mpv now decodes video on Linux, drawn into a framebuffer we own and blitted
into the default vbox's draw handler. Tauri's widget tree is untouched, so an
upgrade that assumes its own layout cannot invalidate this. Direct play means
the original file, hardware decoding, and no server transcode at all — where
previously every desktop video was re-encoded to h264 for the browser engine,
whatever the file actually was. Off by default: JELLYTAU_NATIVE_VIDEO=1.
That settles finding 2 of playback-backend-unification.md — "native video
cannot be composited with a Tauri webview" — by demonstration rather than
argument, on X11 and Wayland both.
Turning it on exposed nine defects, none of them mpv's. Each was the same
mistake in a different place: a capability written down as a compile-time fact
about the platform, or a state asserted instead of confirmed.
DR-238/246 a seek routed by the stream's container rather than by what the
engine could do with it - correct only while one player handled
those streams, silent the moment another did
DR-239 a property handled but never observed, so the play/pause button
waited for an event that could not arrive
DR-240 fullscreen expanding the document while the window stayed put
DR-241 a seek issued before the engine had a file, failed, and discarded
- which is why resume began at zero
DR-247 a Linux-only gate outliving the caller that made it Linux-only,
breaking the Android build outright
DR-250 a stop aimed at whichever renderer bookkeeping believed was in
charge, missing the one actually making sound
DR-251 a duration of zero believed, leaving the seek bar no scale
DR-252 a junk float converted to a Duration, panicking the backend the
instant a length-less stream appeared
So the MediaPlayer contract (DR-242 … DR-247): `open` carries a start position,
so no caller sequences load-then-seek and none can race an engine's load;
`seek` states a destination and leaves in-place-versus-re-open to the engine;
`snapshot` is one coherent read; and `Phase::Opening` names the window where
intent used to be lost. One conformance suite runs against every engine —
FakePlayer and mpv under cargo test, ExoPlayer instrumented on a device — so an
engine is either correct or visibly failing.
Two of the nine were introduced during this work and caught on hardware, not by
any suite: an over-broad capability that grouped ExoPlayer with mpv, and the
Duration panic. The suites test engines that behave. That is recorded in
docs/native-player-verification.md, which asks for the exact action sequences
that found them.
Verified: all automated gates, conformance (mpv 9/9, legacy 8/9 by design,
ExoPlayer 7/7 on device), and manual desktop and Android passes on real
hardware.
Known open and deliberately shipped: resume reads local progress and never the
server's; the background-audio handoff still declares a state swap it does not
confirm (the symptom is now impossible, the race is not); and `bun run
android:dev` builds an APK carrying the release application id, whose failure
message advises an uninstall that would destroy app data. Fix that last one
before anyone else builds for Android.
Squashed from worktree-linux-native-video, which keeps the per-defect history.
Formatting was configured but never enforced: `bun run format:check`
reported 199 unformatted files and ran in no workflow and in no git hook,
so .prettierrc (printWidth 100, trailing commas) described an intention
rather than the tree.
This is the one-time sweep that makes the check gateable. Whitespace and
token-reflow only -- no behavioural change: `bun run check` reports 0
errors and all 1053 frontend tests pass before and after.
Kept out of every other commit on purpose. A 199-file diff mixed with
real changes is unreviewable, and the next commit turns format:check
into a hard CI gate so this cannot silently accumulate again.
The native (ExoPlayer) video path never applied the resume position, so
"resume from where you left off" always played from the start on Android.
Two layers each assumed the other did the seek:
- The only code acting on `initialPosition` was handleCanPlay, an HTML5
<video> event handler. The native path has no <video> element, so
`canplay` never fires and that seek never ran.
- NativePlayerAdapter.load() had an initialPosition branch, but it only
recorded the number, claiming "the native backend performs the actual
seek internally". It does not: PlayItemRequest carries no start
position, and loadWithMetadata -> prepare() always starts ExoPlayer at 0.
- VideoPlayer never called adapter.load() at all, so even that branch was
unreachable.
The frontend therefore believed it had resumed (the seek bar showed the
resume point) while ExoPlayer played from the beginning.
NativePlayerAdapter.load() now issues the backend seek, excluding live
streams (no resume point; seeking knocks the HLS window off its live
edge). VideoPlayer calls it on the native branch and marks the initial
seek as performed so the existing $effect does not fire a duplicate.
The HTML5 path is untouched: seeking before metadata is clamped to 0,
which is exactly what handleCanPlay waits for.
Verified red->green: the new test failed with "Number of calls: 0"
before the fix. Full frontend suite passes (933 tests); svelte-check
and check:boundary are clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Establish a decoupled player boundary so UI and backend interact with video
through one contract, with the HTML5 (Linux/interim-Android) and native
(ExoPlayer) providers as interchangeable primitive-executor adapters.
- PlayerAdapter interface + AdapterHost callback bag (adapters/types.ts): the
adapter owns only decision-free element PRIMITIVES (seekElement, reloadSource,
play/pause, setVolume, selectSubtitle); it never branches on strategy.
- Seek/audio-track DECISIONS stay in Rust (player_seek_video / _switch_audio_track
return a strategy); the facade dispatches the chosen primitive to the active
adapter. Both providers share the one decision path — logic lives once, in Rust.
- Facade holds the active adapter; a new ControlCommand PlayerStatusEvent lets
backend control (lockscreen/remote/sleep) drive the webview <video> element.
- Html5PlayerAdapter resolves the LIVE element via the bridge (fixes play/pause
silently no-opping when the element was re-bound).
- Do not emit a "stopped" player state on natural end-of-video: it flipped the
player/mode to idle mid-handoff and suppressed next-episode auto-advance under
a sleep timer. Jellyfin progress reporting is preserved; the backend's
on_video_playback_ended owns the transition.
- VideoPlayer net -300 lines (strategy/HLS-reload logic relocated to the adapter).
- Adds 20 adapter unit tests; existing suites stay green (vitest 457, cargo 416).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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