Screenshot showed channel results with empty circles, not the initials chip —
i.e. an avatar URL was present but the image was failing to load. Two causes
addressed:
- The image proxy fetched googleusercontent/yt3 with NO User-Agent, which the
CDN 403s for some avatars → blank. Now sends a browser UA + Accept header.
- A failed avatar now swaps to the initials chip (onerror → outerHTML) instead
of hiding the img and leaving an empty circle. Also proxy protocol-relative +
deeper-subdomain YouTube image hosts. img-proxy tests green.
The channel avatar (and video thumbnails) are yt3.googleusercontent.com /
i.ytimg.com URLs; hotlink/CORS policy could blank them (failed <img> hides on
the watchlist, falls to initials on the wishlist orb) — which is why the poster
'vanished' on both pages.
Extend the /api/video/img proxy allowlist to YouTube CDN hosts (ytimg.com /
ggpht.com / googleusercontent.com, https-only, still SSRF-safe) and route all
YouTube art through it: VideoYoutube.img() helper used by the watchlist channel
cards, search chip, the wishlist nebula orb/season/still art, and the channel
detail avatar/banner/thumbnails. 2 img-proxy tests green; JS balanced.
Take the calendar visuals up a level + fix slow image loads.
- Featured "Next up" billboard: the soonest upcoming episode as a cinematic hero
(backdrop, pulsing accent, show title, S·E, air time, "View details" → modal).
- Cards: cursor-following 3D tilt + hover lift/scale/glow bloom; ambient glow
dialed way down so it's calm at rest and only blooms on interaction.
- Faster art: poster proxy takes ?w= and asks the source for a thumbnail (Plex
transcoder w/ original fallback, Jellyfin maxWidth, TMDB size bucket) — calendar
requests ~500px instead of full backdrops. Skeleton shimmer → fade-in on load.
Give the video side its OWN server connection — pre-filled from music but stored
separately in video.db, fully isolated (video never writes music config/state).
- Effective config helpers (video_plex_config / video_jellyfin_config): video's
own creds when set, else inherited read-only from music. resolve_video_server +
_build_source + watch-link/poster/dashboard all use these (own db threaded in).
- Server Connection UI mirrors music's server picker (toggle = select + configure),
scoped to Plex/Jellyfin, at the bottom of the Connections tab.
- Jellyfin: independent client built from video's creds; explicit USER picker like
music (list users → that user's libraries); honors the pick, admin fallback.
- Honest connection diagnostics (reachable vs 401 vs no-users) instead of a vague
"auth failed".
- Auto-save on change with toasts; the shared Save button is intercepted on the
video side so it saves video settings (and can't fire a music save).
- Enrichment status now PUSHES over the socket like music (no browser polling /
access-log flood); config save only rebuilds workers when an API key changed.
- Seam tests for effective-config inheritance/override + isolation guard.
Owned detail pages sample the poster for the per-title glow, but preview/person
pages fell back to the theme accent because their TMDB images are cross-origin
(canvas taint). Added /api/video/img — a same-origin proxy restricted to
image.tmdb.org (SSRF-safe) — so:
- preview (tmdb) detail samples its poster via the proxy → real accent;
- the person page samples the portrait → per-person accent on the ring/glow/role.
Tests: route registered + proxy rejects non-tmdb URLs.
The media server rarely has distinct per-season art, so season cards fell back to
a gradient. TMDB's show detail carries a poster_path per season — the show worker
now returns those, and enrichment_apply backfills seasons.poster_url for seasons
the server left without art (gap-only, never clobbers server art). The image
proxy streams a stored full URL (TMDB) directly vs. proxying a server path.
Seam tests: TMDB returns season posters, backfill fills only missing seasons.
Backend for the upcoming TV/movie detail pages, isolated to video.db:
- show_detail(id): show + seasons->episodes tree with owned/total roll-ups
(season 0 -> 'Specials', missing-season-row episodes still grouped).
- movie_detail(id): movie + owned flag + best media-file (resolution/quality).
- get_art_ref generalizes the poster ref to poster|backdrop; new
/api/video/backdrop/<kind>/<id> streams the hero art server-side (Jellyfin
Backdrop vs Primary handled).
- /api/video/detail/{show,movie}/<id> endpoints.
Seam tests for the tree roll-ups, owned/file, art ref, and both endpoints.
Rebuilt the Library page to reuse the music library's exact look — no
reinvention, just new data:
- Same classes: .library-container, .library-artist-card grid, .alphabet-
selector, .library-search-input, loading/empty states. Movies/Shows tab pill
is the only video-specific bit.
- Real posters via a server-side proxy: GET /api/video/poster/<kind>/<id>
streams the Plex/Jellyfin artwork (token stays server-side); cards fall back
to an emoji on miss. list_movies/list_shows now expose has_poster (no raw
server paths leaked).
- Client-side search + A-Z letter filter (article-aware) over the loaded set;
cards are divs (not clickable yet, per request). Scan button in the header
reuses the shared scan controller and reloads on done.
110 tests green.
