Drops the custom WebRTC DataChannel pipeline + pion deps + WSS signaling
client + wire framing. Every in-browser playback now uses HLS over HTTP
from the daemon (Tailscale/LAN/UPnP). Browser P2P never re-enabled.
Wire renames (incompatible with web < 2026-05-26): agent.WebRTCSession
=> agent.StreamSession, SyncResponse.WebRTCSessions (JSON: webrtcSessions)
=> StreamSessions (JSON: streamSessions). MIN_AGENT_VERSION is bumped
to 0.9.4 on the web side so older agents see an upgrade card.
Also fixes the libx264 'VBV bitrate > level limit' abort by clamping
the encoder bitrate to the effective output height instead of the
requested label (carried over from the prior 0.9.3 unreleased work).
The seed_file vertical (mode=seed_file handler + engine.SeedFile) was
retired with the in-browser P2P player. [downloads.webrtc] config block
deleted; existing TOML files with the section still parse fine.
Source files in HEVC, AV1, AC3, DTS, EAC3, etc. now transcode through ffmpeg
to fragmented MP4 (h264 + aac) on-the-fly when the browser would otherwise
play silent black. Decision matrix lives in engine.DecideAction:
passthrough → remux → audio-transcode → full video-transcode.
Architecture — temp file + growing-size source:
- engine.streamSource interface abstracts byte source. Two impls:
* diskFileSource: passthrough when codecs are already browser-friendly.
* transcodeSource: spawns ffmpeg writing to a /tmp/tc-stream-*.mp4 file.
A ticker polls file size and wakes blocked ReadAt callers as ffmpeg
produces output. Estimate of final size (bitrate × duration) is
announced over the wire so the browser's scrubber has something to
anchor on.
- dataChannelPump now reads from streamSource instead of *os.File. HELLO
carries Transcoding=true + an estimated total size; Seekable=true (we
read random-access from the temp file even while writing).
- Transcoder runtime resolved per session by buildTranscodeRuntime in
cmd/daemon: ffmpeg/ffprobe path lookup + HWAccel auto-detection
(NVENC/QSV/VAAPI/VideoToolbox).
- New [downloads.transcode] TOML section: enabled (default true), hw_accel
(auto), preset (veryfast), video_bitrate (5M), audio_bitrate (192k),
max_height (optional downscale), max_concurrent (safety cap).
Falls back to passthrough if ffprobe is missing, fails, or codecs are
already browser-friendly. tmp file is cleaned up on session shutdown.
