bitvid attached every hosted source with `videoEl.src = url`, which only plays
HLS on Safari-family browsers. Firefox 146 fails with MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED
(canPlayType returns ""), so every .m3u8 note -- e.g. anything published by
nostube/slidestr -- was unplayable there and the URL-health badge showed
"offline". Chrome/Brave 149 happen to play HLS natively, which is why this
looked browser-specific.
Vendor hls.js (npm run build:hls) and route HLS sources through it:
- js/services/hlsPlayback.js owns detection, engine choice and the hls.js
lifecycle. Engine choice keys off MediaSource, NOT canPlayType: Chrome
returns "maybe" for every HLS type, so a native-first branch would hang.
Native is used only when MSE is genuinely unavailable.
- The bundle is the FULL build, not hls.js/light -- light drops the alternate
audio stream controller and real ladders demux audio into an EXT-X-MEDIA
group. It is lazy-imported only when a .m3u8 is encountered, so ordinary
MP4/WebTorrent playback never pays the ~500KB.
- modalCoordinator tears the instance down first; clearing `src` alone leaves
the transmuxing worker and segment fetches running after the modal closes.
- urlHealthController probes HLS by fetching the playlist for #EXTM3U. The old
bare-<video> probe could not load it and on Chrome emitted no events at all,
burning the full timeout on every HLS card.
- HLS_PLAYBACK_START_TIMEOUT widens the 3s start window, which fired
mid-startup: the bundle, master playlist, variant playlist, init segment and
first media segment are four-plus serial round trips.
Also fixes two bugs found while verifying this:
- A stale MediaError was reported as the current failure. Teardown clears `src`
and calls load(), leaving MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED ("Empty src attribute")
on the element; a later watchdog fallback rendered that as "Hosted playback
failed: source not supported or blocked." over a stream that was playing
fine. Only a MediaError produced by the current attempt is surfaced now.
Sources are also bound before the watchdogs are armed, so hls.js's own
attachMedia() src swap cannot read as a playback failure.
- `audio/x-mpegurl` is a legacy alias for an HLS playlist of any kind, not an
audio-only assertion. isAudioOnlyVideoObject misfiled HLS video ladders
published with it as podcasts and dropped them from every video feed.
Verified end-to-end in Chromium, Chrome 149, Brave 149 and Firefox 146 against
a live HLS stream: Firefox goes from "No playable source found." to playing.
Rollback: stop calling attachHlsSource() and the previous `src` assignment
returns; see docs/playback-fallback.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
The management primitives, self-contained + unit-tested. Not yet wired into the
S3-shaped orphan-GC / delete-flow (that reconcile system assumes bucket/key
semantics — its own browser-tested increment, same pattern as the upload).
- Vendor entry: export createDeleteAuth (+ rebuilt bundle, still ~27KB).
- blossomService.deleteFile({ server, sha256, signer }) — BUD-12 DELETE /<sha256>
with a signed kind-24242 delete auth (BUD-11).
- blossomService.listFiles({ server, pubkey, signer }) — BUD-12 GET /list/<pubkey>,
optional list auth.
Tests: blossom-service 9/9 (added delete/list guards + happy paths). Lint + build
clean.
REMAINING Phase 2: wire deleteFile into video-delete cleanup (resolve
server+sha256 from the blossom storagePointer), orphan-GC parity, and the
kind-10063 discovery UI (import/publish server list — needs relay fetch/publish
plumbing).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Phase 0 of docs/blossom-plan.md. No UX; off-by-default ("off = no trace").
- Vendored: pinned [email protected] bundled by scripts/build-blossom-sdk.mjs
→ vendor/blossom-client-sdk.bundle.min.js (esbuild, browser ESM, ~27KB). The
optional @cashu/cashu-ts peer dep (BUD-07 payments, only reached on a lazy 402
branch bitvid never hits) is aliased to a throwing stub. `npm run build:blossom-sdk`.
- Flag: FEATURE_BLOSSOM_STORAGE wired like FEATURE_AUDIO_INGEST / _BITCOIN_CONNECT
(instance-config → config → constants), default FALSE.
- Service: js/services/blossomService.js implements the same
uploadFile({…}) → {url,key} contract as s3UploadService (so a later
isBlossomProvider branch drops into mediaUploader). Lazy-loads the SDK; core
path = createUploadAuth(signer, sha256) + multiServerUpload (BUD-11 auth via
bitvid's existing signer, BUD-04 mirror). Torrent parity + result-shape mapping +
mediaUploader wiring + Storage-pane config land in Phase 1.
Tests: tests/blossom-service.test.mjs (5 — availability gate + input guards).
Lint + build clean. Nothing wired into the app yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Phase 0+1 of docs/bitcoin-connect-plan.md (#61). Adds Alby's Bitcoin Connect as a
one-tap NWC connect front-end that feeds bitvid's EXISTING wallet pipeline; manual
URI entry stays as the backup.
- Vendored: pinned @getalby/[email protected].3 bundled by
scripts/build-bitcoin-connect.mjs → vendor/bitcoin-connect.bundle.min.js (esbuild,
browser ESM). crypto-shim aliases the L402-only `import('crypto')` bitvid never
calls. `npm run build:bitcoin-connect` rebuilds it.
- Flag: FEATURE_BITCOIN_CONNECT wired like FEATURE_AUDIO_INGEST
(instance-config → config → constants).
- UI: a "Connect wallet" button in the Wallet Connect pane (hidden unless the flag
is on); the manual URI field stays below as the backup.
- Controller: ProfileWalletController.handleBitcoinConnect() lazy-imports the bundle
(only on click — the ~700KB never touches the main bundle), inits NWC-only with
least-privilege requestMethods and persistConnection:false, then on onConnected
extracts provider.client.nostrWalletConnectUrl → the SAME validate→save path as
the manual field → disconnect() so bitvid solely holds the spending secret. The
URI is never logged.
NOTE: config/instance-config.js FEATURE_BITCOIN_CONNECT is TRUE for local testing
only. Reset to false (shipping default) before pushing/deploying. Local commit;
not pushed, not deployed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
