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).
The feature shipped tagged against DR-160, which a parallel session had
claimed for picture-in-picture in the meantime. Renumbered to DR-162
across the Rust and frontend TRACES comments (the PiP tags in
VideoPlayer.svelte, pictureInPicture.ts and nativeVideo.ts keep DR-160)
and regenerated bindings.ts.
Adds the requirement rows the tags point at: UR-074 for the user need, and
DR-162 covering why the cap has to reach the PlaybackInfo negotiation and
not only the transcode URL, why the ceiling is process-wide, and why the
Settings default persists while the in-player override does not. Notes
that this gives UR-070 its resume-at-the-same-point mechanism while the
server-offered rendition list that requirement also asks for stays
proposed. UT-156/157 record what the tests pin.
docs/specs/streaming-bitrate-cap.md carries the layer assignment — the
step definitions, the video/audio split, the resolution pairing and the
reload decision are all Rust; the frontend holds a serde token and the
labels it was handed.
TRACES: UR-074 | DR-162 | UT-156, UT-157
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.
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