Reproduced live, by accident, while smoke-testing on a machine with no ffmpeg: the
clip uploaded fine, returned 201, and roughly six seconds later had `deleted_at` set
and was gone from the feed.
The `Ok(None)` "this clip yields no frame" case was already handled — that fix landed
when sub-second clips were being destroyed. But the `?` on the call itself still routed
every OTHER failure into the same give-up path, which soft-deletes: ffmpeg missing from
the image, ffmpeg hanging on a truncated `.mov` and tripping the timeout, an ENOSPC on
`thumbnails/`, or a DB blip in `set_thumbnail_path`. None of those says anything about
the video, and `get_original` serves the file byte-for-byte, so a post that merely
lacks a poster is fully watchable. No failure in the video branch may fail the upload.
iPhone `.mov` is exactly the input most likely to trip it, and a wedding clip is not
retakeable.
ENOSPC gets its own classifier. It was the one failure the retry loop actively made
worse: a disk does not drain during six seconds of backoff, so all three attempts
failed identically while holding a compression permit that photos were queued behind —
and the give-up path then refunded the quota and soft-deleted the row while
deliberately KEEPING the original. That freed nothing, removed the photo seconds after
a 201, and handed the guest the allowance to upload it again into the same full disk.
Now: no retry, no refund, no delete. The row stays live and the photo is served from
its original, and `backfill_stale_derivatives` regenerates the derivatives on the next
start once there is room. `is_storage_full_error` has to look inside
`ImageError::IoError` as well as at bare io errors, because `image` wraps rather than
sources it and a plain chain walk would miss every derivative-write failure.
FFMPEG_TIMEOUT drops 120s -> 45s. It was never a budget for honest work — a poster from
a phone clip takes well under a second, and `-ss` before `-i` means even a 500 MB file
seeks rather than scans. It is the ceiling on how long a pathological input holds a
permit that guests' photos are waiting behind, so it should be as tight as it can be
without cutting off real work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both the compression worker and the HTML export ran the same invocation:
ffmpeg -i <src> -vframes 1 -ss 00:00:01 -vf scale=… -y <out>
`-ss` AFTER `-i` is an output-side seek. Against a clip of a second or less ffmpeg
exits 0 and writes nothing, and both call sites gated on the exit status:
- the worker wrote `thumbnail_path` and logged "thumbnail generated" for a file that
was never created, so GET /upload/{id}/thumbnail 404s in the live feed;
- the export listed media/<id>_thumb.jpg in data.json while the ZIP writer skipped the
unopenable file, so the keepsake drew a broken image tile.
Any clip at or under a second, which phones produce constantly — mis-taps, Live
Photos, boomerangs. Not data loss; the .mp4 is in both archives and plays. Every
server-side signal stayed green.
New `services/video.rs` owns the extraction for both callers, mirroring the imaging.rs
precedent (created for the same duplication, and it paid off when the max_alloc fix
landed in both workers at once). Three changes in it:
- `-ss` before `-i`, an input-side seek. NOT sufficient alone: verified against the
production image, seeking to 1s in a 1.000s clip is still past the last frame and
still exits 0 with no file. The 0s fallback is what actually fixes this, and 1s is
tried first only because an opening frame makes a poor poster.
- Verify the artifact, not the exit status. This is the check both sites were missing.
- Carry compression.rs's 120s timeout. export.rs had NONE — a hung ffmpeg there would
strand the job at `running` and the keepsake would never complete.
The worker's call used `?`. Tightening the check without also making a missing poster
non-fatal would have been far worse than the bug: every sub-second clip would fail
compression, exhaust its retries and be soft-deleted. It now logs a warning and leaves
`thumbnail_path` NULL, which FeedListCard, VirtualFeed and LightboxModal already
handle.
The export now sets `thumb: ""` and skips the manifest entry when there is no poster —
and does the same for the IMAGE branch, whose decode failure left the identical
dangling reference. No viewer change was needed: +page.svelte already guards
`{#if post.media.thumb}` and falls back to a video tile with a play glyph. The comment
claiming "viewer handles missing thumbs gracefully" was true about the viewer and false
about what the backend sent — the guard never fired because the string was never empty.
e2e/specs/06-export/export-video.spec.ts had DOCUMENTED this as intended behaviour
("the fixture clip is <1s, so ffmpeg extracts no thumbnail frame — but exits 0 …
that's the intended shape here"). sample.mp4 is exactly 1.000s, so every video test in
the suite ran at that boundary and none ever fetched the poster. That comment is now
corrected to say what it actually was.
Tests: 2 unit; a new sample-5s.mp4 fixture so the ordinary first-seek path is covered
at all; video-playback now FETCHES the poster rather than asserting the attribute (the
one extra request that nine rounds of green never made); a new spec covering both
fixtures plus the mirror that a posterless video still uploads and plays; and a
keepsake spec asserting every <img> in the opened viewer resolves — naturalWidth === 0
is exactly the broken-tile case, whatever produced it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
