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dtourolle ab95f5013d feat(player): make native Android video the default
The two defects that were holding the flip back are fixed and verified on a
device, which is the standard this default has been held to since DR-161 shipped
a verified sub-path over an unverified one:

  - returning from background audio restarts the renderer that is actually on
    screen, instead of only ever reloading the <video> element (DR-196)
  - the letterbox bars are painted, instead of retaining whatever was last in
    the framebuffer (DR-194)

Evidence: handoff to audio-only at 69:54 returning to video playing at 70:18,
and clean bars across playback, the control bar and a rotation round-trip.

An explicit stored choice still wins in both directions, so anyone who turned the
flag off keeps it off — hence the null check on the stored value rather than a
bare === "true", which would silently re-enable it for people who opted out.

The Settings copy no longer tells users to leave it off; it now describes the
toggle as the fallback to the built-in web player.

The flag keeps its "experimental" name because it remains a suppressor of Rust's
backend choice, never a promoter: turning it on cannot produce a native backend
where Rust says HTML5.
2026-08-16 22:14:43 +02:00
dtourolle 95129d04a3 fix(player): make Android native video actually visible, and usable
DR-172 reverted native video to opt-in after it shipped as audio with no
picture, naming the compositing as the suspect. The compositing was fine. Five
separate defects sat between ExoPlayer and the screen, each able to produce that
exact symptom on its own, and each invisible to the others.

DR-185 — the app shell painted over the surface. app.css clears the page's
opaque layers through three selectors, one of which targets `[data-app-shell]`,
an attribute NO component has ever set, in any commit. The shell paints
--color-background across the whole viewport and VideoPlayer stacks above it, so
the WebView composited opaque no matter what else was cleared. Invisible three
ways over: the CSS is valid, the selector is plausible, and a rule matching
nothing looks exactly like a rule matching something already transparent.

DR-182 — nothing could lift the poster card. Every markMediaReady() call site is
an HTML5 <video> event, and the native branch renders no element, so the black
title card covered the surface for the entire session. The first fix hooked
`player://position-update` / `player://state-changed`; those channels are never
emitted by the backend, so it passed a test that fired them by hand and did
nothing on a device. Driven from the player store now, as the seek bar already
was.

DR-183 — the JS bridges raced the page load. Installed 500ms after onCreate by
walking the view tree, while WebView binds injected objects at page-load time,
and the identity guard then declined to re-inject forever. setTransparent(true)
could never arrive. Installed from WryActivity.onWebViewCreate instead, which
wry calls immediately before the first loadUrl.

DR-184 — the SurfaceView was never detached. detachVideoSurface had no callers
anywhere, mirroring the DR-151 defect: every native video left its surface
parented to the content view and the next one stacked another beneath it.

DR-191 — the overlay stopped repainting. Incremental damage (the clock's text,
the control bar's opacity) never reached the screen while structural changes did,
so the progress bar froze, the controls would not fade, and the play overlay
appeared to work because it is added and removed from the DOM. Driven from the
Activity via postInvalidateOnAnimation while compositing is on.

Two UI defects only this path could reveal came with them: isPlaying froze at
its initial value, leaving the play overlay dimming and covering the video
(DR-186), and the control bar's auto-hide was armed solely by mousemove, which a
touchscreen never fires (DR-189). Immersive mode now applies on entering the
player rather than only via the fullscreen button (DR-187).

Verified on a device (Honor ROD2-W09, Android 16): logcat carries
`WebView transparent = true` and `Marking media ready` with video on screen —
the pair DR-172 went looking for and could not find — and skip, seek, rotation
and subtitle rendering were exercised by hand.

The default stays OFF (DR-188). Turning it on surfaced a further unverified
sub-path: returning from background audio is HTML5-only, so playback stays dead
(DR-190, proposed). Shipping it would have repeated DR-161 exactly — a verified
sub-path made default over an unverified one.
2026-08-16 15:28:10 +02:00
dtourolle f46d7bf676 fix(player): make native Android video opt-in again — it shipped as audio with no picture
Publish Documentation / Build & publish docs to gitea-pages (push) Canceled after 0s
🏗️ Build and Test JellyTau / Run Tests (push) Failing after 4m55s
🏗️ Build and Test JellyTau / Android Compile Check (push) Skipped
Traceability Validation / Check Requirement Traces (push) Successful in 20s
DR-161 flipped experimentalNativeVideo on by default so picture-in-picture could
shrink a real video surface. On a device that shipped sound with a blank screen.

The decode path was never at fault. Logcat shows ExoPlayer running and feeding a
live SurfaceView with an active BufferQueue. The compositing was: the SurfaceView
sits behind the WebView, and the step that clears the opaque layers above it
never took effect — `WebView transparent = false` is logged, `= true` never
appears. The video was rendering correctly the whole time, behind an opaque page.

This is precisely the defect the flag existed to contain;
VideoPlayer.scrubRegression.test.ts had already recorded that "the native
SurfaceView has never been visible through the webview". Enabling it by default
shipped a verified decode path on top of an unverified display path.

Reverting costs nothing that matters: PiP does not depend on it — DR-160 drives
PiP from the WebView <video> — and working video outranks PiP showing a native
surface. The flag stays in Settings, now described as incomplete rather than as a
performance win, so anyone helping test it still can.

Fixing the compositing is the prerequisite for trying this default again (DR-172).
2026-08-16 00:42:56 +02:00
dtourolle 7387f35c7e docs(player): correct the stale "native video defaults to off" comments
DR-161 made `experimentalNativeVideo` default to on, but three comments still
described the pre-flip world and one of them was load-bearing:

- `nativeVideo.ts` labelled the store "Default off" directly above a `load()`
  that returns true when nothing is stored.
- The two PiP comments explained themselves as "what makes PiP work in the
  shipping configuration", which stopped being true when Android started
  shrinking the real ExoPlayer surface. They still describe the Linux path and
  the flag-off case, so they say that instead.
- `video_audio_codecs` justified its narrow codec list with "video does not play
  through ExoPlayer", which is no longer so on Android. The narrow list is still
  right, for a different reason now recorded: the flag is a user setting and a
  download outlives it, so only the intersection holds on both sides of the
  switch. DR-171 carries the same caveat.

No behaviour change.
2026-08-16 00:00:10 +02:00
dtourolle 9f5f57cba4 fix(ui,player): scroll restore, immersive fullscreen, watched toggle, handoff timeline, PiP
Batch of reported bugs and enhancements.

UI
- Pages no longer inherit the previous page's scroll position (DR-156, UR-072).
  The shell keeps its scrollers alive across navigation by design, so the
  element never remounts and its scrollTop survived the route change; SvelteKit
  restores window scroll, which this app never uses. ScrollMemory records the
  offset per route and per container: forward moves reset to the top, Back
  restores where the route was left.
- Season header stacks on narrow screens, and the title span gets min-w-0 so it
  actually truncates instead of overflowing under the action buttons.
- Favourites gets a labelled tile at the head of the library grid rather than
  only an unlabelled heart icon in the header.

Playback
- Full-screen video on Android hides the system bars (DR-157, UR-066).
  requestFullscreen() cannot touch the Activity window from inside a WebView, so
  the control did nothing visible while the bars stayed painted over the video.
  ImmersiveModeBridge hides them, restored on exit, Escape and teardown.
- Background-audio handoff stops leaking its relative timeline (DR-159).
  background_audio_base was a display-only correction applied in two places
  while progress reports to Jellyfin, the frontend and media3's own seeks all
  worked in the relative timeline treating it as absolute — each crossing losing
  exactly `base` seconds. The conversion now happens once, in the position tick,
  and inbound seeks resolve through seek_absolute, which re-opens the stream at
  the requested position because the handoff transcode cannot seek.
- Picture-in-picture works on the path that actually plays video (DR-160).
  canEnterPip demanded a native ExoPlayer surface, but that path is behind a
  flag defaulting to off, so PiP could never engage. It now accepts the WebView
  <video> too, keeping the WebView visible and routing play/pause to the element.
- Native video is now the default so PiP has a real surface (DR-161). The
  scrub-regression tests pinned the flag-off path implicitly; they now mock it
  off explicitly. The native scrub/seek path is not covered by the suite and
  needs device verification.

Watched state
- Watched toggle on the episode row, season header, series and movie hero, and
  the Episode Focus View (DR-158, UR-073). Both backend halves already existed
  with no caller. storage_set_watched covers a container's episodes so the
  toggle is honest offline, and QueuedOp::MarkUnplayed gives the sync queue the
  missing direction.

Release
- Fix the Android versionCode floor (set-version.sh). v0.5.2 shipped code 5002
  under an earlier minor*1000 scheme, but the current minor*100 formula yields
  1502 for that version and 1503 for 0.5.3 — so every 0.5.x release built from
  it was an un-installable downgrade for anyone already on v0.5.2. Widened to
  10000 + major*1000000 + minor*1000 + patch (0.5.3 -> 15003).
- Bump to 0.5.3.
2026-08-15 16:26:31 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 e144e62b31 feat(player): render Android video natively behind a transparent webview (DR-150, DR-151, DR-152)
Rust already reported `use_html5_element: false` on Android, but two frontend
overrides threw that answer away, so ExoPlayer's video path had never actually
run. Both are lifted behind an `experimentalNativeVideo` opt-in (default off).

The flag is a suppressor, never a promoter: off forces HTML5 even where Rust
says native, so an in-progress spike cannot ship as the default, but it can
never select native where Rust reported HTML5 — Linux cannot composite behind
WebKitGTK, and promoting there would be a black screen.

Two blockers the spec did not anticipate, both in code assumed to be merely
unreachable rather than broken:

- `JellyTauPlayer.setActivity()` had zero callers, so `currentActivity` was
  always null and `autoAttachSurface()` bailed. The SurfaceView was created and
  wired to ExoPlayer but never added to the view hierarchy — video would have
  decoded to a surface that was never on screen, whatever the webview did.
  This also revives PiP on the video path, which gated on the same flag.
- `createAdapter()` was not the real gate; it is never called in production.
  The actual override was in VideoPlayer.svelte, which forced HTML5 and stopped
  the native backend `player_play_item` had just started. Both sites now route
  through `createAdapter()`.

Compositing needs two independent opaque layers cleared, not one. Clearing only
the page leaves the WebView widget opaque — audio over a black picture, exactly
the symptom the old INTERIM comment described. `videoSurface.ts` toggles both:
the widget background and window drawable from Kotlin, the page backgrounds via
a `data-native-video` attribute keyed by app.css. Transparency lives in
`tauri.android.conf.json` so Linux keeps an opaque window, and is scoped to the
playback session so the launcher never shows through the rest of the app.

Phase 3's rect plumbing turned out to be unnecessary: video is fullscreen on the
player route, and `fitSurfaceToScreen()` already letterboxes and re-fits on
rotation. The mini-player transition remains unverified on device.

Also removes the `navigator.userAgent` sniffing in webviewAudio.ts, which was a
second copy of the Rust cfg gate free to drift from it. `player_get_capabilities`
now reports `usesWebviewAudio` and `supportsNativeVideo` from those same gates.

Tests: adapter selection covers the full matrix, including the regression guard
that the flag off beats Rust. Written first and confirmed failing (2 of 7) before
the fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 20:57:58 +02:00