screentinker/server/player
screentinker bc9e72ec0b
fix(content): render YouTube Shorts in 9:16 instead of a landscape frame (#184) (#189)
Vertical Shorts were played in a player forced to 100%x100% on a landscape
frame, so they looked wrong (pillarboxed/small). Option A: detect vertical at
ingest, persist it, and have every player honor it.

- Ingest (routes/content.js): detect a Short from the /shorts/ URL form OR
  portrait oEmbed dims (oEmbed now queried with the ORIGINAL url so /shorts/
  reports its true dimensions), and persist it as st_aspect=vertical on the
  stored embed URL. That's the only signal players get (remote_url), so it must
  be captured at ingest, not re-derived per loop. YouTube ignores the unknown
  param; players read the video id, not the full URL, to build the embed.
- Players read st_aspect=vertical and center a 9:16 box (fills a portrait screen,
  pillarboxes cleanly on landscape) instead of 100%x100%:
  web (player/index.html), Android (WebViewSupport.youtubeEmbedHtml), Tizen
  (player.js single-zone + zone paths). Dashboard library uses a static thumbnail,
  so it's unaffected.

Not doing Option B (yt-dlp): runtime dep + storage/bandwidth + maintenance +
YouTube ToS; embed-disabled Shorts already skip gracefully.

Tests: youtube-shorts.test.js (4) — /shorts/ and portrait-dims tag vertical,
landscape stays untagged, /shorts/ tags even if oEmbed fails. Android compiles;
web player inline JS + Tizen player.js parse.

Note: pre-existing Shorts added before this aren't retagged (would need an oEmbed
backfill) — re-add to fix, or a follow-up migration.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-15 08:41:43 -05:00
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debug-overlay.js Add player debug overlay and server-side error telemetry sink 2026-05-15 15:20:42 -05:00
index.html fix(content): render YouTube Shorts in 9:16 instead of a landscape frame (#184) (#189) 2026-07-15 08:41:43 -05:00
sw.js fix(#146): web player — reconnect drops video to "Waiting for content" (idle reset over live playback) 2026-07-01 22:03:44 -05:00