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The editor preview would disappear mid-session and be replaced by the "Add a video to get started" empty state, over a project whose clips were still on the timeline. It only came back with Ctrl+R or a trip through the Rec/Media stage — both of which unmount Preview, which is what pinned the fault to that component's own state.

The chain. One error event on the hidden <video> put the asset id into failedSourceIds; with a single-asset project that made allSourcesFailed true; and the only reset was an effect keyed on the set of source URLs, which never changes while editing one recording. No retry, no other reset — permanent for the lifetime of the component.

The event was not even evidence of a broken file. MEDIA_ERR_ABORTED is what a cancelled load looks like, and the <video> is keyed on activeSource.id, so every cross-asset clip boundary remounts it mid-load and produces one by design. The MediaError was discarded before anything could look at it, which is why the bug could only ever be described as "the preview disappeared".

What this does, in three layers:

  1. Classify — new mediaError.ts (pure, node-tested): aborted is ignored and never counted; SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED gets one retry (a recording the capture process is still writing reports as unsupported); everything else, including an error carrying no MediaError, rides [400, 1200] ms. The budget is reset by a successful load, not by elapsed time — otherwise the fourth transient failure of a long session is terminal, which is this bug with a longer fuse. Every branch logs the code, networkState, readyState and its own decision.
  2. ReloadVirtualPreview reloads the source itself with a plain load() and resumes through the existing pendingSeekRefonLoadedMetadata path (one resume path, not two). The position is resolved at reload time from the live playhead, assetId-checked against the mounted source, falling back to a source time sampled while the decoder was healthy — video.currentTime reads 0 after load(), so trusting it would silently rewind the user. The rAF tick goes inert while a reload is in flight: an error does not fire pause, so the usual v.paused gate does not hold, and the tick would keep taking clip-boundary decisions against a frozen clock and clobber the queued resume.
  3. Tell the truthPreview's empty-state condition takes no failure input at all now; it is left answering one question, is there anything in this project to show?. A source that gives up after the retries renders PreviewErrorCard over the still-mounted canvas, which goes on painting the last composed frame (the pixels come from the native compositor — the <video> is only a decode clock). The card carries the MediaError code and a Retry button, and clears itself as soon as any source decodes again.

Also drops VirtualPreview's Video preview could not be loaded. overlay: untranslated in a 13-locale app, offered no action, and lived inside .videoFrame — which carries the live zoom transform, so at 3× it was translated off the stage.

The copy deliberately does not claim to know why. The two causes we know of — a file that moved and a file still being written — are indistinguishable from the renderer without a filesystem round trip, and guessing wrong sends someone re-importing media that was never gone.

Related issue

Fixes #395

Type of change

  • Bug fix

Release impact

  • Patch

Desktop impact

  • Not platform-specific

(Reported on Windows 11; nothing here is platform-conditional.)

Screenshots / video

Not included — the failure needs a real decoder fault to reproduce, which is exactly what jsdom cannot stage. See the manual pass below; happy to attach a capture once someone can provoke it on a machine that shows it.

Testing

  • npx vitest --run src/components/ai-edition → 23 files, 141 passed
  • npm run test → 154 files, 1808 passed / 5 skipped
  • npm run i18n:check, npm run lint, npx tsc --noEmit, npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit — all clean

New coverage:

  • mediaError.test.ts (node) — the disposition table, including that code 1 is "ignore" at every attempt count and never spends budget.
  • VirtualPreview.mediaError.test.tsx (jsdom, fake timers) — aborted load is a complete no-op; a decode failure reloads after the backoff without reporting; the reload comes back at the playhead rather than at 0; the rAF tick stops steering while recovering (asserted at 9.96 s, the frame where the boundary advance would otherwise fire); the budget is spent, then re-armed by a successful load; unsupported gets exactly one look; the retry token reloads immediately from the terminal state; and a reload never fires against an unmounted element.
  • Preview.test.tsx — the four latch-premised tests are inverted, not deleted (they encode intent from 33c811c; only the verdict changed), plus a parametrised guard that the empty state is unreachable whenever the project has media.
  • VirtualPreview.playback.test.tsx passes unchanged, which is also the guard that no i18n provider dependency crept into VirtualPreview (that suite renders it bare).

Still worth a manual pass, since jsdom has no media pipeline: rename a loaded recording out from under the editor, seek, and confirm the retry card over the last frame instead of the import screen; rename it back and click Retry. That run also answers the one open question — the new [preview] log line prints what code Chromium actually reports for a vanished file://, which is what the one-retry budget for code 4 is betting on.

What this does not do

Deliberately out of scope, and rejected during design rather than overlooked:

  • No filesystem probe / no IPC change. Distinguishing "moved" from "still being written" would need a reason discriminant on get-readable-file-info; AGENTS.md flags electron/ IPC as security-sensitive and it would only change which sentence the card prints. Hedged copy covers both honestly.
  • No focus/visibility auto-retry and no time-based budget decay. Both are tuning constants nothing in the repo can ground yet, and a blind reload on focus would mask a genuine failure behind a flicker. Reset-on-success plus the Retry button covers the cases we can actually name.

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  • New Features

    • Preview media failures now preserve the composed frame and display a localized error card with diagnostic details.
    • Added automatic recovery with bounded retries, playback restoration, and a manual Retry action.
    • Persistent failures remain visible, while recovered previews resume playback automatically.
  • Localization

    • Added media-error messaging across supported languages.
  • Documentation

    • Updated guidance on preview recovery and error handling.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for failures, retries, recovery, source changes, and preserved preview state.

One `error` event on the hidden <video> latched an asset id into a list
that only a remount could clear, and the preview fell through to
EditorEmptyState — "Add a video to get started", over a project with
clips still on the timeline. Ctrl+R or a trip through the Rec/Media stage
was the only way back, because both unmount Preview.

The event was not even evidence of a broken file. MEDIA_ERR_ABORTED is
what a cancelled load looks like, and the <video> is keyed on the asset
id, so every cross-asset clip boundary produces one by design. The code
was discarded before anyone could see it, which is why the bug could only
ever be reported as "the preview disappeared".

- mediaError.ts classifies the MediaError: aborted is ignored and never
  counted, unsupported gets one retry (a recording still being written
  reports as unsupported), everything else rides a short backoff. The
  budget is reset by a successful load, not by elapsed time.
- VirtualPreview reloads the source itself with a plain load(), resuming
  through the existing pendingSeekRef path at a position resolved at
  reload time from the live playhead — the user can scrub during the
  backoff, and video.currentTime reads 0 after load(). The rAF tick goes
  inert while a reload is in flight: an error does not fire pause, so the
  usual v.paused gate would not hold and the tick would keep taking
  clip-boundary decisions against a frozen clock.
- Preview no longer takes any failure input into the empty-state
  condition, which is left answering one question: is there anything in
  this project to show? A source that gives up after the retries shows
  PreviewErrorCard over the still-mounted canvas, which goes on painting
  the last composed frame — the pixels come from the native compositor,
  not from the <video>. The card carries the MediaError code and a Retry
  button, and clears itself when a source decodes again.
- Drops VirtualPreview's untranslated "Video preview could not be
  loaded." overlay: it lived inside .videoFrame, which carries the live
  zoom transform, so at 3x it left the stage entirely.

Fixes #395

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The preview now distinguishes transient and terminal media errors. It retries recoverable video failures, preserves the composed canvas, reports diagnostic details, and shows a localized retry overlay instead of rendering the empty state.

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Preview media recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Media error classification and retry policy
src/components/ai-edition/mediaError.ts, src/components/ai-edition/mediaError.test.ts
Adds error descriptions, diagnostic formatting, retry dispositions, retry budgets, reload ceilings, and backoff delays with test coverage.
VirtualPreview recovery lifecycle
src/components/ai-edition/PreviewCanvas.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.mediaError.test.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.module.css, technical-documentation/architecture/preview.md
Adds bounded automatic retries, manual reloads, playback-position restoration, recovery callbacks, terminal error reporting, source-URL reset handling, and recovery-state tests. Removes the in-frame error overlay and documents position-based retry rearming.
Preview failure state and overlay
src/components/ai-edition/Preview.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/PreviewErrorCard.tsx, src/components/ai-edition/NewEditorShell.module.css, src/components/ai-edition/Preview.test.tsx, src/i18n/locales/*/editor.json
Keeps the canvas mounted after terminal failures, renders a localized retry card with diagnostic details, updates preview tests, and adds translations.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 77e86

The PR keeps the editor visible during media failures and adds retry handling, but two bounded correctness risks remain: a successful recovery on one asset may hide an error for another, and recovery may briefly publish an incorrect media position to synchronized timeline consumers. These should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HTMLVideoElement
  participant VirtualPreview
  participant mediaError
  participant Preview
  participant PreviewErrorCard

  HTMLVideoElement->>VirtualPreview: Emit media error
  VirtualPreview->>mediaError: Classify error and calculate delay
  mediaError-->>VirtualPreview: Return retry or fatal disposition
  VirtualPreview->>HTMLVideoElement: Reload source and restore position
  VirtualPreview->>Preview: Report recovery or terminal detail
  Preview->>PreviewErrorCard: Render localized retry overlay
  PreviewErrorCard->>Preview: Invoke retry action
  Preview->>VirtualPreview: Increment retryToken
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #395 by separating preview failures from empty-project state, adding recovery and retries, preserving playback, and keeping the canvas visible.
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In `@src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx`:
- Around line 684-686: Remove markSourceHealthy() from the onLoadedMetadata
handler in VirtualPreview, leaving only the ready-state update there; invoke
markSourceHealthy() exclusively from onCanPlay so decode failures still exhaust
the retry budget. Update the recovery test to emit loadedmetadata before
repeated MEDIA_ERR_DECODE events and assert that onVideoError is eventually
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- Around line 214-215: Move the activeSourceRef.current assignment out of render
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Review of the previous commit found it had traded the latch for a
livelock. `markSourceHealthy` reset the budget on `loadedmetadata`, but
that event means the container header parsed — not that the bytes that
killed the decoder are readable. A truncated recording (intact header,
unreadable data: the exact case the error card exists for) re-fires it on
every reload, so the budget came back faster than failures could spend
it. Steady state was a load() every 400 ms, forever, with onVideoError
never called and the card never shown.

Progress past the failure point is the only honest evidence a reload
worked, and the rAF tick — which already samples position where the
decoder is known good — is where it is observed. `loadedmetadata` and
`canplay` now only clear the in-flight flag and tell Preview a displayed
card can go.

Also from the review:

- The card was illegible in the default theme. Light is the default
  (useTheme.ts) and there --fg-2 is #334155, near-black on the near-black
  scrim; the rgba() fallbacks written next to each var() never applied,
  because --muted-foreground is always defined. The scrim is dark in both
  themes, so it now pins its own foregrounds.
- Preview dropped the failure whenever the source list changed shape.
  Importing a replacement — which is what the card suggests — grows that
  list without touching the dead <video>: nothing remounts it and nothing
  re-fires `error`, so the card and its Retry button vanished from a
  stage that was still frozen. It now clears only when the failed asset
  itself leaves the timeline.
- A seek during the load window was silently discarded: assigning
  currentTime before metadata only sets the default playback position,
  and the queued resume then overwrote it. It re-aims the pending seek.

Tests: a scrub during the backoff (the previous "comes back at the
playhead" passed with the resume resolved at error time), the reload loop
above, and the unmount case now asserts the timer was cancelled rather
than that a null videoRef swallowed it. All four were confirmed by
mutation — each fails against the code it is written to protect.

Refs #395

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Second commit (f80c940) after an adversarial review pass over the first — 21 candidate findings, 10 confirmed, 11 refuted. One of them was a real defect in the fix itself, so flagging it rather than burying it in the diff.

The first commit traded the latch for a livelock. The retry budget was re-armed in markSourceHealthy, called from loadedmetadata — but that event means the container header parsed, not that the bytes that killed the decoder are readable. A truncated recording (intact header, unreadable data — precisely the case the error card exists for) re-fires it on every reload, so the budget came back faster than failures could spend it: load() every 400 ms, forever, onVideoError never called, card never shown. Silent stutter instead of a false empty state — better, but still a dead end with no explanation.

Progress past the failure point is the only honest evidence a reload worked, and the rAF tick already samples position where the decoder is known good, so that is where it is observed now. loadedmetadata/canplay only clear the in-flight flag and tell Preview a displayed card can go.

Three more confirmed findings, all fixed here:

  • The card was illegible in the default theme. Light is the default (useTheme.ts:10), where --fg-2 is #334155 — near-black text on the near-black scrim. The rgba(255,255,255,…) fallbacks I had written next to each var() never applied, because --muted-foreground is defined (design-tokens.css:70) and a var() fallback only fires when the token is undefined. The scrim is dark in both themes, so it pins its own foregrounds.
  • Preview dropped the failure whenever the source list changed shape. Importing a replacement — the thing the card suggests — grows that list without touching the dead <video>: nothing remounts it, nothing re-fires error, so the card and its Retry button disappeared from a stage that was still frozen. Now it clears only when the failed asset itself leaves the timeline.
  • A seek during the load window was discarded. Assigning currentTime before metadata only sets the default playback start position, and the queued resume then overwrote it. It re-aims the pending seek instead.

Two of the previous tests were also shown to be vacuous by mutation, and are now real:

mutation test that catches it
re-arm the budget on a completed reload still gives up on a file that reloads cleanly and fails at the same spot
resolve the resume position at error time honours a scrub made during the backoff
delete the retry-timer cleanup does not reload an unmounted element
blanket-clear the failure on any source-list change keeps the card when an unrelated source joins the timeline

Each mutant is killed by exactly one test; the restored tree is green. Full suite 154 files / 1811 passed, plus i18n:check, lint, and both typechecks.

Also in: a Vietnamese aspect-clash fix (vẫn đang được ghi xongvẫn chưa được ghi xong) and a corrected off-by-one in the architecture doc.

Drops the `activeSourceRef` added two commits ago. It was a third mirror
written during render, and the two places that read it — the resume
position's asset check and the recovery notification — can read the
mounted source the way the rAF tick already does, from `videoSourcesRef`
and `sourceIndexRef`.

Removes one render-phase ref write rather than moving it into an effect:
an effect here would leave this file with seven render-time mirrors and
one that is different for no reason a reader could infer. Both call sites
run from a timer or a media event, well after commit, so neither can see
a value the render phase discarded.

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150-154: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Clear failure state only for the recovered asset.

onVideoRecovered provides an asset id, but handleVideoRecovered ignores it. If fresh emits canplay after moved failed, this callback clears moved's error card even though moved remains in the timeline.

Preserve the failure unless the recovered asset id matches failure.assetId. Add a test that fails moved, reports recovery for fresh, and keeps the card visible.

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-	const handleVideoRecovered = useCallback(() => {
-		setFailure((prev) => (prev === null ? prev : null));
+	const handleVideoRecovered = useCallback((assetId: string) => {
+		setFailure((prev) => (prev?.assetId === assetId ? null : prev));
 	}, []);

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/Preview.tsx` around lines 150 - 154, Update
handleVideoRecovered in Preview.tsx to accept the recovered asset id and clear
failure only when it matches failure.assetId; preserve the existing failure
state for other assets. Add a same-package test covering failure of moved
followed by recovery of fresh, asserting moved’s error card remains visible.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx`:
- Around line 643-646: Update the retry-reset useEffect in VirtualPreview to
depend on both activeSource.id and activeSource.src, so replacing the source URL
for the same asset resets retryRef.current.attempts and related recovery state.
Add a regression test that exhausts retries, rerenders with the same id and a
new src, then verifies a MEDIA_ERR_DECODE schedules a reload.

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In `@src/components/ai-edition/Preview.tsx`:
- Around line 150-154: Update handleVideoRecovered in Preview.tsx to accept the
recovered asset id and clear failure only when it matches failure.assetId;
preserve the existing failure state for other assets. Add a same-package test
covering failure of moved followed by recovery of fresh, asserting moved’s error
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Comment thread src/components/ai-edition/VirtualPreview.tsx Outdated
The <video> is keyed on the asset id alone — deliberately, so two assets
resolving to one URL still remount — which means re-pointing an asset at
a different file re-runs the load algorithm on the SAME element. The
retry state, keyed the same way, survived that: a budget spent on the old
file would be charged to the new one, making its first error fatal with
no retry at all.

Nothing re-points an asset today (every asset mutation in the store
preserves originalPath, and addAsset always mints a new id), so this is
unreachable through the UI. It is one dependency, and it is the shape a
"relink the moved file" flow would take — which is precisely what the new
error card's copy invites, and precisely the case where a fresh budget is
the point.

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Replies to the three CodeRabbit findings — that review saw only ce84aae8, so one of them was already fixed by the time it landed.

1. markSourceHealthy() in onLoadedMetadata means the budget is never exhausted — valid, fixed in f80c940

Correct, and an independent review pass found the same defect, which is good corroboration. The diagnosis matches exactly: loadedmetadata means the container header parsed, so a truncated recording re-fires it on every reload and the budget comes back faster than failures can spend it — load() every 400 ms forever, onVideoError never reached, card never shown.

I went further than moving the reset to onCanPlay, because that is still not evidence. canplay fires when readyState reaches HAVE_FUTURE_DATA at the current position, which a seek into a healthy region of the same file can reach before playback walks back into the bad bytes. That version re-arms once per cycle too, just less often.

What re-arms it now is playing past the position the failure happened at: onError records failedAtSourceTimeRef, and the rAF tick — which already samples position where the decoder is known good — clears it and resets attempts once currentTime passes it by 0.25 s. loadedmetadata/canplay only clear the in-flight flag and tell Preview that a displayed card can go.

Test as suggested, and stronger: still gives up on a file that reloads cleanly and fails at the same spot emits loadedmetadata between every MEDIA_ERR_DECODE and seeks straight back to the failure point. Putting the reset back into markSourceLoaded fails that test, and only that test.

2. activeSourceRef is written during render — valid, resolved differently in 0418559

The purity rule is right, but an effect would have left this file with seven render-time ref mirrors (clipsRef, videoSourcesRef, sourceIndexRef, virtualTimeSecRef, …) and one that is different for no reason a reader could infer — and it would not have fixed the other seven, which are pre-existing and not this PR's business.

So I deleted the ref instead. Its two readers — the resume position's asset check and the recovery notification — now read the mounted source the way the rAF tick already does 40 lines above: videoSourcesRef.current[sourceIndexRef.current]. One fewer render-phase write, no new inconsistency, and both call sites run from a timer or a media event, well after commit.

3. Reset retry state when the source URL changes — valid in principle, taken in 33f1b6b

Unreachable today: every asset mutation in the store preserves originalPath (durationSec, cameraTrack, transcriptionFailure, video dims) and addAsset always mints a new id, so no id ever outlives its URL. Normally that is where I would skip a finding.

Taking it anyway, because it is one dependency and the reasoning holds independently of reachability: the <video> is keyed on the asset id alone — deliberately, so two assets resolving to one URL still remount — which means re-pointing an asset at another file re-runs the load algorithm on the same element, and a budget spent on the old file would be charged to the new one. That is also exactly the shape a "relink the moved file" flow would take, which is what this PR's own error-card copy invites.

Regression test added as requested (gives a re-pointed source a fresh budget); reverting the dependency fails it.


All three verified by mutation — each fix is killed by exactly one test. Suite: 154 files / 1812 passed, plus i18n:check, lint, and both typechecks.

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261-272: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Freeze the published playback clock during recovery.

The code publishes v.currentTime before checking recoveringRef. After video.load(), currentTime can reset to 0, so clock consumers can jump to the start during the retry backoff. The existing recovery test documents this reset. The comment states that the webcam overlay should remain at the last good position, but this code does not enforce that.

Publish lastGoodSourceTimeRef.current and isPlaying: false while recovery is active, or skip the clock update for the recovered element.

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+			const isRecovering = recoveringRef.current;
 			if (clockRef) {
-				clockRef.current.sourceTimeSec = v.currentTime;
-				clockRef.current.isPlaying = !v.paused;
+				clockRef.current.sourceTimeSec = isRecovering
+					? lastGoodSourceTimeRef.current
+					: v.currentTime;
+				clockRef.current.isPlaying = isRecovering ? false : !v.paused;
 				clockRef.current.playbackRate = v.playbackRate;
 				clockRef.current.virtualTimeSec = virtualTimeSecRef.current;
 			}
-			if (recoveringRef.current) {
+			if (isRecovering) {
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Review asked for the opposite: match the recovered asset id against the
failed one before clearing. That would keep "Preview stopped" pinned over
a clip that is playing perfectly.

Exactly one source is mounted at a time (`videoSources[sourceIndex]` in
VirtualPreview), and it is always the one the playhead needs, so a
healthy report can only come from the source currently on screen —
whichever asset it belongs to. Ignoring the id is the intent, not an
oversight, and the code now says so. Moving back onto the dead asset
remounts it and earns a fresh retry cycle, so the card returns by itself
if it should.

Applying the proposed diff fails the new test, which is the point.

Refs #395

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handleVideoRecovered ignoring the asset id — declining, with the reasoning pinned in a test (561474e)

The scenario the finding rests on — "fresh emits canplay while moved's card is up" — can only occur when fresh is the mounted source. VirtualPreview mounts exactly one <video>, for videoSources[sourceIndex] (VirtualPreview.tsx:174), and markSourceLoaded reports that source's id. So a healthy report always means the stage is showing a real picture, whichever asset it belongs to.

Under the proposed diff, that sequence — playhead on the broken clip, card up, user scrubs onto a clip that plays fine — leaves "Preview stopped" pinned over a working preview until they happen to scrub back. That is a card outliving its failure, which is the #395 latch again in a quieter form; it was flagged independently in my own review pass as the thing the recovery signal exists to prevent.

Nothing is lost by clearing: scrubbing back onto the dead asset remounts it (the <video> is keyed on the asset id), which earns a fresh retry cycle, and the card returns on its own if the file is still bad.

What was missing is that the rule was implicit — two reviewers asking the same question is the signal. So:

  • the reason is now in the code at the callback, not just in my head;
  • drops the card when the playhead moves onto a healthy asset pins it: fail moved, report recovery for fresh, assert the card is gone and the canvas is still mounted.

Applying the proposed diff verbatim fails that test and only that test — which is the outcome I'd want if someone reaches for this change again.

Suite: 154 files / 1813 passed, plus lint and both typechecks.

EtienneLescot and others added 5 commits August 19, 2026 18:13
`currentTime` is a live accessor into the media pipeline, and the block
added for the reload budget read it three times per tick — 60×/s. One
read, three uses.

Refs #395

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added while setting up a manual test run; every other entry in
launch.json is deliberately headless (NO_ELECTRON), and a config that
spawns a window is a local convenience, not part of this fix.

Refs #395

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Found by breaking a real recording and watching the log rather than the
tests. One corrupt file produced THREE full retry episodes, twelve
reloads in total, where the design says two reloads and one card.

Two causes, both mine:

- The budget is re-armed by playing past the position the decoder died
  at. That file had two bad spots 0.47 s apart — further than the 0.25 s
  margin — so each failure looked like progress past the OTHER one and
  handed the budget back every cycle.
- Worse, the fatal path never cleared `failedAtSourceTimeRef`, so even
  after giving up and showing the card, the next tick past the old
  failure point re-armed a source already declared dead and started the
  whole thing again.

The fatal path now clears it: once we have given up, only Retry or a
media change re-arms. And `MAX_RELOADS_PER_MEDIA` (twice the nominal
budget) caps reloads for one mounted media whatever the heuristic
concludes — a backstop that does not depend on getting the margin right.

Copy follows the evidence too. Both failures seen in the field were on a
file that was present and readable — a demuxer seek failure, then an
audio decode failure — so "may have been moved" was leading with the one
cause never observed. It now leads with damage, in all 13 locales.

Tests: both regressions reproduced in jsdom (twelve reloads become four),
and both confirmed by mutation. The first version of the ceiling test was
vacuous — it never fired loadedmetadata, so the recovery flag kept the
tick quiet and the re-arm it was meant to exercise never happened.

Refs #395

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
This is the cause of #395, not a mitigation of it.

Dragging the playhead publishes a new time every rAF — V4Timeline already
coalesces pointermove to that, "to avoid IPC flooding" — the shell mints
a seekTarget per publish, and VirtualPreview turned every one into a
`currentTime` write. Roughly sixty demuxer seeks a second on a 1080p
H.264 file the native compositor is decoding at the same time. Chromium
fails one:

  MEDIA_ERR_NETWORK (2) — PipelineStatus::PIPELINE_ERROR_READ:
  FFmpegDemuxer: demuxer seek failed

Captured on an instrumented build of main, on a recording ffmpeg decodes
end to end without a single defect, in this console order: the scrub's
own React warning, then the seek failure, then the preview collapsing to
"Add a video to get started". That is the reported bug, start to finish.

`applySourceTime` now holds at most one seek open: a target arriving
while the element is still `seeking` replaces the queue rather than
stacking, and is applied on `seeked`. Latest wins — an intermediate scrub
position was never a destination the user asked to see. Both seek entry
points route through it, and `seekToSourceTime` gains the pending-resume
re-aim its sibling already had.

The programmatic-seek flag is now raised at the moment of the actual
write. Raising it on a deferred target would let a frame on which no seek
happened consume it.

Tests: four cases against an element that models a real one on the axis
that matters (a write starts a seek, the element stays seeking until the
browser says otherwise). Confirmed by mutation — without the guard the
same scrub produces [2, 4, 6, 8] instead of [2] then [2, 8].

Refs #395

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
A long editing session could exhaust the recoveries and show a card on
healthy media. The budget counted reloads over the LIFETIME of the
mounted media, and the confirmed cause of #395 — our own seek storm —
produces a failure per scrub burst that a 400 ms reload repairs every
time. Four bursts and the fifth hiccup was terminal, on a file that was
never broken. Measured today: one scrub burst, one reload.

The budget is now reloads inside a 30 s window. A rate cannot be
exhausted by session length, only by a burst: a dead file spends it in
seconds and the user gets the card at once, while hiccups minutes apart
each get the full budget and are never seen.

That also removes the mechanism that kept getting this wrong. The budget
was re-armed by playback getting past the position it died at — a rule
that is broken in both directions: it sits above the `if (v.paused)
return` gate, so a forward scrub while paused re-armed it without
decoding a byte, and a backward scrub never re-armed it at all. A window
expires by itself, so there is nothing to re-arm. The lifetime ceiling
added to compensate goes with it.

A give-up latch replaces both: once the card is up, an emptying window
must not restart the cycle behind it — a dead file would reload every
30 s, flash back on the metadata that always parses, and lose the card.
Only Retry or a media change lifts it.

Retry also stops costing the user a recovery: it clears the history
rather than resetting a counter that `reloadActiveSource` then
incremented, so the click no longer spends one of the reloads it is
meant to restore.

Three mechanisms become one, and the two constants I had picked by
intuition are down to one grounded in measurement.

Tests: the window expiring and the give-up latch, both confirmed by
mutation. The first version of the window test was vacuous — the
predicate existed twice, in the component and in the policy module, so
each copy masked a mutation of the other. `pruneReloads` is now the
single definition.

Refs #395

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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