Backend:
- Add mediahive/players.py with cross-platform player detection:
- Windows: MPC-BE, MPC-HC, VLC, PotPlayer, mpv (registry + known paths)
- macOS: IINA, VLC (/Applications bundle scanning)
- Linux: VLC, SMPlayer (PATH via which)
- Add GET /api/players endpoint returning detected players
- Extend POST /api/roots/{id}/play to accept player_id and player_custom_cmd
- Make MPC-BE web UI port configurable via ?port= query param
Frontend:
- Add player selection to settings (localStorage, per-client)
- Two-column layout: player list (9.5em) + contextual options panel
- Contextual options: Custom Command input, MPC Web UI Port input
- Empty MPC port disables all Web UI polling/connection attempts
- MPC-BE polling only runs when MPC family player is selected and port is set
Use SHParseDisplayName + SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems to open the parent folder and select files with special-character paths. Keep explorer.exe /n,/select as a fallback when the API path fails.
- Remove legacy endpoints: /api/change-folder, /api/index, /api/scan, /api/status,
/api/playback/resume-positions
- Remove legacy global scanner module-level API from hivescan/scanner.py
- Defer all filesystem validation to background task in server lifespan (macOS-safe)
- CLI and winmain pass raw paths via MEDIAHIVE_ROOTS; no pre-startup validation
- Enforce POSIX paths everywhere (as_posix(), no backslash leakage)
- Remove MEDIAHIVE_PATH and MEDIAHIVE_DEFER_INITIAL_ROOT env vars
- Update frontend api.ts to use per-root resume positions
- Update docs/API.md and docs/multi-index-plan.md
- Fix Python 2 style except clauses in hivescan/utils.py and scanning.py
Bug 1 (shutdown hang):
- Add _kill_proc() helper to force-kill ffmpeg subprocesses immediately
when a showreel generation task is cancelled or fails.
- Unlink the incomplete output file after killing the process.
- Applies to both generate_showreel_images() and generate_episode_reel().
Bug 2 (path inconsistency):
- Use .as_posix() instead of str() for all persisted and stored paths
across the codebase (config, env vars, index store, API responses,
torrent paths, playable files, cover images, episode reels, etc.).
- Ensures forward slashes are used exclusively even on Windows.
Files changed:
- mediahive/hivescan/showreel.py
- mediahive/server.py
- mediahive/hivescan/scanner.py
- mediahive/hivescan/scanning.py
- mediahive/hivescan/indexer.py
- mediahive/hivescan/images.py
- mediahive/hivescan/__main__.py
- mediahive/winmain.py: pywebview launcher with threaded uvicorn backend,
- scripts/winbuild.py: build script — downloads ffmpeg, runs PyInstaller, makes zip
- mediahive/config.py: TOML config persistence in %APPDATA%/mediahive/
- server.py: POST /api/change-folder switches media root
- showreel.py: suppress console windows for ffmpeg subprocesses on Windows
- protocol.py: add ChangeFolderRequest struct
LeoVasanko