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--damage truncate now cuts the pictures of an MP4 or a WebM film by the percentage asked for. Before, both kept all of their padding behind the pictures - free boxes after the media data, a Void before the Cues - so at 1 MB and above a cut of any share took only padding and every frame stayed.

A film a damage will cut splits its padding around the pictures, so the cut keeps the same share of them as of the whole file:

  • MP4: free boxes between the movie box and the media data. The chunk places (stco) give each chunk in bytes from the start of the file, so every one moves by the padding in front - the layout counts it where the places are written from. They take four bytes. A film whose media data the move takes past 4 GiB gets co64, eight bytes a chunk, as a film whose pictures take their whole reserve past 4 GiB already has - only then. This is the layout ffmpeg -movflags +faststart writes.
  • WebM: a Void between the Tracks and the first cluster. The Cues give each key frame's cluster from the start of the segment's content, so they move by it. The SeekHead's places do not: Info and Tracks stand in front of the Void, and the Cues still end the file. This is where mkvmerge puts a Void too. How much goes in front depends on how long the clusters come to, which is known only once the pictures are coded, so a film a damage will cut is coded twice, as every MP4 is: once for the lengths, then again to write it, taking every tile the first pass kept. A film nothing cuts is coded once, as before.

Each side is nothing or at least one piece - a free box (8 B) or a Void (2 B) - by format.SplitFront, as for AVIF, JPEG XL and PNG.

The manifest of a cut WebM now says how long its pictures are. It said nothing (content_bytes empty), because the end of the clusters was marked only once the writing reached it, and a cut stops the writing first.

Films nothing cuts are byte for byte what main writes.

Measured

  • Share lost, 1 MiB cut by 50%: MP4 80 278 of 160 557 B of mdat, WebM 81 639 of 163 278 B of clusters. ffmpeg gives 120 of 300 frames from either.
  • The whole film with the padding split, all in front, the smallest piece in front, and (MP4) with co64, at 20 KB, 1 MB and 10 MB: ffmpeg 9.0.1 and 7.1.5, each with its default AV1 decoder and with libaom, give the same 300 frames (MD5 of each) as from today's layout. Chrome and Firefox <video> play it to the end with the same first and last picture. MP4Box and mkvextract copy out the same sample bytes, MediaInfo reads 300 frames and 10 s. Windows Media Foundation (AV1 Video Extension, Web Media Extensions) gives the same first and last picture. AVFoundation on macOS reads the same 300 MP4 samples - it decodes no AV1 on an M2 and opens no WebM, cut or not.
  • The cut film: an MP4 stops in Chrome and Firefox with a decode error near the cut, a WebM plays to the cut and ends. MediaInfo calls both truncated. The manifest keeps saying a cut film is rejected, as it says of a cut picture a viewer can still show part of.
  • Time: a cut WebM against main, interleaved, the median of 7 and 11 rounds - no difference at 10 s (about 0.12 s either way), and at an hour of 1080p 0.02 to 0.3 s more out of about 1 s, with the uncut film the same in both.

Guards

  • MP4 and WebM leave the ratchet of formats that do not yet cut at the share.
  • The structural checker (internal/oracle/strict.py) allows the free boxes right in front of the media data, and a Void right before the first cluster, besides the padding at the end - still requiring the tables to land, and refusing padding anywhere else.
  • New TestAnMP4OrAWebMLaidOutForACutComesToEverySizeAndPlays: consecutive sizes from the smallest cut at the half, and cuts a byte apart where the share starts to want padding in front and where the padding behind runs out. For each it checks the length, that each side is nothing or a piece, and the share to the byte, and asserts it met every layout. Instead of decoding, every sample is read where the file's own tables put it and has to be the bytes of the same sample in the film nothing cuts, and every cue and seek of a WebM has to land on what it names. It plans an MP4 of 5 GiB cut at 90% and requires co64 and the share from its head. Canary: a chunk place a byte off must fail.
  • Broken by hand, each turned the new guard red: stco not counting the padding in front, the Cues not moved, a WebM side allowed below a Void, an MP4 that never widens, and the widening's growth left out of the share.

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Safari, and a film decoded on a Mac with an AV1 decoder (M3 or later). An MP4 actually larger than 4 GiB in a reader - co64 was read by every reader in a 1 MB and a 10 MB film.

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  • New Features
    • MP4 and WebM films now support cuts that remove coded picture content according to the configured percentage.
    • Cut WebM manifests include picture duration. Readers may still return frames from before the cut.
  • Bug Fixes
    • MP4 and WebM films now honor the requested content share when applying cuts.
    • Films unaffected by a cut remain unchanged.

--damage truncate cut only the padding of a film of 1 MB or more, because
both containers kept all of it behind the pictures. A film a damage will cut
now splits its padding around them: free boxes between moov and mdat in an
MP4, its chunk places moved with them and widened to co64 only when the media
data then passes 4 GiB, and a Void between the Tracks and the first cluster
in a WebM, its Cues moved with it. ffmpeg's faststart and mkvmerge write the
same layouts.

A WebM a damage will cut is coded twice, once for the lengths of its
clusters, as every MP4 is. So its map, and the manifest's cut, gives the
length of its pictures, which it left empty.

Films nothing cuts are byte for byte what they were.

The structural checker allows both layouts and still requires the tables to
land. Both formats leave the ratchet of formats that do not cut at the share.
The new guard holds every size and cut it sweeps to the share, and every
sample to the bytes of the same sample in the film nothing cuts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The planner now carries the requested cut position into film generation. MP4 and WebM writers split padding around coded picture content; cut WebM films measure clusters and use a second picture pass. Guard tests and strict format checks cover the updated layouts.

Changes: Film cut generation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cut metadata and MP4 layout
internal/format/video/plan.go, internal/format/mp4/*, internal/oracle/strict.py
The film plan carries CutAt. MP4 output places padding before and after media data, and chunk offsets account for the leading gap. Strict checks accept free boxes on either side of mdat.
Measured WebM cluster layout
internal/format/webm/*, internal/oracle/strict.py
Cut WebM films measure cluster lengths before writing, split Void padding around clusters, and write clusters in a second picture pass. Strict checks accept padding before the first cluster or Cues.
Cross-format cut validation
internal/guard/filmcut_test.go, internal/guard/cutshare_test.go, internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go, CHANGELOG.md
Tests check output sizes and layouts, sample contents, WebM indexes, and large MP4 chunk offsets. The changelog describes the cut behavior, and the mutation coverage records the probe.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Plan as video.Plan
  participant MP4 as mp4.generator.Write
  participant MP4Layout as MP4 layout
  participant WebM as webm.generator.Write
  participant Pictures as video.Pictures
  participant Output as Film output
  Plan->>MP4: pass CutAt
  MP4->>MP4Layout: split padding and calculate front gap
  MP4->>Output: write front padding, media data, and remaining padding
  Plan->>WebM: pass CutAt
  WebM->>Pictures: measure first pass
  Pictures-->>WebM: return cluster lengths
  WebM->>Pictures: request second pass with Again()
  Pictures-->>WebM: return picture clusters
  WebM->>Output: write leading Void, clusters, and trailing Void
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The truncate cut for MP4 and WebM now removes picture data by the requested share, and the new guard tests cover it well. One test gap remains: the share sweep can silently skip a planned case that the manifest omits. This does not affect generated files and can be fixed with a small test change.

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Title check Passed The title names the defect the PR fixes: an MP4 or WebM file that is cut short keeps pictures it should lose. The changeset addresses this, since it splits padding around media data in MP4 and WebM so…
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Tests For Changed Behavior Passed The PR changes runtime behavior in non-UI code: MP4 and WebM layout and cut logic (internal/format/mp4/.go, internal/format/webm/.go, internal/format/video/plan.go). It adds test coverage for that b…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers Passed The diff range (refs/coderabbit/pre-merge-check/base to head) touches 11 files: CHANGELOG.md, internal/format/mp4/{cut.go,layout.go,mp4.go}, internal/format/video/plan.go, internal/format/webm/{cut.go…
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No Obvious Performance Problems Passed No clear, concrete performance problem introduced or touched by this PR was found. Evidence from the diff (base..head): - internal/format/webm/webm.go: the new eachCluster walks the clusters once.…
Desktop Robustness Passed The check targets desktop application robustness. This PR changes a Go command-line film generator. The changed files are CHANGELOG.md, the MP4 and WebM layout and writer code under internal/format, a…
Safe File Parsing Passed The check applies to code that reads, imports or exports external files (XML, CSV, JSON, archives and similar) in an unsafe way. The PR changes the MP4 and WebM writers, adds in-memory parsers in test…
System Changes Are Reversible Passed The check is not applicable. It applies only when the PR adds or changes code that modifies system state, such as network filters, proxy settings, firewall rules, system time, process hooking or injec…
Clear User-Facing Text Passed The check applies only when the PR adds or changes user-visible text. This PR does, in two places, and neither violates the check's criteria. 1. CHANGELOG.md (new Unreleased "Added" entry). This i…
No Resource Leaks Passed The PR adds no code that opens files, streams, processes, handles, timers, goroutines, or caches that persist across time. I checked the changed Go and Python hunks with targeted searches and read the…
Scope, Duplication And Docs Passed The PR stays within its stated scope and its documentation matches the behavior change. - Scope: The changed files are the MP4 and WebM cut paths (internal/format/mp4/*, internal/format/webm/*, `i…
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The title names the defect the PR fixes: an MP4 or WebM file that is cut short keeps pictures it should lose. The changeset addresses this, since it splits padding around media data in MP4 and WebM so that truncate removes the requested picture share. The title describes the user-visible symptom rather than the mechanism, but it is specific and matches the main change. It meets the requirement of a plain-language, specific title under about 140 characters.

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The PR changes runtime behavior in non-UI code: MP4 and WebM layout and cut logic (internal/format/mp4/.go, internal/format/webm/.go, internal/format/video/plan.go). It adds test coverage for that behavior: - internal/guard/filmcut_test.go is a new file with 404 added lines. It includes TestAnMP4OrAWebMLaidOutForACutComesToEverySizeAndPlays, which checks cut length, padding split, share, sample bytes, WebM cue and seek targets, and the 5 GiB co64 case. - internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go registers that new test in provenByProbe. - internal/oracle/strict.py is updated to accept the new padding placements. No existing test was deleted or skipped. The only edit to an existing assertion is in internal/guard/cutshare_test.go. It removes the mp4 and webm entries from notYetCutAtTheShare and listedBeforeTheRule. That change tightens the check, because those formats now must meet the requested share. The PR description gives this justification: "MP4 and WebM leave the ratchet of formats that do not yet cut at the share." No assertion was weakened.

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The check applies only when the PR adds or changes GUI code (XAML, Slint, Fyne, Tkinter, WPF code-behind). The PR does not touch UI. The changed-file inventory (git diff --name-status over the review range) lists CHANGELOG.md, Go files under internal/format/mp4, internal/format/video, internal/format/webm, internal/guard (tests), and internal/oracle/strict.py. None of these is GUI code. The only regex match on a UI-like name was strict.py, which is a Python structural checker for MP4/WebM layout (per the summary: check_webm and check_mp4), not a GUI module. The check is inapplicable, so it passes.

Full details: No Obvious Performance Problems

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No clear, concrete performance problem introduced or touched by this PR was found. Evidence from the diff (base..head): - internal/format/webm/webm.go: the new eachCluster walks the clusters once. writeClusters and measure both call it, so the walk is linear in the cluster count. Each cluster does O(1) work: clusterContent (layout.go:94-103) sums a fixed number of blocks, and SampleLens (video/pictures.go:252) only reads lengths. - internal/format/mp4/mp4.go and mp4/layout.go: sizes.mediaData calls eachChunk once and sizes.chunk per chunk. chunk makes a fixed number of z.of lookups. The total is linear. - internal/format/mp4/cut.go: splitForACut runs once per write and does constant work. - internal/format/webm/cut.go: measure is one extra picture pass for cut films only. Its second pass comes from first.Again(), which reuses kept tiles and codes only the tiles the first pass could not keep (video/pictures.go:214-240). This is a deliberate correctness trade-off, and the author reports a small measured cost (about 0.02–0.3 s over an hour of 1080p, with uncut films unchanged). Uncut films are still coded once. Nothing in the diff involves UI threads, bound collections, per-item external processes, or polling. No O(n²) loop over a large collection was found. The only added cost is the bounded second coding pass for cut WebM films, which is a known and reasoned design choice rather than a concrete defect.

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The check targets desktop application robustness. This PR changes a Go command-line film generator. The changed files are CHANGELOG.md, the MP4 and WebM layout and writer code under internal/format, a plan field in internal/format/video/plan.go, guard tests, and a Python structural checker. None of the listed concerns applies: - No settings or data file reads or writes are added. The code writes generated film output only, and the PR changes byte layout, not file-creation semantics. - No relative asset loading is added. Searches for Getwd, Chdir, and filepath.Abs found no matches in added lines. - No culture-sensitive number or date parsing or saving is added. The grep for ParseFloat, FormatFloat, time.Parse, and locale found no matches in added lines. - No destructive UI action is added. - No admin rights, privilege elevation, or new network calls are added. The grep for http, net, exec, and Setenv found no matches in added lines. - The new measure, writeClusters, and eachCluster functions take a context.Context argument. This does not add background work that outlives a window, because the tool has no window. The WebM second coding pass is a longer operation, but it is a CLI run with the existing context plumbing, not a GUI operation that needs progress UI. No failure condition in the check is met by this PR.

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The check applies to code that reads, imports or exports external files (XML, CSV, JSON, archives and similar) in an unsafe way. The PR changes the MP4 and WebM writers, adds in-memory parsers in test code, and adds a Python structural checker. Evidence from the reviewed range (refs/coderabbit/pre-merge-check/base..head): - No new external-file input. The changed-file list covers CHANGELOG.md, internal/format/mp4/*, internal/format/webm/*, internal/format/video/plan.go, internal/guard/*_test.go and internal/oracle/strict.py. A grep of the added lines in the writer files (mp4.go, webm.go, mp4/cut.go, webm/cut.go) finds no os.Open, ReadFile, io.ReadAll, Unmarshal, XML/YAML/JSON, exec., or path-join calls. - Test parsers work on in-memory bytes. filmcut_test.go helpers (filmSamples, webmSamples, webmPairs, filmLayoutOf) take []byte values that the generator produced. They do not open files. The make calls there size from the test's own film layout. - Writer allocations. mp4/cut.go splitForACut and sizes.mediaData compute padding and offsets. They allocate nothing from untrusted input. The only new buffer is buf: make([]byte, 0, 64&lt;&lt;10) in the WebM/MP4 writer, which has a fixed size. The film size is a configured generator parameter, and the check does not cover it. - Python oracle. strict.py changes only the accepted box and element orderings in check_mp4 and check_webm. It reads the generator's own output and adds no new reader, decoder or external-entity handling. - No formula or CSV/XLSX export. The PR does not write any spreadsheet or formula-bearing format. No failure condition in the check matches the changed code, so the verdict is PASS. The check is mostly inapplicable to this PR. It is not a pass for the whole repository, which this review did not audit.

Full details: System Changes Are Reversible

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The check is not applicable. It applies only when the PR adds or changes code that modifies system state, such as network filters, proxy settings, firewall rules, system time, process hooking or injection, Windows services, registry, or drivers. This PR changes a media file generator. The changed files are internal/format/mp4/cut.go, layout.go, and mp4.go; internal/format/video/plan.go; internal/format/webm/cut.go and webm.go; internal/guard tests; internal/oracle/strict.py; and CHANGELOG.md. The changes add padding placement, chunk offsets (stco/co64), WebM Void and Cues positions, and a second coding pass for cut films. None of this touches system state. The raw summary and PR description name no system-state mechanism. No further tool calls were needed to reach this result.

Full details: Clear User-Facing Text

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The check applies only when the PR adds or changes user-visible text. This PR does, in two places, and neither violates the check's criteria. 1. CHANGELOG.md (new Unreleased "Added" entry). This is user-facing release text. It uses the same terms as the rest of the project: truncate, --damage truncate:missing=50, "cuts", "frames", "manifest". It states what changed and what a user sees. The check has no clause against changelog prose, and I found no vague button labels, confirmations, or icon-only controls in the diff. 2. New error strings in internal/format/mp4/mp4.go and internal/format/webm/webm.go. These are core.Defect(fmt.Errorf(...)) messages, for example "webm: the clusters came to %d B and the Cues are to start at %d B, which leaves no room for the Void every one of these carries". core.Defect marks an internal invariant failure. The GUI wraps it in text.Defect (internal/gui/text/text.go:551), which says "Something inside the program went wrong... Report it with this description". So the user is told what to do: report it. The message does say what happened, with concrete numbers. It is developer-facing wording, but it is the same pattern the codebase already uses in internal/core/records.go. It is not a bare raw exception. Optional wording improvements (not blocking): the phrase "the free box every one of these carries" is internal jargon. A clearer form is: "webm: the Void before the Cues needs at least %d B, but only %d B are free. Report this defect." Use the same pattern in the MP4 message.

Full details: No Resource Leaks

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The PR adds no code that opens files, streams, processes, handles, timers, goroutines, or caches that persist across time. I checked the changed Go and Python hunks with targeted searches and read the full diffs of mp4/mp4.go, webm/webm.go, mp4/cut.go, and webm/cut.go. The one lifetime-sensitive change is the WebM two-pass path. Its resource handling is sound: - In webm.Write, pics := f.Choice.Pictures(st) followed by defer func() { pics.Close() }() now runs before measure. The old defer pics.Close() ran later, after writeHead. The closure reads the variable at exit, so it closes the second-pass coder after content, pics = n, again. - If measure fails, the caller returns the error. The deferred close then stops the original coder. Its comment says first is closed "on every way out". - video.Pictures.Again() (pictures.go:227-240, unchanged by this PR) calls p.Close() on the first coder before it returns the second one. The second coder gets its own crew. The caller's deferred close releases it. - The MP4 path keeps its existing defer pics.Close() (mp4.go:141). The added measure and splitForACut code does not allocate new handles. Other added code: - filmcut_test.go writes through a headOnly writer for the 5 GiB case. It does not allocate the full film. It uses a bounded 64&lt;&lt;10 buffer. It opens no files. - o := &amp;out{buf: make([]byte, 0, 64&lt;&lt;10)} is moved, not added. It is a per-write buffer and does not grow over time. - The video package is not in the changed-file list, so the known-tile map and the crew helpers are unchanged. I found no new event subscription, timer, goroutine, unbounded cache, or unclosed stream in the diff.

Full details: Scope, Duplication And Docs

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The PR stays within its stated scope and its documentation matches the behavior change. - Scope: The changed files are the MP4 and WebM cut paths (internal/format/mp4/*, internal/format/webm/*, internal/format/video/plan.go). The guard and oracle changes (cutshare_test.go, filmcut_test.go, mutationcoverage_test.go, strict.py) are described in the PR description under "Guards". The "Measured" and "Not checked" sections cover the verification. No unrelated refactor is mixed in. - Duplication: splitForACut in both the MP4 and WebM packages delegates padding allocation to the existing format.SplitFront helper, as the PR description states. No helper is duplicated. - Docs: CHANGELOG.md gains an Unreleased entry for MP4 and WebM truncate. It covers the new cut behavior, the WebM manifest content_bytes change, and the unchanged output for films nothing cuts. No CLI arguments, configuration, or build requirements change, so the README needs no new flag documentation. - Compatibility: No public API, CLI argument, or configuration format changes. The WebM manifest change only fills a field that was empty. The Film.CutAt field is internal. Output changes only for cut films, which the PR describes as the intended fix. The check does not require a "Breaking changes" section here. Minor observation, not a failure: the README paragraph at lines 525-528 says that in some formats a cut can take all of the content or none of it. It does not name MP4 or WebM, so it stays accurate. A short README note on the MP4/WebM split would help readers, but the check does not require it.

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Minor · Report absent share cases as failures. · cutshare_test.go:295-297

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Report absent share cases as failures.

shareVerdicts skips a case when problems has no entry for it. The sweep sets an entry for every planned file, so the skip hides a planned file only when the manifest omits it. The loop at lines 131-136 does not detect an omitted target, because it iterates only over manifest entries. One recorded case also satisfies the format check.

Treat a case that appears in shareCases but not in problems as a failure. This keeps the SmallestDamaged skip in the target loop, which runs before shareCases is consulted for planning. Check the planned targets against problems after the manifest loop:

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 	for _, problem := range shareVerdicts(problems, notYetCutAtTheShare) {
 		t.Error(problem)
 	}
+	for id := range missingOf {
+		if _, ok := problems[id]; !ok {
+			t.Errorf("%s: no manifest entry for the planned file", id)
+		}
+	}
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Update shareVerdicts or its caller to report a failure when a planned case in shareCases has no entry in problems, rather than silently skipping it. Check planned targets after the manifest loop, while preserving the SmallestDamaged skip that occurs before planning.

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Applies to text shown to the user (labels, buttons, tooltips, placeholders, dialogs, errors, status messages, empty states, translations).

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • internal/format/mp4/cut.go
  • internal/format/mp4/layout.go
  • internal/format/mp4/mp4.go
  • internal/format/video/plan.go
  • internal/format/webm/cut.go
  • internal/format/webm/webm.go
  • internal/guard/cutshare_test.go
  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
  • internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
  • internal/oracle/strict.py
Verify tests check real behavior and would fail if the implementation were broken.

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • internal/guard/cutshare_test.go
  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
  • internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
These are end-user desktop applications.

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • internal/format/mp4/cut.go
  • internal/format/mp4/layout.go
  • internal/format/mp4/mp4.go
  • internal/format/video/plan.go
  • internal/format/webm/cut.go
  • internal/format/webm/webm.go
  • internal/guard/cutshare_test.go
  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
  • internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
  • internal/oracle/strict.py
Performance is a known weak spot of these projects.

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • internal/format/mp4/cut.go
  • internal/format/mp4/layout.go
  • internal/format/mp4/mp4.go
  • internal/format/video/plan.go
  • internal/format/webm/cut.go
  • internal/format/webm/webm.go
  • internal/guard/cutshare_test.go
  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
  • internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
  • internal/oracle/strict.py
Applies only to code that builds or styles a GUI.

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • internal/format/mp4/cut.go
  • internal/format/mp4/layout.go
  • internal/format/mp4/mp4.go
  • internal/format/video/plan.go
  • internal/format/webm/cut.go
  • internal/format/webm/webm.go
  • internal/guard/cutshare_test.go
  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
  • internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
  • internal/oracle/strict.py
User-facing changelog.

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • CHANGELOG.md
Domain: test file generator (Go; `tfg` CLI and `tfg-gui` Fyne window over one engine).

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • internal/format/mp4/cut.go
  • internal/format/mp4/layout.go
  • internal/format/mp4/mp4.go
  • internal/format/video/plan.go
  • internal/format/webm/cut.go
  • internal/format/webm/webm.go
  • internal/guard/cutshare_test.go
  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
  • internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
  • internal/oracle/strict.py
SECURITY, HIGH PRIORITY.

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • internal/format/mp4/cut.go
  • internal/format/mp4/layout.go
  • internal/format/mp4/mp4.go
  • internal/format/video/plan.go
  • internal/format/webm/cut.go
  • internal/format/webm/webm.go
  • internal/guard/cutshare_test.go
  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
  • internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
  • internal/oracle/strict.py
These apps are QA/developer tools.

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • internal/format/mp4/cut.go
  • internal/format/mp4/layout.go
  • internal/format/mp4/mp4.go
  • internal/format/video/plan.go
  • internal/format/webm/cut.go
  • internal/format/webm/webm.go
  • internal/guard/cutshare_test.go
  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
  • internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
  • internal/oracle/strict.py
Go code.

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • internal/format/mp4/cut.go
  • internal/format/mp4/layout.go
  • internal/format/mp4/mp4.go
  • internal/format/video/plan.go
  • internal/format/webm/cut.go
  • internal/format/webm/webm.go
  • internal/guard/cutshare_test.go
  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
  • internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
Check that documentation matches the actual code in this PR: commands, flags, config keys, file paths, build steps and examples must exist.

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • CHANGELOG.md
Python code.

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • internal/oracle/strict.py
All code in this repository is written by an AI coding agent (Claude Code).

CodeRabbit configuration file

Files:

  • CHANGELOG.md
  • internal/format/mp4/cut.go
  • internal/format/mp4/layout.go
  • internal/format/mp4/mp4.go
  • internal/format/video/plan.go
  • internal/format/webm/cut.go
  • internal/format/webm/webm.go
  • internal/guard/cutshare_test.go
  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
  • internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go
  • internal/oracle/strict.py
Learnings: 2

Learning: 2026-11-11T19:16:58.022Z

Learnt from: CR
Repo: donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator PR: 0
File: CONTRIBUTING.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-11T19:16:58.022Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# Contributing

## What a change has to satisfy

- **Words a user reads are English, with a flat hyphen and no semicolons.** That
  covers the README, the changelog, `--help`, every message, and every comment
  in the code. A test enforces the punctuation.

Applied to files:

  • CHANGELOG.md
  • internal/format/webm/webm.go
  • internal/oracle/strict.py
Learning: 2026-10-20T18:12:35.072Z

Learnt from: CR
Repo: donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator PR: 0
File: CONTRIBUTING.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-20T18:12:35.072Z
Learning: Source excerpt:
# Contributing

## What a change has to satisfy

- **Every change in behaviour comes with a test that fails without it.** A green
  suite is not evidence on its own. The question to answer in the pull request
  is "which test would go red if this change were undone". Each test in
  `internal/guard` is also broken on purpose by an entry in
  `internal/guard/mutation/entries.py`, and the `mutation` check on a pull
  request runs the entries the change reaches. A new test needs an entry there,
  or a line in `internal/guard/mutationcoverage_test.go` saying why it has none.

Applied to files:

  • internal/guard/filmcut_test.go
GitHub Check: linters

internal/guard/filmcut_test.go

[failure] 127-127:
missing cases in expression switch: format.RolePadding (exhaustive)

…he content

An MP4 no longer cuts in the padding behind its pictures, and it was the
case that showed the manifest's note for a cut there. The note's case moves
to the one format that still cuts there: a WebP of 4 KiB cut by 1%, whose
picture grows to fill the file and leaves more behind it than the cut takes.

The share sweep asked only the files its manifest listed, so a format that
lost one planned file passed on the others. A planned file the manifest
leaves out is now an error, with a canary.

A switch over the roles of a film's map names its padding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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donislawdev merged commit 0e49ee5 into main Nov 13, 2026
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donislawdev deleted the cut-share-mp4-webm branch November 13, 2026 23:14
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