Advertising a webview-shaped profile (DR-148) was necessary but not
sufficient. Probing the server directly showed Jellyfin 10.11.5 enforces a
DirectPlayProfile's Container and VideoCodec — excluding either returns
SupportsDirectPlay:false with TranscodeReasons=ContainerNotSupported /
VideoCodecNotSupported — but ignores its AudioCodec entirely: an E-AC-3
track is still offered for direct play against a profile listing only
aac,flac,mp3,opus,vorbis. Neither a VideoAudio CodecProfile forbidding the
codec nor MaxAudioChannels:2 against a 6-channel track changes the answer,
so no profile the client can send fixes this and the picture plays silent.
The client therefore stops delegating a question it can answer itself. The
negotiated source's audio is checked against what the webview decodes, and
an undecodable track forces the existing h264/aac HLS transcode regardless
of the server calling direct play fine; direct_play and needs_transcoding
are corrected to match so the frontend and the reporting path agree with
the URL actually used. The track judged is the one that would be served —
the default, else the first — since a supported track further down is not
the one that plays. A source with no audio, or a codec the server did not
name, is left alone rather than transcoded on a guess.
Test-first: the new tests failed against the old behaviour before the
decision existed. Verified on a motorola edge 30 by the audio HAL, not by
ear — the same E-AC-3 episode logged isMusicActive=true once and 58
ACDB-LOADER lines under this build, against 0 and 0 on 0.4.6, where an AAC
file in the same session produced 16 and 116. No FATAL EXCEPTION, so R8 on
the signed release build is unaffected.
Also carries in-flight subtitle-track work authored in a parallel session
(subtitleTracks, VideoPlayer, player/media, bindings) at the user's
request, so the tag matches the APK verified on device.
The audio codec list sent to Jellyfin comes from MediaCodecList, which
describes ExoPlayer — but video does not play through ExoPlayer. Android
force-renders every video in the webview <video> element (the interim
override in VideoPlayer.svelte) and Linux always has, and Chromium/WebKit
decode a far narrower set than the platform does.
A motorola edge 30 ships /vendor/etc/media_codecs_dolby_audio.xml, so it
reported ac3,eac3; the server direct-played an E-AC-3 track with
static=true and the webview built a video decoder and no audio decoder at
all — full picture, no sound. The defect is triggered by capability rather
than the lack of it, which is why a Fairphone and an Honor tablet play the
same file on the same build: without the Dolby decoder they never claim the
codec, so the server transcodes to AAC. Confirmed by A/B on the failing
device — hevc+eac3 silent, hevc+aac audible, same session, same profile,
same direct-play path, audio codec the only variable.
video_audio_codecs narrows the platform list to the webview-decodable set
for the video direct-play profile only. Audio-only playback really is the
native player's, so that profile keeps the full list rather than
transcoding music that plays perfectly well. A list with nothing decodable
still claims aac, since a profile claiming nothing invites the server to
give up instead of transcoding. The video codec list is deliberately
untouched: HEVC direct-plays through the webview correctly, so the
constraint is specific to audio.
Test-first: the tests failed against the old behaviour before the filter
existed, including the case built from the phone's real codec list. The
requirement-count assertion in extract-traces.test.ts moves 280 -> 281 for
the added DR, which is the deliberate edit that test exists to force.
Not yet verified on device — the 0.4.7 APK was still building.
Minor bump rather than patch: Android gains working equalizer, volume
normalization and gapless playback, which are new user-facing capabilities.
CHANGELOG entry written by hand rather than from `bun run release:notes`. The
generated draft lists "Crossfade between audio tracks (UR-031)" as a feature of
this release, which is false — the trace graph cannot distinguish code that
plumbs a setting (settings.rs clamping, the backend.rs trait method, both
legitimately tagged DR-034) from code that implements it, and crossfade is
implemented nowhere. The release-notes tool documents its output as a reviewed
draft; this is a concrete case of why.
v0.1.3-v0.1.5 have no CHANGELOG entries; noted in the file rather than
backfilled.
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