- Disable video transcoding endpoints with HTTP 410 Gone responses
- Add detailed messages recommending local media players for unsupported formats
- Modify direct stream API to return 415 status with local player usage instructions
- Implement enhanced external streaming API with CORS, range requests, and metadata headers
- Add universal media access API providing multiple streaming URLs and playback recommendations
- Improve MIME type detection and headers for better compatibility with external players
- Remove all transcoding logic and related process management code while preserving references
- Ensure fallback to direct streaming and local player usage instructions on unsupported formats
- Add HEAD request handler to serve video metadata without body
- Replace fluent-ffmpeg with direct spawn for FFmpeg process execution
- Implement active request tracking to prevent duplicate transcoding streams
- Enhance process management by avoiding killing similar seek processes (within 2s)
- Preserve original metadata and apply duration overrides for accurate streaming
- Return full duration metadata and seek time in custom response headers
- Add DELETE endpoint to clean up all transcoding processes for a video
- Update client video player to detect transcoding need and switch source accordingly
- Implement retry logic with capped attempts for both direct and transcoding streams
- Add user-visible transcoding error display with retry button in video viewer
- Optimize transcoding seek requests to avoid duplicate or unnecessary restarts
- Enhance useStableProgress hook to support seek offset from streaming URL
- Adjust progress updates to consider seek time offset for smooth playback progress
- Initialize progress state at seek offset instead of zero on reset to prevent jitter
- Implement GET /api/ffmpeg/status to return current FFmpeg process status
- Support filtering by videoId and response formatting (JSON or text table)
- Include optional statistics in status response
- Implement DELETE /api/ffmpeg/status for process cleanup operations
- Allow killing processes by videoId, stale status, or all at once
- Add cache-control and CORS headers for API responses
- Add error handling with 500 response on failure
- Enhanced video player components to correctly read and display duration for transcoded streams, addressing issues with incorrect progress bar behavior.
- Updated FFmpeg configuration to ensure proper preservation of duration metadata during transcoding.
- Implemented better validation for progress bar calculations to prevent invalid values.
- Added dynamic duration change event handling to improve user experience during transcoding.
- Updated documentation to reflect changes and added testing instructions for progress bar functionality.
- Added documentation for transcoding fixes addressing FFmpeg process management and progress bar accuracy.
- Introduced a heartbeat mechanism to track active video players and ensure proper cleanup of FFmpeg processes.
- Created a global ProcessManager class for managing FFmpeg processes and automatic cleanup of stale processes.
- Enhanced video player components to support heartbeat notifications and display transcoding status.
- Updated API routes for managing heartbeats and processes, improving resource efficiency and user experience.
- Added support for video codec analysis and transcoding based on codec information.
- Implemented new API routes for transcoding videos, allowing for dynamic quality adjustments.
- Updated video player components to handle errors and fallback to transcoded versions if direct streaming fails.
- Enhanced database schema to store codec information for media files.
- Introduced a VideoAnalyzer utility for extracting codec details from video files during scanning.
- Improved CORS handling in API responses for better compatibility with various clients.