Trickplay sprite generation (one full-decode ffmpeg pass per file) could pin a
machine: multiple agents on the same library decoded the same 4K file at once, no
CPU throttling, and crashed/restarted agents orphaned ffmpeg to init (it ran the
full 45-min decode to completion). Stacked orphans spiked a box to load ~140.
- Single-flight lock: O_CREATE|O_EXCL .lock in the shared sidecar dir so two
agents watching the same library never decode the same file twice (stale locks
reclaimed after a TTL). Returns ErrTrickplayInProgress → prewarm skips, not fail.
- Load gate: defer the heavy decode until 1-min load ≤ max(ratio×NumCPU, 1.5),
capped at 15 min so it throttles without ever becoming a permanent off-switch on
busy / small hosts. New knob library.prewarm_max_load_ratio (default 0.7).
- Concurrency: trickSem caps trickplay to ONE decode at a time per agent.
- CPU priority: setLowCPUPriority (nice 19) alongside the existing idle ionice.
- No orphans: hardenCmd sets Setpgid + Pdeathsig=SIGKILL, with runtime.LockOSThread
around the child so the kernel kills ffmpeg exactly when the agent dies (and not
spuriously — golang/go#27505).
Tests: single-flight/stale-reclaim, load-gate immediate/cancel, and an e2e
Pdeathsig orphan-kill check.
handleStreamTask now serves a mode=stream task FROM a resolved debrid HTTPS link
(when the web set preferredMethod=debrid + the torrent is cached) instead of
joining the P2P swarm — served over the SAME /stream endpoint so VLC and other
external players consume it identically (and far faster). No HLS transcode:
external players handle any container. Falls through to the P2P StreamEngine
when there is no direct URL. Uses the mutex-safe SetStreamURL setter.
Also widen the debrid HEAD size-probe timeout 10s -> 15s to match the transport's
TLS handshake budget, so a slow CDN no longer trips it and falls back to a
guessed size.
Bump 1.0.2-beta.
Pre-generate ONE trickplay sprite (montage JPEG of frames sampled every
library.trickplay.interval, default 10s) + a JSON manifest per file during the
scan/auto-scan prewarm, cached in .unarr next to the media. The web scrubber
shows tiles from it instead of extracting frames live — removing the ffmpeg
contention with the active stream that broke seekbar previews (the original
'no thumbnail' report was the auto-scan prewarm decoding the same file the HLS
transcode was reading, not a seek-index fault).
- config: [library.trickplay] enabled/interval/width (default on, 10s, 240px),
editable + a toggle; IntervalSeconds() with a 10s fallback.
- mediainfo: GenerateTrickplay (one ffmpeg fps=1/interval,scale,tile pass; idle
I/O priority; ceil() frame count so no black trailing tile; a 16.7M-px cap
coarsens the interval for long media so a single sprite stays decodable on
iOS/Safari) + sprite/manifest sidecar cache helpers.
- engine: /trickplay endpoint (manifest JSON, ?kind=sprite JPEG); the agent owns
the tile width so the web requests by path only; thumb:<sha256> token reused.
- prewarm: a trickplay job per item, gated; scan.go + daemon.go wire the config.
Tests: parseDims; synthetic 3x2 / exact-multiple / 1x1; real-file e2e smoke
(S02E08 → 143 tiles, 662KB sprite). Non-breaking: the existing 5-frame panel
prewarm + on-demand /thumbnail stay until the web migrates to the sprite.
Releases were shipping UNSIGNED: ship.sh never invoked sign-checksums, the
goreleaser pubkey ldflag defaulted to empty, and publish-cli-release.sh did not
upload a .sig — so the self-updater's signature check was silently skipped
(1.0.0-beta had no checksums.txt.sig). Make signing unconditional:
- internal/upgrade/signature.go: bake the canonical release public key as the
compiled-in default (public, safe to commit; removes the empty-env footgun).
- .goreleaser.yml: drop the pubkey ldflag (committed default is authoritative)
+ add a signs: block that runs scripts/sign-checksums over checksums.txt.
sign-checksums requires -key, so an unset RELEASE_SIGNING_KEY fails the build
instead of shipping unsigned.
- scripts/ship.sh: source RELEASE_SIGNING_KEY from ~/.config/unarr-release/signing.key
(or the env), die if absent, and assert checksums.txt.sig was produced.
Private key lives outside the repo (gitignored keyfile + operator's vault);
public key verified to match (priv[32:] == baked pubkey).
Fast input seek (-ss before -i) fails on files whose seek index is imprecise
or mildly corrupt: the demuxer lands mid-EBML element ("invalid as first byte
of an EBML number") and decodes no frame, so the web scrubber showed a broken
image (2026-06-03, anime MKVs: 15/15 prewarm thumbnails failed). When the fast
path yields no frame, retry once with output seek (-ss after -i, decode from
the start) + -err_detect ignore_err. Applied in both the on-demand handler
(buildThumbnailArgsAccurate) and the prewarm extractor (ExtractThumbnailJPEG).
Cost is paid only when the fast path fails, so healthy files keep the cheap path.
Regression test: TestBuildThumbnailArgsAccurate.
The web persists the chosen audioIndex globally, so a value from a
multi-track file can arrive for a file with fewer tracks. buildHLSFFmpegArgsAt
mapped `-map 0🅰️N?` verbatim; the optional `?` then matched nothing and the
HLS output had NO audio stream (video-only — 2026-06-03, Wistoria S02E08 had
one audio track but the session carried audioIndex=2). Clamp an out-of-range
index to the first track so audio is never silently dropped.
Regression test: TestBuildHLSFFmpegArgsAudioClamp.
The binary self-update hard-stops inside a container (internal/upgrade
refuses when /.dockerenv exists), so the web's in-app 'force update' button
is futile for Docker agents. Report whether we run in a container via a new
RunningInDocker() helper (UNARR_DOCKER env baked into the image, /.dockerenv
fallback for podman/containerd) on every register + sync, so the web can
swap the button for a copy-paste 'docker compose pull' command.
Stop treating the absolute path as a file's identity so a base-path change
(host binary→docker remap, moved media folder, remount) no longer makes the
server duplicate and orphan library rows.
- fingerprint.go: ComputeFingerprint = sha256(size ‖ first 1MiB ‖ last 1MiB),
a stable content identity that survives rename/move/base-path change. Cached
in LibraryItem and reused on incremental scans when size+mtime are unchanged.
- sync: send fingerprint + rel_path (relative to the scan root) + agent_id in
the library-sync request, so the server can move a row in place and scope
stale-cleanup per agent.
- daemon: force a FULL re-scan (with a user-facing WARNING) when the scan root
changed since the last cache, so the server re-maps by fingerprint instead of
duplicating. basePathChanged compares filepath.Clean'd roots.
- daemon: relocateUnreachable self-heals a stream request whose path is under an
old root but whose file still exists under a current allowed root, so playback
works immediately without waiting for the re-scan. Conservative: requires a
3-segment tail and re-checks containment after resolving symlinks so it can
neither serve the wrong file nor escape the allowed dirs.
See docs/plans/unarr-path-resilience.md in the web repo.
Second critico pass on the functional probe.
- The probe does real Vulkan device init, which can transiently fail when the
box is busy (notably the startup warm racing the encode benchmark). Caching
that timeout as a permanent 'no' would pin HDR to the zscale CPU chain until
daemon restart. Now a deadline is NOT cached — only a clean non-zero exit
(filter absent / no ICD), which is a stable result. zscale stays cached as
before (cheap deterministic grep, can't flake).
- Surface the exec error when ffmpeg never produced stderr (timeout / ENOENT):
the fallback log now shows err.Error() instead of a blank tail, so 'no
Vulkan' is distinguishable from 'ffmpeg never ran'.
- Dockerfile comment: clarify the Vulkan ICD (not GLX) is the load-bearing
mount that 'graphics' adds; 'compute' alone doesn't mount it.
Probe still returns true on a Vulkan host (verified); engine tests green.
Make libplacebo actually reachable in the shipped agent image, and refuse it
where it would be a regression.
Dockerfile (so a Vulkan-capable host can use the GPU tonemap path):
- install libvulkan1 (the Vulkan loader libplacebo links at runtime; ~150 KB)
- add 'graphics' to NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES so the nvidia container runtime
mounts the Vulkan ICD (nvidia_icd.json + GLX libs) under --gpus all
Both are inert without a working Vulkan GPU — the functional probe gates use.
hls.go: gate libplacebo on a real HW encoder (HWAccel != none). A software-only
host with mesa would expose lavapipe (CPU Vulkan); the functional probe accepts
it but its tonemap is SLOWER than the zscale CPU chain, so libplacebo there is a
regression. No HW encoder -> stay on zscale.
Verified on the GPU dev box: nvenc session still picks libplacebo (-c:v
h264_nvenc -vf ...,libplacebo=...:tonemapping=bt.2390); new unit test locks the
software-encoder path onto zscale.
Review (critico) caught a regression: the prod agent image ships a BtbN GPL
ffmpeg with libplacebo COMPILED IN but no Vulkan runtime (debian-slim, no
libvulkan1/mesa-vulkan-drivers/nvidia ICD). The presence probe (ffmpeg
-filters) would flip HasLibplacebo on, the filter's Vulkan device creation
would fail at runtime, and HDR sources that previously tonemapped via zscale
would break.
- FFmpegSupportsLibplacebo now RUNS the filter on one synthetic frame and
requires a clean exit (forces Vulkan device init + filtergraph negotiation),
so it is honest about THIS host: works on Vulkan-capable hosts, falls back to
zscale where Vulkan is absent. Logs the real ffmpeg error on failure.
- Warm the libplacebo (Vulkan init ~1.7s) + zscale caches in a background
goroutine at startup so the first stream session doesn't pay the probe and
risk its setup timeout.
- Benchmark: margin 1.5x -> 2.0x (the probe measures encode only; real decode
of HEVC/10-bit + busier content needs more headroom), per-probe timeout
12s -> 6s + overall 45s -> 20s (it blocks registration on software hosts),
and a 'no rung measured' case (missing lavfi/wedged ffmpeg) now keeps the
1080 default instead of flooring at 480 — an infra failure isn't a slow host.
Verified e2e on the fixed binary: LOTR Two Towers (HEVC 3840x1608 10-bit
HDR10/PQ, 12GB) on desktop-Chrome caps -> hls, ffmpeg runs h264_nvenc with
-vf ...,libplacebo=...:format=yuv420p:tonemapping=bt.2390 (zscale chain
replaced), 45 fMP4 segments, ffprobe confirms output h264 yuv420p bt709
(tonemapped from bt2020/smpte2084), no ffmpeg errors.
Replace the guessed transcode ceiling (CPU->1080, GPU->2160) with a measured
one. HW encoders still return 2160 instantly. A software-only host runs a
bounded encode benchmark — 3s testsrc2 through the real libx264 superfast
settings at 1080/720/480, top-down — and reports the rung it sustains at
>=1.5x realtime (margin for real decode + busier content).
Fixes risk 2: a weak NAS/old CPU that is ffmpeg-capable but can't keep up
with a 1080p software encode no longer advertises a 1080 ceiling, so
decideStreamPlan routes oversized sources to an external player instead of a
stuttering transcode. Floors at 480; each probe is timeout-bounded so a
wedged ffmpeg can't stall daemon startup.
Prefer the single-pass Vulkan libplacebo filter over the CPU zscale chain
for HDR->SDR tonemapping when the agent ffmpeg has it. One GPU pass does
tonemap + BT.709 primaries/transfer/matrix + 8-bit yuv420p, replacing the
four-stage zscale chain and its trailing format=/setparams. Higher quality,
far cheaper than the CPU path, and present on builds that lack zscale.
- FFmpegSupportsLibplacebo probe (cached, mirrors FFmpegSupportsZscale)
- HasLibplacebo on TranscodeRuntime, wired from buildTranscodeRuntime
- hls.go: videoTail picks libplacebo when present (not h264_vaapi), else
keeps the zscale tonemap + format chain
- test: libplacebo replaces the zscale chain, never runs alongside it
Slightly-VFR / B-frame MKV sources made ffmpeg's fMP4 muxer emit a continuous
"Packet duration is out of range" flood and produce uneven segment lengths the
web player stuttered on. Add, on the two main encoders + globally:
- libx264: -bf 0 -sc_threshold 0
- h264_nvenc: -bf 0 -no-scenecut 1
- -fps_mode cfr (force constant frame rate)
Keyframe cadence stays driven by -force_key_frames, so every segment is exactly
hls_time long. Verified: the warning flood drops from dozens/sec to ~1 per 80s
of transcoded content (cosmetic), segments stay valid fMP4.
The web player measured bandwidth against the web origin, which says nothing
about the path the video actually travels (LAN-direct, tailnet, or the CF
funnel) — on a fast LAN where the web server is the slow link it falsely
recommended a lower resolution. Serve a fixed-size, incompressible payload
from the agent so the web can measure the REAL stream path.
- GET /speedtest?size=N (clamped 64KB–4MB, default 2MB), HEAD supported
- CORS-gated like the other endpoints; no auth (carries no data)
- single-flight guard (atomic): one measurement at a time → a concurrent
request gets 429, bounding the bandwidth an unauthenticated caller can
drain over the public funnel
Stream-request failures previously reported status:"failed", which the web
treated as a download failure — it left the task unstreamable and surfaced a
misleading 20s timeout. Report them through a dedicated StreamError field
instead, so the web clears the stream flag and shows the real reason without
touching the download status.
- StatusUpdate gains StreamError (json: streamError)
- OnStreamRequested reports failures via a reportStreamError helper (path
rejected, file not found, no video in dir) instead of status:"failed"
- os.Stat is retried 3× (300ms) before giving up — NFS can transiently fail
(ESTALE/EAGAIN/timeout), the root of the intermittent "works on the 3rd try"
- dispatch OnStreamRequested off the sync loop (goroutine): it does blocking
I/O (stat retries, ffprobe in SetFile) that would otherwise stall task
dispatch + status reporting for other items
playlistHandler hardcoded #EXTVLCOPT:network-caching=30000, so VLC pre-buffered
~30 s before starting playback even on a fast, range-served LAN/Tailscale
source — the "VLC loads the whole movie before playing" regression.
Read the value from a networkCaching query param (clamped 500–60000ms) and
default to 3000 when absent. The web sends a network-aware value (small on
LAN/Tailscale, larger on the CF funnel); older web clients fall back to the
modest default instead of the old 30 s wall.
ffprobe already runs on every scanned file; now we capture its stderr and
assess integrity from it. assessIntegrity flags a file "damaged" on the
markers that mean the container/bitstream is unusable: invalid_data,
ebml_corrupt, moov_missing, bitstream_corrupt, plus no_duration (a video
stream with non-positive duration = a truncated/incomplete download).
The verdict rides on MediaInfo.Integrity (IntegrityInfo{Damaged,Reason}),
maps onto LibrarySyncItem.{Integrity,IntegrityReason}, and syncs to the web
so a damaged file can be surfaced at rest instead of only blowing up at
playback.
Bumps the scan cache version (1 → 2) so existing entries re-probe once, and
the scanner re-probes any cached entry that has no integrity verdict yet.
First beta of the 1.0 line — the full unarr streaming agent (HTTPS streaming,
HLS transcode, on-demand + cached subtitles/thumbnails, burn-in, debrid HLS,
SSE realtime, auto-resume, seeding).
- ExtractSubtitlesVTTMulti: distrust output when ffmpeg is killed by signal
(45-min timeout on a too-big remux) — a truncated WebVTT passed the len>0
check and got cached as a silently-incomplete track until the media mtime
changed. Skip all output on signal-kill; keep it on a clean non-zero exit.
- stream handlers: read the sidecar cache BEFORE the ffmpegPath guard so a
pre-warmed sub/thumbnail still serves if ffmpeg was removed after the cache
was filled.
- scan: log when the prewarm is skipped because ffmpeg is unavailable (matches
the daemon; CLAUDE.md wants bootstrap to log on every branch).
- unexport sidecarDir/subtitleCachePath/thumbnailCachePath (no external callers).
- prewarm: surface a sample error in the summary so a systemic ffmpeg failure
is distinguishable from one corrupt file.
- add unit tests: codec whitelist, cache paths, mtime freshness, atomic write,
thumb-position dedup.
The prewarm's single big read (a ~14 min sequential pass over a 60GB remux to
demux subtitles) shares the same disk/NFS as live streaming. Lower the prewarm
ffmpeg processes to the Linux IDLE I/O class (ioprio_set) so that background
read yields bandwidth to a user who's actually watching — the prewarm slows
down under contention instead of starving playback, and runs full speed when the
disk is idle.
Applied only to the prewarm-only extractors (ExtractSubtitlesVTTMulti,
ExtractThumbnailJPEG) via Start → setIdleIOPriority(pid) → Wait; the on-demand
/sub + /thumbnail handlers keep normal priority (a user is waiting on those).
Linux-only syscall behind a build tag; a no-op stub elsewhere. Best-effort —
errors ignored, never required for correctness.
Verified: the prewarm ffmpeg shows 'idle' under ionice -p; on-demand stays normal.
Subtitle extraction is I/O-bound: subtitle packets are interleaved across the
whole container, so ffmpeg must read the entire file to demux a complete track
(measured ~57 MB/s reading a 60GB remux over ~75 MB/s NFS → ~14 min for the
full read). Doing that once per track meant N full reads of a huge file.
ExtractSubtitlesVTTMulti demuxes the container ONCE and routes every text track
to its own WebVTT output, so an N-text-track file costs one read instead of N.
The prewarm now enqueues one job per file (all its text indices) and raises the
per-file deadline to 45 min so even ~200GB remuxes finish the single read in the
background (idempotent; the on-demand /sub keeps its 60s fallback). Thumbnails
are unaffected — a keyframe seek reads a tiny slice (~0.7s even on 60GB).
Pre-extract the file panel's sample frames (10/30/50/70/90% of runtime, w=320)
during the library scan and write-through any on-demand /thumbnail request into
the hidden ".unarr/<name>.t<sec>w<width>.jpg" sidecar. The /thumbnail handler
serves a fresh sidecar instantly, so the characteristics panel and seekbar
previews stop re-running ffmpeg per request.
- mediainfo.sidecar: ThumbnailCachePath, ReadCachedThumbnail, WriteCachedThumbnail,
ExtractThumbnailJPEG (mirrors engine.buildThumbnailArgs).
- library.PrewarmSidecars: also enqueues the panel frame positions (kept in
lockstep with the web's THUMB_FRACTIONS / THUMB_WIDTH) per item with a duration.
- thumbnailHandler: cache-read → hit; miss → extract → write-through.
- config: library.cache_thumbnails (default true) + both cache toggles exposed in
the interactive 'unarr config' library menu.
Local only by design — frames are the user's own content, never uploaded.
On-demand WebVTT extraction re-ran ffmpeg on every /sub request and, for
50GB+ remuxes, couldn't finish a full text track within the 60s HTTP timeout
→ the web player got a 500 and no subtitles.
Extract each text subtitle ONCE — during the library scan (no HTTP deadline,
generous per-file timeout) and write-through on the first on-demand request —
into a hidden ".unarr/<name>.s<index>.vtt" sidecar next to the media file.
The /sub handler serves a fresh sidecar instantly (mtime-invalidated when the
media is replaced), so playback subtitles are instant and huge files work.
- mediainfo.sidecar: cache paths, mtime freshness, atomic write, ExtractSubtitleVTT,
IsTextSubtitleCodec (shared classifier, mirrors engine + web whitelists).
- library.PrewarmSidecars: bounded, idempotent, ctx-cancellable background pass
run after every scan (manual + daemon auto-scan).
- subtitleHandler: cache-read → hit; miss → extract → write-through.
- config: library.cache_subtitles (default true), wired via SetCacheSubtitles.
Local-only by design: nothing extracted is uploaded — the sidecar is the user's
own content, private to their disk.
Add GET /sub?p=&i=&t= that extracts an embedded text subtitle stream to
WebVTT via ffmpeg (-map 0:s:N -c:s webvtt), token-gated with a per-track
sub:<sha256(path)>:<index> scope. The web player attaches these as
external <track>s for both direct-play and HLS, native and hls.js.
Removes the old per-session extraction path (extractSubtitles,
ServeSubtitle, manifest SUBTITLES renditions, subs/ mkdir, Close() wait):
native HLS playback never surfaced manifest subs, so that work was wasted.
The on-demand /sub endpoint is now the single subtitle source.
The agent reported its state only on the adaptive sync tick (3s watching /
10s idle), so a resolving→downloading→verifying→organizing→completed
transition could lag up to a full interval before the server (and the web
UI) saw it. Now every successful Task.Transition fires an onChange hook
wired to TriggerSync, pushing the new state immediately. Bursts are safe:
TriggerSync is a buffered-1 send, so clustered transitions coalesce into
one sync.
- Task gains an onChange hook fired AFTER the status mutex is released
(so a future heavier hook can't deadlock on task.mu); nil is a no-op.
- Manager.OnStateChange is set on each task at Submit; the daemon wires it
to TriggerSync alongside the existing OnTaskDone.
- Stream tasks transition outside the Manager, so handleStreamTask wires
the same hook explicitly (gap found in review) — resolving/downloading/
completed/failed on the stream path now push too.
The adaptive ticker stays as a reconciliation heartbeat; it's just no
longer the latency floor for state changes.
Replace the bare long-poll wake listener with a hybrid server→agent
downlink that consumes the new GET /api/internal/agent/events SSE stream
first and falls back to the long-poll wake when SSE is unavailable or
silently buffered. Resurrects the SSE client retired with WebRTC
(signal_client.go) as events_client.go — a bounded-scanner reader
(256 KiB line / 1 MiB event) that surfaces heartbeat comments as ping
events so the consumer can detect liveness.
runDownlink dispatches on the new [daemon] downlink config:
- auto (default): SSE-first; after maxSSEFailures dead/buffered attempts
fall back to long-poll for 5 min, then re-probe SSE.
- sse: SSE only, no fallback (known-good networks / testing).
- poll: the pre-0.14 long-poll wake only.
A stream is "healthy" only if it delivers a frame within livenessTimeout
(40s vs the server's 15s heartbeat). Crucially the liveness-timeout branch
returns UNHEALTHY even if an earlier frame arrived: a proxy that flushes
the connect preamble (one ping) then stalls must not pin the agent to SSE
forever — that's the partial-buffering case the fallback exists for.
event: command applies typed controls via the same OnControl callback
/agent/sync uses (idempotent); event: sync triggers an immediate sync;
ping is liveness-only. OpenEventStream rides MirrorPool failover for the
initial connect; mid-stream drops close the channel and the loop reopens.
Bump 0.14.0.
The public-API go-client (search/popular/etc.) had no mirror failover while
the agent control-plane client did — a primary-domain takedown broke public
calls. Inject a MirrorRoundTripper that reuses the SAME MirrorPool type +
IsTransient policy, rotating to cfg.Auth.Mirrors on a transient error/5xx.
WithRetry(0) hands failover ownership to the transport (no nested retry).
- usenet: Par2Verify/Repair return ErrPar2NotInstalled (was nil="verified");
pipeline surfaces it via Result.VerifyNote + WARNING — a download that
shipped parity but couldn't be checked is delivered UNVERIFIED, not verified.
- funnel: pin cloudflared version + verify a baked-in SHA-256 (was `latest` +
ELF-magic only) — a malicious/broken upstream release isn't pulled silently.
- stream: makeReadable verifies the file actually opens after chmod and warns
clearly (NFS root_squash / SMB uid mapping) instead of a cryptic later EPERM.
- WireGuard endpoint pin dropped from the debt list (reseller uses direct
config, no pin).
Foundation for direct, valid-cert browser playback (agent-TLS feature) — the
cert broker + DNS are a later phase; this is inert until a certificate exists.
- StreamServer runs a second TLS listener on https_stream_port (default 11819)
serving the SAME mux as HTTP (11818): same token + CORS gates, no new exposure.
- Certificate is read per-handshake from an atomic holder via tls.Config
GetCertificate, so a cert issued/renewed asynchronously applies without a
restart. SetTLSCertificate / LoadTLSCertificateFromFiles / HasTLSCertificate.
- Daemon arms HTTPS only when a cert pair exists at certs/agent.{crt,key} under
the state dir; without it, no HTTPS port is opened and HTTP + funnel are
unaffected. Shutdown drains the HTTPS server too.
- config: downloads.https_stream_port (default 11819, 0 = disabled).
Tests: real TLS handshake + hot-install (no-cert handshake fails, install →
200), disabled path, missing-cert load error.
SeedRatio/SeedTime were declared on TorrentConfig but never consumed, and
SeedEnabled was hardcoded false in both constructors — the daemon never
seeded, and if forced it seeded forever.
- config: [downloads] seed_enabled/seed_ratio/seed_time (opt-in, off by default)
- daemon: parse seed_time + wire all three; startup log per target shape
- engine: seedTargetReached() (pure) + seedAndDrop() background monitor on a
downloader-scoped seedCtx (not the task ctx, which dies when Download returns);
drops the torrent on ratio (uploaded/size) OR time, whichever first; no target
= seed until shutdown. Configurable check interval (tests lower it).
- fix: cleanup() now always drops — previously leaked the handle on error paths
when seeding was enabled.
- refactor: dropTracked() helper shared by cleanup + post-seeding drop.
Tests: TestSeedTargetReached (9 cases) + ctx/no-target branches + loopback
swarm smoke (-tags smoke). Roadmap hueco closed.
Bitmap subs can't be served as WebVTT, so the user picks one and the daemon
re-encodes with it overlaid. HLSSessionConfig.BurnSubtitleIndex (*int, nil=no
burn) flows into the cache key + a -filter_complex graph:
[0✌️0]<vchain>[base];[0:s:N][base]scale2ref[sub][base2];[base2][sub]overlay[vout]
Overlay after the tonemap (SDR subs keep brightness); scale2ref fits the PGS
canvas to the output. Invalid/text/out-of-range index -> clean-encode fallback.
IsTextSubtitle now includes "text" (parity with the web classifier).
Anamorphic 2.39:1 scaled to 1080 height = ~2586x1080 = 11016 MBs, busting
level 4.1's 8192-MB MaxFS -> nvenc "InitializeEncoder failed: Invalid Level"
(libx264: "frame MB size > level limit") -> 0 segments, session stalls. Most
4K rips are 2.39:1, so HLS playback was silently broken for them.
H264LevelForFrame(w,h) derives the level from the real macroblock count
(max of MB-tier and height-tier). hls.go computes output width and uses it.
16:9 unchanged; anamorphic bumps to 5.0 when needed. Discovered + verified
during the trickplay smoke.
The torrent reader used a static 5 MiB readahead — about 1.9s of a 20 Mbps 4K
stream — so streaming a torrent while it downloaded outran the download and
stalled. anacrolix's reader already prioritises the pieces in the readahead
window ahead of the playhead (and re-prioritises on seek); the window was just
too small. dynamicReadahead sizes it to ~30s of video (clamped 8-96 MiB, 24 MiB
default when bitrate is unknown). The torrent provider probes the bitrate
asynchronously so stream start never blocks on ffprobe; readers created after
the probe resolves pick up the accurate size. Real 4K (20.7 Mbps) -> 73 MiB.
HDR (HDR10/HLG/Dolby Vision) transcoded to SDR came out washed-out and
desaturated because the filter chain never tonemapped. buildHLSFFmpegArgsAt now
inserts a zscale linearise -> hable tonemap -> BT.709 chain after the scale and
before format=, but only when the source is HDR and the ffmpeg build has zscale
(FFmpegSupportsZscale, cached). Builds without zimg keep the old behaviour
(plays, just desaturated) instead of erroring.
It's a CPU filter, valid for every encoder here: the decode hwaccel deliberately
leaves frames in system memory (no -hwaccel_output_format), so zscale runs ahead
of format=/hwupload exactly like the existing scale filter. Verified on a real
4K HDR10 file — vivid colour and deep blacks vs the washed-out baseline.
A daemon restart used to abandon in-flight downloads: the in-memory queue was
lost and the web doesn't re-dispatch a stuck task, so the user had to retry
manually. The bytes already persisted (mmap + anacrolix's piece-completion DB
keyed by info_hash; debrid via Range; usenet via its tracker) — the daemon just
didn't re-attempt the work.
ActiveTaskStore persists each in-flight download's agent.Task payload to
active-tasks.json; the daemon re-submits them on startup so the downloaders
resume the partial data. manager.Submit now dedups (the startup re-submit and a
later web re-dispatch can't both run), and recordFinished removes a task from
the store only on a genuine terminal — shuttingDown (set before Shutdown cancels
the task contexts) keeps shutdown-interrupted tasks so they resume next start.
Stream/seed/upgrade tasks aren't persisted; ForceStart is cleared on resume.
CheckDiskSpace (internal/engine/diskspace.go) refuses a download before
writing when its expected size wouldn't leave a configurable reserve free,
so a download never fills the filesystem to 0 mid-write (which corrupts the
partial file). Wired into all three downloaders ahead of any write — torrent
(DataDir), debrid (outputDir, resume-aware), usenet (outputDir, fresh only).
Reserve from downloads.min_free_disk_mb (default 2048 MiB) via SetMinFreeBytes.
The manager treats an InsufficientDiskError as terminal — no source fallback,
since another source would fill the same disk — and surfaces the clear message.
Best-effort: unknown size or a stat failure doesn't block (ENOSPC stays the
backstop). Also hardens formatBytes against an exabyte-scale out-of-bounds panic.
Add GET /thumbnail to the agent stream server: ffmpeg extracts one frame
at a timestamp (-ss before -i, single-frame MJPEG to stdout) for the web's
file-characteristics panel. Auth via a token scoped thumb:<sha256(path)>
(same HMAC scheme as /stream and /hls; the web mints, the agent verifies),
clamped to a real regular file, 404-no-oracle on a bad token, 20s timeout.
ffmpeg path wired into the stream server from the daemon. Version -> 0.13.0.
Debrid direct links are time-limited; a long playback can outlive the link
the session was created with. When a debrid source dies mid-stream the daemon
now re-resolves a fresh link for the same content and resumes — no torrent
fallback, no playback restart.
- debridFileProvider holds the URL behind a mutex; on an expired-link status
(401/403/404/410) the ranged reader re-resolves via a refresh callback and
retries (bounded: 1 initial + 1 post-refresh attempt). A browser opens
several range connections, so the refresh is coalesced singleflight-style —
N readers hitting the dead link share ONE re-resolution, not N.
- HLS-from-URL: the auto-restart supervisor re-resolves the link before
relaunching ffmpeg (else it just retries the dead URL and burns the retry
budget). The mutable URL lives in s.liveURL under s.mu — restartFromSegment
reads it from the HTTP handler goroutine too (seek-restart), so cfg stays
immutable and the write races nothing.
- agentClient.RefreshStreamURL → POST /api/internal/agent/stream-url.
Cross-source torrent<->debrid swap (the rare "debrid genuinely gone" case) is
intentionally deferred. Reader refresh + coalescing covered by unit tests
(incl. -race); the web endpoint re-resolves against a real AllDebrid account.
Non-browser-native debrid content (mkv/HEVC/…) can now stream: ffmpeg reads
the debrid HTTPS link directly (-i <url>) and transcodes to HLS, instead of
2a's raw direct-play which only works for mp4/m4v.
- HLSSessionConfig gains SourceURL + CacheID; sourceRef() feeds ffprobe,
ffmpeg -i, and subtitle extraction from one place. HTTP-resilience flags
(-reconnect*, -rw_timeout) are added only for a URL source; a seek-restart
re-opens the URL with a Range request (-ss before -i = input seek).
- Segment cache keys by CacheID (the torrent info_hash) for URL sessions so
re-plays hit cache despite the debrid URL changing each resolution
(KeyForID, no filepath.Abs).
- OnStreamSession: the 2a direct-play branch is now gated on PlayMethod != "hls";
a new branch handles DirectURL + PlayMethod=="hls" → HLS-from-URL. The
local-file and both debrid HLS paths share a startHLSPlayback helper.
- ExtractMediaInfo no longer masks a URL probe failure as "file not found"
(surfaces ffprobe's real stderr, e.g. "Protocol not found" on a TLS-less
ffmpeg build).
- Bump 0.11.0 -> 0.12.0 as the HLS-from-URL floor the web gates on.
Validated e2e against real AllDebrid: a cached HEVC x265 mkv transcodes
(h264_nvenc) from the debrid URL and plays 1080p in Chrome via hls.js,
subtitles extracted from the remote mkv.
The daemon can now stream a session straight from a server-resolved debrid
direct URL instead of disk/torrent, delivering the "play instantáneo
cache-fast" promise for cache-confirmed torrents the user never downloaded.
- debridFileProvider: an io.ReadSeekCloser over HTTP Range — network-free
Seek, lazy GET on Read, reopen-on-seek, a HEAD up front for the size, and
a URL-derived name so the served Content-Type is video/mp4 (not
octet-stream) when the web's name lacks an extension.
- OnStreamSession branches on StreamSession.DirectURL before the filePath
checks (no local path, no ffmpeg), builds the provider in a goroutine
(HEAD off the sync loop) and marks the session ready.
- Bump 0.10.0 -> 0.11.0 as the debrid-stream floor the web gates on.
Validated e2e against a real AllDebrid account: a cached mp4 plays 1080p in
Chrome through the agent, including the high-offset seek for a non-faststart
file's moov atom. 2b (HLS-from-URL for mkv/HEVC) + 2c (cache-fast preference
+ mid-stream fallback) remain.
The daemon's baked-in CORS allowlist had the torrentclaw.com family but not
unarr.app — so on the unarr brand the browser dropped every /hls + /stream
response (no Access-Control-Allow-Origin) and the player reported "can't
connect to your agent" even though the agent was reachable. Add unarr.app +
www.unarr.app. (Dev over Tailscale uses cors_extra_origins for the raw IP
origin.) Found while testing the web player from an iPhone over Tailscale.
Hueco #3 / 3c (CLI). NewRemuxSource now copies the video for any
browser-decodable codec: h264, or HEVC/AV1 when the web says the device
decodes them (caps). HEVC is muxed with -tag:v hvc1 (Apple requirement),
and non-aac audio (ac3/eac3/dts) is transcoded to aac while the video is
still copied (ActionRemuxAudio) — this covers the very common h264+ac3 mkv.
Startup instrumentation for time-to-first-frame diagnosis:
- remux branch logs [probe=.. spawn=..]
- transcodeSource logs 'first fMP4 bytes after ..' (ffmpeg → first output)
- serveGrowing logs reads that block >250ms (client seeking ahead of the
live edge) + the first read's offset vs produced/estimated size.
Verified: caps gate (hls without caps, remux with), hvc1 retag (ffprobe of
the /stream output = hevc/hvc1), HEVC playback confirmed on a real iPhone
Safari over Tailscale. LAN timeline: probe 16ms, spawn 1ms, first byte
201ms, no serveGrowing blocks.
Agent side of 3b: serve a growing ffmpeg `-c copy` remux (mkv h264/aac →
fragmented MP4) over /stream with no video re-encode. Dormant until the web
sends PlayMethod="remux" (3b-ii), so this commit changes no live behavior.
- GrowingSource interface + transcodeSource already satisfies it; estimate is
the source file size for copy actions (≈ remux output) vs bitrate×duration
for real transcodes.
- NewRemuxSource: ffmpeg -c copy → growing fMP4 temp, returned as GrowingSource.
- StreamServer.SetGrowingFile + serveGrowing: manual Range responder for a
growing source (http.ServeContent needs a fixed size). 206 with an estimated
total in Content-Range; chunked body while not final (never promise bytes a
running remux might not produce); exact Content-Length once final. Blocks via
ReadAt for not-yet-produced bytes; forward seek waits, backward seek instant.
- daemon OnStreamSession: PlayMethod=="remux" → NewRemuxSource + SetGrowingFile
+ MarkSessionReady (after the ffmpeg check; copy still needs ffmpeg).
- Tests: parseByteRange + serveGrowing (full/offset/bounded/estimate/HEAD/416).
Hueco #3 / 3a (CLI side). StreamSession gains PlayMethod; when the web
sends "direct", the daemon serves the raw file over /stream (HTTP Range,
no ffmpeg) instead of transcoding to HLS — zero CPU, instant seek. Runs
before the ffmpeg-availability check so direct-play works even with
transcode disabled. Legacy/empty PlayMethod keeps the HLS path, so an old
web that never sends "direct" is unaffected.
/stream and /hls were served with no auth (only CORS + rate limit), so a
funnel- or UPnP-exposed daemon leaked active downloads to anyone with the URL.
Bind a short-lived HMAC token (scope + 6h expiry) to every stream URL the
daemon hands out and verify it on each request:
- /stream + VLC playlist: ?t= query, agent-minted, scope "stream"
- /hls: path segment /hls/<session>/<token>/<resource>, web-minted with the
agent's reported secret, scope "hls:<session>" — relative playlist URIs
inherit it with no rewriting
- NO loopback exemption: cloudflared relays public funnel traffic over
localhost, so a loopback source address is not a trust signal
- the agent reports its per-run signing key on register only when enforcing
- require_stream_token config (default true); secret fails hard if rand fails
- /playlist.m3u no longer self-mints a token (was an open token oracle)
Roadmap: Docs/plans/unarr-agent-roadmap.md (hueco #1).
Deploy the web HLS-minting change BEFORE shipping this agent release.
funnel: urlPattern matched api.trycloudflare.com before the real quick-tunnel
URL. Cloudflared logs the control-plane endpoint early, so the agent was
advertising a dead URL. Tighten regex to require at least one hyphen — quick
tunnels are always multi-word (e.g. make-appointments-negotiation-blacks).
Covers with funnel_test.go regression test.
download(oneshot): progress reporter called /api/internal/agent/status with a
synthetic "oneshot-<hash>" task ID that is not a UUID, causing the server to
return 400 every 5 s for the entire download. Pass nil client to
NewProgressReporter for one-shot mode; flush/ReportFinal are no-ops when
reporter == nil so terminal output continues unchanged.
torrent: piece-completion SQLite DB (anacrolix) was created inside the download
dir (DataDir). On NFS/SMB mounts SQLite file locking times out, emitting a
warning and falling back to an ephemeral in-memory DB. Add PieceCompletionDir
to TorrentConfig; the daemon now passes config.DataDir() (agent state dir,
always local) so the DB stays off the network mount. One-shot download leaves
the field empty → harmless in-memory fallback as before.
