced via preexec_fn on POSIX (the API process itself must not be).
+        if os.name == "posix":
+            assert kwargs.get("preexec_fn") is stream._sw_child_preexec
+
+    def test_hardware_transcode_uses_the_gpu_and_never_nices(self, capturing_env, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            stream, "_select_encode", lambda db, item, transcode, src: (True, False)
+        )
+        s = stream.start_session(
+            db=None, item=_FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), start_s=0.0, transcode=True
+        )
+        assert s is not None and s.transcode is True and s.hw is True and s.tonemap is False
+        assert len(_CapturingProc.calls) == 1  # first segment arrived — no HW→SW fallback respawn
+        (cmd, *_), kwargs = _CapturingProc.calls[0]
+        assert _venc(cmd) == "h264_vaapi"
+        assert "libx264" not in cmd
+        # Plain-HW path unconditionally emits the nv12 downconvert (a disjunction on "-vf not in cmd"
+        # would silently pass if the filter were dropped — assert it is actually present).
+        assert cmd[cmd.index("-vf") + 1] == "scale_vaapi=format=nv12"  # no SW cap
+        assert kwargs.get("preexec_fn") is None  # GPU encode is cheap — never niced
+
+    def test_hdr_tonemap_transcode_threads_the_opencl_graph_and_flags_the_session(
+        self, capturing_env, monkeypatch
+    ):
+        # A HW tonemap session (10-bit/HDR + OpenCL) must build the OpenCL graph in the argv and carry
+        # tonemap=True on the session, still on the GPU (hw=True) and never niced.
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_select_encode", lambda db, item, transcode, src: (True, True))
+        s = stream.start_session(
+            db=None, item=_FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), start_s=0.0, transcode=True
+        )
+        assert s is not None and s.transcode is True and s.hw is True and s.tonemap is True
+        (cmd, *_), kwargs = _CapturingProc.calls[0]
+        assert _venc(cmd) == "h264_vaapi"
+        assert "opencl=ocl@va" in cmd and cmd[cmd.index("-filter_hw_device") + 1] == "ocl"
+        assert "tonemap_opencl=" in cmd[cmd.index("-vf") + 1]
+        assert kwargs.get("preexec_fn") is None
+
+    def test_a_hw_session_that_produces_nothing_falls_back_to_software(
+        self, capturing_env, monkeypatch
+    ):
+        # BUG 1 backstop: _want_hw picked HW but the VAAPI session emits no first segment (a VAProfile
+        # refusal the gates didn't catch). start_session must respawn on libx264 and report hw=False so
+        # the item still plays and the route/player honestly show CPU.
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            stream, "_select_encode", lambda db, item, transcode, src: (True, False)
+        )
+        seen = {"n": 0}
+
+        def flaky_wait(path, timeout=20.0, proc=None):
+            seen["n"] += 1
+            return seen["n"] > 1  # the first seg-0 wait (HW) fails; every wait after succeeds (SW)
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "wait_for", flaky_wait)
+        s = stream.start_session(
+            db=None, item=_FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), start_s=0.0, transcode=True
+        )
+        assert (
+            s is not None and s.transcode is True and s.hw is False
+        )  # honest CPU after the fallback
+        assert len(_CapturingProc.calls) == 2  # the HW attempt, then the SW respawn
+        (hw_cmd, *_), _ = _CapturingProc.calls[0]
+        (sw_cmd, *_), sw_kwargs = _CapturingProc.calls[1]
+        assert _venc(hw_cmd) == "h264_vaapi"
+        assert _venc(sw_cmd) == "libx264"
+        if os.name == "posix":
+            assert sw_kwargs.get("preexec_fn") is stream._sw_child_preexec  # the SW child is niced
+
+    def test_a_hw_TONEMAP_session_that_produces_nothing_falls_back_to_software(
+        self, capturing_env, monkeypatch
+    ):
+        # The fallback gate is `not ready and s.hw`, shared by plain-HW and tonemap sessions — but only
+        # the plain-HW variant was covered. Pin the tonemap variant too: a (True, True) session that
+        # emits nothing (an OpenCL/tonemap init refusal) must respawn on libx264 and end hw=False,
+        # tonemap=False, so an HDR item still plays on CPU.
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_select_encode", lambda db, item, transcode, src: (True, True))
+        seen = {"n": 0}
+
+        def flaky_wait(path, timeout=20.0, proc=None):
+            seen["n"] += 1
+            return (
+                seen["n"] > 1
+            )  # the first seg-0 wait (HW tonemap) fails; every wait after succeeds
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "wait_for", flaky_wait)
+        s = stream.start_session(
+            db=None, item=_FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), start_s=0.0, transcode=True
+        )
+        assert s is not None and s.transcode is True and s.hw is False and s.tonemap is False
+        assert len(_CapturingProc.calls) == 2  # the HW tonemap attempt, then the SW respawn
+        (hw_cmd, *_), _ = _CapturingProc.calls[0]
+        (sw_cmd, *_), _ = _CapturingProc.calls[1]
+        assert (
+            "tonemap_opencl=" in hw_cmd[hw_cmd.index("-vf") + 1]
+        )  # first attempt built the OpenCL graph
+        assert _venc(sw_cmd) == "libx264"  # respawn is plain software, no tonemap
+
+    def test_a_superseded_hw_session_does_not_respawn_over_the_newer_one(
+        self, capturing_env, monkeypatch
+    ):
+        # F2/race: start_session waits on seg_0 OUTSIDE _lock. If a concurrent same-key start (a rapid
+        # seek-restart) or _enforce_cap replaces _sessions[key] while we wait, our proc dying must NOT
+        # trigger the SW fallback — that would tear down the NEWER session and breach the transcode cap.
+        # The identity guard must detect it's been superseded and yield the currently-registered session.
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            stream, "_select_encode", lambda db, item, transcode, src: (True, False)
+        )
+
+        class _Newer:  # stands in for the session a concurrent _spawn registered
+            hw = True
+            tonemap = False
+            transcode = True
+            last_access = 0.0
+
+        newer = _Newer()
+
+        def wait_then_supersede(path, timeout=20.0, proc=None):
+            # Simulate the concurrent replacement happening during our out-of-lock wait, then report the
+            # (now-killed) HW proc produced nothing.
+            stream._sessions["12345"] = newer
+            return False
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "wait_for", wait_then_supersede)
+        s = stream.start_session(
+            db=None, item=_FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), start_s=0.0, transcode=True
+        )
+        # No SW respawn — only the initial HW _spawn ran; the newer session was left intact.
+        assert len(_CapturingProc.calls) == 1
+        assert s is newer  # yielded the currently-registered session, did not clobber it
+        assert stream._sessions["12345"] is newer
+
+    def test_a_cap_culled_hw_session_does_not_respawn_and_is_not_reported_missing(
+        self, capturing_env, monkeypatch
+    ):
+        # F2/race, the cull sub-case: while we wait on seg_0 out of lock, cross-key cap pressure lets
+        # _enforce_cap evict THIS session's key entirely (no replacement). The fallback must still not
+        # respawn (that would re-breach the cap the cull just enforced), and must NOT return None — a None
+        # is turned by the route into a dishonest "file not found" 404 for a file that exists. It yields
+        # our own (now-dead) session instead, so the client's segment requests degrade to the retryable
+        # "not available yet" path.
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            stream, "_select_encode", lambda db, item, transcode, src: (True, False)
+        )
+        captured = {}
+
+        def wait_then_cull(path, timeout=20.0, proc=None):
+            captured["s"] = stream._sessions[
+                "12345"
+            ]  # the HW session the initial _spawn just registered
+            del stream._sessions[
+                "12345"
+            ]  # simulate _enforce_cap dropping the LRU under cap pressure
+            return False
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "wait_for", wait_then_cull)
+        s = stream.start_session(
+            db=None, item=_FakeItem(codec_video="hevc"), start_s=0.0, transcode=True
+        )
+        assert (
+            len(_CapturingProc.calls) == 1
+        )  # no SW respawn — the cull is respected, cap not re-breached
+        assert (
+            s is captured["s"]
+        )  # our own session yielded, NOT None (which the route would 404 as missing)
+        assert "12345" not in stream._sessions  # the culled key stays gone
+
+    def test_remux_reads_no_transcode_knobs_and_stream_copies(self, capturing_env, monkeypatch):
+        # A remux start must stream-copy the video and spawn no niced child (the transcode knobs and
+        # the preexec nice are gated behind `transcode=True`).
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            stream, "_select_encode", lambda db, item, transcode, src: (False, False)
+        )
+        s = stream.start_session(db=None, item=_FakeItem(), start_s=0.0)  # transcode defaults False
+        assert s is not None and s.transcode is False
+        (cmd, *_), kwargs = _CapturingProc.calls[0]
+        assert _venc(cmd) == "copy"
+        assert kwargs.get("preexec_fn") is None
+
+
+class TestProbeVideoKind:
+    """The ffprobe-based source classifier that routes the transcode pipeline: 8-bit SDR → plain VAAPI;
+    true-HDR (PQ/HLG) → the OpenCL tonemap graph; 10-bit *SDR* → software (an exact downconvert, NEVER
+    the HDR tone curve — the F1 distinction). Exercises the REAL function body (not a monkeypatch)."""
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _probe(monkeypatch, stdout):
+        class _R:
+            def __init__(self):
+                self.stdout = stdout
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream.subprocess, "run", lambda *a, **k: _R())
+
+    def test_8bit_sdr_is_hwsafe(self, monkeypatch):
+        self._probe(monkeypatch, "pix_fmt=yuv420p\nbits_per_raw_sample=8\ncolor_transfer=bt709\n")
+        assert stream._probe_video_kind(Path("/x")) == stream._VK_HWSAFE
+
+    def test_10bit_sdr_pix_fmt_is_sdr10(self, monkeypatch):
+        # yuv420p10le with a non-HDR transfer (bt2020-10 is NOT PQ/HLG) = 10-bit SDR → software, not
+        # tonemap. Signalled by the pix_fmt suffix even when bits_per_raw_sample is absent.
+        self._probe(monkeypatch, "pix_fmt=yuv420p10le\ncolor_transfer=bt2020-10\n")
+        assert stream._probe_video_kind(Path("/x")) == stream._VK_SDR10
+
+    def test_bits_per_raw_sample_over_8_sdr_is_sdr10(self, monkeypatch):
+        self._probe(monkeypatch, "pix_fmt=yuv420p\nbits_per_raw_sample=10\ncolor_transfer=bt709\n")
+        assert stream._probe_video_kind(Path("/x")) == stream._VK_SDR10
+
+    def test_pq_transfer_is_hdr(self, monkeypatch):
+        # PQ (smpte2084) is true HDR — needs a real tonemap, even if only 8-bit-tagged.
+        self._probe(
+            monkeypatch, "pix_fmt=yuv420p10le\nbits_per_raw_sample=10\ncolor_transfer=smpte2084\n"
+        )
+        assert stream._probe_video_kind(Path("/x")) == stream._VK_HDR
+
+    def test_hlg_transfer_is_hdr(self, monkeypatch):
+        # HLG (arib-std-b67) is the other HDR transfer — previously untested; it must classify as HDR.
+        self._probe(
+            monkeypatch,
+            "pix_fmt=yuv420p10le\nbits_per_raw_sample=10\ncolor_transfer=arib-std-b67\n",
+        )
+        assert stream._probe_video_kind(Path("/x")) == stream._VK_HDR
+
+    def test_empty_probe_output_is_hwsafe(self, monkeypatch):
+        # A probe that returns nothing (no streams / stripped metadata) → assume hwsafe; the runtime
+        # HW→SW fallback backstops a wrong guess.
+        self._probe(monkeypatch, "")
+        assert stream._probe_video_kind(Path("/x")) == stream._VK_HWSAFE
+
+    def test_probe_failure_assumes_hwsafe(self, monkeypatch):
+        # ffprobe missing/erroring → assume hwsafe; the runtime HW→SW fallback is the real backstop, so a
+        # probe miss costs at most one wasted HW attempt, never a stranded item.
+        def boom(*a, **k):
+            raise OSError("no ffprobe")
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream.subprocess, "run", boom)
+        assert stream._probe_video_kind(Path("/x")) == stream._VK_HWSAFE
+
+
+class TestOpenclPresent:
+    """The OpenCL-runtime probe (_opencl_present) — the precondition for the HW HDR tonemap graph. Drives
+    the REAL glob against a temp ICD dir instead of monkeypatching the function, so a regression to the
+    ICD path / glob / OSError guard would be caught (this routes every HDR source on prod)."""
+
+    def test_true_when_an_icd_file_is_registered(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_OPENCL_ICD_DIR", tmp_path)
+        (tmp_path / "intel.icd").write_text("libintelocl.so\n")
+        assert stream._opencl_present() is True
+
+    def test_false_when_the_dir_is_empty(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_OPENCL_ICD_DIR", tmp_path)
+        assert stream._opencl_present() is False
+
+    def test_false_and_no_raise_when_the_dir_is_missing(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        # A missing dir: Path.glob yields nothing (no raise) → False.
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_OPENCL_ICD_DIR", tmp_path / "nope")
+        assert stream._opencl_present() is False
+
+    def test_false_when_glob_raises_oserror(self, monkeypatch):
+        # The `except OSError` guard proper: an unreadable ICD dir (permission denied) makes glob RAISE,
+        # not return empty. That must be swallowed to False, never propagated up through _select_encode
+        # into start_session (which would crash HDR routing).
+        class _BoomDir:
+            def glob(self, pattern):
+                raise OSError("permission denied")
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(stream, "_OPENCL_ICD_DIR", _BoomDir())
+        assert stream._opencl_present() is False
+
+
+class TestWaitForProcFastFail:
+    """wait_for(proc=…) must stop as soon as the ffmpeg proc exits (a VAAPI init refusal dies in ~1s
+    producing nothing) instead of blocking the whole timeout — that fast-fail is what keeps the HW→SW
+    fallback from turning into a 25s stall. Exercises the REAL wait_for (every other test monkeypatches
+    it wholesale, so this branch would otherwise never run)."""
+
+    class _DeadProc:
+        def poll(self):
+            return 1  # already exited non-zero
+
+    def test_returns_true_when_the_segment_exists_despite_a_dead_proc(self, tmp_path):
+        seg = tmp_path / "seg_0.ts"
+        seg.write_bytes(b"x")
+        # The proc exited but DID write a first segment → ready. (The final existence re-check.)
+        assert stream.wait_for(seg, timeout=5.0, proc=self._DeadProc()) is True
+
+    def test_returns_false_fast_when_a_dead_proc_wrote_nothing(self, tmp_path):
+        # Missing segment + dead proc → give up immediately, not after `timeout`. Assert it's fast by
+        # using a long timeout the test would visibly hang on if the fast-fail branch regressed.
+        seg = tmp_path / "seg_0.ts"
+        assert stream.wait_for(seg, timeout=30.0, proc=self._DeadProc()) is False
+
+    def test_empty_segment_from_a_dead_proc_is_not_ready(self, tmp_path):
+        # A zero-byte segment is not a real segment (size > 0 required).
+        seg = tmp_path / "seg_0.ts"
+        seg.write_bytes(b"")
+        assert stream.wait_for(seg, timeout=30.0, proc=self._DeadProc()) is False

backend/tests/test_upload.py

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+"""E7 S5a — local file upload ingest (the non-yt-dlp path into the media library).
+
+Covers the ingest spine: media vs generic-file classification, the download-only serving of a
+generic file (force-download so uploaded HTML/SVG can't execute inline), quota accounting with the
+size known up front, the per-file cap enforced while streaming, filename sanitization, and the two
+guards that keep an upload out of paths that assume a re-fetchable source (edit / redownload).
+
+DB-backed (real Postgres) — skipped when no database is reachable. `settings.download_root` is
+pointed at a per-test tmp dir so ingest's on-disk moves are isolated. The ingest/route tests
+monkeypatch the shared `probe.probe_media` so they don't shell out to ffprobe; the classifier's OWN
+parsing (image → file, cover-art skip, dims, duration) is covered directly by `TestProbeClassifier`
+below, which stubs one level down (`run_ffprobe_json`) and exercises the real `probe_media`.
+"""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+from app.config import settings
+from app.downloads import mediakind, quota, storage
+from app.downloads import probe as probemod
+from app.downloads import upload as uploadmod
+from app.models import DownloadQuota, MediaAsset
+
+
+# --- pure: the kind invariant ---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_derive_media_kind():
+    assert uploadmod.mediakind.derive("h264", "aac") == mediakind.VIDEO
+    assert uploadmod.mediakind.derive("vp9", None) == mediakind.VIDEO
+    assert uploadmod.mediakind.derive(None, "aac") == mediakind.AUDIO
+    assert uploadmod.mediakind.derive(None, None) == mediakind.FILE
+
+
+# --- ingest (direct) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def _root(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(settings, "download_root", str(tmp_path))
+    return tmp_path
+
+
+def _probe(monkeypatch, result):
+    # upload ingest now calls the shared `probe.probe_media` (same ground-truth ffprobe the download
+    # worker uses); patch it at that shared home.
+    monkeypatch.setattr(probemod, "probe_media", lambda _p: result)
+
+
+def test_ingest_generic_file_is_download_only(db, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    _probe(monkeypatch, (None, None, None, None, None))
+    u = make_user()
+    src = _root / "src.bin"
+    src.write_bytes(b"%PDF-1.4 hello")
+    job = uploadmod.ingest_upload(
+        db, u.id, filename="My Notes.pdf", src_path=src, size=src.stat().st_size
+    )
+    asset = db.get(MediaAsset, job.asset_id)
+    assert asset.media_kind == mediakind.FILE
+    assert asset.status == "ready" and job.status == "done" and job.progress == 100
+    assert asset.container == "pdf"
+    assert asset.poster_path is None  # a generic file has no player and no poster
+    assert asset.title == "My Notes"  # display title from the original name
+    assert job.job_kind == "upload" and job.source_kind == "upload"
+    # The file was MOVED into the per-user uploads tree, inside the root, and the temp is gone.
+    assert not src.exists()
+    assert asset.rel_path.startswith(".uploads/")
+    assert storage.safe_abs_path(str(_root), asset.rel_path) is not None
+
+
+def test_ingest_audio_is_media_no_poster(db, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    _probe(monkeypatch, (None, "aac", None, None, 200))
+    u = make_user()
+    src = _root / "song.m4a"
+    src.write_bytes(b"fake-audio")
+    job = uploadmod.ingest_upload(db, u.id, filename="song.m4a", src_path=src, size=10)
+    asset = db.get(MediaAsset, job.asset_id)
+    assert asset.media_kind == mediakind.AUDIO
+    assert asset.duration_s == 200
+    assert asset.poster_path is None  # audio has no frame to poster
+
+
+def test_ingest_video_records_dims_and_poster(db, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    _probe(monkeypatch, ("h264", "aac", 640, 480, 60))
+    # Stub the frame-cut so the test doesn't shell out to ffmpeg.
+    monkeypatch.setattr(uploadmod.editmod, "ensure_poster", lambda _a, _root: "p/x.jpg")
+    u = make_user()
+    src = _root / "clip.mp4"
+    src.write_bytes(b"fake-video")
+    job = uploadmod.ingest_upload(db, u.id, filename="clip.mp4", src_path=src, size=10)
+    asset = db.get(MediaAsset, job.asset_id)
+    assert asset.media_kind == mediakind.VIDEO
+    assert (asset.width, asset.height) == (640, 480)
+    assert asset.poster_path == "p/x.jpg"
+
+
+def test_ingest_filename_is_sanitized_no_traversal(db, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    _probe(monkeypatch, (None, None, None, None, None))
+    u = make_user()
+    src = _root / "src"
+    src.write_bytes(b"x")
+    job = uploadmod.ingest_upload(db, u.id, filename="../../etc/passwd", src_path=src, size=1)
+    asset = db.get(MediaAsset, job.asset_id)
+    assert ".." not in asset.rel_path
+    assert asset.rel_path.startswith(f".uploads/{u.id}/")
+    assert storage.safe_abs_path(str(_root), asset.rel_path) is not None
+
+
+def test_ingest_rejects_over_footprint_cap_before_writing(db, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    _probe(monkeypatch, (None, None, None, None, None))
+    u = make_user()
+    db.add(
+        DownloadQuota(user_id=u.id, max_bytes=1000, max_concurrent=2, max_jobs=50, unlimited=False)
+    )
+    db.commit()
+    src = _root / "big.bin"
+    src.write_bytes(b"x" * 10)
+    with pytest.raises(quota.QuotaExceeded) as e:
+        uploadmod.ingest_upload(db, u.id, filename="big.bin", src_path=src, size=2000)
+    assert e.value.reason == "max_bytes"
+    assert src.exists()  # rejected before any disk move — nothing landed
+    assert db.query(MediaAsset).count() == 0  # and no orphan asset row
+
+
+# --- route ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_upload_route_generic_forces_download(as_user, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    _probe(monkeypatch, (None, None, None, None, None))
+    c = as_user(make_user())
+    r = c.post(
+        "/api/downloads/upload",
+        files={"file": ("report.html", b"<script>alert(1)</script>", "text/html")},
+    )
+    assert r.status_code == 200, r.text
+    job = r.json()
+    assert job["asset"]["media_kind"] == "file"
+    assert job["can_download"] is True
+    # The served file must be a neutral force-download attachment — never inline text/html.
+    fr = c.get(f"/api/downloads/{job['id']}/file")
+    assert fr.status_code == 200
+    assert fr.headers["content-type"].startswith("application/octet-stream")
+    assert "attachment" in fr.headers["content-disposition"].lower()
+
+
+def test_upload_route_media_html_extension_not_served_as_html(
+    as_user, make_user, _root, monkeypatch
+):
+    """The XSS guard: a MEDIA-classified upload (real codecs) named with an executable extension must
+    NOT be served with a guessed text/html type. The served Content-Type comes from the verified
+    media_kind + a container allow-list ('html' isn't one), so it force-downloads as octet-stream —
+    on both the authenticated file endpoint AND the login-free public watch endpoint. Without the fix
+    the public inline branch let a media/HTML polyglot named evil.html run as stored XSS."""
+    _probe(monkeypatch, ("h264", "aac", 320, 240, 5))  # ffprobe says it's video…
+    c = as_user(make_user())
+    r = c.post(
+        "/api/downloads/upload",
+        files={"file": ("evil.html", b"<script>alert(1)</script>", "text/html")},
+    )
+    assert r.status_code == 200, r.text
+    job = r.json()
+    assert job["asset"]["media_kind"] == "video" and job["asset"]["container"] == "html"
+
+    # Authenticated endpoint: never text/html.
+    fr = c.get(f"/api/downloads/{job['id']}/file")
+    assert fr.status_code == 200
+    assert fr.headers["content-type"].startswith("application/octet-stream")
+    assert "attachment" in fr.headers["content-disposition"].lower()
+
+    # Public login-free endpoint via a STREAM-ONLY link (the inline branch) — still not text/html.
+    link = c.post(f"/api/downloads/{job['id']}/links", json={"allow_download": False}).json()
+    pr = c.get(f"/api/public/watch/{link['token']}/file")
+    assert pr.status_code == 200
+    assert not pr.headers["content-type"].startswith("text/html")
+    assert pr.headers["content-type"].startswith("application/octet-stream")
+    assert "attachment" in pr.headers["content-disposition"].lower()
+
+
+def test_public_watch_file_forces_download_for_generic_file(as_user, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    """The login-free public serve of a generic upload (media_kind='file') must be a neutral
+    force-download attachment — the branch that stops uploaded HTML/SVG executing on the public
+    origin. This is a SEPARATE code path from the authenticated /file route, so it needs its own
+    route-level assertion (previously only the authenticated branch was tested)."""
+    _probe(monkeypatch, (None, None, None, None, None))
+    c = as_user(make_user())
+    job = c.post(
+        "/api/downloads/upload",
+        files={"file": ("notes.html", b"<script>alert(1)</script>", "text/html")},
+    ).json()
+    assert job["asset"]["media_kind"] == "file"
+    link = c.post(f"/api/downloads/{job['id']}/links", json={"allow_download": True}).json()
+    pr = c.get(f"/api/public/watch/{link['token']}/file")
+    assert pr.status_code == 200
+    assert pr.headers["content-type"].startswith("application/octet-stream")
+    assert "attachment" in pr.headers["content-disposition"].lower()
+
+
+def test_public_watch_file_serves_media_inline_with_real_type(
+    as_user, make_user, _root, monkeypatch
+):
+    """A recognised media container IS still served inline with its real audio/video type (so it
+    plays in the watch page) — the fix must not break legitimate playback. A stream-only link →
+    inline; the type is video/mp4 (from the container allow-list), never text/* and never a guess."""
+    _probe(monkeypatch, ("h264", "aac", 640, 360, 12))
+    c = as_user(make_user())
+    job = c.post(
+        "/api/downloads/upload",
+        files={"file": ("clip.mp4", b"fake-mp4-bytes", "video/mp4")},
+    ).json()
+    link = c.post(f"/api/downloads/{job['id']}/links", json={"allow_download": False}).json()
+    pr = c.get(f"/api/public/watch/{link['token']}/file")
+    assert pr.status_code == 200
+    assert pr.headers["content-type"].startswith("video/mp4")
+    assert "inline" in pr.headers["content-disposition"].lower()
+
+
+def test_upload_route_enforces_per_file_cap(as_user, make_user, db, _root, monkeypatch):
+    from app import sysconfig
+
+    sysconfig.set_value(db, "download_upload_max_bytes", 5)
+    db.commit()
+    c = as_user(make_user())
+    r = c.post(
+        "/api/downloads/upload",
+        files={"file": ("big.bin", b"way over the cap", "application/octet-stream")},
+    )
+    assert r.status_code == 422
+    assert r.json()["detail"]["code"] == "upload_too_large"
+
+
+def test_upload_cap_cannot_be_disabled_with_zero(db):
+    """download_upload_max_bytes floors at 1: a stored 0 would read falsy in the route's
+    `if cap and size > cap` guard and SILENTLY disable the per-file cap, so set_value must reject it.
+    Pins the min=1 invariant so a revert to min=0 can't pass the gate."""
+    from app import sysconfig
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        sysconfig.set_value(db, "download_upload_max_bytes", 0)
+
+
+def test_upload_route_rejects_empty_file(as_user, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    c = as_user(make_user())
+    r = c.post(
+        "/api/downloads/upload", files={"file": ("empty.bin", b"", "application/octet-stream")}
+    )
+    assert r.status_code == 400
+    assert r.json()["detail"]["code"] == "upload_empty"
+
+
+def test_redownload_rejects_an_upload(as_user, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    _probe(monkeypatch, (None, None, None, None, None))
+    c = as_user(make_user())
+    job = c.post(
+        "/api/downloads/upload", files={"file": ("a.bin", b"data", "application/octet-stream")}
+    ).json()
+    r = c.post(f"/api/downloads/{job['id']}/redownload")
+    assert r.status_code == 409
+
+
+def test_edit_rejects_a_generic_upload_source(as_user, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    _probe(monkeypatch, (None, None, None, None, None))
+    c = as_user(make_user())
+    job = c.post(
+        "/api/downloads/upload", files={"file": ("a.bin", b"data", "application/octet-stream")}
+    ).json()
+    r = c.post(
+        "/api/downloads/edit",
+        json={"source_job_id": job["id"], "edit_spec": {"trim": {"start_s": 0, "end_s": 1}}},
+    )
+    assert r.status_code == 400
+    assert r.json()["detail"]["reason"] == "not_media"
+
+
+def test_ingest_rejects_over_max_jobs(db, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    """The other check_upload rejection branch (holdings count, not bytes): once the user is at
+    max_jobs, a further upload is refused before any disk write."""
+    _probe(monkeypatch, (None, None, None, None, None))
+    u = make_user()
+    db.add(
+        DownloadQuota(user_id=u.id, max_bytes=10**12, max_concurrent=2, max_jobs=1, unlimited=False)
+    )
+    db.commit()
+    src1 = _root / "a.bin"
+    src1.write_bytes(b"a")
+    uploadmod.ingest_upload(db, u.id, filename="a.bin", src_path=src1, size=1)  # now 1 holding job
+    src2 = _root / "b.bin"
+    src2.write_bytes(b"b")
+    with pytest.raises(quota.QuotaExceeded) as e:
+        uploadmod.ingest_upload(db, u.id, filename="b.bin", src_path=src2, size=1)
+    assert e.value.reason == "max_jobs"
+    assert src2.exists()  # rejected before the move — nothing landed
+
+
+def test_ingest_cleans_up_placed_files_on_commit_failure(db, make_user, _root, monkeypatch):
+    """A failure AFTER storage.place_file has moved the file onto disk must roll back AND unlink the
+    placed file + any (even partial) poster — otherwise the orphan is permanent (the per-user delete
+    keys off the rolled-back asset.rel_path, and the GC orphan sweep skips the dot-prefixed .uploads/
+    tree). Exercises the rollback/cleanup branch that IS the leak remediation, incl. the poster case
+    where ensure_poster left a partial file but returned None."""
+    _probe(monkeypatch, ("h264", "aac", 320, 240, 5))  # video → the poster path runs
+    u = make_user()
+
+    # Simulate ffmpeg leaving a partial poster on disk, then failing (ensure_poster returns None).
+    def _partial_poster(asset, root):
+        storage.abs_path(root, str(Path(asset.rel_path).with_suffix(".jpg"))).write_bytes(
+            b"partial"
+        )
+        return None
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(uploadmod.editmod, "ensure_poster", _partial_poster)
+
+    # Force the commit to fail after the file (and partial poster) are on disk.
+    def _boom():
+        raise RuntimeError("db down")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(db, "commit", _boom)
+
+    src = _root / "clip.mp4"
+    src.write_bytes(b"fake-video-bytes")
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
+        uploadmod.ingest_upload(db, u.id, filename="clip.mp4", src_path=src, size=16)
+
+    db.rollback()  # drop the monkeypatched-commit session state before querying
+    uploads = _root / ".uploads"
+    leftover = [p for p in uploads.rglob("*") if p.is_file()] if uploads.exists() else []
+    assert leftover == [], f"orphaned files left on disk: {leftover}"
+    assert db.query(MediaAsset).count() == 0  # the flushed asset rolled back — no dangling row
+
+
+# --- classifier: the REAL probe_media parsing (stubs ffprobe one level down) ------------------
+# The ingest/route tests above stub probe_media wholesale; these exercise its OWN logic — image
+# detection, the cover-art skip, dimension/duration parsing — by faking only run_ffprobe_json, so a
+# regression in the classifier the force-download guarantee leans on is actually caught.
+
+
+class TestProbeClassifier:
+    def _probe_with(self, monkeypatch, data):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(probemod.editmod, "run_ffprobe_json", lambda *a, **k: data)
+        return probemod.probe_media(Path("x"))
+
+    def test_probe_failure_is_a_generic_file(self, monkeypatch):
+        # run_ffprobe_json returns None (ffprobe failed / not media) → all None → derive() == FILE.
+        v, a, w, h, d = self._probe_with(monkeypatch, None)
+        assert (v, a, w, h, d) == (None, None, None, None, None)
+        assert mediakind.derive(v, a) == mediakind.FILE
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("fmt", ["image2", "png_pipe", "jpeg_pipe", "webp_pipe", "gif"])
+    def test_still_image_classifies_as_file_not_video(self, monkeypatch, fmt):
+        # A standalone image exposes a real video stream, but its container format is an image demuxer
+        # — it must NOT become media_kind='video' (broken player + inline serving). Stays a file.
+        data = {
+            "format": {"format_name": fmt},
+            "streams": [{"codec_type": "video", "codec_name": "png", "width": 8, "height": 8}],
+        }
+        v, a, w, h, d = self._probe_with(monkeypatch, data)
+        assert v is None and mediakind.derive(v, a) == mediakind.FILE
+
+    def test_cover_art_video_stream_is_skipped_audio_stays_audio(self, monkeypatch):
+        # Album art embedded in an audio file is a video stream flagged attached_pic — skip it so the
+        # asset classifies as audio, not video.
+        data = {
+            "format": {"format_name": "mp3", "duration": "212.5"},
+            "streams": [
+                {
+                    "codec_type": "video",
+                    "codec_name": "mjpeg",
+                    "disposition": {"attached_pic": 1},
+                    "width": 600,
+                    "height": 600,
+                },
+                {"codec_type": "audio", "codec_name": "mp3"},
+            ],
+        }
+        v, a, w, h, d = self._probe_with(monkeypatch, data)
+        assert (v, a, d) == (None, "mp3", 212)
+        assert mediakind.derive(v, a) == mediakind.AUDIO
+
+    def test_real_video_records_codecs_dims_duration(self, monkeypatch):
+        data = {
+            "format": {"format_name": "mov,mp4,m4a", "duration": "60.0"},
+            "streams": [
+                {"codec_type": "video", "codec_name": "h264", "width": 1920, "height": 1080},
+                {"codec_type": "audio", "codec_name": "aac"},
+            ],
+        }
+        v, a, w, h, d = self._probe_with(monkeypatch, data)
+        assert (v, a, w, h, d) == ("h264", "aac", 1920, 1080, 60)
+        assert mediakind.derive(v, a) == mediakind.VIDEO
+
+    def test_unparseable_duration_is_none(self, monkeypatch):
+        data = {
+            "format": {"format_name": "wav", "duration": "N/A"},
+            "streams": [{"codec_type": "audio", "codec_name": "pcm_s16le"}],
+        }
+        v, a, w, h, d = self._probe_with(monkeypatch, data)
+        assert d is None and mediakind.derive(v, a) == mediakind.AUDIO
+
+
+# --- resolve_media_facts: probe-of-the-file wins over yt-dlp's info (the FB regression fix) ---------
+# The download worker's finalize must classify from the ACTUAL file, not the extractor's `info` dict.
+# yt-dlp omits vcodec/acodec/dims for some sources (Facebook), and deriving media_kind from those
+# nulls turned a real H.264 video into a download-only 'file' (no in-app play). These pin that the
+# probe is authoritative and `info` is only a gap-filler.
+
+
+class TestResolveMediaFacts:
+    # These stub run_ffprobe_json (one level below probe_media) so the REAL probe parsing + the
+    # probe-vs-info precedence are exercised together — the precedence keys off whether ffprobe RAN.
+    @staticmethod
+    def _ffprobe(monkeypatch, data):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(probemod.editmod, "run_ffprobe_json", lambda *a, **k: data)
+
+    def test_probe_wins_when_info_lacks_codecs(self, monkeypatch):
+        # THE original regression: info has no vcodec/acodec/dims (Facebook), but the file probes as
+        # h264/aac.
+        self._ffprobe(
+            monkeypatch,
+            {
+                "format": {"format_name": "mov,mp4,m4a"},
+                "streams": [
+                    {"codec_type": "video", "codec_name": "h264", "width": 720, "height": 1280},
+                    {"codec_type": "audio", "codec_name": "aac"},
+                ],
+            },
+        )
+        v, a, w, h = probemod.resolve_media_facts(Path("x"), {"width": None, "height": None})
+        assert (v, a, w, h) == ("h264", "aac", 720, 1280)
+        assert mediakind.derive(v, a) == mediakind.VIDEO  # NOT 'file'
+
+    def test_probe_wins_over_a_DIFFERING_populated_info(self, monkeypatch):
+        # Both the probe AND info are populated but DISAGREE (info carries a pre-remux/pre-merge codec).
+        # The finished file on disk is ground truth, so the probe wins outright — pins the precedence a
+        # `info or probe` inversion would silently break.
+        self._ffprobe(
+            monkeypatch,
+            {
+                "format": {"format_name": "mov,mp4,m4a"},
+                "streams": [
+                    {"codec_type": "video", "codec_name": "h264", "width": 1920, "height": 1080},
+                    {"codec_type": "audio", "codec_name": "aac"},
+                ],
+            },
+        )
+        v, a, w, h = probemod.resolve_media_facts(
+            Path("x"), {"vcodec": "vp9", "acodec": "opus", "width": 640, "height": 480}
+        )
+        assert (v, a, w, h) == ("h264", "aac", 1920, 1080)  # probe, not info
+
+    def test_cover_art_audio_download_is_not_resurrected_to_video_by_info(self, monkeypatch):
+        # THE bug this fix targets: an audio-mode download from a progressive source embeds cover art,
+        # and yt-dlp's info still carries the source's video codec. The probe correctly finds only audio
+        # (the attached_pic is skipped); info's vcodec must NOT resurrect a video track → media_kind
+        # stays audio, not a broken in-app 'video'.
+        self._ffprobe(
+            monkeypatch,
+            {
+                "format": {"format_name": "mp3", "duration": "180.0"},
+                "streams": [
+                    {
+                        "codec_type": "video",
+                        "codec_name": "mjpeg",
+                        "disposition": {"attached_pic": 1},
+                    },
+                    {"codec_type": "audio", "codec_name": "mp3"},
+                ],
+            },
+        )
+        v, a, w, h = probemod.resolve_media_facts(
+            Path("x"), {"vcodec": "avc1", "acodec": "mp4a", "width": 1280, "height": 720}
+        )
+        assert v is None and a == "mp3"  # info's avc1 did NOT win
+        assert mediakind.derive(v, a) == mediakind.AUDIO  # NOT VIDEO
+
+    def test_still_image_download_is_not_resurrected_to_video_by_info(self, monkeypatch):
+        # A downloaded still image: the probe returns no vcodec (image-format guard). info's image
+        # "vcodec" must not turn it into a broken 'video' → stays a generic file.
+        self._ffprobe(
+            monkeypatch,
+            {
+                "format": {"format_name": "png_pipe"},
+                "streams": [{"codec_type": "video", "codec_name": "png", "width": 8, "height": 8}],
+            },
+        )
+        v, a, w, h = probemod.resolve_media_facts(
+            Path("x"), {"vcodec": "png", "width": 8, "height": 8}
+        )
+        assert v is None and mediakind.derive(v, a) == mediakind.FILE
+
+    def test_info_fills_in_only_when_ffprobe_could_not_read_the_file(self, monkeypatch):
+        # ffprobe failed entirely (None) → fall back to info so we never regress the working path.
+        self._ffprobe(monkeypatch, None)
+        v, a, w, h = probemod.resolve_media_facts(
+            Path("x"), {"vcodec": "vp9", "acodec": "opus", "width": 1920, "height": 1080}
+        )
+        assert (v, a, w, h) == ("vp9", "opus", 1920, 1080)
+
+    def test_info_none_codec_string_is_treated_as_absent(self, monkeypatch):
+        # yt-dlp writes the literal "none" for a missing stream — it must not become a codec name.
+        self._ffprobe(monkeypatch, None)  # probe failed → info path, where the "none" scrub applies
+        v, a, w, h = probemod.resolve_media_facts(Path("x"), {"vcodec": "none", "acodec": "aac"})
+        assert (v, a) == (None, "aac")
+        assert mediakind.derive(v, a) == mediakind.AUDIO

frontend/src/components/DownloadCenter.tsx

@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ import {
   Ban,
   ClipboardPaste,
   Download,
+  Link2,
   Pause,
   Play,
+  PlayCircle,
   Plus,
   RotateCcw,
   Scissors,
@@ -15,6 +17,7 @@ import {
   Share2,
   Pencil,
   Trash2,
+  UploadCloud,
 } from "lucide-react";
 import Tabs from "./Tabs";
 import { PageToolbar } from "./PageShell";
@@ -22,14 +25,17 @@ import { LoadingState, StateMessage } from "./QueryState";
 // Lazy: these dialogs/editors open on demand, so they stay out of the Downloads page chunk until
 // used (the video editor in particular is heavy — filmstrip + scrubber).
 const DownloadDialog = lazy(() => import("./DownloadDialog"));
+const UploadDialog = lazy(() => import("./UploadDialog"));
 const ProfileEditor = lazy(() => import("./ProfileEditor"));
 const VideoEditor = lazy(() => import("./VideoEditor"));
 const ShareDialog = lazy(() => import("./ShareDialog"));
+const LibraryPlayer = lazy(() => import("./LibraryPlayer"));
 import { useConfirm } from "./ConfirmProvider";
 import { useLiveQuery } from "../lib/useLiveQuery";
 import { useMe } from "../lib/useMe";
 import { api, type DownloadJob } from "../lib/api";
-import { invalidateDownloads } from "../lib/downloads";
+import { invalidateDownloads, quickShareLink } from "../lib/downloads";
+import { libraryRowActions, sharedRowActions } from "../lib/downloadActions";
 import { inputCls } from "./ui/form";
 import { Button } from "./ui/Button";
 import { DownloadRow, IconBtn, UsageBar } from "./downloadRow";
@@ -46,9 +52,11 @@ export default function DownloadCenter() {
   const [tab, setTab] = useState("queue");
   const [addUrl, setAddUrl] = useState("");
   const [addSource, setAddSource] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const [upload, setUpload] = useState(false);
   const [manage, setManage] = useState(false);
   const [metaJob, setMetaJob] = useState<DownloadJob | null>(null);
   const [shareJob, setShareJob] = useState<DownloadJob | null>(null);
+  const [playJob, setPlayJob] = useState<DownloadJob | null>(null);
   const [editJob, setEditJob] = useState<DownloadJob | null>(null);
   const [errorJob, setErrorJob] = useState<DownloadJob | null>(null);
 
@@ -101,6 +109,21 @@ export default function DownloadCenter() {
     if (await confirm({ title, message: body, confirmLabel: title, danger: true })) fn();
   };
 
+  // One-click share (E7 S3 · D2-A): ensure a downloadable link, copy it, toast with "open in new tab"
+  // (see quickShareLink). Re-clicking reuses the existing link; a per-job in-flight guard also stops a
+  // double-click from racing two POSTs into two links before the cache is primed. Advanced controls
+  // (password, expiry, revoke, share-with-a-user) live in the Share dialog, via the manage-share button.
+  const [sharingId, setSharingId] = useState<number | null>(null);
+  const quickShare = async (job: DownloadJob) => {
+    if (sharingId !== null) return;
+    setSharingId(job.id);
+    try {
+      await quickShareLink(qc, job, t);
+    } finally {
+      setSharingId(null);
+    }
+  };
+
   // Pull a link off the clipboard into the add-URL box. Clipboard reads need a secure context +
   // a user gesture/permission (iOS Safari/Brave are strict) — so this is best-effort: the paste
   // button is an explicit gesture (reliable), and the input's onFocus tries silently (ignored if
@@ -188,6 +211,16 @@ export default function DownloadCenter() {
               >
                 {t("downloads.page.add")}
               </Button>
+              {/* Local upload is a peer to "add a URL": a general file → the same library (E7 S5c). */}
+              <Button
+                variant="outline"
+                size="sm"
+                icon={<UploadCloud className="w-4 h-4" />}
+                onClick={() => setUpload(true)}
+                className="shrink-0"
+              >
+                {t("downloads.page.upload")}
+              </Button>
             </div>
             <div className="space-y-2">
               {queue.map((job) => (
@@ -247,50 +280,69 @@ export default function DownloadCenter() {
           <>
             <UsageBar />
             <div className="space-y-2">
-              {library.map((job) => (
-                <DownloadRow key={job.id} job={job}>
-                  {saveBtn(job)}
-                  {job.can_download && (job.asset?.duration_s ?? 0) > 0 && (
-                    <IconBtn onClick={() => setEditJob(job)} title={t("downloads.actions.edit")}>
-                      <Scissors className="w-4 h-4" />
+              {library.map((job) => {
+                // Row actions gated on the stored media_kind + job_kind (see downloadActions).
+                const a = libraryRowActions(job);
+                return (
+                  <DownloadRow key={job.id} job={job}>
+                    {a.play && (
+                      <IconBtn onClick={() => setPlayJob(job)} title={t("downloads.actions.play")}>
+                        <PlayCircle className="w-4 h-4" />
+                      </IconBtn>
+                    )}
+                    {saveBtn(job)}
+                    {a.edit && (
+                      <IconBtn onClick={() => setEditJob(job)} title={t("downloads.actions.edit")}>
+                        <Scissors className="w-4 h-4" />
+                      </IconBtn>
+                    )}
+                    {a.editDetails && (
+                      <IconBtn
+                        onClick={() => setMetaJob(job)}
+                        title={t("downloads.actions.editDetails")}
+                      >
+                        <Pencil className="w-4 h-4" />
+                      </IconBtn>
+                    )}
+                    <IconBtn onClick={() => quickShare(job)} title={t("downloads.actions.share")}>
+                      <Share2 className="w-4 h-4" />
                     </IconBtn>
-                  )}
-                  <IconBtn
-                    onClick={() => setMetaJob(job)}
-                    title={t("downloads.actions.editDetails")}
-                  >
-                    <Pencil className="w-4 h-4" />
-                  </IconBtn>
-                  <IconBtn onClick={() => setShareJob(job)} title={t("downloads.actions.share")}>
-                    <Share2 className="w-4 h-4" />
-                  </IconBtn>
-                  <IconBtn
-                    onClick={() =>
-                      confirmThen(
-                        t("downloads.confirm.redownloadTitle"),
-                        t("downloads.confirm.redownloadBody"),
-                        () => act.mutate({ id: job.id, op: "redownload" }),
-                      )
-                    }
-                    title={t("downloads.actions.redownload")}
-                  >
-                    <RotateCcw className="w-4 h-4" />
-                  </IconBtn>
-                  <IconBtn
-                    onClick={() =>
-                      confirmThen(
-                        t("downloads.confirm.deleteTitle"),
-                        t("downloads.confirm.deleteBody"),
-                        () => act.mutate({ id: job.id, op: "delete" }),
-                      )
-                    }
-                    title={t("downloads.actions.delete")}
-                    danger
-                  >
-                    <Trash2 className="w-4 h-4" />
-                  </IconBtn>
-                </DownloadRow>
-              ))}
+                    <IconBtn
+                      onClick={() => setShareJob(job)}
+                      title={t("downloads.actions.shareManage")}
+                    >
+                      <Link2 className="w-4 h-4" />
+                    </IconBtn>
+                    {a.redownload && (
+                      <IconBtn
+                        onClick={() =>
+                          confirmThen(
+                            t("downloads.confirm.redownloadTitle"),
+                            t("downloads.confirm.redownloadBody"),
+                            () => act.mutate({ id: job.id, op: "redownload" }),
+                          )
+                        }
+                        title={t("downloads.actions.redownload")}
+                      >
+                        <RotateCcw className="w-4 h-4" />
+                      </IconBtn>
+                    )}
+                    <IconBtn
+                      onClick={() =>
+                        confirmThen(
+                          t("downloads.confirm.deleteTitle"),
+                          t("downloads.confirm.deleteBody"),
+                          () => act.mutate({ id: job.id, op: "delete" }),
+                        )
+                      }
+                      title={t("downloads.actions.delete")}
+                      danger
+                    >
+                      <Trash2 className="w-4 h-4" />
+                    </IconBtn>
+                  </DownloadRow>
+                );
+              })}
               {library.length === 0 &&
                 (jobsQ.isError && !jobsQ.data ? (
                   <StateMessage tone="error" onRetry={() => jobsQ.refetch()}>
@@ -309,34 +361,50 @@ export default function DownloadCenter() {
 
         {tab === "shared" && (
           <div className="space-y-2">
-            {(sharedQ.data ?? []).map((job) => (
-              <DownloadRow key={job.id} job={job}>
-                {job.can_download && saveBtn(job)}
-                {job.can_download && (job.asset?.duration_s ?? 0) > 0 && (
-                  <IconBtn onClick={() => setEditJob(job)} title={t("downloads.actions.edit")}>
-                    <Scissors className="w-4 h-4" />
+            {(sharedQ.data ?? []).map((job) => {
+              // Same media_kind + can_download gate as the library, via the shared helper (S5b).
+              const a = sharedRowActions(job);
+              return (
+                <DownloadRow key={job.id} job={job}>
+                  {a.play && (
+                    <IconBtn onClick={() => setPlayJob(job)} title={t("downloads.actions.play")}>
+                      <PlayCircle className="w-4 h-4" />
+                    </IconBtn>
+                  )}
+                  {a.save && saveBtn(job)}
+                  {a.edit && (
+                    <IconBtn onClick={() => setEditJob(job)} title={t("downloads.actions.edit")}>
+                      <Scissors className="w-4 h-4" />
+                    </IconBtn>
+                  )}
+                  <IconBtn
+                    onClick={() =>
+                      confirmThen(
+                        t("downloads.confirm.removeSharedTitle"),
+                        t("downloads.confirm.removeSharedBody"),
+                        () => removeShared.mutate(job.id),
+                      )
+                    }
+                    title={t("downloads.actions.removeShared")}
+                    danger
+                  >
+                    <Trash2 className="w-4 h-4" />
                   </IconBtn>
-                )}
-                <IconBtn
-                  onClick={() =>
-                    confirmThen(
-                      t("downloads.confirm.removeSharedTitle"),
-                      t("downloads.confirm.removeSharedBody"),
-                      () => removeShared.mutate(job.id),
-                    )
-                  }
-                  title={t("downloads.actions.removeShared")}
-                  danger
-                >
-                  <Trash2 className="w-4 h-4" />
-                </IconBtn>
-              </DownloadRow>
-            ))}
-            {sharedQ.data && sharedQ.data.length === 0 && (
-              <div className="text-sm text-muted py-10 text-center">
-                {t("downloads.empty.shared")}
-              </div>
-            )}
+                </DownloadRow>
+              );
+            })}
+            {(sharedQ.data ?? []).length === 0 &&
+              (sharedQ.isError && !sharedQ.data ? (
+                <StateMessage tone="error" onRetry={() => sharedQ.refetch()}>
+                  {t("common.loadError")}
+                </StateMessage>
+              ) : sharedQ.isLoading ? (
+                <LoadingState />
+              ) : (
+                <div className="text-sm text-muted py-10 text-center">
+                  {t("downloads.empty.shared")}
+                </div>
+              ))}
           </div>
         )}
 
@@ -352,9 +420,11 @@ export default function DownloadCenter() {
               }}
             />
           )}
+          {upload && <UploadDialog onClose={() => setUpload(false)} />}
           {manage && <ProfileEditor onClose={() => setManage(false)} />}
           {metaJob && <MetaEditModal job={metaJob} onClose={() => setMetaJob(null)} />}
           {shareJob && <ShareDialog job={shareJob} onClose={() => setShareJob(null)} />}
+          {playJob && <LibraryPlayer job={playJob} onClose={() => setPlayJob(null)} />}
           {editJob && <VideoEditor job={editJob} onClose={() => setEditJob(null)} />}
           {errorJob && (
             <ErrorModal

frontend/src/components/LibraryPlayer.dom.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// E7·S4b — the in-app library player streams the completed item's LOCAL file into a native media
+// element. video/audio is chosen from the stored media_kind (the single source), NOT a container
+// list — so an audio upload with an uncommon/absent container still renders <audio src=/file>. i18n
+// is key-passthrough here.
+import { describe, it, expect, afterEach, vi } from "vitest";
+import { render, cleanup } from "@testing-library/react";
+
+vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>();
+  return { ...actual, useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key }) };
+});
+
+import LibraryPlayer from "./LibraryPlayer";
+import type { DownloadJob } from "../lib/api";
+
+const baseJob: DownloadJob = {
+  id: 7,
+  status: "done",
+  progress: 100,
+  speed_bps: null,
+  eta_s: null,
+  phase: null,
+  error: null,
+  error_code: null,
+  queue_pos: 0,
+  created_at: null,
+  source_kind: "youtube",
+  source_ref: "abc",
+  source_url: null,
+  poster_url: null,
+  profile_id: null,
+  spec: {
+    mode: "av",
+    max_height: null,
+    container: null,
+    audio_format: null,
+    vcodec: null,
+    embed_subs: false,
+    embed_chapters: false,
+    embed_thumbnail: false,
+    sponsorblock: false,
+  },
+  display_name: "Clip",
+  display_uploader: null,
+  display_uploader_url: null,
+  extra_links: [],
+  can_download: true,
+  expired: false,
+  asset: null,
+};
+
+const withAsset = (over: Partial<NonNullable<DownloadJob["asset"]>>): DownloadJob => ({
+  ...baseJob,
+  asset: {
+    id: 10,
+    status: "ready",
+    title: "Clip",
+    uploader: null,
+    uploader_url: null,
+    upload_date: null,
+    duration_s: 12,
+    size_bytes: 1000,
+    width: null,
+    height: null,
+    container: null,
+    media_kind: "video",
+    thumbnail_url: null,
+    expires_at: null,
+    ...over,
+  },
+});
+
+afterEach(cleanup);
+
+describe("LibraryPlayer", () => {
+  it("plays a video asset in a <video> pointed at the range-aware /file endpoint", () => {
+    render(
+      <LibraryPlayer
+        job={withAsset({ width: 1280, height: 720, container: "mp4" })}
+        onClose={() => {}}
+      />,
+    );
+    const video = document.body.querySelector("video");
+    expect(video).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(video!.getAttribute("src")).toBe("/api/downloads/7/file");
+    // No <audio> element for a video asset.
+    expect(document.body.querySelector("audio")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("plays an audio-only asset (media_kind='audio') in an <audio> element", () => {
+    render(
+      <LibraryPlayer
+        job={withAsset({ media_kind: "audio", container: "m4a" })}
+        onClose={() => {}}
+      />,
+    );
+    const audio = document.body.querySelector("audio");
+    expect(audio).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(audio!.getAttribute("src")).toBe("/api/downloads/7/file");
+    expect(document.body.querySelector("video")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("uses media_kind — an audio upload with an uncommon container still renders <audio>", () => {
+    // The exact bug the fix targets: the old container whitelist (m4a/mp3/…) would drop an .m4b/.weba
+    // audio upload into a <video> box. media_kind='audio' is authoritative regardless of container.
+    render(
+      <LibraryPlayer
+        job={withAsset({ media_kind: "audio", container: "m4b" })}
+        onClose={() => {}}
+      />,
+    );
+    expect(document.body.querySelector("audio")).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(document.body.querySelector("video")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to the container heuristic for a legacy null media_kind", () => {
+    // A pre-discriminator asset (media_kind null) still resolves audio vs video from dims+container.
+    render(
+      <LibraryPlayer job={withAsset({ media_kind: null, container: "mp3" })} onClose={() => {}} />,
+    );
+    expect(document.body.querySelector("audio")).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/LibraryPlayer.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+import { useMemo } from "react";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import Modal from "./Modal";
+import { api, type DownloadJob } from "../lib/api";
+import { jobTitle } from "./downloadRow";
+
+// E7 S4b — in-app player for a completed library item. We do NOT reuse PlayerModal (a cross-origin
+// YouTube IFrame shell) or PlexPlayer (a Plex HLS/session shell): both are bound to their own domain
+// APIs and can't point at a local file. Instead we reuse the shared a11y shell (`Modal`: focus-trap,
+// ESC/back-to-close, scroll-lock, layer-stack, portal) and stream the local file into a NATIVE
+// <video>/<audio controls> — the same element VideoEditor already plays this URL in. Downloads are a
+// browser-native container (mp4/H.264/AAC + m4a/mp3), so native playback (seek via the range-aware
+// /file endpoint, volume, fullscreen, speed) works with zero transcode; an uploaded media item may be
+// any codec (best-effort playback).
+export default function LibraryPlayer({ job, onClose }: { job: DownloadJob; onClose: () => void }) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const fileUrl = useMemo(() => api.downloadFileUrl(job.id), [job.id]);
+  // Video vs audio-only comes from the stored media_kind (the single source every sibling reads —
+  // WatchPage/downloadRow/DownloadCenter) — NOT a re-derived container list, which would misclassify
+  // an uploaded audio file whose container is outside a hardcoded set (uploads accept any container).
+  // Only fall back to the old dimension+container heuristic for a legacy asset with a null media_kind.
+  const asset = job.asset;
+  const isAudio =
+    asset?.media_kind === "audio" ||
+    (asset?.media_kind == null &&
+      !(asset?.width && asset?.height) &&
+      !!asset?.container &&
+      ["m4a", "mp3", "opus", "ogg", "wav", "flac", "aac"].includes(asset.container.toLowerCase()));
+  // Our self-hosted poster (always same-origin, never expires) is the primary; the source thumbnail is
+  // the fallback. Same precedence as the library-row thumbnail.
+  const poster = job.poster_url ? api.posterImageUrl(job.id) : (asset?.thumbnail_url ?? undefined);
+
+  return (
+    <Modal title={jobTitle(job)} onClose={onClose} maxWidth="max-w-4xl">
+      {isAudio ? (
+        <div className="flex flex-col items-center gap-4 py-2">
+          {poster ? (
+            <img
+              src={poster}
+              alt=""
+              className="w-40 h-40 rounded-xl object-cover border border-border"
+            />
+          ) : null}
+          <audio src={fileUrl} controls autoPlay className="w-full">
+            {t("downloads.player.unsupported")}
+          </audio>
+        </div>
+      ) : (
+        <video
+          src={fileUrl}
+          poster={poster}
+          controls
+          autoPlay
+          playsInline
+          className="w-full max-h-[70vh] rounded-lg bg-black object-contain"
+        >
+          {t("downloads.player.unsupported")}
+        </video>
+      )}
+    </Modal>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/components/PlexInfo.tsx

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import i18n from "../i18n";
 import { Carousel } from "./Carousel";
 import PlexCollectionEditor from "./PlexCollectionEditor";
 import PlexPlaylistAdd from "./PlexPlaylistAdd";
+import { PLAYABLE_TINT, playableClass } from "./plexCards";
 
 // The rich "media info" surface for a Plex item — poster/art, IMDb score + link, content rating,
 // genres, director, cast (with photos), summary. Reused in TWO places: a full-page view opened from
@@ -253,6 +254,33 @@ function CrewPanel({
   );
 }
 
+// The playback-class chip (dot + Plex-native label), with a muted codec · bit-depth subtitle when
+// known. Class + colour are derived through the SAME shared helper the browse-card corner dot uses,
+// so the two surfaces can't drift. `overlay` tints the label for the dark player background.
+function PlaybackChip({ detail, overlay }: { detail: PlexItemDetail; overlay: boolean }) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  if (!detail.playable) return null;
+  const cls = playableClass(detail.playable, detail.transcode_hw);
+  const sub = [
+    detail.codec_video ? detail.codec_video.toUpperCase() : null,
+    detail.video_bit_depth != null ? `${detail.video_bit_depth}-bit` : null,
+  ]
+    .filter(Boolean)
+    .join(" · ");
+  return (
+    <span
+      className={`inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-full px-2 py-0.5 text-xs ${
+        overlay ? "bg-white/10 text-white/90" : "bg-surface text-muted"
+      }`}
+      title={t(`plex.playable.${cls}`)}
+    >
+      <span className={`h-2 w-2 shrink-0 rounded-full ${PLAYABLE_TINT[cls] ?? "bg-gray-400"}`} />
+      <span className="font-medium">{t(`plex.filter.playableOpt.${cls}`)}</span>
+      {sub && <span className="opacity-70">{sub}</span>}
+    </span>
+  );
+}
+
 type Props = {
   detail: PlexItemDetail;
   variant: "page" | "overlay";
@@ -425,7 +453,7 @@ export default function PlexInfo({
               <button
                 onClick={onClose}
                 className="shrink-0 p-1.5 rounded-lg text-white/80 hover:bg-white/15"
-                aria-label={t("plex.player.back")}
+                aria-label={t("plex.player.close")}
               >
                 <X className="w-5 h-5" />
               </button>
@@ -479,6 +507,7 @@ export default function PlexInfo({
                     {detail.studio}
                   </Filterable>
                 )}
+                <PlaybackChip detail={detail} overlay={overlay} />
               </div>
 
               {/* Multi-source ratings row (E5 S5): IMDb / TMDb / audience, whichever are present. */}

frontend/src/components/PlexPlayer.tsx

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   ArrowLeft,
   Clock,
   Download,
+  Gauge,
   Info,
   Keyboard,
   Languages,
@@ -38,8 +39,10 @@ import {
   subShadowCss,
   type PlexPlayerPrefs,
 } from "../lib/plexPlayerPrefs";
-import { Ctrl, PanelHead } from "./plexPlayerControls";
+import { Ctrl, PanelHead, Skip10 } from "./plexPlayerControls";
 import { PlexPlayerSettings } from "./PlexPlayerSettings";
+import { PlexStatsOverlay } from "./PlexStatsOverlay";
+import { UpNextCard } from "./UpNextCard";
 import {
   useAutoSkip,
   useControlsVisibility,
@@ -95,6 +98,12 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
   const aliveRef = useRef(true);
   const wrapRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
   const sessionStartRef = useRef(0); // absolute offset the current HLS/direct session begins at
+  // Which encoder the current transcode session ran: true=VAAPI hardware, false=libx264 software,
+  // null=not a transcode. Feeds the stats overlay's mode row ("transcode · GPU" / "· CPU").
+  const hwRef = useRef<boolean | null>(null);
+  // Whether the current HW transcode tone-mapped a 10-bit/HDR source on the GPU (OpenCL). Feeds the
+  // stats mode row's "· HDR→SDR" tag; null/false for an 8-bit HW, software, or non-transcode session.
+  const tonemapRef = useRef<boolean | null>(null);
   const durationRef = useRef(0);
   // ≥2 audio tracks → multi-rendition HLS: all tracks ship in one session and hls.js switches audio
   // client-side (no restart). Ref so the stable loadSession/changeAudio callbacks read it fresh.
@@ -114,6 +123,10 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
   // which only covers the INITIAL session load; this covers stalls AFTER playback has started (e.g. the
   // brief cold-ffmpeg rebuffer on auto-advance, now largely prevented by the server-side segment warm-up).
   const [buffering, setBuffering] = useState(false);
+  // The current session re-encodes the video (playable="transcode"). Its cold-start (the first transcode
+  // segment) is genuinely slower than a remux stall, so the initial-load overlay says "Preparing stream…"
+  // instead of the generic "Loading…" — honest, and it stops a warm-up reading as a hang.
+  const [sessionIsTranscode, setSessionIsTranscode] = useState(false);
   const [loadError, setLoadError] = useState<string | null>(null);
   // The current session's real media-start K (reactive mirror of sessionStartRef). Subtitles are
   // absolute-time VTT shifted by K to the session's zero-based clock, so the <track> src/key keys off
@@ -171,6 +184,16 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
   const [infoOpen, setInfoOpen] = useState(false);
   const infoOpenRef = useRef(false);
   infoOpenRef.current = infoOpen;
+  // "D" toggles the stats-for-nerds debug overlay (active mode, codec, dropped frames, buffer…).
+  const [statsOpen, setStatsOpen] = useState(false);
+  const statsOpenRef = useRef(false);
+  statsOpenRef.current = statsOpen;
+  // Up-next end-card: shown at episode end (with a next item) instead of an instant jump (S4).
+  const [upNextOpen, setUpNextOpen] = useState(false);
+  const upNextOpenRef = useRef(false);
+  upNextOpenRef.current = upNextOpen;
+  const upNextPrefRef = useRef(prefs.upNext);
+  upNextPrefRef.current = prefs.upNext;
   const now = useWallClock();
 
   durationRef.current = duration;
@@ -186,6 +209,10 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
       setReady(false);
       setBuffering(false);
       setLoadError(null);
+      // Clear the prior item's transcode flag up front so the cold-start overlay can't show a stale
+      // "Preparing stream…" for a not-yet-known session while the plexSession request is in flight —
+      // it's re-set honestly from the response below.
+      setSessionIsTranscode(false);
       let sess;
       try {
         // Multi-audio → request the multi-rendition session (no single `audio` ordinal); the track is
@@ -206,6 +233,12 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
         );
         return;
       }
+      // Surface the active mode for the stats overlay + the honest cold-start label: a transcode session
+      // re-encodes the video (hw = which encoder), and its first segment is genuinely slower than remux.
+      const isTranscode = sess.mode === "hls" && !!sess.transcode;
+      hwRef.current = isTranscode ? (sess.hw ?? false) : null;
+      tonemapRef.current = isTranscode ? (sess.tonemap ?? false) : null;
+      setSessionIsTranscode(isTranscode);
       // hls.js plays our non-zero-start copyts stream ~1s BEHIND the media clock (see HLS_SUB_LAG);
       // fold that into the session start so the seekbar clock, seeking AND the subtitle shift are all
       // content-accurate. Direct-play (start_s 0) uses the file's real clock — no compensation.
@@ -514,7 +547,11 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
       // (absRef 0) — its stray 'ended' must not mark anything watched or cascade another advance.
       if (absRef.current <= 0) return;
       api.plexSetState(id, "watched").catch(() => {});
-      if (nextId) go(nextId);
+      // With a next item and the up-next pref on, surface the end-card (poster + countdown + Cancel)
+      // and let IT advance — binge stays in the viewer's control (S4/D6-A). The card only appears here,
+      // on play-to-the-end; credits-auto-skip advances earlier and this handler never fires for it.
+      if (nextId && upNextPrefRef.current) setUpNextOpen(true);
+      else if (nextId) go(nextId);
       // Nothing queued next → dismiss the player back to the previous page (same as Stop/Escape),
       // instead of stranding a black, ended <video> on screen.
       else onClose();
@@ -523,6 +560,14 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
     return () => video.removeEventListener("ended", onEnded);
   }, [id, nextId, go, onClose]);
 
+  // Up-next card actions: advance = go to the next item (it was already marked watched on 'ended');
+  // cancel = dismiss and stay on the finished frame. Loading a new item closes any lingering card.
+  const advanceUpNext = useCallback(() => {
+    setUpNextOpen(false);
+    if (nextId) go(nextId);
+  }, [nextId, go]);
+  useEffect(() => setUpNextOpen(false), [id]);
+
   // "Back" cascade shared by the on-screen Back arrow AND the keyboard/remote Backspace·Escape: peel
   // off whatever is layered on top (a tuning/tracks menu, then the shortcuts sheet, then the info
   // overlay) before leaving the player. The arrow used to call onClose() unconditionally, so Back
@@ -533,6 +578,8 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
       setTracksOpen(false);
     } else if (helpOpenRef.current) setHelpOpen(false);
     else if (infoOpenRef.current) setInfoOpen(false);
+    else if (statsOpenRef.current) setStatsOpen(false);
+    else if (upNextOpenRef.current) setUpNextOpen(false);
     else onClose();
   }, [onClose]);
 
@@ -618,6 +665,10 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
         case "I":
           setInfoOpen((v) => !v);
           break;
+        case "d":
+        case "D":
+          setStatsOpen((v) => !v);
+          break;
         case "Backspace":
           // HTPC-style "stop & back to the feed" — mirrors the mouse Back button (shared cascade).
           e.preventDefault();
@@ -639,6 +690,8 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
             setTracksOpen(false);
           } else if (helpOpenRef.current) setHelpOpen(false);
           else if (infoOpenRef.current) setInfoOpen(false);
+          else if (statsOpenRef.current) setStatsOpen(false);
+          else if (upNextOpenRef.current) setUpNextOpen(false);
           else if (!fullscreenElement()) onClose();
           break;
       }
@@ -774,7 +827,9 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
                   rebuffer/seek (ready, no error) has no visible label, so give it an sr-only one via the
                   aria-live region so a screen reader distinguishes "buffering" from a frozen frame. */}
               {!ready ? (
-                <span>{t("plex.player.loading")}</span>
+                <span>
+                  {t(sessionIsTranscode ? "plex.player.preparing" : "plex.player.loading")}
+                </span>
               ) : buffering ? (
                 <span className="sr-only">{t("plex.player.buffering")}</span>
               ) : null}
@@ -785,9 +840,13 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
 
       {/* While a panel/menu is open or an auto-skip countdown is running, take over the browser/mouse
           Back button (history popstate) so it closes/cancels that instead of dropping to the grid. */}
-      {(menuOpen || tracksOpen || helpOpen || infoOpen || skipProgress != null) && (
-        <BackClose onBack={backIntent} />
-      )}
+      {(menuOpen ||
+        tracksOpen ||
+        helpOpen ||
+        infoOpen ||
+        statsOpen ||
+        upNextOpen ||
+        skipProgress != null) && <BackClose onBack={backIntent} />}
 
       {/* Top bar */}
       <div
@@ -936,9 +995,19 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
         </div>
 
         <div className="flex items-center gap-3 text-white">
-          <Ctrl label={t("plex.player.playPause")} onClick={togglePlay} align="start">
+          <Ctrl
+            label={t("plex.player.rewind10")}
+            onClick={() => seekTo(absRef.current - 10)}
+            align="start"
+          >
+            <Skip10 dir="back" />
+          </Ctrl>
+          <Ctrl label={t("plex.player.playPause")} onClick={togglePlay}>
             {playing ? <Pause className="w-6 h-6" /> : <Play className="w-6 h-6" />}
           </Ctrl>
+          <Ctrl label={t("plex.player.forward10")} onClick={() => seekTo(absRef.current + 10)}>
+            <Skip10 dir="forward" />
+          </Ctrl>
           <Ctrl label={t("plex.player.restart")} onClick={() => seekTo(0)}>
             <RotateCcw className="w-5 h-5" />
           </Ctrl>
@@ -1114,6 +1183,9 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
                 )}
               </div>
             )}
+            <Ctrl label={t("plex.player.stats.title")} onClick={() => setStatsOpen((v) => !v)}>
+              <Gauge className="w-5 h-5" />
+            </Ctrl>
             <Ctrl label={t("plex.player.infoBtn")} onClick={() => setInfoOpen((v) => !v)}>
               <Info className="w-5 h-5" />
             </Ctrl>
@@ -1130,6 +1202,32 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
         </div>
       </div>
 
+      {/* Stats-for-nerds debug overlay (toggle with "d" or the gauge button). Non-modal corner panel —
+          the video keeps playing and stays interactive behind it. */}
+      {statsOpen && (
+        <PlexStatsOverlay
+          videoRef={videoRef}
+          hlsRef={hlsRef}
+          playable={detail?.playable ?? ""}
+          hwRef={hwRef}
+          tonemapRef={tonemapRef}
+          sessionStartRef={sessionStartRef}
+          absRef={absRef}
+          durationRef={durationRef}
+          onClose={() => setStatsOpen(false)}
+        />
+      )}
+
+      {/* Up-next end-card (episode end, next item queued, pref on). Non-modal — the finished frame
+          stays behind it; the card's own countdown advances unless the viewer cancels. */}
+      {upNextOpen && nextId && (
+        <UpNextCard
+          nextId={nextId}
+          onAdvance={advanceUpNext}
+          onCancel={() => setUpNextOpen(false)}
+        />
+      )}
+
       {/* Keyboard-shortcut cheat sheet (toggle with "h" or the keyboard button). */}
       {helpOpen && (
         <div
@@ -1150,7 +1248,7 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
               <button
                 onClick={() => setHelpOpen(false)}
                 className="p-1 rounded-lg hover:bg-white/10"
-                aria-label={t("plex.player.back")}
+                aria-label={t("plex.player.close")}
               >
                 <X className="w-5 h-5" />
               </button>
@@ -1170,6 +1268,7 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue }: Props) {
                   [["S"], "plex.player.keys.subtitle"],
                   [["F"], "plex.player.keys.fullscreen"],
                   [["I"], "plex.player.keys.info"],
+                  [["D"], "plex.player.keys.stats"],
                   [["⌫", "Esc"], "plex.player.keys.back"],
                   [["H"], "plex.player.keys.help"],
                 ] as [string[], string][]

frontend/src/components/PlexPlayerSettings.tsx

@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ export function PlexPlayerSettings(props: {
             checked={prefs.autoSkipCredits}
             onChange={(v) => patchPrefs({ autoSkipCredits: v })}
           />
+          <Toggle
+            label={t("plex.player.upNext.pref")}
+            checked={prefs.upNext}
+            onChange={(v) => patchPrefs({ upNext: v })}
+          />
           {(prefs.autoSkipIntro || prefs.autoSkipCredits) && (
             <Slider
               label={t("plex.player.autoSkipDelay")}

frontend/src/components/PlexSidebar.tsx

@@ -296,6 +296,28 @@ export default function PlexSidebar({ layout, setLayout, collapsed, onToggleColl
           },
         ]
       : []),
+    // Playback class (Direct Play / Direct Stream / Transcode HW/SW) — movie-only (shows have no
+    // class), and dropped when the facet is empty. Labels are localized (the facet ships class keys).
+    ...(scope === "movie" && facets && facets.playable.length > 0
+      ? [
+          {
+            id: "playable",
+            title: t("plex.filter.playable"),
+            body: (
+              <Combobox
+                label={t("plex.filter.playable")}
+                options={facets.playable.map((p) => ({
+                  value: p.value,
+                  label: t(`plex.filter.playableOpt.${p.value}`),
+                  count: p.count,
+                }))}
+                selected={filters.playable}
+                onChange={(next) => patch({ playable: next })}
+              />
+            ),
+          },
+        ]
+      : []),
   ];
 
   return (

frontend/src/components/PlexStatsOverlay.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+import { type RefObject, useEffect, useState } from "react";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import type Hls from "hls.js";
+import { X } from "lucide-react";
+import { buildStatRows, type HlsLevelInfo, type StatRow } from "../lib/plexStats";
+
+// "Stats for nerds" debug overlay (E6 S2). Samples the live HTML5 <video> + hls.js state once a second
+// and renders the active mode, resolution, codec/bitrate, dropped frames, buffer, hls level and session
+// offset. No data layer — the refs are already in hand. Doubles as the S1 verification surface (it shows
+// the transcode mode + that the re-encode is engaged). Toggled with "d" / the gauge button / its X.
+export function PlexStatsOverlay({
+  videoRef,
+  hlsRef,
+  playable,
+  hwRef,
+  tonemapRef,
+  sessionStartRef,
+  absRef,
+  durationRef,
+  onClose,
+}: {
+  videoRef: RefObject<HTMLVideoElement | null>;
+  hlsRef: RefObject<Hls | null>;
+  playable: string;
+  hwRef: RefObject<boolean | null>; // active transcode encoder: true=GPU, false=CPU, null=not transcode
+  tonemapRef: RefObject<boolean | null>; // HW HDR→SDR tonemap engaged (adds a "· HDR→SDR" mode tag)
+  sessionStartRef: RefObject<number>;
+  absRef: RefObject<number>;
+  durationRef: RefObject<number>;
+  onClose: () => void;
+}) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const [rows, setRows] = useState<StatRow[]>([]);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const sample = () => {
+      const v = videoRef.current;
+      const hls = hlsRef.current;
+
+      let dropped = 0;
+      let total = 0;
+      try {
+        const q = v?.getVideoPlaybackQuality?.();
+        if (q) {
+          dropped = q.droppedVideoFrames;
+          total = q.totalVideoFrames;
+        }
+      } catch {
+        /* getVideoPlaybackQuality unsupported — leave 0/0 (renders as a dash) */
+      }
+
+      let bufferAhead = 0;
+      if (v) {
+        const now = v.currentTime;
+        for (let i = 0; i < v.buffered.length; i++) {
+          if (now >= v.buffered.start(i) && now <= v.buffered.end(i)) {
+            bufferAhead = v.buffered.end(i) - now;
+            break;
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
+      let level: HlsLevelInfo | null = null;
+      if (hls) {
+        // currentLevel is -1 while auto-ABR hasn't settled; fall back to loadLevel for the res/bitrate.
+        const idx = hls.currentLevel >= 0 ? hls.currentLevel : hls.loadLevel;
+        const lv = idx >= 0 ? hls.levels?.[idx] : undefined;
+        level = {
+          index: hls.currentLevel,
+          total: hls.levels?.length ?? 0,
+          width: lv?.width,
+          height: lv?.height,
+          bitrate: lv?.bitrate,
+          videoCodec: lv?.videoCodec,
+          audioCodec: lv?.audioCodec,
+        };
+      }
+
+      setRows(
+        buildStatRows({
+          playable,
+          hwEncoder: hwRef.current,
+          tonemap: tonemapRef.current,
+          transport: hls ? "hls" : "direct",
+          videoWidth: v?.videoWidth ?? 0,
+          videoHeight: v?.videoHeight ?? 0,
+          droppedFrames: dropped,
+          totalFrames: total,
+          bufferAheadS: bufferAhead,
+          hlsLevel: level,
+          sessionStartS: sessionStartRef.current ?? 0,
+          abs: absRef.current ?? 0,
+          duration: durationRef.current ?? 0,
+        }),
+      );
+    };
+    sample();
+    const iv = setInterval(sample, 1000);
+    return () => clearInterval(iv);
+  }, [videoRef, hlsRef, playable, hwRef, tonemapRef, sessionStartRef, absRef, durationRef]);
+
+  return (
+    <div
+      role="region"
+      aria-label={t("plex.player.stats.title")}
+      onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
+      className="absolute left-4 top-16 z-menu w-64 rounded-xl border border-white/15 bg-black/80 p-3 text-white shadow-2xl backdrop-blur-sm"
+    >
+      <div className="mb-2 flex items-center justify-between">
+        <span className="text-xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide text-white/70">
+          {t("plex.player.stats.title")}
+        </span>
+        <button
+          onClick={onClose}
+          aria-label={t("plex.player.close")}
+          className="rounded p-0.5 text-white/60 hover:bg-white/10 hover:text-white"
+        >
+          <X className="h-4 w-4" />
+        </button>
+      </div>
+      {/* No aria-live here: the rows re-sample every second, so a live region would make a screen
+          reader announce the changing values continuously and drown out real player announcements.
+          The overlay is a role="region" (labelled above) a user reads on demand, not a status feed. */}
+      <dl className="grid grid-cols-[auto_1fr] gap-x-3 gap-y-1 text-2xs">
+        {rows.map((r) => (
+          <div key={r.key} className="contents">
+            <dt className="text-white/55">{t(r.labelKey)}</dt>
+            <dd className="text-right font-mono tabular-nums text-white/90">{r.value}</dd>
+          </div>
+        ))}
+      </dl>
+    </div>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/components/ProfileEditor.tsx

@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ export default function ProfileEditor({ onClose }: { onClose: () => void }) {
                 <label className="block text-sm font-medium mb-1">
                   {t("downloads.profiles.audioFormat")}
                 </label>
+                {/* Only browser-playable audio: AAC (m4a) + MP3. Opus is dropped — Safari plays it
+                    unreliably as a bare file, and the module's purpose is in-browser playback. */}
                 <select
                   value={spec.audio_format ?? "m4a"}
                   onChange={set("audio_format")}
@@ -202,39 +204,12 @@ export default function ProfileEditor({ onClose }: { onClose: () => void }) {
                 >
                   <option value="m4a">M4A</option>
                   <option value="mp3">MP3</option>
-                  <option value="opus">Opus</option>
                 </select>
               </div>
             )}
-            {spec.mode !== "a" && (
-              <>
-                <div>
-                  <label className="block text-sm font-medium mb-1">
-                    {t("downloads.profiles.container")}
-                  </label>
-                  <select
-                    value={spec.container ?? "mp4"}
-                    onChange={set("container")}
-                    className={inputCls}
-                  >
-                    <option value="mp4">MP4</option>
-                    <option value="mkv">MKV</option>
-                    <option value="webm">WebM</option>
-                  </select>
-                </div>
-                <div>
-                  <label className="block text-sm font-medium mb-1">
-                    {t("downloads.profiles.vcodec")}
-                  </label>
-                  <select value={spec.vcodec ?? ""} onChange={set("vcodec")} className={inputCls}>
-                    <option value="">{t("downloads.profiles.any")}</option>
-                    <option value="h264">H.264</option>
-                    <option value="vp9">VP9</option>
-                    <option value="av1">AV1</option>
-                  </select>
-                </div>
-              </>
-            )}
+            {/* Container/codec are no longer user-selectable: every download is clamped to the
+                mp4/H.264/AAC compat profile (the only universally browser-playable combo) so a
+                shared link plays everywhere, iOS/Safari included. Enforced in backend `normalize`. */}
           </div>
           <div className="space-y-1.5 pt-1">
             {spec.mode !== "a" && (

frontend/src/components/ShareDialog.tsx

@@ -254,7 +254,9 @@ function LinkShare({ job }: { job: DownloadJob }) {
     queryFn: () => api.downloadLinks(job.id),
   });
   const [creating, setCreating] = useState(false);
-  const [allowDownload, setAllowDownload] = useState(false);
+  // D1 (E7 S3): downloadable by default — matches the one-click Share (which relies on the backend
+  // default) and the common "let them have the file" intent. The owner can uncheck it here.
+  const [allowDownload, setAllowDownload] = useState(true);
   const [expiryDays, setExpiryDays] = useState<number | null>(null);
   const [password, setPassword] = useState("");
   const invalidate = () => qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.downloadLinks(job.id) });
@@ -276,8 +278,8 @@ function LinkShare({ job }: { job: DownloadJob }) {
   });
 
   // Open with a link already generated: sharing is almost always the goal, so mint a default
-  // (no password, no expiry, view-only) link the moment the dialog finds none — as if the user
-  // had pressed "New link" → "Create". All further controls (password, download toggle, expiry,
+  // (no password, no expiry, downloadable per D1) link the moment the dialog finds none — as if the
+  // user had pressed "New link" → "Create". All further controls (password, download toggle, expiry,
   // extra links, revoke) stay available on the created link and via the "New link" button.
   const autoTried = useRef(false);
   useEffect(() => {

frontend/src/components/UpNextCard.dom.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// The up-next end-card's core behaviour (E6 S4): the countdown that auto-advances at ~10s (the whole
+// point — it REPLACED the old instant jump, so a regression that fires early or never is exactly the
+// bug to guard), the "Play now"/Cancel controls, and the episode heading's null season/episode
+// fallback. i18n is key-passthrough; `../lib/api` is mocked so no network runs; the countdown uses
+// performance.now, which vitest's fake timers advance alongside setInterval.
+import { describe, it, expect, afterEach, vi } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, cleanup, act } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+
+vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>();
+  return { ...actual, useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key }) };
+});
+
+vi.mock("../lib/api", () => ({
+  api: { plexItem: vi.fn(), plexImageUrl: () => "/img" },
+}));
+
+import { UpNextCard } from "./UpNextCard";
+import { api } from "../lib/api";
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  cleanup();
+  vi.useRealTimers();
+  vi.clearAllMocks();
+});
+
+function renderCard(opts: { onAdvance?: () => void; onCancel?: () => void } = {}) {
+  const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+  return render(
+    <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+      <UpNextCard
+        nextId="e7"
+        onAdvance={opts.onAdvance ?? vi.fn()}
+        onCancel={opts.onCancel ?? vi.fn()}
+      />
+    </QueryClientProvider>,
+  );
+}
+
+describe("UpNextCard", () => {
+  it("auto-advances after the ~10s countdown, and NOT before", () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    // A never-resolving detail query: the heading is irrelevant here and this avoids async state
+    // updates racing the fake clock.
+    (api.plexItem as ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>).mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}));
+    const onAdvance = vi.fn();
+    renderCard({ onAdvance });
+
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(9000);
+    });
+    expect(onAdvance).not.toHaveBeenCalled(); // still counting down
+
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(1200);
+    });
+    expect(onAdvance).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1); // crossed zero → advanced exactly once
+  });
+
+  it("'Play now' advances immediately, without waiting for the countdown", () => {
+    (api.plexItem as ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>).mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}));
+    const onAdvance = vi.fn();
+    renderCard({ onAdvance });
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /playNow/ }));
+    expect(onAdvance).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("Cancel dismisses via onCancel and does not advance", () => {
+    (api.plexItem as ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>).mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}));
+    const onAdvance = vi.fn();
+    const onCancel = vi.fn();
+    renderCard({ onAdvance, onCancel });
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("plex.player.upNext.cancel"));
+    expect(onCancel).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(onAdvance).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("an episode heading falls back to S?·E? when season/episode are null", async () => {
+    (api.plexItem as ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>).mockResolvedValue({
+      id: "e7",
+      kind: "episode",
+      show_title: "Westworld",
+      title: "The Adversary",
+      season_number: null,
+      episode_number: null,
+    });
+    renderCard();
+    expect(await screen.findByText("Westworld · S?·E?")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/UpNextCard.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { useQuery } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import { Play, X } from "lucide-react";
+import { api } from "../lib/api";
+import { plexLang } from "../i18n";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+
+// Up-next / end-card (E6 S4). Shown at episode end when a next item exists and the pref is on, INSTEAD
+// of the old instant jump — so binge stays under the viewer's control (D6-A). Counts down ~10s then
+// advances; "Play now" advances immediately; Cancel/✕ dismisses and stays on the finished frame. It only
+// lives on the play-to-the-end path; credits-auto-skip advances earlier and never reaches this card.
+const COUNTDOWN_S = 10;
+
+export function UpNextCard({
+  nextId,
+  onAdvance,
+  onCancel,
+}: {
+  nextId: string;
+  onAdvance: () => void;
+  onCancel: () => void;
+}) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const lang = plexLang();
+  const nextQ = useQuery({
+    queryKey: qk.plexItem(nextId, lang),
+    queryFn: () => api.plexItem(nextId, lang),
+  });
+  const next = nextQ.data;
+
+  // Countdown. `onAdvance` is read through a ref so the 100ms interval never restarts on re-render.
+  const [remaining, setRemaining] = useState(COUNTDOWN_S);
+  const advanceRef = useRef(onAdvance);
+  advanceRef.current = onAdvance;
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const started = performance.now();
+    const iv = window.setInterval(() => {
+      const left = COUNTDOWN_S - (performance.now() - started) / 1000;
+      if (left <= 0) {
+        window.clearInterval(iv);
+        setRemaining(0);
+        advanceRef.current();
+      } else {
+        setRemaining(left);
+      }
+    }, 100);
+    return () => window.clearInterval(iv);
+  }, []);
+
+  const secs = Math.ceil(remaining);
+  const frac = remaining / COUNTDOWN_S; // 1 → 0 as it counts down
+  const R = 10;
+  const C = 2 * Math.PI * R;
+
+  // Title: "Show · S2·E5" over the episode title for episodes; the plain title for movies/queue items.
+  const heading =
+    next?.kind === "episode" && next.show_title
+      ? `${next.show_title} · S${next.season_number ?? "?"}·E${next.episode_number ?? "?"}`
+      : (next?.title ?? "");
+  const sub = next?.kind === "episode" ? next.title : null;
+
+  return (
+    <div
+      role="region"
+      aria-label={t("plex.player.upNext.title")}
+      onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
+      className="absolute bottom-24 right-6 z-menu flex w-[22rem] max-w-[calc(100vw-3rem)] gap-3 rounded-2xl border border-white/15 bg-neutral-900/95 p-3.5 text-white shadow-2xl"
+    >
+      <div className="h-[6.5rem] w-[4.6rem] flex-none overflow-hidden rounded-lg bg-white/10">
+        {next && (
+          <img
+            src={api.plexImageUrl(nextId, "thumb")}
+            alt=""
+            className="h-full w-full object-cover"
+            draggable={false}
+          />
+        )}
+      </div>
+      <div className="flex min-w-0 flex-1 flex-col">
+        <div className="mb-0.5 text-2xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide text-white/50">
+          {t("plex.player.upNext.title")}
+        </div>
+        <div className="truncate text-sm font-semibold leading-tight">{heading || "…"}</div>
+        {sub && <div className="truncate text-xs text-white/60">{sub}</div>}
+        <div className="mt-auto flex items-center gap-2 pt-2.5">
+          <button
+            onClick={onAdvance}
+            className="flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-full bg-accent px-3 py-1.5 text-xs font-semibold text-black hover:brightness-110"
+          >
+            <span className="relative grid h-[22px] w-[22px] flex-none place-items-center">
+              <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" className="absolute inset-0 -rotate-90">
+                <circle
+                  cx="12"
+                  cy="12"
+                  r={R}
+                  fill="none"
+                  stroke="rgba(0,0,0,0.25)"
+                  strokeWidth="2"
+                />
+                <circle
+                  cx="12"
+                  cy="12"
+                  r={R}
+                  fill="none"
+                  stroke="currentColor"
+                  strokeWidth="2"
+                  strokeLinecap="round"
+                  strokeDasharray={C}
+                  strokeDashoffset={C * (1 - frac)}
+                />
+              </svg>
+              <Play className="h-2.5 w-2.5 fill-black" />
+            </span>
+            {t("plex.player.upNext.playNow")}
+            <span className="tabular-nums">{secs}</span>
+          </button>
+          <button
+            onClick={onCancel}
+            className="rounded-full border border-white/25 px-3 py-1.5 text-xs text-white/85 hover:bg-white/10"
+          >
+            {t("plex.player.upNext.cancel")}
+          </button>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      <button
+        onClick={onCancel}
+        aria-label={t("plex.player.upNext.cancel")}
+        className="absolute right-2 top-2 rounded p-0.5 text-white/50 hover:bg-white/10 hover:text-white"
+      >
+        <X className="h-4 w-4" />
+      </button>
+    </div>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/components/UploadDialog.dom.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// E7·S5c — the local-upload dialog. It's a general file upload (any type, no format list): a picked
+// file surfaces its name+size, and Upload streams it through api.uploadDownload (the XHR-progress
+// path). This drives the real dialog against a mocked api so we can assert the file + optional name
+// actually reach the ingest call, and that the success toast points at the library. i18n is
+// key-passthrough.
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, waitFor, cleanup } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+
+const h = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  uploadDownload: vi.fn(async (_f: File, _o: unknown) => ({ id: 42 })),
+  notify: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>();
+  return { ...actual, useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key }) };
+});
+vi.mock("../lib/api", () => ({ api: { uploadDownload: h.uploadDownload } }));
+vi.mock("../lib/downloads", () => ({ invalidateDownloads: vi.fn() }));
+vi.mock("../lib/notifications", () => ({ notify: h.notify }));
+vi.mock("../lib/nav", () => ({ navigateTo: vi.fn() }));
+
+import UploadDialog from "./UploadDialog";
+
+const wrap = (onClose = vi.fn()) => {
+  const qc = new QueryClient();
+  return render(
+    <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+      <UploadDialog onClose={onClose} />
+    </QueryClientProvider>,
+  );
+};
+
+// The dialog portals into document.body, so query the whole document, not the render container.
+const fileInput = () => document.querySelector('input[type="file"]') as HTMLInputElement;
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  h.uploadDownload.mockClear();
+  h.notify.mockClear();
+});
+afterEach(cleanup);
+
+describe("UploadDialog", () => {
+  it("shows the picked file's name and uploads it with the optional name", async () => {
+    const onClose = vi.fn();
+    wrap(onClose);
+    const f = new File(["hello world"], "notes.pdf", { type: "application/pdf" });
+    fireEvent.change(fileInput(), { target: { files: [f] } });
+
+    // The drop zone now surfaces the file name.
+    expect(screen.getByText("notes.pdf")).toBeTruthy();
+
+    // Optional display name.
+    const nameBox = screen.getByPlaceholderText("downloads.upload.namePlaceholder");
+    fireEvent.change(nameBox, { target: { value: "My notes" } });
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("downloads.upload.submit"));
+
+    await waitFor(() => expect(h.uploadDownload).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1));
+    const [passedFile, opts] = h.uploadDownload.mock.calls[0]!;
+    expect(passedFile).toBe(f);
+    expect((opts as { displayName?: string }).displayName).toBe("My notes");
+    await waitFor(() => expect(h.notify).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(onClose).toHaveBeenCalled());
+  });
+
+  it("keeps Upload disabled until a file is chosen", () => {
+    wrap();
+    const btn = screen.getByText("downloads.upload.submit").closest("button")!;
+    expect(btn.disabled).toBe(true);
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/UploadDialog.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import { useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import { UploadCloud, File as FileIcon } from "lucide-react";
+import Modal from "./Modal";
+import { Button } from "./ui/Button";
+import { api } from "../lib/api";
+import { invalidateDownloads } from "../lib/downloads";
+import { notify } from "../lib/notifications";
+import { navigateTo } from "../lib/nav";
+import { formatBytes } from "../lib/format";
+import { inputCls } from "./ui/form";
+
+// Local-file ingest (E7 S5c · D5-A). A general upload — ANY file type, no format list: media
+// (video/audio) joins the library with the full function set, a generic file is download-only. The
+// file is streamed to the server via XHR so this dialog can show real upload progress. On success it
+// lands in the Library as an already-`done` job, so we invalidate + point the user there.
+export default function UploadDialog({ onClose }: { onClose: () => void }) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const qc = useQueryClient();
+  const [file, setFile] = useState<File | null>(null);
+  const [name, setName] = useState("");
+  const [dragOver, setDragOver] = useState(false);
+  const [pct, setPct] = useState<number | null>(null); // null = idle; 0–100 while uploading
+  const inputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null);
+  const abortRef = useRef<AbortController | null>(null);
+  // dragenter/dragleave fire as the cursor crosses the drop zone's OWN children (icon/text), so a
+  // plain boolean flickers. Count enter vs leave and only clear the highlight at depth 0.
+  const dragDepth = useRef(0);
+  const busy = pct !== null;
+
+  // Closing the dialog mid-upload (X / ESC / backdrop / browser Back all unmount us) must abort the
+  // in-flight XHR — otherwise it keeps streaming in the background and still toasts success. Only the
+  // footer Cancel wired the abort; this covers every other dismissal.
+  useEffect(() => () => abortRef.current?.abort(), []);
+
+  const pick = () => inputRef.current?.click();
+
+  const submit = async () => {
+    if (!file || busy) return;
+    const ac = new AbortController();
+    abortRef.current = ac;
+    setPct(0);
+    try {
+      await api.uploadDownload(file, {
+        displayName: name.trim() || undefined,
+        onProgress: setPct,
+        signal: ac.signal,
+      });
+      invalidateDownloads(qc);
+      notify({
+        level: "success",
+        message: t("downloads.upload.added"),
+        action: { label: t("downloads.dialog.view"), onClick: () => navigateTo("downloads") },
+      });
+      onClose();
+    } catch {
+      // An aborted upload (Cancel) or a server rejection (cap/quota — already surfaced by the global
+      // error modal, like every other req call). Re-arm the form so the user can retry or pick again.
+      setPct(null);
+      abortRef.current = null;
+    }
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <Modal title={t("downloads.upload.title")} onClose={onClose}>
+      <p className="text-sm text-muted mb-4">{t("downloads.upload.hint")}</p>
+
+      {/* Drop zone doubles as the picker trigger — a click anywhere opens the native file dialog. */}
+      <button
+        type="button"
+        onClick={pick}
+        onDragEnter={(e) => {
+          e.preventDefault();
+          dragDepth.current += 1;
+          setDragOver(true);
+        }}
+        onDragOver={(e) => e.preventDefault()}
+        onDragLeave={() => {
+          dragDepth.current = Math.max(0, dragDepth.current - 1);
+          if (dragDepth.current === 0) setDragOver(false);
+        }}
+        onDrop={(e) => {
+          e.preventDefault();
+          dragDepth.current = 0;
+          setDragOver(false);
+          const f = e.dataTransfer.files?.[0];
+          if (f) {
+            setFile(f);
+            setName("");
+          }
+        }}
+        disabled={busy}
+        className={`w-full flex flex-col items-center justify-center gap-2 rounded-xl border-2 border-dashed px-4 py-8 text-center transition disabled:opacity-60 ${
+          dragOver ? "border-accent bg-accent/5" : "border-border hover:border-fg/40"
+        }`}
+      >
+        {file ? (
+          <>
+            <FileIcon className="w-6 h-6 text-muted" />
+            <span className="text-sm font-medium break-all">{file.name}</span>
+            <span className="text-xs text-muted">{formatBytes(file.size)}</span>
+          </>
+        ) : (
+          <>
+            <UploadCloud className="w-7 h-7 text-muted" />
+            <span className="text-sm text-muted">
+              {dragOver ? t("downloads.upload.dropActive") : t("downloads.upload.drop")}
+            </span>
+          </>
+        )}
+      </button>
+      <input
+        ref={inputRef}
+        type="file"
+        className="hidden"
+        onChange={(e) => {
+          const f = e.target.files?.[0];
+          if (f) {
+            setFile(f);
+            setName("");
+          }
+          e.target.value = ""; // let re-picking the same file fire onChange again
+        }}
+      />
+
+      <label className="block text-sm font-medium mt-4 mb-1">
+        {t("downloads.upload.nameLabel")}
+      </label>
+      <input
+        value={name}
+        onChange={(e) => setName(e.target.value)}
+        placeholder={t("downloads.upload.namePlaceholder")}
+        disabled={busy}
+        className={`${inputCls} mb-5`}
+      />
+
+      {busy && (
+        <div className="mb-5" aria-live="polite">
+          <div
+            className="h-2 rounded-full bg-surface overflow-hidden"
+            role="progressbar"
+            aria-valuenow={pct ?? 0}
+            aria-valuemin={0}
+            aria-valuemax={100}
+            // A STABLE descriptor as the name; the live percentage rides aria-valuenow (and the visible
+            // <p> below re-announces it via the aria-live wrapper) — don't bake the value into the name.
+            aria-label={t("downloads.upload.uploadProgress")}
+          >
+            <div
+              className="h-full bg-accent transition-[width] duration-150"
+              style={{ width: `${pct ?? 0}%` }}
+            />
+          </div>
+          <p className="text-xs text-muted mt-1.5 text-center">
+            {t("downloads.upload.uploading", { pct: pct ?? 0 })}
+          </p>
+        </div>
+      )}
+
+      <div className="flex justify-end gap-2">
+        <Button
+          variant="ghost"
+          size="sm"
+          onClick={() => (busy ? abortRef.current?.abort() : onClose())}
+        >
+          {t("downloads.actions.cancel")}
+        </Button>
+        <Button variant="primary" size="sm" onClick={submit} disabled={!file || busy}>
+          {t("downloads.upload.submit")}
+        </Button>
+      </div>
+    </Modal>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/components/VideoEditor.tsx

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import clsx from "clsx";
 import Modal from "./Modal";
 import { notify } from "../lib/notifications";
 import { api, type DownloadJob, type EditSpec } from "../lib/api";
+import { contentRect, cropToSourcePx, type Frac } from "../lib/cropGeometry";
 import { inputCls, btnCls } from "./ui/form";
 import { Button } from "./ui/Button";
 
@@ -31,7 +32,6 @@ function parseTc(v: string): number | null {
 }
 
 type Seg = { id: number; start: number; end: number; keep: boolean };
-type Frac = { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number };
 type Drag = { type: "seek" } | { type: "boundary"; bi: number };
 
 const numCls =
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ export default function VideoEditor({ job, onClose }: { job: DownloadJob; onClos
   const [current, setCurrent] = useState(0);
   const [playing, setPlaying] = useState(false);
   const [trackW, setTrackW] = useState(0);
+  // Intrinsic (source) video dims and the video element's rendered box, both needed to map the
+  // crop marquee onto the letterboxed picture. `vdim` starts from asset metadata so the overlay
+  // can size before the media decodes; `box` is measured off the element (max-h can clamp it).
+  const [vdim, setVdim] = useState({ w: job.asset?.width ?? 0, h: job.asset?.height ?? 0 });
+  const [box, setBox] = useState({ w: 0, h: 0 });
 
   // The cut-list: contiguous segments covering [0, duration]. Starts as the whole video, kept.
   const [segments, setSegments] = useState<Seg[]>([{ id: 0, start: 0, end: srcDur, keep: true }]);
@@ -83,11 +88,28 @@ export default function VideoEditor({ job, onClose }: { job: DownloadJob; onClos
     return () => ro.disconnect();
   }, []);
 
+  // Measure the video element's rendered box (max-h can shrink it below its intrinsic size, which
+  // then pillarboxes the picture). The crop overlay is anchored to the picture, not this box.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const v = videoRef.current;
+    if (!v || typeof ResizeObserver === "undefined") return;
+    const ro = new ResizeObserver(() => setBox({ w: v.clientWidth, h: v.clientHeight }));
+    ro.observe(v);
+    setBox({ w: v.clientWidth, h: v.clientHeight });
+    return () => ro.disconnect();
+  }, []);
+
+  // The picture's rendered rectangle inside the (possibly letterboxed) video box — the overlay's
+  // frame, so a crop fraction is a fraction of the real picture, not of the black bars.
+  const va = vdim.w && vdim.h ? vdim.w / vdim.h : aspect;
+  const picRect = contentRect(box.w, box.h, va);
+
   const onLoaded = () => {
     const v = videoRef.current;
     if (!v) return;
     const d = v.duration && isFinite(v.duration) ? v.duration : srcDur;
     setDuration(d);
+    if (v.videoWidth && v.videoHeight) setVdim({ w: v.videoWidth, h: v.videoHeight });
     // Reconcile the still-pristine full-length segment to the REAL decoded duration. The initial
     // segment ends at the (integer, often-rounded) metadata `srcDur`; once the media loads we know
     // the true length (e.g. 213.44 vs 213). Without this the untouched last segment stays short, so
@@ -258,16 +280,12 @@ export default function VideoEditor({ job, onClose }: { job: DownloadJob; onClos
 
   const cropPx = (): { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number } | undefined => {
     const v = videoRef.current;
-    const vw = v?.videoWidth || job.asset?.width || 0;
-    const vh = v?.videoHeight || job.asset?.height || 0;
-    if (!cropOn || !vw || !vh) return undefined;
-    const even = (n: number) => Math.max(2, Math.round(n / 2) * 2);
-    return {
-      x: even(crop.x * vw),
-      y: even(crop.y * vh),
-      w: even(crop.w * vw),
-      h: even(crop.h * vh),
-    };
+    const vw = v?.videoWidth || vdim.w;
+    const vh = v?.videoHeight || vdim.h;
+    if (!cropOn) return undefined;
+    // crop fractions are relative to the picture (the overlay is anchored to it), so this is a
+    // straight fraction→source-px scale; see cropGeometry for the even-rounding + in-bounds clamp.
+    return cropToSourcePx(crop, vw, vh) ?? undefined;
   };
 
   const create = useMutation({
@@ -322,11 +340,20 @@ export default function VideoEditor({ job, onClose }: { job: DownloadJob; onClos
             onTimeUpdate={onTimeUpdate}
             onPlay={() => setPlaying(true)}
             onPause={() => setPlaying(false)}
-            className="w-full max-h-[42vh] mx-auto block"
+            className="w-full max-h-[42vh] mx-auto block object-contain"
             playsInline
           />
-          {cropOn && (
-            <div ref={overlayRef} className="absolute inset-0">
+          {cropOn && picRect && (
+            <div
+              ref={overlayRef}
+              className="absolute"
+              style={{
+                left: picRect.left,
+                top: picRect.top,
+                width: picRect.width,
+                height: picRect.height,
+              }}
+            >
               <div
                 className="absolute border-2 border-accent cursor-move"
                 style={{

frontend/src/components/WatchPage.dom.test.tsx

@@ -36,4 +36,41 @@ describe("WatchPage media element (S3 · 5a)", () => {
     await waitFor(() => expect(container.querySelector("video")).not.toBeNull());
     expect(container.querySelector("audio")).toBeNull();
   });
+
+  it("renders an info card + Download for a generic file, no player (S5d)", async () => {
+    window.history.replaceState({}, "", "/watch/tok-file");
+    mockMeta({
+      needs_password: false,
+      media_kind: "file",
+      title: "report.pdf",
+      container: "pdf",
+      size_bytes: 2_400_000,
+      allow_download: true,
+      file_url: "/f.pdf",
+    });
+    const { container, findByText } = render(<WatchPage />);
+    await findByText("report.pdf");
+    expect(container.querySelector("video")).toBeNull();
+    expect(container.querySelector("audio")).toBeNull();
+    // Type · size chip and a Download link to the file.
+    await findByText(/PDF · 2\.3 MB/);
+    const dl = container.querySelector('a[href="/f.pdf"]');
+    expect(dl).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("omits the Download for a view-only file link (S5d)", async () => {
+    window.history.replaceState({}, "", "/watch/tok-file-noview");
+    mockMeta({
+      needs_password: false,
+      media_kind: "file",
+      title: "secret.zip",
+      container: "zip",
+      size_bytes: 1000,
+      allow_download: false,
+      file_url: "/f.zip",
+    });
+    const { container, findByText } = render(<WatchPage />);
+    await findByText("secret.zip");
+    expect(container.querySelector('a[href="/f.zip"]')).toBeNull();
+  });
 });

frontend/src/components/WatchPage.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
-import { Download, Link2, Lock, PlayCircle } from "lucide-react";
+import { Download, File as FileIcon, Link2, Lock, PlayCircle } from "lucide-react";
 import { Button } from "./ui/Button";
+import { formatBytes } from "../lib/format";
 
 // Standalone, login-free video page for a shared /watch/<token> link. Rendered OUTSIDE the app
 // tree (no auth, no providers) — like the /privacy and /terms pages. Uses plain fetch and a tiny
@@ -48,6 +49,9 @@ type Meta = {
   extra_links?: string[];
   duration_s?: number | null;
   audio?: boolean;
+  media_kind?: "video" | "audio" | "file" | null;
+  size_bytes?: number | null;
+  container?: string | null;
   allow_download?: boolean;
   file_url?: string;
   poster_url?: string | null;
@@ -73,6 +77,7 @@ const STR = {
     watch: "Watch",
     wrong: "Wrong password.",
     download: "Download",
+    file: "File",
     links: "Links",
     brand: "Shared via Siftlode",
   },
@@ -85,6 +90,7 @@ const STR = {
     watch: "Megnézem",
     wrong: "Hibás jelszó.",
     download: "Letöltés",
+    file: "Fájl",
     links: "Linkek",
     brand: "Megosztva a Siftlode-dal",
   },
@@ -97,6 +103,7 @@ const STR = {
     watch: "Ansehen",
     wrong: "Falsches Passwort.",
     download: "Herunterladen",
+    file: "Datei",
     links: "Links",
     brand: "Geteilt über Siftlode",
   },
@@ -215,7 +222,37 @@ export default function WatchPage() {
           </div>
         )}
 
-        {status === "ready" && meta && (
+        {status === "ready" && meta && meta.media_kind === "file" && (
+          /* A generic uploaded file has no player — just an info card (name/type/size) and, if the
+             link allows it, a Download. The backend serves the file force-download regardless, so
+             gating the button on allow_download only mirrors the owner's ACL, matching the media
+             branch's download affordance below. */
+          <div className="flex-1 grid place-items-center">
+            <div className="w-full max-w-md rounded-2xl glass p-6 text-center">
+              <div className="mx-auto w-16 h-16 rounded-xl bg-surface grid place-items-center mb-4">
+                <FileIcon className="w-8 h-8 text-accent" />
+              </div>
+              <h1 className="text-lg font-semibold leading-snug break-words">
+                {meta.title || T.file}
+              </h1>
+              <div className="text-sm text-muted mt-1">
+                {[meta.container?.toUpperCase(), formatBytes(meta.size_bytes)]
+                  .filter(Boolean)
+                  .join(" · ")}
+              </div>
+              {meta.allow_download && (
+                <a
+                  href={meta.file_url}
+                  className="mt-5 inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-lg bg-surface hover:bg-card px-4 py-2 text-sm font-medium transition"
+                >
+                  <Download className="w-4 h-4" /> {T.download}
+                </a>
+              )}
+            </div>
+          </div>
+        )}
+
+        {status === "ready" && meta && meta.media_kind !== "file" && (
           <div>
             {meta.audio ? (
               /* Audio-only asset (mp3): WebKit won't play it in a <video>, so render a native

frontend/src/components/downloadRow.dom.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// Library-row metadata (E7·S1): the completed row surfaces the concrete container/format alongside the
+// already-shown size. The format chip reads the raw `asset.container` (uppercased in the UI), so it must
+// render when present and be absent when the asset has no container yet (queued/running before the worker
+// fills it). i18n is key-passthrough here.
+import { describe, it, expect, afterEach, vi } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, cleanup } from "@testing-library/react";
+
+vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>();
+  return { ...actual, useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key }) };
+});
+
+import { DownloadRow } from "./downloadRow";
+import type { DownloadJob } from "../lib/api";
+
+const baseJob: DownloadJob = {
+  id: 1,
+  status: "done",
+  progress: 100,
+  speed_bps: null,
+  eta_s: null,
+  phase: null,
+  error: null,
+  error_code: null,
+  queue_pos: 0,
+  created_at: null,
+  source_kind: "youtube",
+  source_ref: "abc",
+  source_url: null,
+  poster_url: null,
+  profile_id: null,
+  spec: {
+    mode: "av",
+    max_height: null,
+    container: null,
+    audio_format: null,
+    vcodec: null,
+    embed_subs: false,
+    embed_chapters: false,
+    embed_thumbnail: false,
+    sponsorblock: false,
+  },
+  display_name: "Clip",
+  display_uploader: null,
+  display_uploader_url: null,
+  extra_links: [],
+  can_download: true,
+  expired: false,
+  asset: null,
+};
+
+const withAsset = (
+  container: string | null,
+  over: Partial<NonNullable<DownloadJob["asset"]>> = {},
+): DownloadJob => ({
+  ...baseJob,
+  asset: {
+    id: 10,
+    status: "ready",
+    title: "Clip",
+    uploader: null,
+    uploader_url: null,
+    upload_date: null,
+    duration_s: 90,
+    size_bytes: 148_800_000,
+    width: 1920,
+    height: 1080,
+    container,
+    media_kind: "video",
+    thumbnail_url: null,
+    expires_at: null,
+    ...over,
+  },
+});
+
+afterEach(cleanup);
+
+describe("DownloadRow format chip", () => {
+  it("shows the uppercased container next to the size when ready", () => {
+    render(<DownloadRow job={withAsset("mp4")} />);
+    // Raw container is stored lowercase; the row uppercases it via CSS, so the text node stays "mp4".
+    expect(screen.getByText(/·\s*mp4/i)).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getByText(/142 MB/)).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  it("omits the format chip when the asset has no container yet", () => {
+    const { container } = render(<DownloadRow job={withAsset(null)} />);
+    expect(container.textContent).not.toMatch(/·\s*(mp4|m4a|webm)/i);
+  });
+});
+
+// E7·S5b — a generic uploaded file (media_kind='file') has no video frame and no timeline: the row
+// shows a neutral file glyph instead of a thumbnail <img>, and no duration chip (it stays media info
+// like the container/size). Media rows keep their thumbnail path (an <img>, or empty until a poster).
+describe("DownloadRow file kind", () => {
+  it("renders a file glyph, not a thumbnail <img>, for a generic file", () => {
+    const { container } = render(
+      <DownloadRow
+        job={withAsset("pdf", { media_kind: "file", duration_s: null, size_bytes: 2_400_000 })}
+      />,
+    );
+    // The file glyph is an inline svg; no <img> element is emitted for a file.
+    expect(container.querySelector("img")).toBeNull();
+    expect(container.querySelector("svg")).not.toBeNull();
+    // File info still reads (container + size), but there is no duration chip.
+    expect(screen.getByText(/·\s*pdf/i)).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getByText(/2\.3 MB/)).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the thumbnail path (an <img> when a poster exists) for a media asset", () => {
+    const { container } = render(
+      <DownloadRow job={{ ...withAsset("mp4"), poster_url: "/api/downloads/1/poster.jpg" }} />,
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector("img")).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/downloadRow.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { useEffect, useState, type ReactNode } from "react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
-import { CalendarClock, Copy, Link2, Scissors } from "lucide-react";
+import { CalendarClock, Copy, File, Link2, Scissors } from "lucide-react";
 import clsx from "clsx";
 import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
 import { useLiveQuery } from "../lib/useLiveQuery";
@@ -43,12 +43,12 @@ export function StatusPill({ job }: { job: DownloadJob }) {
   // confused by the bar resetting between the separate video and audio streams.
   if (job.status === "running" && job.phase && PHASE_KEYS.includes(job.phase)) {
     return (
-      <span className="text-xs font-medium text-accent">{t(`downloads.phase.${job.phase}`)}</span>
+      <span className="text-sm font-medium text-accent">{t(`downloads.phase.${job.phase}`)}</span>
     );
   }
   const key = job.expired ? "expired" : job.status;
   return (
-    <span className={clsx("text-xs font-medium", STATUS_CLS[job.status] ?? "text-muted")}>
+    <span className={clsx("text-sm font-medium", STATUS_CLS[job.status] ?? "text-muted")}>
       {t(`downloads.status.${key}`)}
     </span>
   );
@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ function Thumb({ job }: { job: DownloadJob }) {
   // On load failure (a genuinely missing poster file) fall back to the remote source thumbnail.
   const [src, setSrc] = useState(primary);
   useEffect(() => setSrc(primary), [primary]);
+  // A generic uploaded file (media_kind='file') has no video frame to poster — it's a document/
+  // archive, not playable media. Show a neutral file glyph instead of an (always-empty) thumbnail.
+  if (job.asset?.media_kind === "file") {
+    return (
+      <div className="w-28 aspect-video shrink-0 rounded-lg overflow-hidden bg-surface border border-border flex items-center justify-center text-muted">
+        <File className="w-8 h-8" aria-hidden="true" />
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
   return (
     <div className="w-28 aspect-video shrink-0 rounded-lg overflow-hidden bg-surface border border-border">
       {src ? (
@@ -145,8 +154,8 @@ function SourceRef({ url }: { url: string }) {
     }
   };
   return (
-    <div className="flex items-center gap-1 mt-1 text-xs text-muted min-w-0">
-      <Link2 className="w-3 h-3 shrink-0" />
+    <div className="flex items-center gap-1 mt-1 text-sm text-muted min-w-0">
+      <Link2 className="w-3.5 h-3.5 shrink-0" />
       <a
         href={url}
         target="_blank"
@@ -162,7 +171,7 @@ function SourceRef({ url }: { url: string }) {
         title={t("downloads.source.copy")}
         className="shrink-0 p-0.5 rounded-sm hover:bg-surface hover:text-fg transition"
       >
-        <Copy className="w-3 h-3" />
+        <Copy className="w-3.5 h-3.5" />
       </button>
     </div>
   );
@@ -173,7 +182,7 @@ function ChannelLine({ job }: { job: DownloadJob }) {
   const { name, url } = jobChannel(job);
   if (url) {
     return (
-      <div className="text-xs mt-0.5 truncate">
+      <div className="text-sm mt-0.5 truncate">
         <a
           href={url}
           target="_blank"
@@ -186,7 +195,7 @@ function ChannelLine({ job }: { job: DownloadJob }) {
       </div>
     );
   }
-  return <div className="text-xs text-muted truncate mt-0.5">{name}</div>;
+  return <div className="text-sm text-muted truncate mt-0.5">{name}</div>;
 }
 
 export function DownloadRow({
@@ -206,15 +215,20 @@ export function DownloadRow({
       <div className="min-w-0 flex-1">
         <div className="font-medium leading-snug line-clamp-1 flex items-center gap-1.5">
           {job.job_kind === "edit" && (
-            <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-1 shrink-0 px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded-sm text-3xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide bg-accent/15 text-accent">
+            <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-1 shrink-0 px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded-sm text-2xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide bg-accent/15 text-accent">
               <Scissors className="w-3 h-3" /> {t("downloads.clipBadge")}
             </span>
           )}
           <span className="truncate">{jobTitle(job)}</span>
         </div>
         <ChannelLine job={job} />
-        <div className="flex items-center gap-2 mt-1 text-xs">
+        <div className="flex items-center gap-2 mt-1 text-sm">
           <StatusPill job={job} />
+          {job.asset?.container ? (
+            // Concrete container (mp4 / m4a / webm …) — reads as the file format, and its audio-vs-video
+            // extension is the video/audio distinction the running-only phase pill can't show at rest.
+            <span className="text-muted uppercase">· {job.asset.container}</span>
+          ) : null}
           {job.asset?.size_bytes ? (
             <span className="text-muted">· {formatBytes(job.asset.size_bytes)}</span>
           ) : null}
@@ -226,7 +240,7 @@ export function DownloadRow({
               className="text-muted inline-flex items-center gap-1"
               title={new Date(job.created_at).toLocaleString()}
             >
-              · <CalendarClock className="w-3 h-3" /> {relativeTime(job.created_at)}
+              · <CalendarClock className="w-3.5 h-3.5" /> {relativeTime(job.created_at)}
             </span>
           ) : null}
           {job.status === "error" ? (
@@ -259,7 +273,7 @@ export function DownloadRow({
                     style={{ width: `${job.progress}%` }}
                   />
                 </div>
-                <div className="text-2xs text-muted mt-0.5 flex gap-2">
+                <div className="text-xs text-muted mt-0.5 flex gap-2">
                   <span>{job.progress}%</span>
                   {job.speed_bps ? <span>{formatSpeed(job.speed_bps)}</span> : null}
                   {job.eta_s ? <span>{formatEta(job.eta_s)}</span> : null}
@@ -269,7 +283,12 @@ export function DownloadRow({
           </div>
         )}
       </div>
-      <div className="flex items-start gap-0.5 shrink-0">{children}</div>
+      {/* Row action buttons: grown a step here (bigger tap target + icon) without touching the shared
+          IconBtn — scoped so the same primitive stays smaller in the modals. `shrink-0` + no wrap keeps
+          them on the title's line; the text column shrinks instead. */}
+      <div className="flex items-start gap-1 shrink-0 [&_button]:p-2 [&_svg]:size-[18px]">
+        {children}
+      </div>
     </div>
   );
 }

frontend/src/components/plexCards.tsx

@@ -8,14 +8,23 @@ import type { PlexCard, PlexCastMember, PlexFilters, PlexSeasonDetail } from "..
 // Presentational Plex cards + strips, split out of PlexBrowse (all purely prop-driven, no shared
 // state). Rendered by the browse grid, the person page, and the series show/season views.
 
-// Playback cost, escalating good→heavy: direct (green) → remux, a light repackage
-// (amber) → transcode, a full re-encode (red). Reuses the status trio as a gradient;
-// all three stay visually distinct.
-const PLAYABLE_TINT: Record<string, string> = {
+// Playback cost, escalating good→heavy: Direct Play (green) → Direct Stream / remux, a light
+// repackage (blue) → Transcode · HW, a hardware re-encode (amber) → Transcode · SW, a software
+// re-encode (red). transcode splits HW vs SW by card.transcode_hw. Reuses the semantic tokens as a
+// gradient; all four stay visually distinct in light + dark.
+export const PLAYABLE_TINT: Record<string, string> = {
   direct: "bg-success",
-  remux: "bg-warn",
-  transcode: "bg-danger",
+  remux: "bg-info",
+  transcode_hw: "bg-warn",
+  transcode_sw: "bg-danger",
 };
+// Collapse the wire `playable` (direct|remux|transcode) + transcode_hw flag into one of the 4 display
+// classes, so the corner dot's colour + tooltip can't drift from the sidebar filter's option keys.
+// Shared with the info-page playback chip (PlexInfo) so both surfaces derive the class identically.
+export function playableClass(playable: string, transcodeHw?: boolean | null): string {
+  if (playable === "transcode") return transcodeHw ? "transcode_hw" : "transcode_sw";
+  return playable; // direct | remux
+}
 
 // The reveal class for a status pill (watched / in-progress) that shares a corner with a hover-reveal
 // control (the watched-toggle). When that control is present it takes over on touch, so the pill yields
@@ -82,13 +91,22 @@ export function PlexPosterCard({
           decoding="async"
           className="w-full h-full object-cover group-hover:scale-105 transition-transform duration-200"
         />
-        {/* Playable-cost tint (always shown — a quick "will it direct-play" cue). */}
-        {card.playable && (
-          <span
-            className={`absolute top-1.5 left-1.5 w-2 h-2 rounded-full ring-2 ring-black/40 ${PLAYABLE_TINT[card.playable] ?? "bg-gray-400"}`}
-            title={t(`plex.playable.${card.playable}`)}
-          />
-        )}
+        {/* Playable-cost tint (always shown — a quick "will it direct-play" cue). z-20 keeps the dot
+            ABOVE the full-card hover-reveal overlay below (absolute inset-0, no pointer-events-none):
+            without it the overlay sits on top and swallows the cursor, so the dot's native `title`
+            tooltip never fired on hover (a regression once the reveal overlay was added). */}
+        {card.playable &&
+          (() => {
+            const cls = playableClass(card.playable, card.transcode_hw);
+            return (
+              <span
+                role="img"
+                aria-label={t(`plex.playable.${cls}`)}
+                className={`absolute top-1.5 left-1.5 z-20 w-2 h-2 rounded-full ring-2 ring-black/40 ${PLAYABLE_TINT[cls] ?? "bg-gray-400"}`}
+                title={t(`plex.playable.${cls}`)}
+              />
+            );
+          })()}
         {/* Rest-state watched badge (top-right). Yields to the hover quick-actions on a playable card
             (reveal-idle: gone on touch where the toggle is always shown); a watched show keeps it. */}
         {card.status === "watched" && (

frontend/src/components/plexPlayerControls.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,49 @@
 import { type ReactNode } from "react";
 import { RotateCcw } from "lucide-react";
 
+// ±10s skip glyph: an outline circular arrow with a "10" in the centre — the YouTube/Plex-native
+// muscle-memory shape. Deliberately distinct from the episode-level SkipBack/SkipForward (double
+// triangles) and from Restart's plain RotateCcw. The arrowhead is an L-corner at the arc's open end,
+// the same construction lucide uses for RotateCcw/RotateCw, so it sits consistently in the bar.
+export function Skip10({ dir }: { dir: "back" | "forward" }) {
+  const back = dir === "back";
+  return (
+    <svg
+      viewBox="0 0 24 24"
+      fill="none"
+      stroke="currentColor"
+      strokeWidth={2}
+      strokeLinecap="round"
+      strokeLinejoin="round"
+      className="w-6 h-6"
+      aria-hidden="true"
+    >
+      {back ? (
+        <>
+          <path d="M4 8.5 A8 8 0 1 1 4 12" />
+          <path d="M4 8.5 L4 4 M4 8.5 L8.5 8.5" />
+        </>
+      ) : (
+        <>
+          <path d="M20 8.5 A8 8 0 1 0 20 12" />
+          <path d="M20 8.5 L20 4 M20 8.5 L15.5 8.5" />
+        </>
+      )}
+      <text
+        x="12"
+        y="14.5"
+        textAnchor="middle"
+        fontSize="8"
+        fontWeight={700}
+        fill="currentColor"
+        stroke="none"
+      >
+        10
+      </text>
+    </svg>
+  );
+}
+
 // --- settings-panel building blocks ------------------------------------------------------------
 export function PanelHead({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
   return (

frontend/src/components/usePlexActiveFilters.ts

@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ export function buildPlexActiveFilters(
       remove: () => patch({ studios: filters.studios.filter((x) => x !== s) }),
     });
   }
+  for (const p of filters.playable) {
+    out.push({
+      key: `playable:${p}`,
+      label: t(`plex.filter.playableOpt.${p}`),
+      remove: () => patch({ playable: filters.playable.filter((x) => x !== p) }),
+    });
+  }
   for (const k of filters.keywords) {
     out.push({
       key: `keyword:${k}`,

frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/config.json

@@ -166,7 +166,23 @@
     },
     "plex_max_transcodes": {
       "label": "Max concurrent transcodes",
-      "hint": "Cap on simultaneous CPU transcodes for incompatible files (a later fallback). Direct-playable files aren't limited."
+      "hint": "Cap on simultaneous transcode sessions for non-H.264 files. Direct-play and remux (stream-copy) files aren't limited."
+    },
+    "plex_transcode_hw": {
+      "label": "Hardware transcode",
+      "hint": "GPU (VAAPI) encoding policy: auto (GPU when available and the source is decodable, else software), on (force GPU), off (always software)."
+    },
+    "plex_transcode_preset": {
+      "label": "Software preset",
+      "hint": "libx264 preset for the software fallback (e.g. veryfast, faster, medium). Slower presets shrink the stream but cost more CPU. Ignored on the GPU path."
+    },
+    "plex_transcode_crf": {
+      "label": "Software quality (CRF)",
+      "hint": "libx264 CRF for the software fallback (0–51; lower = better quality, larger). 20 is a good default. Ignored on the GPU path."
+    },
+    "plex_transcode_max_height": {
+      "label": "Software max height",
+      "hint": "Cap the software transcode's output height in pixels (e.g. 1080; 0 = keep source) so a tall source stays affordable to re-encode. The GPU path keeps source resolution."
     }
   },
   "save": "Save",

frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/downloads.json

@@ -21,8 +21,21 @@
     "addUrl": "Paste a YouTube link or video id…",
     "add": "Add",
     "paste": "Paste link from clipboard",
+    "upload": "Upload",
     "manage": "Manage formats"
   },
+  "upload": {
+    "title": "Upload a file",
+    "hint": "Any file type. Video and audio can be played and edited; other files are download-only.",
+    "drop": "Drag a file here, or click to choose",
+    "dropActive": "Drop to upload",
+    "nameLabel": "Name (optional)",
+    "namePlaceholder": "Leave blank to use the file name",
+    "submit": "Upload",
+    "uploading": "Uploading… {{pct}}%",
+    "uploadProgress": "Upload progress",
+    "added": "File uploaded"
+  },
   "tabs": {
     "queue": "Queue",
     "done": "Library",
@@ -56,13 +69,18 @@
     "delete": "Remove",
     "retry": "Retry",
     "download": "Save to my device",
+    "play": "Play",
     "rename": "Rename",
     "editDetails": "Edit details",
-    "share": "Share",
+    "share": "Share (copy link)",
+    "shareManage": "Manage sharing",
     "edit": "Edit / trim",
     "redownload": "Re-download (rebuild file)",
     "removeShared": "Remove from my list"
   },
+  "player": {
+    "unsupported": "Your browser can't play this file."
+  },
   "empty": {
     "queue": "Nothing in the queue.",
     "done": "No downloads yet.",
@@ -104,6 +122,9 @@
     "noUsers": "No other users yet.",
     "linkSection": "Share a link",
     "linkHint": "Anyone with the link can watch — no account needed.",
+    "linkCopied": "Share link copied to clipboard",
+    "openNewTab": "Open in new tab",
+    "linkFailed": "Couldn’t create the share link",
     "noLinks": "No links yet.",
     "newLink": "Create a link",
     "createLink": "Create link",
@@ -151,10 +172,7 @@
     "modeA": "Audio only",
     "quality": "Max quality",
     "best": "Best",
-    "container": "Container",
     "audioFormat": "Audio format",
-    "vcodec": "Video codec",
-    "any": "Any",
     "embedSubs": "Embed subtitles",
     "embedChapters": "Embed chapters",
     "embedThumbnail": "Embed thumbnail",
@@ -207,6 +225,10 @@
       "source_not_ready": "The source download isn't ready to edit.",
       "generic": "That edit couldn't be created."
     },
+    "upload": {
+      "tooLarge": "That file is too large (max {{size}}).",
+      "empty": "That file is empty."
+    },
     "fail": {
       "title": "Download failed",
       "detailsLink": "details",

frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/plex.json

@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@
     "collectionEmpty": "No collections",
     "matchLabel": "Match",
     "studio": "Studio",
+    "playable": "Playback",
+    "playableOpt": {
+      "direct": "Direct Play",
+      "remux": "Direct Stream",
+      "transcode_hw": "Transcode · HW",
+      "transcode_sw": "Transcode · SW"
+    },
     "moreRefine": "{{count}} more — refine with search"
   },
   "count": "{{count}} titles",
@@ -155,11 +162,15 @@
   "player": {
     "loading": "Loading…",
     "buffering": "Buffering…",
+    "preparing": "Preparing stream…",
     "back": "Back",
+    "close": "Close",
     "skipIntro": "Skip intro",
     "skipCredits": "Skip credits",
     "playPause": "Play / pause (space)",
     "restart": "Restart from beginning",
+    "rewind10": "Back 10 seconds",
+    "forward10": "Forward 10 seconds",
     "prev": "Previous episode",
     "next": "Next episode",
     "mute": "Mute (m)",
@@ -187,7 +198,27 @@
       "help": "Show this help",
       "audio": "Cycle audio track",
       "subtitle": "Cycle subtitle",
-      "fineSeek": "Fine seek"
+      "fineSeek": "Fine seek",
+      "stats": "Stats for nerds"
+    },
+    "upNext": {
+      "title": "Up next",
+      "playNow": "Play now",
+      "cancel": "Cancel",
+      "pref": "Up-next card"
+    },
+    "stats": {
+      "title": "Stats for nerds",
+      "mode": "Mode",
+      "transport": "Transport",
+      "resolution": "Resolution",
+      "codec": "Codec",
+      "bitrate": "Bitrate",
+      "level": "HLS level",
+      "frames": "Dropped frames",
+      "buffer": "Buffer ahead",
+      "offset": "Session offset",
+      "position": "Position"
     },
     "settings": "Settings",
     "sync": "Offsets",
@@ -261,8 +292,9 @@
   },
   "playable": {
     "direct": "Plays directly in the browser",
-    "remux": "Needs a light remux (no video re-encode)",
-    "transcode": "Needs transcoding (heavier)"
+    "remux": "Direct Stream — a light remux (no video re-encode)",
+    "transcode_hw": "Transcoded on the hardware encoder",
+    "transcode_sw": "Transcoded in software (heaviest)"
   },
   "playlistAdd": {
     "manage": "Add to playlist",

frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/config.json

@@ -166,7 +166,23 @@
     },
     "plex_max_transcodes": {
       "label": "Max párhuzamos transcode",
-      "hint": "A nem kompatibilis fájlok egyidejű CPU-transcode-jainak felső korlátja (későbbi tartalék). A direktben játszható fájlokra nincs korlát."
+      "hint": "A nem-H.264 fájlok egyidejű transcode-munkameneteinek felső korlátja. A direktben játszható és a remux (stream-copy) fájlokra nincs korlát."
+    },
+    "plex_transcode_hw": {
+      "label": "Hardveres transcode",
+      "hint": "GPU (VAAPI) kódolási házirend: auto (GPU, ha elérhető és a forrás dekódolható, különben szoftver), on (GPU kényszerítése), off (mindig szoftver)."
+    },
+    "plex_transcode_preset": {
+      "label": "Szoftveres preset",
+      "hint": "libx264 preset a szoftveres tartalékhoz (pl. veryfast, faster, medium). A lassabb preset kisebb streamet ad, de több CPU-t eszik. A GPU-úton figyelmen kívül marad."
+    },
+    "plex_transcode_crf": {
+      "label": "Szoftveres minőség (CRF)",
+      "hint": "libx264 CRF a szoftveres tartalékhoz (0–51; alacsonyabb = jobb minőség, nagyobb méret). A 20 jó alapérték. A GPU-úton figyelmen kívül marad."
+    },
+    "plex_transcode_max_height": {
+      "label": "Szoftveres max. magasság",
+      "hint": "A szoftveres transcode kimeneti magasságának korlátja képpontban (pl. 1080; 0 = forrás megtartása), hogy egy magas forrás újrakódolása megfizethető maradjon. A GPU-út a forrásfelbontást tartja."
     }
   },
   "save": "Mentés",

frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/downloads.json

@@ -21,8 +21,21 @@
     "addUrl": "Illessz be egy YouTube linket vagy videó azonosítót…",
     "add": "Hozzáad",
     "paste": "Link beillesztése a vágólapról",
+    "upload": "Feltöltés",
     "manage": "Formátumok kezelése"
   },
+  "upload": {
+    "title": "Fájl feltöltése",
+    "hint": "Bármilyen fájltípus. A videó és a hang lejátszható és szerkeszthető; a többi fájl csak letölthető.",
+    "drop": "Húzz ide egy fájlt, vagy kattints a kiválasztáshoz",
+    "dropActive": "Engedd el a feltöltéshez",
+    "nameLabel": "Név (opcionális)",
+    "namePlaceholder": "Hagyd üresen a fájlnév használatához",
+    "submit": "Feltöltés",
+    "uploading": "Feltöltés… {{pct}}%",
+    "uploadProgress": "Feltöltés folyamata",
+    "added": "Fájl feltöltve"
+  },
   "tabs": {
     "queue": "Sor",
     "done": "Könyvtár",
@@ -56,13 +69,18 @@
     "delete": "Eltávolítás",
     "retry": "Újra",
     "download": "Mentés a gépemre",
+    "play": "Lejátszás",
     "rename": "Átnevezés",
     "editDetails": "Adatok szerkesztése",
-    "share": "Megosztás",
+    "share": "Megosztás (link másolása)",
+    "shareManage": "Megosztás kezelése",
     "edit": "Szerkesztés / vágás",
     "redownload": "Újraletöltés (fájl újraépítése)",
     "removeShared": "Eltávolítás a listámból"
   },
+  "player": {
+    "unsupported": "A böngésződ nem tudja lejátszani ezt a fájlt."
+  },
   "empty": {
     "queue": "A sor üres.",
     "done": "Még nincs letöltés.",
@@ -104,6 +122,9 @@
     "noUsers": "Nincs más felhasználó.",
     "linkSection": "Megosztás linkkel",
     "linkHint": "A link birtokában bárki megnézheti — fiók nélkül is.",
+    "linkCopied": "Megosztási link a vágólapra másolva",
+    "openNewTab": "Megnyitás új lapon",
+    "linkFailed": "Nem sikerült a megosztási link létrehozása",
     "noLinks": "Még nincs link.",
     "newLink": "Link létrehozása",
     "createLink": "Létrehozás",
@@ -151,10 +172,7 @@
     "modeA": "Csak hang",
     "quality": "Max. minőség",
     "best": "Legjobb",
-    "container": "Konténer",
     "audioFormat": "Hangformátum",
-    "vcodec": "Videó codec",
-    "any": "Bármelyik",
     "embedSubs": "Feliratok beágyazása",
     "embedChapters": "Fejezetek beágyazása",
     "embedThumbnail": "Bélyegkép beágyazása",
@@ -207,6 +225,10 @@
       "source_not_ready": "A forrásletöltés még nem szerkeszthető.",
       "generic": "Ezt a vágást nem sikerült létrehozni."
     },
+    "upload": {
+      "tooLarge": "Ez a fájl túl nagy (legfeljebb {{size}}).",
+      "empty": "Ez a fájl üres."
+    },
     "fail": {
       "title": "A letöltés nem sikerült",
       "detailsLink": "részletek",

frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/plex.json

@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@
     "collectionEmpty": "Nincs kollekció",
     "matchLabel": "Egyezés",
     "studio": "Stúdió",
+    "playable": "Lejátszás",
+    "playableOpt": {
+      "direct": "Közvetlen lejátszás",
+      "remux": "Közvetlen streamelés",
+      "transcode_hw": "Átkódolás · HW",
+      "transcode_sw": "Átkódolás · SW"
+    },
     "moreRefine": "még {{count}} — finomíts kereséssel"
   },
   "count": "{{count}} cím",
@@ -155,11 +162,15 @@
   "player": {
     "loading": "Betöltés…",
     "buffering": "Pufferelés…",
+    "preparing": "Stream előkészítése…",
     "back": "Vissza",
+    "close": "Bezárás",
     "skipIntro": "Intro átugrása",
     "skipCredits": "Stáblista átugrása",
     "playPause": "Lejátszás / szünet (szóköz)",
     "restart": "Újra az elejéről",
+    "rewind10": "10 másodperc vissza",
+    "forward10": "10 másodperc előre",
     "prev": "Előző rész",
     "next": "Következő rész",
     "mute": "Némítás (m)",
@@ -187,7 +198,27 @@
       "help": "Súgó megjelenítése",
       "audio": "Hangsáv váltása",
       "subtitle": "Felirat váltása",
-      "fineSeek": "Finom léptetés"
+      "fineSeek": "Finom léptetés",
+      "stats": "Statisztika (nerdöknek)"
+    },
+    "upNext": {
+      "title": "Következik",
+      "playNow": "Lejátszás most",
+      "cancel": "Mégse",
+      "pref": "Következik-kártya"
+    },
+    "stats": {
+      "title": "Statisztika (nerdöknek)",
+      "mode": "Mód",
+      "transport": "Átvitel",
+      "resolution": "Felbontás",
+      "codec": "Kodek",
+      "bitrate": "Bitráta",
+      "level": "HLS szint",
+      "frames": "Eldobott képkockák",
+      "buffer": "Puffer előre",
+      "offset": "Munkamenet-eltolás",
+      "position": "Pozíció"
     },
     "settings": "Beállítások",
     "sync": "Eltolások",
@@ -261,8 +292,9 @@
   },
   "playable": {
     "direct": "Közvetlenül játszható a böngészőben",
-    "remux": "Könnyű remux kell (nincs videó-újrakódolás)",
-    "transcode": "Transcode kell (nehezebb)"
+    "remux": "Közvetlen streamelés — könnyű remux (nincs videó-újrakódolás)",
+    "transcode_hw": "Hardveres kódolóval átkódolva",
+    "transcode_sw": "Szoftveresen átkódolva (legnehezebb)"
   },
   "playlistAdd": {
     "manage": "Listához adás",

frontend/src/lib/api/core.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// uploadReq is the XHR upload path (progress/abort/error/401/4xx-localize) that `fetch`/`req` can't
+// cover. UploadDialog's DOM test mocks api.uploadDownload wholesale, so without this the abort, 401,
+// and structured-detail-localize branches ship untested. A controllable fake XMLHttpRequest drives
+// each lifecycle branch.
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, vi } from "vitest";
+
+const { reportError, notify, remove } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  reportError: vi.fn(),
+  notify: vi.fn(() => 1),
+  remove: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+vi.mock("../errorDialog", () => ({ reportError }));
+vi.mock("../notifications", () => ({ notify, remove }));
+vi.mock("../../i18n", () => ({ default: { t: (k: string) => k, language: "en" } }));
+vi.mock("../activeAccount", () => ({
+  activeAccountId: () => null,
+  ACTIVE_ACCOUNT_KEY: "k",
+  notifyActiveAccountChange: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+import { uploadReq, setUnauthorizedHandler, HttpError } from "./core";
+
+// A fake XHR whose lifecycle the test drives: capture the instance, set status/responseText, then
+// invoke onload/onerror/abort by hand.
+class FakeXHR {
+  static last: FakeXHR;
+  status = 0;
+  responseText = "";
+  withCredentials = false;
+  headers: Record<string, string> = {};
+  upload: { onprogress: ((e: ProgressEvent) => void) | null } = { onprogress: null };
+  onload: (() => void) | null = null;
+  onerror: (() => void) | null = null;
+  onabort: (() => void) | null = null;
+  sent = false;
+  constructor() {
+    FakeXHR.last = this;
+  }
+  open() {}
+  setRequestHeader(k: string, v: string) {
+    this.headers[k] = v;
+  }
+  send() {
+    this.sent = true;
+  }
+  abort() {
+    this.onabort?.();
+  }
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  reportError.mockReset();
+  notify.mockReset();
+  setUnauthorizedHandler(null);
+  vi.stubGlobal("XMLHttpRequest", FakeXHR as unknown as typeof XMLHttpRequest);
+});
+
+const form = () => new FormData();
+
+describe("uploadReq", () => {
+  it("resolves with the parsed JSON on a 2xx", async () => {
+    const p = uploadReq<{ id: number }>("/u", form());
+    const x = FakeXHR.last;
+    x.status = 200;
+    x.responseText = '{"id":7}';
+    x.onload!();
+    await expect(p).resolves.toEqual({ id: 7 });
+  });
+
+  it("rejects immediately if the signal is already aborted (never sends)", async () => {
+    const ac = new AbortController();
+    ac.abort();
+    const p = uploadReq("/u", form(), { signal: ac.signal });
+    await expect(p).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(HttpError);
+    expect(FakeXHR.last?.sent).not.toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("aborts the XHR and rejects when the signal fires", async () => {
+    const ac = new AbortController();
+    const p = uploadReq("/u", form(), { signal: ac.signal });
+    ac.abort(); // → our abort listener calls xhr.abort() → onabort → reject
+    await expect(p).rejects.toMatchObject({ status: 0 });
+  });
+
+  it("calls the unauthorized handler on 401", async () => {
+    const onUnauth = vi.fn();
+    setUnauthorizedHandler(onUnauth);
+    const p = uploadReq("/u", form());
+    const x = FakeXHR.last;
+    x.status = 401;
+    x.onload!();
+    await expect(p).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(HttpError);
+    expect(onUnauth).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+    expect(reportError).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("localizes a structured 422 upload_too_large and surfaces the error", async () => {
+    const p = uploadReq("/u", form());
+    const x = FakeXHR.last;
+    x.status = 422;
+    x.responseText = '{"detail":{"code":"upload_too_large","limit":5}}';
+    x.onload!();
+    await expect(p).rejects.toMatchObject({ status: 422 });
+    // localizeDetail routes upload_too_large → the tooLarge key (t is passthrough in the mock).
+    expect(reportError).toHaveBeenCalledWith("downloads.errors.upload.tooLarge");
+  });
+
+  it("reports a connectivity failure on a network error", async () => {
+    const p = uploadReq("/u", form());
+    FakeXHR.last.onerror!();
+    await expect(p).rejects.toMatchObject({ status: 0 });
+    // The soft self-clearing "connection lost" toast (via notify), not a blocking modal.
+    expect(notify).toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(reportError).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/lib/api/core.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // so the runtime graph is a clean barrel → domain → core with no cycles.
 import { notify, remove } from "../notifications";
 import i18n from "../../i18n";
+import { formatBytes } from "../format";
 import { reportError } from "../errorDialog";
 import { activeAccountId, ACTIVE_ACCOUNT_KEY, notifyActiveAccountChange } from "../activeAccount";
 
@@ -45,6 +46,10 @@ function localizeDetail(d: unknown): string {
     return t(`downloads.errors.edit.${o.reason}`, t("downloads.errors.edit.generic"));
   if (o?.code === "cookies")
     return t(`downloads.errors.cookies.${o.reason}`, t("downloads.errors.cookies.generic"));
+  // Local-upload ingest (E7 S5): the per-file cap carries the limit in bytes; empty is a bare code.
+  if (o?.code === "upload_too_large")
+    return t("downloads.errors.upload.tooLarge", { size: formatBytes(o.limit) });
+  if (o?.code === "upload_empty") return t("downloads.errors.upload.empty");
   return t("errors.generic");
 }
 
@@ -235,3 +240,67 @@ export async function req<T = unknown>(
     return (r.status === 204 ? null : await r.json()) as T;
   }
 }
+
+// Multipart upload with progress. `req` rides `fetch`, which can't report upload progress, so a
+// file upload uses XHR instead: the caller gets a 0–100% callback as the body streams and an
+// optional AbortSignal to cancel a large upload. Everything else mirrors `req` — the per-tab
+// account header, credentials, the structured-detail localization, the global error modal for
+// 4xx/5xx, and an `HttpError` throw — so callers handle failures exactly as they do a `req` call.
+// The browser sets the multipart Content-Type (with its boundary), so we deliberately don't.
+export function uploadReq<T = unknown>(
+  url: string,
+  form: FormData,
+  cfg: { onProgress?: (pct: number) => void; signal?: AbortSignal } = {},
+): Promise<T> {
+  return new Promise<T>((resolve, reject) => {
+    const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
+    xhr.open("POST", url);
+    xhr.withCredentials = true;
+    const active = getActiveAccount();
+    if (active != null) xhr.setRequestHeader(ACTIVE_ACCOUNT_HEADER, String(active));
+    if (cfg.onProgress) {
+      xhr.upload.onprogress = (e) => {
+        if (e.lengthComputable) cfg.onProgress?.(Math.round((e.loaded / e.total) * 100));
+      };
+    }
+    if (cfg.signal) {
+      if (cfg.signal.aborted) return reject(new HttpError(0, "aborted"));
+      cfg.signal.addEventListener("abort", () => xhr.abort());
+    }
+    xhr.onload = () => {
+      markConnectivityRestored();
+      if (xhr.status >= 200 && xhr.status < 300) {
+        try {
+          resolve((xhr.responseText ? JSON.parse(xhr.responseText) : null) as T);
+        } catch {
+          resolve(null as T);
+        }
+        return;
+      }
+      let detail: string | undefined;
+      let detailData: unknown;
+      try {
+        const body = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
+        if (body && typeof body.detail === "string") detail = body.detail;
+        else if (body && body.detail && typeof body.detail === "object") {
+          detailData = body.detail;
+          detail = localizeDetail(body.detail);
+        }
+      } catch {
+        /* no JSON body */
+      }
+      if (xhr.status === 401) onUnauthorized?.();
+      else if (xhr.status >= 500)
+        reportError(detail || `${i18n.t("errors.server")} (${xhr.status})`);
+      else if (xhr.status === 400 || xhr.status === 409 || xhr.status === 422) reportError(detail);
+      reject(new HttpError(xhr.status, detail, detailData));
+    };
+    // A network-level failure (server unreachable) — same soft "connection lost" status as `req`.
+    xhr.onerror = () => {
+      markConnectivityLost();
+      reject(new HttpError(0, i18n.t("errors.offline.body")));
+    };
+    xhr.onabort = () => reject(new HttpError(0, "aborted"));
+    xhr.send(form);
+  });
+}

frontend/src/lib/api/downloads.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Download-center domain: the yt-dlp job lifecycle, per-user profiles, share links/recipients, the
 // phase-2 editor, storyboards, and the admin storage/quota views. Self-contained — its types only
 // reference each other, and its methods only touch the shared `req`/`getActiveAccount` from core.
-import { req, getActiveAccount } from "./core";
+import { req, uploadReq, getActiveAccount } from "./core";
 
 export interface DownloadSpec {
   mode: "av" | "v" | "a"; // audio+video | video-only | audio-only
@@ -35,14 +35,19 @@ interface DownloadAsset {
   width: number | null;
   height: number | null;
   container: string | null;
+  // "video" | "audio" | "file" — the stored discriminator that gates library row actions: media
+  // (video/audio) gets play/edit; a generic uploaded file is download+share only, no player. Null
+  // while still in flight (set at finalize). See backend downloads/mediakind.py.
+  media_kind: "video" | "audio" | "file" | null;
   thumbnail_url: string | null;
   expires_at: string | null;
 }
 
 export type DownloadStatus = "queued" | "running" | "paused" | "done" | "error" | "canceled";
-// "download" (default) or "edit" (a per-user trim/crop derivative cut from another job).
+// "download" (default), "edit" (a per-user trim/crop derivative cut from another job), or "upload"
+// (a locally-uploaded file — no re-fetchable source, so re-download is rejected backend-side).
 // Local (not exported): consumers compare `job.job_kind` against literals, never name the type.
-type DownloadJobKind = "download" | "edit";
+type DownloadJobKind = "download" | "edit" | "upload";
 
 // Phase-2 editor recipe. A single `trim` (one output file) or a `segments` cut-list joined into
 // one file. `accurate` re-encodes for a frame-accurate cut (a crop always re-encodes).
@@ -178,6 +183,21 @@ export const downloadsApi = {
     spec?: DownloadSpec;
     display_name?: string;
   }): Promise<DownloadJob> => req("/api/downloads", { method: "POST", body: JSON.stringify(body) }),
+  // Ingest a local file into the library (E7 S5). Multipart via XHR so the dialog can show upload
+  // progress; any file type is accepted (media gets the full function set, a generic file is
+  // download-only). Returns the already-`done` job the ingest creates.
+  uploadDownload: (
+    file: File,
+    opts: { displayName?: string; onProgress?: (pct: number) => void; signal?: AbortSignal } = {},
+  ): Promise<DownloadJob> => {
+    const form = new FormData();
+    form.append("file", file);
+    if (opts.displayName) form.append("display_name", opts.displayName);
+    return uploadReq<DownloadJob>("/api/downloads/upload", form, {
+      onProgress: opts.onProgress,
+      signal: opts.signal,
+    });
+  },
   enqueueEdit: (body: {
     source_job_id: number;
     edit_spec: EditSpec;

frontend/src/lib/api/plex.dom.test.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
 import {
   coercePlexFilters,
   plexFiltersSignature,
+  plexFiltersToParams,
+  parsePlexFilters,
+  plexFilterCount,
   EMPTY_PLEX_FILTERS,
   type PlexFilters,
 } from "./plex";
@@ -54,12 +57,14 @@ describe("plexFiltersSignature", () => {
       directors: [],
       actors: [],
       studios: [],
+      playable: [],
       keywords: [],
       collections: ["A"],
     };
     const b: PlexFilters = {
       collections: ["A"],
       keywords: [],
+      playable: [],
       studios: [],
       actors: [],
       directors: [],
@@ -81,4 +86,28 @@ describe("plexFiltersSignature", () => {
     const b: PlexFilters = { ...base(), genres: ["Comedy"] };
     expect(plexFiltersSignature(a)).not.toBe(plexFiltersSignature(b));
   });
+
+  it("differs when the playback-class filter differs", () => {
+    const a = base();
+    const b: PlexFilters = { ...base(), playable: ["direct", "transcode_hw"] };
+    expect(plexFiltersSignature(a)).not.toBe(plexFiltersSignature(b));
+  });
+});
+
+describe("playable filter round-trip + count", () => {
+  it("serializes playable as a CSV param and parses it back", () => {
+    const f: PlexFilters = { ...EMPTY_PLEX_FILTERS, playable: ["direct", "transcode_sw"] };
+    const params = plexFiltersToParams(f);
+    expect(params.get("playable")).toBe("direct,transcode_sw");
+    expect(parsePlexFilters(params).playable).toEqual(["direct", "transcode_sw"]);
+  });
+
+  it("omits the playable param when empty", () => {
+    expect(plexFiltersToParams(EMPTY_PLEX_FILTERS).has("playable")).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("counts each selected playback class like studios", () => {
+    const f: PlexFilters = { ...EMPTY_PLEX_FILTERS, playable: ["remux", "transcode_hw"] };
+    expect(plexFilterCount(f)).toBe(2);
+  });
 });

frontend/src/lib/api/plex.ts

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ export interface PlexCard {
   art?: string | null; // wide backdrop (movies/shows) for rails + crossfading hero; null when no art_key
   rating?: number | null; // Plex audience score (~IMDb), shown on the card hover-overview
   playable?: string; // direct | remux | transcode
+  transcode_hw?: boolean | null; // transcode items only: true = HW-capable, false = SW-only, null = n/a
   status?: string; // new | watched | hidden
   position_seconds?: number;
   season_count?: number | null; // show
@@ -139,6 +140,9 @@ export interface PlexItemDetail {
   year?: number | null;
   duration_seconds: number | null;
   playable: string; // direct | remux | transcode
+  transcode_hw?: boolean | null; // transcode items only: true = HW-capable, false = SW-only, null = n/a
+  codec_video?: string | null; // e.g. "hevc" / "h264" (info-chip subtitle)
+  video_bit_depth?: number | null; // e.g. 8 / 10 (info-chip subtitle)
   thumb: string;
   art: string;
   library?: string | null; // Plex section key (for the admin collection editor)
@@ -253,6 +257,7 @@ export interface PlexFilters {
   actors: string[]; // OR (any) by default, or AND (all) via actorMode
   actorMode?: "any" | "all"; // how multiple actors combine (default any = OR)
   studios: string[]; // OR — from any selected studio
+  playable: string[]; // OR — playback class (direct | remux | transcode_hw | transcode_sw); movie-only
   keywords: string[]; // AND — TMDB keyword chips from the detail page (E5 S5)
   collections: string[]; // Plex collection rating_keys; a title can be in several
   collectionMode?: "any" | "all"; // how multiple collections combine (default any = OR)
@@ -264,6 +269,7 @@ export const EMPTY_PLEX_FILTERS: PlexFilters = {
   directors: [],
   actors: [],
   studios: [],
+  playable: [],
   keywords: [],
   collections: [],
 };
@@ -309,6 +315,7 @@ export function plexFilterCount(f: PlexFilters): number {
     f.directors.length +
     f.actors.length +
     f.studios.length +
+    f.playable.length +
     f.keywords.length +
     f.collections.length
   );
@@ -330,6 +337,7 @@ function appendPlexFilters(u: URLSearchParams, f: PlexFilters): void {
   if (f.actors?.length) u.set("actors", f.actors.join(","));
   if (f.actorMode === "all") u.set("actor_mode", "all");
   if (f.studios?.length) u.set("studios", f.studios.join(","));
+  if (f.playable?.length) u.set("playable", f.playable.join(","));
   if (f.keywords?.length) u.set("keywords", f.keywords.join(","));
   if (f.collections?.length) u.set("collections", f.collections.join(","));
   if (f.collectionMode === "all") u.set("collection_mode", "all");
@@ -371,6 +379,7 @@ export function parsePlexFilters(p: URLSearchParams): PlexFilters {
   f.actors = csv("actors");
   if (p.get("actor_mode") === "all") f.actorMode = "all";
   f.studios = csv("studios");
+  f.playable = csv("playable");
   f.keywords = csv("keywords");
   f.collections = csv("collections");
   if (p.get("collection_mode") === "all") f.collectionMode = "all";
@@ -380,6 +389,8 @@ export interface PlexFacets {
   genres: { value: string; count: number }[];
   content_ratings: { value: string; count: number }[];
   studios: { value: string; count: number }[]; // studio vocabulary for the sidebar picker (E5 S7)
+  // Playback-class facet (movie-only): value ∈ direct|remux|transcode_hw|transcode_sw. Empty on shows.
+  playable: { value: string; count: number }[];
   year_min: number | null;
   year_max: number | null;
   rating_max: number | null;
@@ -390,6 +401,9 @@ export interface PlexPlaySession {
   mode: "direct" | "hls";
   url: string;
   start_s: number;
+  transcode?: boolean; // hls only: video re-encoded (non-h264 source) vs stream-copied (remux)
+  hw?: boolean; // hls transcode only: ran on the VAAPI hardware encoder (else libx264 software)
+  tonemap?: boolean; // hls HW transcode only: 10-bit/HDR source tone-mapped HDR→SDR on the GPU (OpenCL)
 }
 
 // Discover surface (E5 S4): the consolidated rail payload. Every rail is a plain PlexCard list the

frontend/src/lib/cropGeometry.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { contentRect, cropToSourcePx } from "./cropGeometry";
+
+describe("contentRect (display-px letterbox mapping)", () => {
+  it("returns the full box when box aspect matches the video aspect", () => {
+    // 16:9 picture in a 16:9 box → no bars, content == box
+    expect(contentRect(1600, 900, 16 / 9)).toEqual({
+      left: 0,
+      top: 0,
+      width: 1600,
+      height: 900,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("pillarboxes (bars left/right) when the box is wider than the picture", () => {
+    // 16:9 picture in a 2:1 box → full height, narrower centered width
+    const r = contentRect(2000, 1000, 16 / 9)!;
+    expect(r.height).toBe(1000);
+    expect(r.width).toBeCloseTo(1000 * (16 / 9), 3);
+    expect(r.top).toBe(0);
+    expect(r.left).toBeCloseTo((2000 - 1000 * (16 / 9)) / 2, 3);
+  });
+
+  it("letterboxes (bars top/bottom) when the box is taller than the picture", () => {
+    // 16:9 picture in a 1:1 box → full width, shorter centered height
+    const r = contentRect(1000, 1000, 16 / 9)!;
+    expect(r.width).toBe(1000);
+    expect(r.height).toBeCloseTo(1000 / (16 / 9), 3);
+    expect(r.left).toBe(0);
+    expect(r.top).toBeCloseTo((1000 - 1000 / (16 / 9)) / 2, 3);
+  });
+
+  it("returns null for unmeasurable inputs", () => {
+    expect(contentRect(0, 900, 16 / 9)).toBeNull();
+    expect(contentRect(1600, 0, 16 / 9)).toBeNull();
+    expect(contentRect(1600, 900, 0)).toBeNull();
+    expect(contentRect(1600, 900, NaN)).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe("cropToSourcePx (fraction-of-content → even source px)", () => {
+  it("scales content fractions straight to source pixels", () => {
+    // A marquee anchored to the content rect: a fraction is a fraction of the real picture.
+    expect(cropToSourcePx({ x: 0.25, y: 0.25, w: 0.5, h: 0.5 }, 1920, 1080)).toEqual({
+      x: 480,
+      y: 270,
+      w: 960,
+      h: 540,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("rounds to even dimensions", () => {
+    // 0.1 * 1920 = 192 (even); 0.333 * 1080 = 359.64 → 360
+    const c = cropToSourcePx({ x: 0.1, y: 0.333, w: 0.2, h: 0.111 }, 1920, 1080)!;
+    expect(c.w % 2).toBe(0);
+    expect(c.h % 2).toBe(0);
+    expect(c.x % 2).toBe(0);
+    expect(c.y % 2).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("allows a top-left origin (x/y may be 0)", () => {
+    const c = cropToSourcePx({ x: 0, y: 0, w: 0.5, h: 0.5 }, 1920, 1080)!;
+    expect(c.x).toBe(0);
+    expect(c.y).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it("clamps the window inside the frame so even-rounding can't overflow", () => {
+    // A full-frame crop must stay exactly at the source size, not round past it.
+    const c = cropToSourcePx({ x: 0, y: 0, w: 1, h: 1 }, 1921, 1081)!;
+    expect(c.w).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1921);
+    expect(c.h).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1081);
+    expect(c.x + c.w).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1921);
+    expect(c.y + c.h).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1081);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps x+w within the frame for an off-square region near the right edge", () => {
+    const srcW = 1280;
+    const srcH = 720;
+    const c = cropToSourcePx({ x: 0.7, y: 0.1, w: 0.3, h: 0.8 }, srcW, srcH)!;
+    expect(c.x + c.w).toBeLessThanOrEqual(srcW);
+    expect(c.y + c.h).toBeLessThanOrEqual(srcH);
+  });
+
+  it("returns null for an unusable source size", () => {
+    expect(cropToSourcePx({ x: 0, y: 0, w: 1, h: 1 }, 0, 1080)).toBeNull();
+    expect(cropToSourcePx({ x: 0, y: 0, w: 1, h: 1 }, 1920, 0)).toBeNull();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/lib/cropGeometry.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+// Crop geometry for the video editor — the display-px ↔ source-px mapping, isolated as pure
+// functions so the math is unit-testable without a DOM.
+//
+// The bug this fixes (E7 S1→S2): the crop marquee is drawn in fractions of the *video element box*,
+// but a letterboxed video (object-fit: contain) does NOT fill that box — pillar/letterbox bars sit
+// between the box edge and the actual picture. Multiplying box-fractions by the source resolution
+// therefore emitted an ffmpeg crop shifted/scaled off from what the selector showed. The fix is to
+// anchor the overlay to the *content* rect (below), so a fraction of the overlay is a fraction of
+// the real picture, and cropToSourcePx() is then a straight fraction→pixel scale.
+
+export type Frac = { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number };
+type Rect = { left: number; top: number; width: number; height: number };
+type CropPx = { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number };
+
+/**
+ * The rendered video-content rectangle inside an element box of `boxW × boxH`, given the video's
+ * intrinsic aspect ratio, when the video is laid out `object-fit: contain` (letterboxed). Returns
+ * null while any input is unmeasurable (0/NaN), so callers can skip drawing until the video sizes.
+ */
+export function contentRect(boxW: number, boxH: number, videoAspect: number): Rect | null {
+  if (!(boxW > 0) || !(boxH > 0) || !(videoAspect > 0)) return null;
+  const boxAspect = boxW / boxH;
+  if (boxAspect > videoAspect) {
+    // box wider than the picture → pillarbox (bars left/right), full height
+    const width = boxH * videoAspect;
+    return { left: (boxW - width) / 2, top: 0, width, height: boxH };
+  }
+  // box taller than the picture → letterbox (bars top/bottom), full width
+  const height = boxW / videoAspect;
+  return { left: 0, top: (boxH - height) / 2, width: boxW, height };
+}
+
+/**
+ * A crop expressed as fractions of the video *content* → integer, even source-pixel crop args
+ * (ffmpeg `crop=w:h:x:y`). Even dimensions keep chroma-subsampled encoders happy; the window is
+ * clamped inside the frame so even-rounding can never push `x+w`/`y+h` past the source resolution
+ * (which ffmpeg rejects as "crop area out of bounds"). Returns null for an unusable source size.
+ */
+export function cropToSourcePx(crop: Frac, srcW: number, srcH: number): CropPx | null {
+  if (!(srcW > 0) || !(srcH > 0)) return null;
+  const evenDim = (n: number) => Math.max(2, Math.round(n / 2) * 2); // w/h ≥ 2
+  const evenOff = (n: number) => Math.max(0, Math.round(n / 2) * 2); // x/y ≥ 0 (top-left is valid)
+  const w = Math.min(evenDim(crop.w * srcW), srcW);
+  const h = Math.min(evenDim(crop.h * srcH), srcH);
+  const x = Math.min(evenOff(crop.x * srcW), srcW - w);
+  const y = Math.min(evenOff(crop.y * srcH), srcH - h);
+  return { x, y, w, h };
+}

frontend/src/lib/downloadActions.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+// E7·S5b — the Library/Shared row-action gate. A generic uploaded file (media_kind='file') is
+// download+share only (no Play/Edit/Details); an edit clip and an upload can't be re-downloaded.
+// These pin the gate so a regression that shows Play/Edit on a file, or re-download on an upload,
+// is caught (the affordance itself, not just the backend guard behind it).
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { libraryRowActions, sharedRowActions } from "./downloadActions";
+import type { DownloadJob } from "./api";
+
+const job = (
+  over: Partial<DownloadJob>,
+  asset: Partial<NonNullable<DownloadJob["asset"]>> | null,
+) =>
+  ({
+    id: 1,
+    status: "done",
+    job_kind: "download",
+    can_download: true,
+    asset: asset && {
+      id: 1,
+      status: "ready",
+      title: "x",
+      duration_s: 90,
+      media_kind: "video",
+      container: "mp4",
+      ...asset,
+    },
+    ...over,
+  }) as unknown as DownloadJob;
+
+describe("libraryRowActions", () => {
+  it("a media (video) item gets play, edit, details, redownload", () => {
+    expect(libraryRowActions(job({}, {}))).toEqual({
+      play: true,
+      edit: true,
+      editDetails: true,
+      redownload: true,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("a generic file gets NO play/edit/details (download+share only)", () => {
+    const a = libraryRowActions(job({}, { media_kind: "file", duration_s: null }));
+    expect(a.play).toBe(false);
+    expect(a.edit).toBe(false);
+    expect(a.editDetails).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("an upload cannot be re-downloaded (no re-fetchable source)", () => {
+    expect(libraryRowActions(job({ job_kind: "upload" }, { media_kind: "file" })).redownload).toBe(
+      false,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("an edit clip cannot be re-downloaded", () => {
+    expect(libraryRowActions(job({ job_kind: "edit" }, {})).redownload).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("edit is hidden when the media has no duration", () => {
+    expect(libraryRowActions(job({}, { duration_s: 0 })).edit).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("sharedRowActions", () => {
+  it("a downloadable media item gets play, save, edit", () => {
+    expect(sharedRowActions(job({}, {}))).toEqual({ play: true, save: true, edit: true });
+  });
+
+  it("nothing is offered when the owner disabled download", () => {
+    expect(sharedRowActions(job({ can_download: false }, {}))).toEqual({
+      play: false,
+      save: false,
+      edit: false,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("a shared generic file gets only save (no player/trim)", () => {
+    const a = sharedRowActions(job({}, { media_kind: "file", duration_s: null }));
+    expect(a).toEqual({ play: false, save: true, edit: false });
+  });
+});

frontend/src/lib/downloadActions.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import type { DownloadJob } from "./api";
+
+// Which row actions apply to a completed library / shared item — gated on the stored media_kind and
+// job_kind (E7·S5b). A generic uploaded file (media_kind='file') is download + share only: no player,
+// no trim, no details edit. Re-download needs a re-fetchable source, which an edit clip and an upload
+// both lack (the backend 409s both). A single source for the gate the Library + Shared rows render,
+// so it's unit-testable instead of buried in JSX conditionals — and the two tabs can't drift apart.
+
+const isMediaKind = (job: DownloadJob): boolean => job.asset?.media_kind !== "file";
+const hasDuration = (job: DownloadJob): boolean => (job.asset?.duration_s ?? 0) > 0;
+
+export interface LibraryRowActions {
+  play: boolean;
+  edit: boolean;
+  editDetails: boolean;
+  redownload: boolean;
+}
+
+export function libraryRowActions(job: DownloadJob): LibraryRowActions {
+  const media = isMediaKind(job);
+  return {
+    play: media,
+    edit: media && job.can_download && hasDuration(job),
+    editDetails: media,
+    redownload: job.job_kind !== "edit" && job.job_kind !== "upload",
+  };
+}
+
+export interface SharedRowActions {
+  play: boolean;
+  save: boolean;
+  edit: boolean;
+}
+
+export function sharedRowActions(job: DownloadJob): SharedRowActions {
+  const media = isMediaKind(job);
+  // The owner's `can_download` gates save/play/edit on a shared item (it reflects their link ACL).
+  return {
+    play: media && job.can_download,
+    save: job.can_download,
+    edit: media && job.can_download && hasDuration(job),
+  };
+}

frontend/src/lib/downloads.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// One-click share (E7 S3 · D2-A): quickShareLink turns the row's Share button into a single action —
+// ensure a public link (mint on demand, downloadable per D1), copy it, and toast with an "open in new
+// tab" action. These pin the branch matrix: reuse-vs-mint, copy-ok-vs-fail, and the create-failure path.
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, vi } from "vitest";
+import { QueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+
+// vi.mock is hoisted above these consts, so the mock fns must live in a hoisted block too.
+const { downloadLinks, createDownloadLink, copyText, notify } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  downloadLinks: vi.fn(),
+  createDownloadLink: vi.fn(),
+  copyText: vi.fn(),
+  notify: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+vi.mock("./api", () => ({ api: { downloadLinks, createDownloadLink } }));
+vi.mock("./clipboard", () => ({ copyText }));
+vi.mock("./notifications", () => ({ notify }));
+
+import { quickShareLink } from "./downloads";
+
+const t = (k: string) => k;
+const origin = window.location.origin;
+
+type ToastArg = {
+  level: string;
+  message: string;
+  action?: { label: string; onClick: () => void };
+};
+const firstToast = () => notify.mock.calls[0]![0] as ToastArg;
+
+function qc() {
+  return new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  downloadLinks.mockReset();
+  createDownloadLink.mockReset();
+  copyText.mockReset().mockResolvedValue(true);
+  notify.mockReset();
+});
+
+describe("quickShareLink", () => {
+  it("mints a downloadable link on demand, copies it, and toasts with an open-in-new-tab action", async () => {
+    downloadLinks.mockResolvedValue([]); // none yet
+    createDownloadLink.mockResolvedValue({ id: 7, url: "/watch/tok7" });
+    const openSpy = vi.spyOn(window, "open").mockReturnValue(null);
+
+    const url = await quickShareLink(qc(), { id: 42 }, t);
+
+    expect(url).toBe(`${origin}/watch/tok7`);
+    // Minted with an EMPTY body so the backend D1 default (allow_download=true) applies.
+    expect(createDownloadLink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(42, {});
+    expect(copyText).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`${origin}/watch/tok7`);
+    const arg = firstToast();
+    expect(arg.level).toBe("success");
+    expect(arg.message).toBe("downloads.share.linkCopied");
+    expect(arg.action!.label).toBe("downloads.share.openNewTab");
+    arg.action!.onClick();
+    expect(openSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(`${origin}/watch/tok7`, "_blank", "noopener,noreferrer");
+  });
+
+  it("reuses an existing link instead of minting a duplicate", async () => {
+    downloadLinks.mockResolvedValue([{ id: 3, url: "/watch/old" }]);
+
+    const url = await quickShareLink(qc(), { id: 1 }, t);
+
+    expect(url).toBe(`${origin}/watch/old`);
+    expect(createDownloadLink).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(firstToast().level).toBe("success");
+  });
+
+  it("still toasts (warning) with the open action when the clipboard copy fails", async () => {
+    downloadLinks.mockResolvedValue([{ id: 5, url: "/watch/x" }]);
+    copyText.mockResolvedValue(false);
+
+    const url = await quickShareLink(qc(), { id: 2 }, t);
+
+    expect(url).toBe(`${origin}/watch/x`); // the link is never a dead end
+    const arg = firstToast();
+    expect(arg.level).toBe("warning");
+    expect(arg.message).toBe("downloads.share.copyFailed");
+    expect(arg.action!.label).toBe("downloads.share.openNewTab");
+  });
+
+  it("reports an error and returns null when link creation fails", async () => {
+    downloadLinks.mockResolvedValue([]);
+    createDownloadLink.mockRejectedValue(new Error("boom"));
+
+    const url = await quickShareLink(qc(), { id: 9 }, t);
+
+    expect(url).toBeNull();
+    expect(copyText).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(notify).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ level: "error", message: "downloads.share.linkFailed" });
+  });
+});

frontend/src/lib/downloads.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import type { QueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 import { qk } from "./queryKeys";
+import { api } from "./api";
+import { copyText } from "./clipboard";
+import { notify } from "./notifications";
 
 // The download queue, the per-card download index, and the storage-usage meter all move together
 // whenever a job is enqueued, deleted, or its state changes — invalidate them as one unit.
@@ -8,3 +11,42 @@ export function invalidateDownloads(qc: QueryClient) {
   qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.downloadIndex() });
   qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.downloadUsage() });
 }
+
+// One-click share (E7 S3 · D2-A): the row's Share button turns "share this" into a single action.
+// Ensure the job has a public link (minting one on demand — omitting `allow_download` so the backend
+// D1 default makes it downloadable), copy it to the clipboard, and toast with an "open in new tab"
+// action. A copy failure still toasts (warning) WITH that action, so the link is never a dead end.
+// Advanced controls (password, expiry, revoke, share-with-a-user) live in the Share dialog. Returns
+// the shared URL, or null if link creation failed — so the caller/tests can react to the outcome.
+export async function quickShareLink(
+  qc: QueryClient,
+  job: { id: number },
+  t: (key: string) => string,
+): Promise<string | null> {
+  let link;
+  try {
+    const existing = await qc.fetchQuery({
+      queryKey: qk.downloadLinks(job.id),
+      queryFn: () => api.downloadLinks(job.id),
+    });
+    link = existing[0];
+    if (!link) {
+      link = await api.createDownloadLink(job.id, {}); // omit allow_download → backend D1 default (true)
+      qc.setQueryData(qk.downloadLinks(job.id), [link]);
+    }
+  } catch {
+    notify({ level: "error", message: t("downloads.share.linkFailed") });
+    return null;
+  }
+  const url = window.location.origin + link.url;
+  const action = {
+    label: t("downloads.share.openNewTab"),
+    onClick: () => window.open(url, "_blank", "noopener,noreferrer"),
+  };
+  notify(
+    (await copyText(url))
+      ? { level: "success", message: t("downloads.share.linkCopied"), action }
+      : { level: "warning", message: t("downloads.share.copyFailed"), action },
+  );
+  return url;
+}

frontend/src/lib/plexPlayerPrefs.ts

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ export type PlexPlayerPrefs = {
   autoSkipIntro: boolean; // auto-skip the intro marker after a countdown
   autoSkipCredits: boolean; // auto-skip credits → jump to the next item (binge)
   autoSkipDelay: number; // countdown before an auto-skip fires (s, 0 = immediate)
+  upNext: boolean; // at episode end (with a next item) show an up-next card + countdown before advancing
 };
 export const DEFAULT_PREFS: PlexPlayerPrefs = {
   volume: 1,
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_PREFS: PlexPlayerPrefs = {
   autoSkipIntro: false,
   autoSkipCredits: false,
   autoSkipDelay: 5,
+  upNext: true,
 };
 export const clamp01 = (n: number) => Math.max(0, Math.min(1, n));
 

frontend/src/lib/plexStats.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import {
+  buildStatRows,
+  fmtBitrate,
+  fmtBufferSecs,
+  fmtClock,
+  fmtCodec,
+  fmtFrames,
+  fmtLevel,
+  fmtMode,
+  fmtRes,
+  type PlexStatsInput,
+} from "./plexStats";
+
+const DASH = "—";
+
+describe("plexStats formatters", () => {
+  it("fmtBitrate scales kbps/Mbps and dashes zero/undefined", () => {
+    expect(fmtBitrate(undefined)).toBe(DASH);
+    expect(fmtBitrate(0)).toBe(DASH);
+    expect(fmtBitrate(820_000)).toBe("820 kbps");
+    expect(fmtBitrate(4_200_000)).toBe("4.2 Mbps");
+    expect(fmtBitrate(1_000_000)).toBe("1.0 Mbps");
+  });
+
+  it("fmtBufferSecs shows one decimal, dashes negatives/non-finite", () => {
+    expect(fmtBufferSecs(12.34)).toBe("12.3 s");
+    expect(fmtBufferSecs(0)).toBe("0.0 s");
+    expect(fmtBufferSecs(-1)).toBe(DASH);
+    expect(fmtBufferSecs(Infinity)).toBe(DASH);
+  });
+
+  it("fmtFrames shows ratio + drop %, dashes when nothing decoded", () => {
+    expect(fmtFrames(0, 0)).toBe(DASH);
+    expect(fmtFrames(0, 1000)).toBe("0 / 1000 (0.00%)");
+    expect(fmtFrames(5, 1000)).toBe("5 / 1000 (0.50%)");
+    expect(fmtFrames(30, 1000)).toBe("30 / 1000 (3.0%)");
+  });
+
+  it("fmtRes dashes an undecoded 0×0 frame", () => {
+    expect(fmtRes(1920, 1080)).toBe("1920×1080");
+    expect(fmtRes(0, 0)).toBe(DASH);
+    expect(fmtRes(1920, 0)).toBe(DASH);
+  });
+
+  it("fmtClock renders m:ss and dashes bad input", () => {
+    expect(fmtClock(0)).toBe("0:00");
+    expect(fmtClock(9)).toBe("0:09");
+    expect(fmtClock(75)).toBe("1:15");
+    expect(fmtClock(3661)).toBe("61:01");
+    expect(fmtClock(-1)).toBe(DASH);
+  });
+
+  it("fmtLevel is 1-based with resolution, handles auto and empty", () => {
+    expect(fmtLevel(null)).toBe(DASH);
+    expect(fmtLevel({ index: 1, total: 4, width: 1280, height: 720 })).toBe("2 / 4 · 1280×720");
+    expect(fmtLevel({ index: -1, total: 3 })).toBe("auto / 3");
+    expect(fmtLevel({ index: 0, total: 0 })).toBe(DASH);
+  });
+
+  it("fmtCodec strips profile suffixes and dashes when absent", () => {
+    expect(fmtCodec("avc1.640028", "mp4a.40.2")).toBe("avc1 / mp4a");
+    expect(fmtCodec("hvc1.1.6.L120", undefined)).toBe("hvc1");
+    expect(fmtCodec(undefined, undefined)).toBe(DASH);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("buildStatRows", () => {
+  const base: PlexStatsInput = {
+    playable: "remux",
+    transport: "hls",
+    videoWidth: 1280,
+    videoHeight: 720,
+    droppedFrames: 2,
+    totalFrames: 500,
+    bufferAheadS: 8.2,
+    hlsLevel: { index: 0, total: 1, width: 1280, height: 720, bitrate: 3_000_000 },
+    sessionStartS: 65,
+    abs: 130,
+    duration: 5214,
+  };
+
+  it("includes the HLS-only rows (codec/bitrate/level) for hls transport", () => {
+    const keys = buildStatRows(base).map((r) => r.key);
+    expect(keys).toEqual([
+      "mode",
+      "transport",
+      "res",
+      "codec",
+      "bitrate",
+      "level",
+      "frames",
+      "buffer",
+      "offset",
+      "position",
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("drops the HLS-only rows for direct play", () => {
+    const keys = buildStatRows({ ...base, transport: "direct", hlsLevel: null }).map((r) => r.key);
+    expect(keys).not.toContain("codec");
+    expect(keys).not.toContain("bitrate");
+    expect(keys).not.toContain("level");
+    expect(keys).toContain("res");
+  });
+
+  it("surfaces the classification as the mode value and formats position", () => {
+    const rows = buildStatRows({ ...base, playable: "transcode" });
+    expect(rows.find((r) => r.key === "mode")?.value).toBe("transcode");
+    expect(rows.find((r) => r.key === "offset")?.value).toBe("1:05");
+    expect(rows.find((r) => r.key === "position")?.value).toBe("2:10 / 86:54");
+  });
+
+  it("appends the transcode encoder to the mode row when known", () => {
+    const gpu = buildStatRows({ ...base, playable: "transcode", hwEncoder: true });
+    expect(gpu.find((r) => r.key === "mode")?.value).toBe("transcode · GPU");
+    const cpu = buildStatRows({ ...base, playable: "transcode", hwEncoder: false });
+    expect(cpu.find((r) => r.key === "mode")?.value).toBe("transcode · CPU");
+  });
+
+  it("tags the mode row with HDR→SDR for a HW tonemap session", () => {
+    const rows = buildStatRows({ ...base, playable: "transcode", hwEncoder: true, tonemap: true });
+    expect(rows.find((r) => r.key === "mode")?.value).toBe("transcode · GPU · HDR→SDR");
+  });
+
+  it("shows an empty classification honestly as a dash", () => {
+    expect(buildStatRows({ ...base, playable: "" }).find((r) => r.key === "mode")?.value).toBe(
+      DASH,
+    );
+  });
+});
+
+describe("fmtMode", () => {
+  it("appends the encoder only for a transcode with a known encoder", () => {
+    expect(fmtMode("transcode", true)).toBe("transcode · GPU");
+    expect(fmtMode("transcode", false)).toBe("transcode · CPU");
+    expect(fmtMode("transcode", null)).toBe("transcode"); // encoder unknown → bare mode
+    expect(fmtMode("transcode")).toBe("transcode");
+    expect(fmtMode("remux", true)).toBe("remux"); // not a transcode → no encoder suffix
+    expect(fmtMode("")).toBe(DASH);
+    // The HDR→SDR tag rides on the GPU encoder token for a tonemap session.
+    expect(fmtMode("transcode", true, true)).toBe("transcode · GPU · HDR→SDR");
+    expect(fmtMode("transcode", true, false)).toBe("transcode · GPU");
+    expect(fmtMode("transcode", null, true)).toBe("transcode"); // no encoder → no tag either
+  });
+});

frontend/src/lib/plexStats.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+// Pure formatters + row builder for the Plex player "stats for nerds" overlay (E6 S2). Kept free of
+// React/DOM so the number-crunching is unit-testable: the component gathers raw values off videoRef /
+// hlsRef and hands them here; this returns i18n-keyed rows the overlay renders. No data pipeline — the
+// HTML5 <video> + hls.js already expose everything (intrinsic dims, getVideoPlaybackQuality, levels).
+
+export interface PlexStatsInput {
+  // The item's codec classification (backend `classify_playable`): the "active mode" a viewer cares
+  // about — direct copy, remux (stream-copy → HLS), or transcode (re-encode). Empty until detail loads.
+  playable: string; // "direct" | "remux" | "transcode" | ""
+  transport: "direct" | "hls"; // session transport (raw file vs HLS) — orthogonal to `playable`
+  // For a transcode session, which encoder actually ran: true = VAAPI hardware, false = libx264
+  // software, null/undefined = not a transcode (or unknown) — so the mode row can read "transcode · GPU"
+  // vs "transcode · CPU", the visible confirmation of which S1 path engaged.
+  hwEncoder?: boolean | null;
+  // For a HW transcode of a 10-bit/HDR source: true = the GPU OpenCL tonemap path (HDR→SDR) engaged, so
+  // the mode row can read "transcode · GPU · HDR→SDR". Absent/false for an 8-bit HW or software session.
+  tonemap?: boolean | null;
+  videoWidth: number; // intrinsic decoded dims (0 while the browser can't decode / pre-metadata)
+  videoHeight: number;
+  droppedFrames: number; // getVideoPlaybackQuality().droppedVideoFrames
+  totalFrames: number; // getVideoPlaybackQuality().totalVideoFrames
+  bufferAheadS: number; // seconds buffered ahead of the playhead
+  hlsLevel: HlsLevelInfo | null; // null for direct play / Safari-native HLS
+  sessionStartS: number; // media-clock offset the current session was opened at
+  abs: number; // current media time (absolute, session offset already folded in)
+  duration: number;
+}
+
+export interface HlsLevelInfo {
+  index: number; // active level index (-1 = auto/undetermined)
+  total: number; // number of renditions
+  width?: number;
+  height?: number;
+  bitrate?: number; // bits per second
+  videoCodec?: string;
+  audioCodec?: string;
+}
+
+export interface StatRow {
+  key: string; // stable react key
+  labelKey: string; // i18n key under plex.player.stats.*
+  value: string;
+}
+
+const DASH = "—";
+
+// bits-per-second → "4.2 Mbps" / "820 kbps". Undefined/0 → dash (hls.js reports 0 before a level loads).
+export function fmtBitrate(bps: number | undefined): string {
+  if (!bps || bps <= 0) return DASH;
+  if (bps >= 1_000_000) return `${(bps / 1_000_000).toFixed(1)} Mbps`;
+  return `${Math.round(bps / 1000)} kbps`;
+}
+
+// Seconds of buffer ahead of the playhead → "12.3 s".
+export function fmtBufferSecs(s: number): string {
+  if (!Number.isFinite(s) || s < 0) return DASH;
+  return `${s.toFixed(1)} s`;
+}
+
+// Dropped / total decoded frames, with a drop percentage once any frames have been decoded.
+export function fmtFrames(dropped: number, total: number): string {
+  if (total <= 0) return DASH;
+  const pct = (dropped / total) * 100;
+  return `${dropped} / ${total} (${pct.toFixed(pct < 1 ? 2 : 1)}%)`;
+}
+
+// Intrinsic decoded resolution. 0×0 means the browser hasn't decoded (or can't) — an honest dash,
+// which is itself the tell for a not-yet-playable codec pre-transcode.
+export function fmtRes(w: number, h: number): string {
+  if (w <= 0 || h <= 0) return DASH;
+  return `${w}×${h}`;
+}
+
+// Seconds → m:ss (offsets/positions are small; hours are folded into minutes deliberately).
+export function fmtClock(s: number): string {
+  if (!Number.isFinite(s) || s < 0) return DASH;
+  const total = Math.floor(s);
+  const m = Math.floor(total / 60);
+  const sec = total % 60;
+  return `${m}:${sec.toString().padStart(2, "0")}`;
+}
+
+// hls.js active level → "2 / 4 · 1280×720" (1-based index for humans). Auto/unknown level → dash + count.
+export function fmtLevel(l: HlsLevelInfo | null): string {
+  if (!l || l.total <= 0) return DASH;
+  const idx = l.index >= 0 ? `${l.index + 1} / ${l.total}` : `auto / ${l.total}`;
+  const res = l.width && l.height ? ` · ${l.width}×${l.height}` : "";
+  return `${idx}${res}`;
+}
+
+// Video/audio codec from the active hls.js level (only HLS exposes them; direct play → dash).
+export function fmtCodec(video: string | undefined, audio: string | undefined): string {
+  const v = video?.split(".")[0] || null; // "avc1.640028" → "avc1"
+  const a = audio?.split(".")[0] || null;
+  if (!v && !a) return DASH;
+  return [v, a].filter(Boolean).join(" / ");
+}
+
+// Active mode, with the transcode encoder appended when known: "transcode · GPU" (VAAPI hardware) or
+// "transcode · CPU" (libx264 software) — the at-a-glance confirmation of which S1 path engaged — and a
+// "· HDR→SDR" tag when the GPU OpenCL tonemap path handled a 10-bit/HDR source ("transcode · GPU ·
+// HDR→SDR"). Non-transcode modes (direct/remux) and an unknown encoder read as the bare mode. Raw tokens
+// (not i18n'd), consistent with the other technical values in this overlay (e.g. transport "hls").
+export function fmtMode(
+  playable: string,
+  hwEncoder?: boolean | null,
+  tonemap?: boolean | null,
+): string {
+  const mode = playable || DASH;
+  if (playable !== "transcode" || hwEncoder == null) return mode;
+  const base = `${mode} · ${hwEncoder ? "GPU" : "CPU"}`;
+  return tonemap ? `${base} · HDR→SDR` : base;
+}
+
+// Build the ordered, i18n-keyed rows the overlay renders. Rows whose data is absent still show a dash
+// (honest "not available" beats a missing row) — except HLS-only rows, dropped entirely for direct play.
+export function buildStatRows(s: PlexStatsInput): StatRow[] {
+  const rows: StatRow[] = [
+    {
+      key: "mode",
+      labelKey: "plex.player.stats.mode",
+      value: fmtMode(s.playable, s.hwEncoder, s.tonemap),
+    },
+    { key: "transport", labelKey: "plex.player.stats.transport", value: s.transport },
+    {
+      key: "res",
+      labelKey: "plex.player.stats.resolution",
+      value: fmtRes(s.videoWidth, s.videoHeight),
+    },
+  ];
+  if (s.transport === "hls") {
+    rows.push(
+      {
+        key: "codec",
+        labelKey: "plex.player.stats.codec",
+        value: fmtCodec(s.hlsLevel?.videoCodec, s.hlsLevel?.audioCodec),
+      },
+      {
+        key: "bitrate",
+        labelKey: "plex.player.stats.bitrate",
+        value: fmtBitrate(s.hlsLevel?.bitrate),
+      },
+      { key: "level", labelKey: "plex.player.stats.level", value: fmtLevel(s.hlsLevel) },
+    );
+  }
+  rows.push(
+    {
+      key: "frames",
+      labelKey: "plex.player.stats.frames",
+      value: fmtFrames(s.droppedFrames, s.totalFrames),
+    },
+    { key: "buffer", labelKey: "plex.player.stats.buffer", value: fmtBufferSecs(s.bufferAheadS) },
+    { key: "offset", labelKey: "plex.player.stats.offset", value: fmtClock(s.sessionStartS) },
+    {
+      key: "position",
+      labelKey: "plex.player.stats.position",
+      value: `${fmtClock(s.abs)} / ${fmtClock(s.duration)}`,
+    },
+  );
+  return rows;
+}

frontend/src/lib/plexUrlState.dom.test.ts

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ const RICH_FILTERS: PlexFilters = {
   actors: ["Bale", "Caine"],
   actorMode: "all",
   studios: ["Warner"],
+  playable: ["direct", "transcode_hw"],
   keywords: ["heist"],
   collections: ["1234"],
   collectionMode: "all",

frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,83 @@ export interface ReleaseEntry {
 }
 
 export const RELEASE_NOTES: ReleaseEntry[] = [
+  {
+    version: "0.78.3",
+    date: "2026-08-30",
+    summary:
+      "A new Plex filter: narrow the movie library by how each title plays — Direct Play, Direct Stream, or Transcode (hardware or software). See at a glance which titles are light on the server and which need a re-encode.",
+    features: [
+      "Filter movies by playback class in the sidebar: Direct Play (plays as-is), Direct Stream (a light remux), Transcode · HW (re-encoded on the GPU) and Transcode · SW (re-encoded on the CPU — the heaviest). Pick several to combine them. A small coloured dot on each movie card shows its class at a glance.",
+    ],
+    chores: [
+      "The class is derived at sync from the codec, then refined by a bounded background probe that reads each transcode title's real bit depth/HDR — so a 10-bit HEVC that needs the heavier software path is labelled correctly. Went through several multi-agent deep-review rounds (probe-freshness on file replacement, facet self-exclusion, HU/EN parity, an accessibility label on the class dot) — re-reviewed until a round came back clean.",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    version: "0.78.2",
+    date: "2026-08-30",
+    summary:
+      "HDR and 10-bit videos in the Plex player now transcode on the server GPU instead of falling back to the CPU. HDR is tone-mapped to SDR on the GPU so the picture looks right in the browser, at a fraction of the CPU cost.",
+    features: [
+      "A 10-bit / HDR video (HDR10, HLG — common on 4K and modern HEVC files) that needs transcoding now runs on the Intel GPU, tone-mapping HDR→SDR on-device so colours look right in the browser and the CPU is barely touched. Previously these fell back to a heavy software encode; now the GPU does the work. If the GPU path can't start for any reason, playback still falls back to software automatically, so a video never fails to play.",
+    ],
+    fixes: [
+      "A 10-bit video that is NOT HDR (standard-range 10-bit, common in anime and some HEVC encodes) is no longer run through the HDR tone-curve — it gets a plain down-convert, so its colours are preserved exactly instead of being subtly darkened.",
+    ],
+    chores: [
+      "The transcode pipeline now decides hardware vs software (and HDR tone-mapping) from a real probe of the source, and the GPU HDR path uses the Intel OpenCL runtime baked into the image. The whole change went through several multi-agent deep-review rounds — including an adversarially-verified fix to a start/seek race in the session fallback — re-reviewed until a round came back clean.",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    version: "0.78.1",
+    date: "2026-08-30",
+    summary:
+      "A fix for how downloads and uploads are recognised: an audio file with embedded cover art (or a still image) is no longer mistaken for a video, so it gets the right player and the right controls.",
+    fixes: [
+      "A downloaded audio track that carries album art — and some files from sites that report a video stream that isn't really there — were sometimes classified as video, giving a Play button that opened a broken, picture-less player. Siftlode now decides what a finished file actually is by inspecting the file itself, so audio stays audio, images stay files, and only real videos get the video player.",
+    ],
+    chores: [
+      "The media-kind classifier now trusts the on-disk probe over the source site's metadata whenever the probe could read the file, so stale metadata can't resurrect a video track the file doesn't have. Went through multi-agent deep-review, findings fixed and re-reviewed until clean.",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    version: "0.78.0",
+    date: "2026-08-30",
+    summary:
+      "The Plex player now plays any format. Videos in codecs your browser can't open natively — HEVC/H.265, VP9, AV1, MPEG-2 and older formats — are transcoded on the fly, hardware-accelerated on a supported server GPU with an automatic software fallback. Plus three player touches: an up-next card at episode end, on-screen 10-second skip buttons, and a stats overlay.",
+    features: [
+      "Play any Plex video in the browser, even formats it can't open natively (HEVC/H.265, VP9, AV1, MPEG-2, older codecs). Siftlode re-encodes the video on the fly to something every browser plays, with seeking, subtitles, audio-track switching and audio offset all still working. It uses a supported server GPU when available (barely touching the CPU) and falls back to software automatically, so playback just works.",
+      "At the end of an episode, an up-next card shows the next one with a ~10-second countdown — let it advance, hit “Play now”, or Cancel to stay on the finished frame. Binge on your terms instead of an instant jump (on by default; togglable).",
+      "On-screen 10-second rewind and forward buttons now flank Play/Pause, matching the ← / → keys — a discoverable control for touch and mouse, distinct from the previous/next-episode buttons.",
+      "A “stats for nerds” overlay (press D) shows the live playback mode (direct / remux / transcode), resolution, dropped frames, buffer and more — handy for seeing exactly how a video is being served.",
+    ],
+    fixes: [
+      "While a transcoded stream warms up, the player shows an honest “Preparing stream…” instead of a plain spinner, so a slightly longer start doesn't read as a hang.",
+      "The browser (and mouse) Back button now closes the stats or up-next overlay first, instead of jumping straight out of the player.",
+    ],
+    chores: [
+      "The transcode path uses VAAPI hardware encoding on a supported Intel GPU, with a de-prioritised, concurrency-capped software fallback so it never starves the rest of the app. The whole epic went through a multi-agent deep-review — findings fixed and re-reviewed each round until a round came back clean.",
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    version: "0.76.0",
+    date: "2026-08-29",
+    summary:
+      "The Download Center becomes a real media library: play your downloaded and uploaded video and audio right in the app, upload any file into the same library, and share anything in one click. Plus a fix so a cropped clip is framed exactly as you selected.",
+    features: [
+      "Play a finished download or upload in the app — video and audio open in a proper in-app player with seek, volume and fullscreen, no separate download needed.",
+      "Upload your own files into the library. Video and audio join with the full function set (play, edit, share); any other file (PDF, zip, document…) joins as a download-only item with its own info card. Drag-and-drop or pick a file, with a live progress bar you can cancel.",
+      "One-click Share: the Share button now creates a link (if there isn't one), copies it, and offers “open in new tab” — all in a single click, downloadable by default. The full link controls (password, expiry, revoke, share-with-a-user) stay one click away.",
+      "Library rows now show the file format and size at a glance (e.g. “MP4 · 142 MB”), and a shared link to a plain file shows a clean info card with a Download button.",
+    ],
+    fixes: [
+      "Cropping a clip in the editor now produces output framed exactly as the on-screen selection showed — the crop rectangle and the saved result no longer drift apart on a non-16:9 video.",
+      "Every download is now guaranteed to play in any browser (including iPhone/iPad): the output is a universally-playable MP4/H.264 (or M4A/MP3 for audio), so “Play” always works.",
+    ],
+    chores: [
+      "The whole epic went through several multi-agent deep-review rounds — findings fixed and re-reviewed each round until a round came back clean. Included a security hardening pass on the new upload path (an uploaded file can never be served in a way that lets it run code in your browser) and a fix so a failed upload never leaves an orphaned file on disk.",
+    ],
+  },
   {
     version: "0.75.0",
     date: "2026-08-29",