A recoverable player error meant "playback is over": the frontend's error
handler stopped the player unconditionally, so a wifi blip killed the
track. Android already decides in its JNI callback, but MpvBackend is
constructed before PlayerController exists, so its event thread has no
controller to ask.
So MPV reports the failure and the frontend echoes it into the new
player_recover_stream command — the same shape as PlaybackEnded ->
player_on_playback_ended, keeping the decision in Rust. The command
re-opens the stream where it stopped, with the existing attempt budget
and backoff, and returns whether it handled it; only a false answer
falls through to the old stop path.
Android now reports the errors it has already declined as
*unrecoverable*, so the echo never asks the same question twice.
TRACES: UR-004, UR-040 | DR-130 | UT-117
Two MPV-side fixes for the same failure story — a wifi blip during
playback.
The demuxer gave up the moment a read failed and MPV raised
EndFile(ERROR), so a momentary outage killed the track outright. Enabling
ffmpeg's reconnect options handles the common case entirely below our
level, so most outages never reach the recovery path at all. Set
non-fatally: their availability varies with the libmpv/ffmpeg build, and
losing resilience is not a reason to refuse to play anything.
Separately, `time-pos` and `duration` are live properties of the *loaded*
file: at EOF MPV unloads it and both stop resolving. Reading them straight
through returned 0.0/unknown at exactly the moment end-of-file handling
needed to know where playback had reached, so the player appeared to
rewind to 0:00 as a track ended. `ObservedTime` records the last reading
seen while media was loaded and the accessors fall back to it.
Adds a 10-band graphic equalizer to AudioSettings (enabled flag +
per-band dB gains, normalised to 10 entries and clamped to range).
Presets return gain curves; the settings page gains EQ UI. libmpv
applies the filter on Linux (Android parity pending). Old persisted
settings without EQ fields load as disabled + flat.
Also includes the requirements/traceability/ux-flows doc updates for
this feature and the home long-press routing (UR-058/DR-087).
TRACES: UR-027 | IR-020, DR-030 | UT-079, UT-080, UT-081, UT-082
Hand video playback off to a native audio-only stream when the app is
backgrounded or locked, with no on-device video decode (UR-040). Adds
player_enter/exit_background_audio commands, an audio-only stream URL
for video items across the repository layer, and the frontend handoff
state machine wired into VideoPlayer. Includes accompanying
repository/offline/player refactoring and regenerates the traceability
matrix.
Workstream A — poison-tolerant locking:
- Add utils/lock.rs with MutexSafe/RwLockSafe extension traits that recover a
poisoned std::sync lock instead of panicking, plus unit tests.
- Replace all 153 .lock().unwrap() and 4 .read()/.write().unwrap() production
sites with _safe variants across 14 files, eliminating the player
crash-cascade class. Tokio async mutexes are unchanged.
Workstream B — graceful backend init:
- create_player_backend no longer panics when MPV/ExoPlayer fail to initialize;
it falls back to NullBackend and emits a backend-init-failed event so the UI
can show "playback unavailable" instead of the app crashing. Fatal DB-setup
panics are kept.
Workstream F — doc reconciliation:
- Rewrite software-architecture.md's inaccurate "thin UI / ~800 lines" claims to
reflect reality (~20.5k non-test frontend) and document the events+polling
hybrid plus the new locking/backend-init behavior.
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