- Observe the video element itself instead of el.closest('.episode-tile'):
ref callbacks can fire before ancestors are attached, so no tile was
ever observed and the visibility allowlist blocked all playback.
- Use a blocklist for off-screen culling (play until reported off-screen)
so observer lag/failure degrades to the old always-on behavior.
- Default to the first season playing on page view again.
- Keep preload="auto" so tiles show a first-frame preview picture;
playback gating already prevents GPU use from inactive videos.
- Stop videos staggered (same 500ms step as startup) on idle stop,
season switch and scroll culling; same for movie page showreels.
- Add useIdlePreviewPlayback composable: stops preview videos after 30s
without input and restarts them staggered on activity; also stops
while the tab is hidden.
- SeriesFullView: no episode videos play until a season is browsed
(keyboard/gamepad focus or mouse hover); only near-viewport tiles of
the active season play (IntersectionObserver); inactive seasons no
longer preload video data; sync is incremental so playing tiles are
not rewound on scroll.
- MediaDetail: header showreel videos use cancellable stagger timers,
pause when scrolled out of view, and honor the idle stop.
- Images: lazy/async decoding on series page posters; content-visibility:
auto on media cards to skip rendering off-screen row items.
- New mediahive/volume_control.py module controls master volume on
Windows (IAudioEndpointVolume via ctypes), macOS (osascript), and
Linux/PipeWire (wpctl).
- UI slider x in [0, 1.5] maps to linear amp via:
amp = 0.02*x if x < 0.1
amp = (exp(6*x)-1)/402.42879349 otherwise
- PipeWire supports >100% amplification natively (up to x=1.5).
- Windows and macOS clamp at x=1.0 (100%) since their system mixers
do not support amplification above unity.
- Gamepad D-pad up/down now controls system volume in 0.01 steps.
- JsApi exposes set_volume(), get_volume(), and volume_max() for the
frontend to query platform limits and control volume directly.
- No external dependencies: uses ctypes on Windows, subprocess on
Linux/macOS. No PulseAudio fallback.
- Add ruff ignore rules for ctypes COM boilerplate patterns.
LeoVasanko