"""Video editor (phase 2): per-user trim/crop derivatives via ffmpeg. An edit derives a NEW per-user clip from an already-downloaded ready asset. It is never shared- cached across users (the cache key embeds the user id), so it fully counts against the owner's quota — but it still rides the same `MediaAsset`/`DownloadJob`/worker machinery as a download, with the worker branching on the asset's `source_kind` to run ffmpeg instead of yt-dlp. * trim, fast → stream copy (`-c copy`), instant, no quality loss, cuts SNAP to keyframes (the in/out point can be off by a second or two) * trim, accurate → re-encode (libx264 + aac), frame-accurate; cost scales with CLIP length (the `-ss` seeks first), so a short clip is cheap even from a long source * crop (± trim) → always re-encode (a filter can't be stream-copied), frame-accurate `edit_spec = {trim?: {start_s, end_s}, crop?: {x, y, w, h}, accurate?: bool}`. `accurate` is the per-edit user choice for a trim-only cut (ignored when a crop forces a re-encode anyway). `split` is a frontend concept: the UI fans a split out into N trim jobs, so there is one output file per job here. Also builds the editor **filmstrip** — a single tiled sprite of the source video used as a visual scrub track. Cached on the source asset's `storyboard_path` (reserved in phase 1) and reusable for a player hover-preview later. """ import hashlib import json import logging import math import os import queue import shutil import subprocess import threading import time from pathlib import Path from app.config import settings log = logging.getLogger("siftlode.edit") def encode_thread_cap() -> int: """How many encoder threads a browser-safe re-encode may use. `download_ffmpeg_threads` when the admin pinned one (>0), else reserve a core for foreground work (max(1, cpu_count - 1)). Shared by the ffmpeg `-threads` flag and the child's `OMP_NUM_THREADS` so both honour the same budget.""" n = settings.download_ffmpeg_threads if n > 0: return n return max(1, (os.cpu_count() or 2) - 1) class EditAborted(Exception): """Raised by run_ffmpeg when the job was paused/canceled mid-encode.""" # --- edit spec ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ def normalize_edit_spec(spec: dict | None) -> dict: """Canonicalize a raw edit spec: clamp/round trim, coerce crop to ints, drop empties. The result is what gets hashed (so two equivalent specs share a cache row) and stored.""" spec = spec or {} out: dict = {} # Crop applies to both a single trim and a multi-segment join. crop = spec.get("crop") or {} if crop: try: c = {k: int(round(float(crop[k]))) for k in ("x", "y", "w", "h")} except (KeyError, TypeError, ValueError): c = None if c and c["w"] > 0 and c["h"] > 0 and c["x"] >= 0 and c["y"] >= 0: out["crop"] = c # Multi-segment JOIN (cut-list → one concatenated file). Takes precedence over `trim`. segs = spec.get("segments") if isinstance(segs, list) and segs: norm: list[dict] = [] for s in segs: try: st = max(0.0, float((s or {}).get("start_s") or 0.0)) end_raw = (s or {}).get("end_s") if end_raw is None: continue en = float(end_raw) except (TypeError, ValueError): continue if en > st: norm.append({"start_s": round(st, 3), "end_s": round(en, 3)}) norm.sort(key=lambda x: x["start_s"]) if norm: out["segments"] = norm # A join always chooses a codec path: accurate=filter-concat re-encode, # fast=demuxer-concat stream-copy (keyframe-snapped). out["accurate"] = bool(spec.get("accurate", True)) return out # Single TRIM (one output file; the frontend fans a "separate" split out into N of these). trim = spec.get("trim") or {} if trim: # Guard the numeric coercion like the crop/segments branches do — a malformed value must # drop the trim (→ empty spec → 400 EditError), not raise an unhandled 500. try: start = max(0.0, float(trim.get("start_s") or 0.0)) end_raw = trim.get("end_s") end = float(end_raw) if end_raw is not None else None except (TypeError, ValueError): start, end = 0.0, None t: dict = {"start_s": round(start, 3)} if end is not None and end > start: t["end_s"] = round(end, 3) # A trim with only a start (open-ended) is valid (cut to the end). if t.get("start_s") or "end_s" in t: out["trim"] = t # `accurate` only changes behaviour for a trim-only cut (a crop always re-encodes). Default to # frame-accurate — an editor should cut where you asked; the user opts into fast/keyframe. if out.get("trim") and "crop" not in out: out["accurate"] = bool(spec.get("accurate", True)) return out def edit_sig(spec: dict) -> str: """Stable 24-char signature of a (normalized) edit spec — the per-user cache identity.""" payload = json.dumps(normalize_edit_spec(spec), sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":")) return hashlib.sha256(payload.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:24] def has_crop(spec: dict) -> bool: return bool(spec.get("crop")) def needs_reencode(spec: dict) -> bool: """A crop always re-encodes; a trim re-encodes only when the user asked for an accurate cut.""" return bool(spec.get("crop")) or bool(spec.get("accurate")) def clip_duration(spec: dict, source_duration: int | None) -> int | None: """Duration of the derived clip (seconds), for display + progress totals.""" segs = spec.get("segments") if segs: return max(0, round(sum(s["end_s"] - s["start_s"] for s in segs))) trim = spec.get("trim") if not trim: return source_duration start = trim.get("start_s") or 0.0 end = trim.get("end_s") if end is None: end = source_duration if end is None: return None return max(0, round(end - start)) # --- ffmpeg: trim / crop -------------------------------------------------------------------- def build_edit_cmd(src: Path, dest: Path, spec: dict, out_ext: str) -> list[str]: """ffmpeg command for a trim/crop edit. `-progress pipe:1` streams machine-readable progress. Trim uses fast input seek (`-ss` before `-i`) + `-t duration`, which is unambiguous across ffmpeg versions. Trim-only stream-copies; a crop forces a re-encode (a filter can't be stream-copied).""" trim = spec.get("trim") or {} start = trim.get("start_s") or 0.0 end = trim.get("end_s") crop = spec.get("crop") reencode = needs_reencode(spec) cmd = [ "ffmpeg", "-y", "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-nostdin", "-progress", "pipe:1", "-nostats", ] if start: cmd += ["-ss", f"{start:.3f}"] cmd += ["-i", str(src)] if end is not None: dur = end - start if dur > 0: cmd += ["-t", f"{dur:.3f}"] if reencode: # Input -ss + re-encode is frame-accurate (decodes from the prior keyframe, discards up to # the exact cut). A crop adds the filter; an accurate trim re-encodes with no filter. if crop: cmd += ["-vf", f"crop={crop['w']}:{crop['h']}:{crop['x']}:{crop['y']}"] cmd += [ "-c:v", "libx264", "-preset", "veryfast", "-crf", "20", "-c:a", "aac", "-b:a", "192k", ] else: cmd += ["-c", "copy", "-avoid_negative_ts", "make_zero"] if out_ext in ("mp4", "m4a", "mov"): cmd += ["-movflags", "+faststart"] cmd += [str(dest)] return cmd def _concat_quote(path: Path) -> str: """Escape a path for a single-quoted `file '…'` line of an ffmpeg concat list. ffmpeg's quoting rule: inside single quotes EVERY character is literal except `'` itself, which is written `'\\''` (close the quote, emit an escaped quote, reopen). Backslashes are literal there — doubling them would corrupt a path that contains one. On-disk names have been ASCII-slugged since 0.51.0, but that change is FORWARD-ONLY: a pre-0.51.0 file still on disk can be named `Don't_….mp4`, and an unescaped apostrophe makes the whole list unparseable.""" return path.as_posix().replace("'", "'\\''") def build_concat_plan(src: Path, dest: Path, spec: dict, out_ext: str, staging: Path): """Plan a multi-segment JOIN (cut-list → one file). Returns (cmd, prep_files) where prep_files maps a path → text content the worker must write before running (a concat list, if any). * accurate/crop → filter_complex trim+concat, frame-accurate re-encode * fast → concat demuxer with per-segment inpoint/outpoint, stream-copy (keyframe-snapped, like the fast single trim)""" segs: list[dict] = spec["segments"] crop = spec.get("crop") prep: dict[Path, str] = {} head = [ "ffmpeg", "-y", "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-nostdin", "-progress", "pipe:1", "-nostats", ] if needs_reencode(spec): cropf = f",crop={crop['w']}:{crop['h']}:{crop['x']}:{crop['y']}" if crop else "" parts, labels = [], [] for i, s in enumerate(segs): st, en = s["start_s"], s["end_s"] parts.append(f"[0:v]trim=start={st}:end={en},setpts=PTS-STARTPTS{cropf}[v{i}]") parts.append(f"[0:a]atrim=start={st}:end={en},asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS[a{i}]") labels.append(f"[v{i}][a{i}]") parts.append(f"{''.join(labels)}concat=n={len(segs)}:v=1:a=1[v][a]") cmd = head + [ "-i", str(src), "-filter_complex", ";".join(parts), "-map", "[v]", "-map", "[a]", "-c:v", "libx264", "-preset", "veryfast", "-crf", "20", "-c:a", "aac", "-b:a", "192k", ] else: listp = staging / "concat.txt" lines = [] for s in segs: lines.append(f"file '{_concat_quote(src)}'") lines.append(f"inpoint {s['start_s']}") lines.append(f"outpoint {s['end_s']}") prep[listp] = "\n".join(lines) + "\n" cmd = head + ["-f", "concat", "-safe", "0", "-i", str(listp), "-c", "copy"] if out_ext in ("mp4", "m4a", "mov"): cmd += ["-movflags", "+faststart"] cmd += [str(dest)] return cmd, prep def _parse_out_time(line: str) -> float | None: """Parse a `-progress` line into elapsed output seconds.""" if line.startswith("out_time_us="): try: return int(line.split("=", 1)[1]) / 1_000_000 except ValueError: return None if line.startswith("out_time_ms="): # (some builds mislabel this as microseconds) try: return int(line.split("=", 1)[1]) / 1_000_000 except ValueError: return None return None # No output on `-progress pipe:1` for this long means ffmpeg is wedged (a stuck network source, a # hung filter) — a download job may legitimately be slow, but it is never SILENT for minutes. _FFMPEG_STALL_TIMEOUT_S = 600.0 # Hard cap after we ask the process to go away; past it we stop waiting on it altogether. _FFMPEG_EXIT_GRACE_S = 10.0 def _pump(stream, sink: "queue.Queue[str | None]") -> None: """Read a text pipe to EOF into a queue (None = EOF). Runs in its own thread so the main loop can time out and poll cancel instead of blocking forever on a silent ffmpeg.""" try: for line in stream: sink.put(line) except (ValueError, OSError): # pipe closed under us by the kill path pass finally: sink.put(None) def _drain_tail(stream, sink: list[str]) -> None: """Consume a pipe to EOF, keeping only its tail. ffmpeg's stderr MUST be read *while it runs*: the OS pipe buffer is ~64KB, and once it fills, ffmpeg blocks forever on its next write — the process never exits, so `proc.wait()` never returns and the worker thread is gone for good. Reading it only after the exit (as this used to) is exactly the deadlock.""" try: for line in stream: sink.append(line) if len(sink) > 200: del sink[:100] except (ValueError, OSError): pass def escalate_kill(proc: subprocess.Popen, terminate, kill, grace_s: float, label: str) -> None: """terminate → wait(grace) → kill → wait(grace) escalation for a process we've given up on, so it is never waited on unboundedly. `terminate`/`kill` deliver the stop to whatever scope the caller owns — a single process (`proc.terminate`/`proc.kill`) or its whole group (`os.killpg`). No-op if the process already exited.""" if proc.poll() is not None: return terminate() try: proc.wait(timeout=grace_s) return except subprocess.TimeoutExpired: pass kill() try: proc.wait(timeout=grace_s) except subprocess.TimeoutExpired: log.error("%s pid %s survived SIGKILL", label, proc.pid) def _stop(proc: subprocess.Popen) -> None: """Terminate, then kill — never wait unbounded on a process we've given up on. Safe to call on a process that already exited.""" escalate_kill(proc, proc.terminate, proc.kill, grace_s=5, label="ffmpeg") def run_ffmpeg( cmd, total_s, on_progress, should_cancel, stall_timeout_s=_FFMPEG_STALL_TIMEOUT_S ) -> None: """Run an ffmpeg edit, reporting 0–100 progress and honouring cooperative cancel. Both pipes are drained by threads (see `_drain_tail`) and the main loop polls on a 1s tick, so cancel is honoured within a second even while ffmpeg is quiet, and a wedged process is killed by the stall watchdog instead of pinning a worker thread forever. Raises EditAborted if should_cancel() turns True mid-run, RuntimeError on a nonzero exit or a stall.""" proc = subprocess.Popen( cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, bufsize=1 ) err_tail: list[str] = [] lines: queue.Queue[str | None] = queue.Queue() readers = [ threading.Thread(target=_pump, args=(proc.stdout, lines), daemon=True), threading.Thread(target=_drain_tail, args=(proc.stderr, err_tail), daemon=True), ] for t in readers: t.start() try: last_output = time.monotonic() while True: try: line = lines.get(timeout=1.0) except queue.Empty: line = "" if line is None: # stdout hit EOF — ffmpeg is done (or dying) break if line: last_output = time.monotonic() secs = _parse_out_time(line.strip()) if secs is not None and total_s: on_progress(max(0.0, min(99.0, secs * 100.0 / total_s))) if should_cancel(): raise EditAborted if time.monotonic() - last_output > stall_timeout_s: raise RuntimeError(f"ffmpeg stalled: no progress for {int(stall_timeout_s)}s") try: ret = proc.wait(timeout=_FFMPEG_EXIT_GRACE_S) except subprocess.TimeoutExpired: # pipes closed but the process lingers raise RuntimeError("ffmpeg did not exit after closing its output") except BaseException: # ONE exit path stops the process, so the invariant is unconditional: nothing leaves this # function with ffmpeg still running. Not just our own EditAborted/stall — `on_progress` # writes to the database, and an exception from THERE used to unwind past a live process, # orphaning it (still encoding, no one left to reap it) after a 10s join on its pipes. _stop(proc) raise finally: for t in readers: t.join(timeout=_FFMPEG_EXIT_GRACE_S) for pipe in (proc.stdout, proc.stderr): if pipe: pipe.close() if ret != 0: raise RuntimeError(f"ffmpeg failed ({ret}): {''.join(err_tail)[-300:]}") # --- ffmpeg: universal browser playability -------------------------------------------------- # A downloaded file must play in EVERY browser, whatever the source shipped. Universal = H.264 # video + AAC/MP3 audio in an mp4 container: H.264 is the only video codec all browsers decode # (VP9/AV1 fail on Safari/iOS; HEVC fails on Chrome/Firefox), and mp4/AAC is the safe pairing. # Anything else is fixed post-download: re-encode the offending stream(s), or just remux when the # codecs are already fine but the container isn't. _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.""" try: streams = json.loads(payload or "{}").get("streams") or [] except ValueError: return None, None vcodec = acodec = None for s in streams: name = (s.get("codec_name") or "").lower() or None ctype = (s.get("codec_type") or "").lower() if ctype == "video" and vcodec is None: vcodec = name elif ctype == "audio" and acodec is None: acodec = name return vcodec, acodec 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): return None, None return parse_probe_streams(out) def probe_duration(path: Path) -> int: """Media duration in whole seconds via ffprobe, or 0 if unknown — a progress denominator for a re-encode when the yt-dlp info dict carried no `duration` (some URL/live extractions).""" try: out = subprocess.run( [ "ffprobe", "-v", "error", "-show_entries", "format=duration", "-of", "default=nw=1:nk=1", str(path), ], capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30, check=True, ).stdout.strip() return int(float(out)) if out else 0 except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError, ValueError): return 0 def browser_transcode_flags( vcodec: str | None, acodec: str | None, is_mp4: bool ) -> tuple[bool, bool, bool]: """Decide what (if anything) makes a file universally browser-playable. Returns (needs_change, reencode_video, reencode_audio). needs_change=False => already H.264 + AAC/MP3 in mp4. A None codec (no such stream, or a failed probe) is never re-encoded.""" rv = bool(vcodec) and vcodec not in _BROWSER_SAFE_VCODEC ra = bool(acodec) and acodec not in _BROWSER_SAFE_ACODEC return (rv or ra or not is_mp4), rv, ra def build_browser_safe_cmd( src: Path, dest: Path, reencode_video: bool, reencode_audio: bool, threads: int | None = None ) -> list[str]: """ffmpeg command that lands `src` as a browser-safe mp4 (faststart): re-encode only the stream(s) that need it (libx264 / aac), stream-copy the rest, always into mp4. `-progress pipe:1` streams machine-readable progress for run_ffmpeg. `threads` caps the encoder so a re-encode can't claim every core on the shared box (see the worker-child de-prioritization).""" cmd = [ "ffmpeg", "-y", "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-nostdin", "-progress", "pipe:1", "-nostats", "-i", str(src), ] cmd += ( ["-c:v", "libx264", "-preset", "veryfast", "-crf", "20"] if reencode_video else ["-c:v", "copy"] ) cmd += ["-c:a", "aac", "-b:a", "192k"] if reencode_audio else ["-c:a", "copy"] if threads and threads > 0: cmd += ["-threads", str(threads)] cmd += ["-movflags", "+faststart", str(dest)] return cmd # --- filmstrip (editor scrub track) --------------------------------------------------------- _SB_COLS = 12 _SB_TILE_W = 160 def storyboard_geometry(duration_s: int | None) -> dict: """Deterministic sprite geometry for a source duration (so meta is recomputable, unstored). ~1 frame / 5 s, clamped to fill a 12-wide grid of 24–120 tiles.""" dur = max(1, int(duration_s or 1)) count = max(24, min(120, round(dur / 5))) rows = math.ceil(count / _SB_COLS) count = _SB_COLS * rows # fill the grid exactly return { "cols": _SB_COLS, "rows": rows, "count": count, "interval_s": dur / count, "tile_w": _SB_TILE_W, } def build_storyboard_cmd(src: Path, dest: Path, duration_s: int | None, geom: dict) -> list[str]: """One-pass tiled sprite. fps picks `count` frames evenly across the whole clip.""" dur = max(1, int(duration_s or 1)) fps = geom["count"] / dur vf = f"fps={fps:.6f},scale={_SB_TILE_W}:-2,tile={geom['cols']}x{geom['rows']}" return [ "ffmpeg", "-y", "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-nostdin", "-i", str(src), "-frames:v", "1", "-q:v", "5", "-vf", vf, str(dest), ] def build_poster_cmd(src: Path, dest: Path, at_s: float) -> list[str]: """Grab one representative frame as a poster JPEG. `-ss` before `-i` seeks fast.""" return [ "ffmpeg", "-y", "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-nostdin", "-ss", f"{max(0.0, at_s):.3f}", "-i", str(src), "-frames:v", "1", "-q:v", "3", "-vf", "scale=640:-2", str(dest), ] def build_thumbnail_jpg_cmd(src: Path, dest: Path) -> list[str]: """Decode a downloaded thumbnail (webp/png/…) to a single baseline JPEG frame.""" return [ "ffmpeg", "-y", "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-nostdin", "-i", str(src), "-frames:v", "1", "-update", "1", str(dest), ] def _run_ffmpeg_best_effort(cmd: list[str], timeout_s: int) -> Exception | None: """Run a one-shot ffmpeg command, bounded by `timeout_s`. Returns None on success, or the exception on a timeout/non-zero-exit/OS error — never raises. Shared by the best-effort image steps (poster / thumbnail / storyboard) so the run+timeout+swallow policy lives in ONE place; each caller logs its own context from the returned exception. (The download/transcode path uses the richer `run_ffmpeg` instead, which streams progress and honours cooperative cancel.)""" try: subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, timeout=timeout_s, check=True) return None except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError) as exc: return exc def _is_jpeg(path: Path) -> bool: """True if the file starts with the JPEG SOI marker (FF D8 FF).""" try: with path.open("rb") as f: return f.read(3) == b"\xff\xd8\xff" except OSError: return False def thumbnail_to_jpg(src: Path | None, dest: Path, timeout_s: int = 30) -> Path | None: """Turn a downloaded thumbnail (webp / png / jpeg — whatever the source shipped) into a real baseline JPEG for the `.jpg` poster + og:image share sidecar. Deliberately NOT yt-dlp's `FFmpegThumbnailsConvertor` (whose `-bsf:v mjpeg2jpeg` path crashes on some already-JPEG thumbnails, e.g. Reddit's, and used to fail the entire download). A thumbnail that is already JPEG is copied as-is; anything else is decoded via ffmpeg. Best-effort: returns None on any failure, so the caller falls back to a cut video frame (`ensure_poster`) and the download still succeeds.""" if src is None or not src.exists(): return None if _is_jpeg(src): # already JPEG (e.g. Facebook) — no decode/re-encode needed try: shutil.copyfile(src, dest) return dest except OSError as exc: log.info("thumbnail copy failed (%s); poster falls back to a cut frame", str(exc)[:120]) return None err = _run_ffmpeg_best_effort(build_thumbnail_jpg_cmd(src, dest), timeout_s) if err is not None: log.info( "thumbnail->jpg conversion failed (%s); poster falls back to a cut frame", str(err)[:120], ) return None return dest if dest.exists() else None def ensure_poster(asset, download_root: str, timeout_s: int = 30) -> str | None: """Generate a poster frame for a ready asset that has no thumbnail (e.g. a direct media URL like a reddit HLS manifest, which yt-dlp can't get a thumbnail for). Written as the media's `.jpg` sidecar — so Plex uses it too and `delete_asset_files` cleans it up — and returned as a rel path (or None on failure). Best-effort + time-bounded; a few seconds in (or 10% of a short clip) dodges black intro frames.""" if not asset.rel_path: return None root = Path(download_root) src = root / asset.rel_path if not src.exists(): return None rel = str(Path(asset.rel_path).with_suffix(".jpg")) dest = root / rel if dest.exists(): return rel at = min(3.0, (asset.duration_s or 10) * 0.1) err = _run_ffmpeg_best_effort(build_poster_cmd(src, dest, at), timeout_s) if err is not None: log.info("poster gen skipped for asset %s: %s", asset.id, str(err)[:120]) return None return rel if dest.exists() else None def ensure_storyboard(asset, download_root: str, timeout_s: int = 90) -> dict | None: """Return the filmstrip meta for a ready source asset, generating the sprite on first use. Best-effort + time-bounded: for a very long/high-res source the one-pass decode can be slow, so it's capped by `timeout_s`; on timeout/failure we return None and the editor falls back to a plain timeline (no filmstrip). Caches the sprite path on `asset.storyboard_path`. Returns None (caller should NOT commit) if generation didn't happen; otherwise a meta dict and sets `asset.storyboard_path` (caller commits).""" if not asset.rel_path: return None geom = storyboard_geometry(asset.duration_s) root = Path(download_root) rel = f".storyboards/asset-{asset.id}.jpg" dest = root / rel if asset.storyboard_path and (root / asset.storyboard_path).exists(): return {**geom, "rel": asset.storyboard_path} src = root / asset.rel_path if not src.exists(): return None dest.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) cmd = build_storyboard_cmd(src, dest, asset.duration_s, geom) err = _run_ffmpeg_best_effort(cmd, timeout_s) if err is not None: log.info("storyboard gen skipped for asset %s: %s", asset.id, str(err)[:120]) return None if not dest.exists(): return None asset.storyboard_path = rel # caller commits return {**geom, "rel": rel}