Video on Android/Linux renders in a webview <video> element, and the
frontend facade short-circuited play/pause/toggle straight into the
adapter whenever one was registered. Html5PlayerAdapter.toggle() then
decided play-vs-pause by reading el.paused off the DOM, so the Rust
controller never saw the intent and could not serialise competing ones.
el.paused flips transiently while an element buffers or settles a seek.
Two intents ~150ms apart therefore read *different* values and performed
*opposing* actions — one playing, one pausing — which self-sustained a
play/pause loop that needed no further input. On device this showed up
as a fully healthy element (readyState=4, networkState=1, not seeking,
not buffering, not ended) pausing itself roughly once a second, so
unpausing or skipping ahead bounced straight back to paused.
The root cause was that Rust held NO state for webview-rendered media:
report_html5_state only re-emitted its argument, despite the comment
above it claiming the controller was the single source of truth. It had
nothing to decide a toggle from.
Now report_html5_state tracks the reported state, and play/pause/toggle
consult it and drive the element by emitting a ControlCommand — the same
"backend decides, adapter executes the primitive" split player_seek_video
already uses. A stopped/idle report clears the tracking so MPV/ExoPlayer
regain authority for music playback.
Tests cover the loop signature directly (repeated toggles must alternate,
never repeat or oppose) plus a guard that one intent yields exactly one
ControlCommand — which matters on Windows, where the backend is itself
webview-based and could otherwise be driven twice.