* db: request-path library functions use the request's connection
Library functions an API request reaches now take the request's Session (first argument) instead of
opening their own session or cursor, so a request needs one SQLite connection. Raw SQL runs through the
new `wrolpi.db.session_curs(session)`, a cursor on the Session's connection; `RequestDB.curs()` uses it.
- Search: files, videos, archives, flasher, and docs search share the request connection for the total,
the page of ids, and the page's models (3 connections -> 1).
- Zim search, including tag-filtered search and estimates (2 -> 1).
- Channel detail (`Channel.get_statistics` reads on the Channel's own Session) and the channel list.
- Video detail, edit, description, captions, comments and transcode. `get_video_for_app` and
`update_video` no longer commit; their handlers use `request.ctx.db.write()`, so editing a Video and
reading it back is one transaction.
- Tags (list, overlaps, recent), file statistics and estimates, other estimates, bulk tag preview, the
download list, retry, kill and the status summary, and docs/videos/archive statistics.
Not converted: file operations that refresh files inside the request (delete, rename, upload, channel
and collection tag/move) commit page by page in code shared with the file worker; the cached zim entry
lookup; config import.
The connection-count tests now assert one connection for every endpoint they cover (no xfails left), and
cover the videos and archive statistics endpoints, which had no API test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* downloads: startup retries in a write session of its own
start_single_tasks still called retry_downloads() without a Session after it began requiring one, so any
start after a completed refresh raised TypeError there: incomplete downloads were not reset and the
download_on_startup enable after it never ran. Startup is not a request, so
DownloadManager.retry_downloads_on_startup() opens and commits its own short write transaction.
Tested through the method, not start_single_tasks: importing main registers its startup listeners on the
shared app, and every later test in that worker then runs them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* Jobs queue and video transcode from the video page
Add an in-memory FIFO Job queue (wrolpi/jobs.py): functions register by
name, callers enqueue by name with JSON kwargs, and the perpetual-tasks
owner runs them one at a time. Logging emitted inside a Job and the
output of its subprocesses are captured into a per-Job log; Jobs report
progress and can be cancelled (a running Job's subprocess is killed).
Jobs are not persisted; an API restart forgets them.
Add a transcode Job and POST /api/videos/<id>/transcode. ffmpeg reports
progress via -progress pipe:1. The existing FileGroup is pointed at the
new file before the refresh so tags and history survive a container
change.
Replace the video page Refresh button with an Edit dropdown (Refresh,
Transcode). The Transcode modal pre-fills from the preferred codecs in
the Videos settings and shows the Job's progress, log tail and Cancel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Video page: move Delete into the Edit dropdown
The Edit dropdown now holds Refresh, Transcode and Delete, so the action
row is Download / Edit / Add to Playlist. Delete keeps its confirmation
(a Confirm dialog) and the tagged-files prompt, and is disabled in WROL
Mode like the other items.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Video page: Edit > Edit to change a video's title
PUT /api/videos/<file_group_id> writes the title (and fulltitle) into the
Video's info json, creating the file when the video has none, then
validates the Video again so its title and search text follow. Files
stay the source of truth: the edit survives a refresh, and a re-download
of the metadata replaces it (the modal says so).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Video page: edit the description in Edit > Edit
PUT /api/videos/<file_group_id> now takes optional title and description
and changes only the fields given; an empty description clears it. The
modal sends only what changed and refetches the description after saving.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Transcode modal: allow a container-only remux
Keeping both streams is no longer refused: ffmpeg copies them into the
chosen container with fast start. The container select starts at the
file's own container, the hint explains what a remux does, and the button
reads Remux when nothing is re-encoded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* WROL Mode: refuse video edits and transcodes past the API
The routes already returned 403, but a transcode Job queued before WROL
Mode was enabled still ran, update_video could be called from anywhere,
and the Edit modal's Save button stayed live. The Job now fails before
ffmpeg starts, update_video carries wrol_mode_check, and the modal
disables Save with a notice.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Transcode: verify the output before replacing the original
After ffmpeg exits, the output is probed and compared with the source
(container, presence of video/audio streams, codec per stream, duration
within 1s or 1%) and its last 30 seconds are decoded to a null output.
Any failure removes the output and keeps the original.
The tail decode replaces the download-time completeness check, which
grabbed a single frame near the end: one ffmpeg_video_complete (sync for
the downloader, async for Jobs) now serves both, and is stricter, since
every frame of the tail plus the audio must decode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Jobs: claim atomically, cap pending, own-session subprocesses; retarget before delete
Review fixes. The worker read a Job's status and wrote RUNNING as two
steps, so a cancel landing between them was overwritten and the Job ran;
_claim_job now does both under the lock. enqueue_job refuses past
JOB_PENDING_LIMIT pending Jobs. JobContext.run_command starts the
subprocess in its own session and raises CancelledError when the command
was killed, so a handler cannot mistake it for a normal exit.
The transcode Job now retargets the FileGroup (committed) while the
original file still exists, and deletes the original afterwards
(transcode_video_file gained keep_original). A crash in between leaves
both files with the database pointing at a real one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Video page: the Edit menu owns the transcode Job; polling survives Close and errors
Review fixes. The transcode Job's id and polling (useJob) move from the
modal to VideoEditMenu, so closing the modal no longer stops the page
from learning the Job finished (and refetching the video, whose path may
have changed). While a Job runs the menu shows Transcoding..., reopening
shows its progress instead of the form, and Delete waits. A failed poll
request is retried instead of ending the polling. getJobs checks the
response like its siblings. Design narration trimmed from comments.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Transcode: audio files, and Remove video to turn a video into an audio file
video_codec 'none' (REMOVE_VIDEO) drops the video stream (-vn, audio
required); an audio-only source is audio-only output whatever the video
target says, and a video target on it is refused. Audio output gets an
audio container (m4a/ogg/mp3) checked against the codec it will hold, and
a video container asked for audio output is replaced by the codec's
natural one. faststart only for mp4/m4a. Verification learned the
audio-only shape and ffprobe's container names (mkv reports matroska).
The modal offers 'Remove video (audio only)', switches to audio
containers and follows the audio codec, reads Extract Audio, and opens
for audio files (no video codec select).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Video page: yellow Edit button
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Transcode: remove the temp output on cancel; tell the user when a closed-modal Job fails or is lost
Review fixes. The temp output was only removed on Exception, but a
cancelled Job's run_command raises CancelledError (a BaseException), so a
cancel left the partial file for a refresh to index. Closing the modal
during a Job that then failed showed nothing; it now toasts the error
(and a cancellation). Polling gives up on a 404 or five failures in a
row (the API restarted and forgot its Jobs), warning the user and
unlocking Transcode and Delete instead of reading Transcoding... forever.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Jobs: _claim_job docstring states the invariant, not the old race
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Transcode: fragmented mp4 option for very long videos
A whole-file mp4 index grows with the frame count; for a many-hour video
it reaches tens of MB, which a phone must fetch and parse before the
first frame, and every seek walks it. `fragmented` writes the file with
-movflags +frag_keyframe+empty_moov+default_base_moof+global_sidx and
10s fragments: a ~1 KB moov plus a global seek index, so playback starts
and seeks quickly. mp4/m4a only; a remux, so it takes seconds per GB.
Measured on an 11-hour h264/aac file: moov 40 MB -> 1.4 KB, seek index
2 x 120 KB, 10k fragments, duration and codecs unchanged, remux in 25s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Transcode modal: the Fragmented label says audio for audio output
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Video edits keep the original: custom_title/custom_description in the info json's wrolpi section
Editing a title or description no longer overwrites yt-dlp's keys. The
values go into the info json's `wrolpi` section (custom_title,
custom_description); the modeler prefers them when deriving the Video, so
a refresh keeps the edit while the original title and description stay in
the file. An empty custom description means none.
Both re-download paths carry the wrolpi section over: the metadata-only
refresh merges it into the fresh info json, and a full re-download
snapshots it before yt-dlp overwrites the file and restores it (then
re-validates) in finalize_download. FileGroup.get_wrolpi_json reads it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* videos: codec download preferences with transcode and strict-fail options
Add video_codecs/audio_codecs ordered preference lists to the video,
channel, and RSS downloaders, alongside the existing resolution
selector. Codec preference is codec-major: a preferred codec at a
lower resolution beats another codec at a higher resolution.
When 'transcode' is enabled, a downloaded file whose streams do not
match the preferences is re-encoded with ffmpeg after download (only
the mismatching stream; targets are extensible maps, currently h264
and aac/opus/mp3). When 'strict_codecs' is enabled and transcode is
not, a download with no matching format fails permanently instead of
falling back.
Empty codec lists produce a byte-identical yt-dlp command to before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* videos: honor strict_codecs when transcode cannot produce the preference
Review fixes:
- strict_codecs is now suppressed only when transcoding can produce a
preferred codec for every non-empty preference list (new
transcode_can_satisfy_codecs); av1-only preferences with transcode
enabled fail under strict instead of silently keeping the file.
- No partial transcode: an unfixable video mismatch blocks an
audio-only conversion (and vice versa); the mismatch falls through
to strict/keep.
- fsync the transcode output before rename, and the directory after,
so power loss on a Pi cannot leave a truncated final file.
- mp3 yt-dlp pattern matches mp4a.6B as well as mp4a.6b.
- ffmpeg maps use 0:V:0 (excludes attached pictures) and 0🅰️0?
(tolerates missing audio).
- Strict toggle is no longer disabled by transcode in the UI; popup
wording corrected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* videos: serialize transcodes machine-wide via shared_ctx lock
Sanic runs multiple worker processes, so an asyncio primitive cannot
serialize transcodes across download workers. A multiprocessing.Lock
in shared_ctx now guarantees only one ffmpeg transcode runs at a time
on the machine; waiting workers poll the lock asynchronously so the
event loop stays responsive while a transcode holds it for hours.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* videos: transcode-lock review fixes
- Document that a crashed lock holder requires an API restart; this is
accepted rather than adding owner-death recovery.
- Move the 'Transcoding' user notification to after the lock is
acquired, so it fires when work begins rather than before a
potentially hours-long wait.
- Soften the lock test docstring to what it measures (in-process
wait/release); trim the acquire docstring to the polling rationale.
- Give transcode_lock its own section header in contexts.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
NAME_PARSER's suffix whitelist had no audio suffixes (and no mkv/m4v),
so a correctly-named audio file got no published date and sorted to the
very end of its Channel -- which reads as missing. The whitelist now
carries the media suffixes a Video FileGroup can lead with.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The database now lives at <media>/config/wrolpi.db so a library (files,
configs, AND database) travels with the drive between WROLPi systems.
Core:
- wrolpi/db.py: lazy SQLite engine factory (WAL, busy_timeout=30s,
foreign_keys=ON); get_db_curs yields a plain sqlite3.Cursor; native
sqlite3 paramstyle everywhere (no compatibility shims); global sqlite3
adapters keep raw-SQL datetime formats identical to the ORM's.
- wrolpi/fts.py: FTS5 external-content search replacing tsvector/GIN.
Injection-proof websearch->FTS5 translator, bm25(10,4,2,1) reproducing
A/B/C/D weighting, fast(abc)/deep column filtering, snippet headlines.
Stemming contract pinned by dedicated tests (watch/watches/watched/
watching are interchangeable).
- wrolpi/schema_ddl.py: SQLite triggers shared verbatim by the alembic
baseline and test DBs; fixes the channel video_count DELETE/UPDATE
bugs and a latent total_size bug (it used the video id as channel id).
- wrolpi/db_bootstrap.py: startup auto-create/migrate; refuses databases
written by a newer WROLPi (db_version_mismatch); SQLite 3.40 floor;
network-filesystem refusal; never creates/migrates/trusts a database
beneath an unmounted production media directory (shadow-DB guard).
- Alembic: 85 Postgres-era migrations squashed into one baseline;
revision ids are dates (2026_07_10_1350) so filenames self-sort and
alembic_version says when a schema was created; render_as_batch=True.
- All raw Postgres SQL rewritten (ANY->json_each IN, array_agg @> ->
HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT), unnest->executemany/UPDATE..FROM,
generate_series histograms->strftime GROUP BY, DISTINCT ON->
row_number(), writable CTEs->two statements, jsonb_*->json_*, explicit
NULLS FIRST/LAST, LIMIT-before-OFFSET). Simple statements converted
to SQLAlchemy instead (flag upsert, download retry/summary/tag checks,
channel-by-tag estimate, Directory delete).
- Config imports count skipped entries; background dumps are blocked
after a lossy import so partial imports can never overwrite YAML
configs (they are the sole source of truth for rebuilds now).
- Search tolerates explicit JSON nulls for limit/offset (Postgres
treated OFFSET NULL as 0; SQLite errors).
- file_group.id/doc_section.id render as INTEGER PRIMARY KEY on SQLite
(BIGINT is not a rowid alias; FTS5 content_rowid requires it).
Ops teardown: docker-compose db service, CI postgres sidecars,
initialize_api_db.sh, controller postgresql service, psycopg2-binary all
removed. upgrade.sh stops/disables postgresql (data is NOT deleted;
`systemctl enable --now postgresql` restores it); systemd units no
longer Want postgresql.service.
Existing-user upgrade: first boot creates+migrates the DB, configs
import (tags recreate their FileGroups from disk), a refresh rebuilds
the library index. QA'd on the 10.0.0.8 RPi: rebuild matched the
Postgres baseline exactly; survived an uncontrolled hard reboot with
clean integrity checks.
Accepted behavior changes: FTS5 has no stopwords; bm25 length
normalization shifts some rank orders; fast-path d_headline is
un-highlighted; all-negative queries match nothing.
Deferred: Debian/trixie package lists (incl. sqlite3 CLI), Cypress
re-baseline, VACUUM INTO snapshots, exFAT/NTFS warning, auto-kicked
rebuild refresh with progress UX.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- In get_effective_video_settings: on unparseable sleep_requests, delete
the key instead of forcing 0.0. This lets the global config default
(already present from _extract_global_inheritable) take effect, as
suggested by Greptile.
- In handleInputEvent: add explicit `value !== ''` guard before the
isNaN check. Prevents silent NaN in form state for empty number
fields (isNaN('') === false in JS).
Both changes are strict improvements with no behavior change for
valid inputs.
`sleep_requests` (and other numeric inheritable video download settings)
could arrive as strings ('' or '0.75') from the frontend NumberInputForm
and DownloadRequest bodies. These were persisted into Download.settings
(JSONB) and later triggered:
if effective['sleep_requests'] > 0:
TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'
in VideoDownloader.execute_download (and similar sites).
Root cause: DownloadSettings.__post_init__ only filtered None/[] and did
no type coercion, even though the dataclass declared Optional[float]/int.
Changes (minimal targeted fix):
- Add _coerce_optional_number helper and apply it to all numeric fields
in DownloadSettings.__post_init__ (the existing sanitization boundary).
- Centralize legacy string coercion for persisted data in the single
read chokepoint: get_effective_video_settings.
- Simplify VideoDownloaderConfig.sleep_requests getter.
- Frontend: use parseFloat for type=number inputs + null defaults for
sleep_requests (prevents '' from ever being submitted).
- Add focused regression test for string coercion path.
- Revert unrelated change to string field filtering behavior.
No NaN/Inf speculation, no duplicated try/float guards at every call site,
no behavior change for non-numeric settings.
* Added encrypted cookies feature for use with yt-dlp. Decrypted cookies never touch the disk.
* Adding sleep between all downloads to prevent rapid requests.
* Channels are fully refreshed before downloading.
* Removing superseded video browser profile.
* Batch reorganization is supported for both Domain and Channel Collections.
* Batch reorganization happens when any Collection does not match the respective file format. For example, a Channel Collection file format that does not match the `yt_dlp_options.file_name_format` will show `needs_reorganization`.
* Individual Collections can always be reorganized. The reorganization is a little more aggressive. Useful for when some files may have been missed in the batch reorganization.
Replacing Channels and Domains with Collection.
Moving downloading relationships from Channel to Collection.
Created domains.yaml config to manage tagged domain collections.
Adding turn-key upgrade solution in the UI.
Storing video settings in session storage to help user start downloads consistently.
Applying channel tag name to new channels when download videos or channels.
Initializing map tiles when importing and resetting map.
