Restructure step 0: Connection extracted from the coordinator

Connection owns the socket lifecycle, connect/dial with epochs,
reconnect, the clock offset, diagnostics upload and a sealed ConnState
signal; the hello is built by an injectable builder, the resume token
stays private, and the reconnect delay and silence limit are parameters.
The coordinator maps ConnState to the same health texts and keeps the
reconnect restore and drop handling (step 1 replaces them).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.gitea/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 name: ci
 on:
+  # Branches only: a release tag points at a commit CI already checked on
+  # main, and release.yml builds it.
   push:
+    branches: ['**']
   pull_request:
 
 jobs:
@@ -40,6 +43,9 @@ jobs:
   # The updater's Windows apply path (running exe parked as .old) only
   # means something on real NTFS. Runner notes: see release.yml.
   updater-windows:
+    # Not for a "Release v…" commit: release.yml builds it on the same
+    # (only) Windows runner, which this job would hold up.
+    if: ${{ !startsWith(github.event.head_commit.message, 'Release v') }}
     runs-on: windows-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
@@ -55,5 +61,13 @@ jobs:
         run: powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tool/setup_flutter_windows.ps1
       - name: Updater tests
         shell: powershell
-        working-directory: apps/desktop
+        working-directory: packages/core
-        run: flutter test test/updater_test.dart
+        run: |
+          dart pub get
+          if ($LASTEXITCODE) { exit 1 }
+          dart test test/updater_test.dart
+      # The release build, without publishing: a broken Windows build shows
+      # here, not only on a tag.
+      - name: Windows build
+        shell: powershell
+        run: powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tool/package_windows.ps1

.gitignore

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ coverage/
 # Build artifacts that should never be committed
 *.tar.gz
 *.zip
+/dist/
 app.*.symbols
 app.*.map.json
 

README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-# watch-together
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="apps/desktop/assets/icon/icon_256.png" width="128" height="128" alt="Starsync icon">
+</p>
+
+<h1 align="center">Starsync</h1>
 
 Watch a video with friends, in sync, with the quality of a real mpv player.
 Pick from your Jellyfin library, paste any direct video link, or pick a file on your own disk;
@@ -22,60 +26,100 @@ How it fits together: [docs/HOW-IT-WORKS.md](docs/HOW-IT-WORKS.md).
 From the Releases page of this repo:
 
 - Linux: `watch-together-<version>-linux-x64.tar.gz`. Extract, run
-  `watch_together`. Needs mpv's library installed (`mpv` or `libmpv2`).
+  `watch_together`. On start it adds itself to your app launcher (and its
+  icon), so the window shows its own icon on Wayland. Needs mpv's library installed (`mpv` or `libmpv2`).
 - Windows: `watch-together-<version>-windows-x64.zip`. Extract, run
   `watch_together.exe`. mpv is bundled. New and not yet tried on a real
   Windows desktop; reports welcome.
 
-Update from the app: when a newer version exists, an update indicator
+Update from the app: the app looks for a new version at start and every
-appears in the strip at the top of the window and opens the update card. "Update and restart" downloads,
+few hours, and when one exists a band across the top of the window says so
-verifies, applies in place and restarts; the install folder must be writable
+(never over a playing video). "Update and restart" downloads,
-by you. Settings has Check now and an auto-check toggle. From a terminal:
+verifies, applies in place and restarts; "Later" hides it until the next
-`watch_together --upgrade`, or the shipped `update.sh` / `update.bat`. A
+check; the install folder must be writable by you. The version you run is
+under the Settings tab. Settings has Check now and an auto-check toggle. From a terminal:
+`./watch-together-server --upgrade` (no display needed, so it works on a
+server box too), `watch_together --upgrade`, or the shipped `update.sh` /
+`update.bat` (which run the first). Each updates the whole folder, app and
+server; restart whichever is running to use the new version. A
 release with a newer protocol is a required update: everyone on a server
 must run the same protocol version, and a mismatch is refused with a message
 telling you to update.
 
+## Getting started
+
+Three ways in, all at the top of the Library when you are not in a server.
+None of them needs Jellyfin or an account.
+
+- **Join a friend** (most people): your friend sends you an address and,
+  maybe, a password. See [Join](#join).
+- **Host**: you have the video and friends watch it with you. See
+  [Host from the app](#host-from-the-app).
+- **Watch solo**: just play something from the Library. It plays for you
+  alone, with everything a server has (Jellyfin progress, next episode,
+  skip buttons); nothing is reachable from outside this computer. Invite
+  friends in the strip turns it into a hosted server (the Host card's port
+  and password) and the video carries on from where it was; Stop ends it.
+
 ## The window
 
 One window. Along the top, the strip: your avatar (click it for your
 profile: name, picture with a crop editor, colour, and links to the
 settings), the Library / Schedule / Settings tabs, and the party. Offline
-the party side has Join and Host; in a server it shows everyone's avatar
+the party side has Join a friend and Host; watching solo it says Solo,
+with Invite friends and Stop; in a server it shows everyone's avatar
 with a ring for their state (green ready, amber buffering, grey not ready,
-dimmed reconnecting; a crown on whoever hosts, a tower on whoever
+dimmed reconnecting, dimmed with a moon sitting out; a crown on whoever
-passes the video on). Click the avatars for the member list (force ready,
+hosts, a tower on whoever passes the video on). Click the avatars for the
-kick, "Copy invite address"; when you host it lists this computer's
+member list (force ready, Nudge, Sit out, "Copy invite address"; when you host it lists this computer's
 network addresses with the port, and friends outside your network need
 that port forwarded or a server they can all reach, like a VPS). Beside them the server and "ready n/m", the chat button with unread
 count, and Leave. Empty strip space drags the window.
 
 The player fills the window under the strip. Pick a tab and it shrinks to
 a mini player in a corner: drag it anywhere and it snaps to the nearest
-corner; double-click or ⤢ makes it big again, × stops watching (you stay in
+corner; double-click or ⤢ makes it big again, × sits you out (below) and
-the server, muted) and the strip's screen button brings it back. F or
+× again closes it; the strip's screen button brings it back. F or
 double-click on the picture goes fullscreen (the strip hides, the party
 shows in a corner while paused, the window buttons sit in the player's top
 bar while its controls are up), Esc leaves it. The controls show the
-show's cover, title and episode top left (guests get the cover too); before
+show's cover, title and episode top left (a web video: its thumbnail and
+name; guests get the art too; right-click to copy the title, or the link
+when you have it, or open it in the browser or Jellyfin); before
 a video first plays, its banner fills the picture until playback starts.
-One pill above the controls says what playback waits for ("Press Space
+One pill bottom centre, just above the controls, says what playback waits for ("Press Space
 when you're ready", "Waiting for Bob and Mika · 2/3 ready", "Bob is
 loading…") or what went wrong, with Retry or Cancel when it helps. Chat and activity open in a panel on the right (chat button or
-Tab), ready to type; it shows messages, and its "Activity" toggle adds
+Tab), ready to type; it shows messages (select text to copy it, or
+right-click for Copy message and, with a link in it, Copy link / Open in
+browser), and its "Activity" toggle adds
 joins, ready, seeks and the like between them. Joins, leaves, chat and
-other news also pop up bottom left with the person's avatar; click a message to open the chat. Unread chat
+other news also pop up bottom left with the person's avatar; click a message to open the chat
-shows as a count on the chat buttons and, in fullscreen with the controls
+(Settings → Notifications → Chat messages: All by default, or Only when
-hidden, as a small chip top right.
+paused, or Off; messages always reach the chat, with their sound). Unread chat shows as a count on the chat
+buttons and, in fullscreen with the controls hidden and the video paused,
+as a small chip top right.
 
 Your name and picture change for everyone in the server right away; the
 colour is yours only.
 
+**Sitting out.** Step away without leaving: Sit out (your profile, your
+row in the member list, or × on the mini player) unloads the video on your
+end, and nobody waits for you any more; you stay in chat. Anyone can sit
+anyone out, the host too ("Alice sat you out" tells you who). The player
+then shows the cover, title and where the others are; Join back (or Space)
+loads the video there and readies you. Settings → Party & network → "When idle,
+sit out instead of just unready" does it after 10 idle minutes.
+
+**Nudge.** Nudge in the member list pokes someone, sitting out or not:
+only they hear it (a sound, a pop-up, and the taskbar entry asks for
+attention when the window is in the background).
+
 ## Host from the app
 
 Host in the strip: set a port and an optional password (blank = anyone can
 join), then Host. The app starts a server inside itself and joins it; you
-are the host and nobody can kick you. Nothing is up yet: pick what to
+are the host (the crown). Nothing is up yet: pick what to
 watch in the Library tab (below) and put it up. Leaving or
 closing the app stops the server. Friends need to reach your machine: open
 the TCP port on your router (or use a LAN or VPN address). Friends open
@@ -88,10 +132,11 @@ disk. Nothing is uploaded or stored anywhere.
 
 What to watch, from three sources (the switch at the top). Drop a video,
 a folder or a link anywhere on the window, or press Ctrl+V outside a
-text field, and a small card asks how to open it (put it up, add the
+text field, and a small card asks how to open it (put it up, add it to
-folder to Files, or fill Link).
+Up next, add the folder to Files, or fill Link).
 
-- **Jellyfin**: your linked servers (see below). Library chips beside the
+- **Jellyfin**: your linked servers (see below); with none linked it
+  points to Files and Link and offers Jellyfin as optional. Library chips beside the
   switch, then one **Continue** row (what you were watching and what comes
   next, one card per series, the one you watched most recently first;
   series not touched for two months drop out) and **Latest in** each
@@ -103,15 +148,75 @@ folder to Files, or fill Link).
   details open on the right with "Put it up · S1E3", mark watched /
   unwatched, remove from Continue and the episode list (click an episode
   to choose it). Double-click a card or an episode to put it up at once.
-- **Link**: paste an http(s) link. The preview shows what it is (title and
+  Right-click a card or an episode to copy its title or open it in
-  thumbnail for YouTube, else the file name); in a server, pick how the
+  Jellyfin's web page (the details panel has that button too).
+- **Link**: paste an http(s) link: a video file, or a web page with a
+  video (YouTube, X, and whatever else yt-dlp knows). The preview shows
+  what it is (a page's title, uploader, length and thumbnail, else the
+  file name); in a server, pick how the
   others get it (everyone fetches it, the server fetches it, or through
-  you). Your last 12 links are listed under it.
+  you). Your last 12 links are listed under it (right-click one to copy
+  or open it). A link seen before shows its preview at once, without
+  asking the site again. A link that does not
+  open here (needs cookies, 403, 404, not a video) says why and goes up
+  only with "Put it up anyway"; in the player, whoever cannot play it is
+  named ("Bob can't play this: Not allowed (403)") and nobody waits for them.
 - **Files**: video folders you add on this computer, grouped by series
   (click a series to list its episodes), or any file through Browse. The others stream it from you.
 
-Put it up and the player opens. Offline the library browses but nothing
+Put it up and the player opens. Not in a server, the buttons say Play
-goes up until you join or host ("Join or host to watch together").
+and it plays for you alone ([Watch solo](#getting-started)).
+
+### Up next (the queue)
+
+In a server (solo too), anything can wait its turn instead of going up
+now: **Add to queue** on the Link page (in the way you picked), or
+right-click a Jellyfin card or episode, a video in Files, a recent link
+or an episode on the Schedule for **Add to queue** / **Play next**; the
+Jellyfin details panel has a queue button (right-click it to play next),
+and the card for a dropped or pasted video or link has both. A link is
+checked first, like Put it up. Every app keeps the next item ready,
+its first seconds already loaded, so skipping to it starts at once.
+For a link passed on, a member's file or a link the server fetches,
+the server starts getting the next item while the current one plays
+(from the app of whoever added it, or by fetching the link itself), so
+everyone has its start before it goes up; whoever added it keeps the
+app open for that. Everyone shares one Up next and anyone can change it; what
+you added stays when you leave.
+
+In the player, Up next sits in the top bar, right of the title: the
+next item's picture and title (or the next episode's). Rest the mouse on
+it for a larger preview (who added it, its length, whether it is ready
+to start); ⏭ plays it now, a click opens the queue: drag rows to reorder, hover a
+row to play it now (▶) or remove it (×), right-click it for more (copy its
+title or link, open it in the browser or in Jellyfin). To add, press
+Ctrl+V with the queue open (a copied link or video file goes in at once,
+its title and picture showing while it is checked), type one after
+**+ Add link**, or drop a link or a video on it. When a video ends, a card shows
+what is up next with a 10 s countdown (Cancel stops it on your screen)
+and it plays; `>` or Shift+N plays it at once. Under the queue,
+**Continues with** shows the next episodes of the Jellyfin series
+playing (greyed: they play only once Up next is empty); **+** adds one,
+**Clear** drops them for this episode.
+
+A link you pass on ("through me") or a file of yours can only be played
+by your app: if you left when its turn comes, it is skipped ("Skipped …:
+Foxyz left"). A Jellyfin item needs someone with an account on that
+server. Up next is kept by the server while it runs; restarting the
+server empties it.
+
+## Schedule
+
+The week's airing anime, one column per day (AniList), each episode
+marked with what the Jellyfin server has of it when AnimeFlow is
+connected (Settings, Jellyfin & integrations): **on Jellyfin** (Put it
+up, right-click to queue), **downloading**, **waiting for release**
+(aired in Japan, AnimeFlow downloads it by itself once a release
+appears; with when AnimeFlow last searched, or **release rejected** when
+it found releases it won't take, the reason on hover), **failed**, **not monitored** (Request asks AnimeFlow for it),
+or the time left until it airs. A show AnimeFlow does not follow can be asked for with **Request
+series**. Episodes you already watched on Jellyfin carry a check on the
+cover; one you started shows how far you got.
 
 ## Dedicated server
 
@@ -130,14 +235,37 @@ then everyone (you included) uses Join.
 | `--name` | `server` | name reported by `/health` |
 | `--media` | none | local file to serve as the starting video |
 | `--advertise-host` | none | host put in file URLs instead of the one each viewer dialled |
-| `--config` | none | YAML or JSON file with the same settings (`port`, `secret`, `name`, `mediaPath`, `advertiseHost`); replaces the flags |
+| `--[no-]yt-dlp` | on | read web pages (YouTube, X, …) with yt-dlp when the server fetches a link |
+| `--yt-dlp-dir` | next to the binary | writable folder for the server's yt-dlp (systemd: the unit's `StateDirectory`) |
+| `--yt-dlp-cookies` | none | cookies.txt or cookie-extension JSON export for that yt-dlp (sites that refuse guests); copied into the yt-dlp folder at start, removed from it when not given. **An account login**: keep it private, use a throwaway account for YouTube |
+| `--log-dir` | `logs` next to `--config`, else next to the binary (systemd: the unit's `StateDirectory`) | folder for the log files (`server-YYYY-MM-DD.log` and the session log `session-YYYY-MM-DD.log`, kept 7 days; passwords, tokens and cookies left out) |
+| `--config` | none | YAML or JSON file with the same settings (`port`, `secret`, `name`, `mediaPath`, `advertiseHost`, `ytDlp`, `ytDlpDir`, `ytDlpCookies`); replaces the flags |
+| `--upgrade` | | update the install folder to the latest release ([Install and update](#install-and-update)), then exit |
+| `--check-update` | | print whether a newer release exists, then exit |
 
 It prints `READY port=... name=...` once listening and stops cleanly on
-Ctrl+C or SIGTERM. A dedicated server has no host: anyone can kick anyone.
+Ctrl+C or SIGTERM. A dedicated server has no host.
 To run it as a service, unpack the tarball to `/opt/watch-together` and use
 [deploy/watch-together.service](deploy/watch-together.service) (copy it to
 `/etc/systemd/system/`, edit the flags, `systemctl enable --now watch-together`).
 
+Something not playing? Settings → About → **Copy diagnostics** puts the
+app's recent log (passwords, tokens and cookies left out) on the
+clipboard: paste it to whoever helps you, from both sides if you can.
+
+While you are in a server, the app also sends its log to that server, which
+merges everyone's lines and its own into one session log
+(`session-YYYY-MM-DD.log` next to the server's logs; the hosting app keeps
+it in its own logs folder), so a problem can be read afterwards from every
+side. Chat is never logged anywhere, nor passwords, tokens and cookies.
+When something goes wrong, press **Mark a problem** (Ctrl+Shift+B, also in
+the player's ⚙ and Settings → About) and add a few words if you like: a
+marker with your name goes in the session log at that moment. In a server,
+Copy diagnostics can add the session log of the last 6 hours (any member
+may read it). Don't want to share? Settings → About → **Share diagnostics
+with the server** off: your log stays on your machine (the server only
+notes that you don't share; a problem you mark still goes in).
+
 ## Join
 
 Join in the strip. Servers you got into are listed first (up to 6), with
@@ -155,51 +283,74 @@ password, recent servers with remove); Player (below); Jellyfin &
 integrations (linked Jellyfin servers, below, the AnimeFlow connection:
 "connected as <name>" with what you may do, or why not, and playing the
 next episode automatically); Notifications & sounds (what pops up; the sound
-volume, and every sound with a preview and its own switch); Updates; Keyboard shortcuts (read-only); About
+volume and sound set, and every sound with a preview, its own set and a switch); Updates; Keyboard shortcuts (read-only); About
-(the version).
+(the version; resting the mouse on the Settings tab shows it too; and the
+credits, e.g. that the Minimal player design is inspired by uosc).
 
-Player settings live in the player: ⚙ at the right end of its controls
+Player settings live in the player too: ⚙ → Player settings, at the
-(both designs) opens them, and Settings → Player has the same ones (plus
+right of its controls, and Settings → Player has the same ones (plus the
-the custom shader files). Player design: Standard or uosc (below);
+controls' layout and the custom shader files). Player design: Standard or
-progress line when hidden (on by default: a 2 px line at the bottom of
+Minimal (below); progress line when hidden (on by default: a thin line at
-the video while the controls are hidden); upscaling shader (see below);
+the bottom of the video while the controls are hidden); upscaling shader
-hardware decoding (auto, off or custom; the env var `SYNC_RELAY_HWDEC`
+(see below); hardware decoding (auto, off or custom; auto is mpv's
-overrides it); in the player also the subtitle and audio track. Every
+`auto-copy` on Windows, `auto` elsewhere; the env var
-change applies right away.
+`SYNC_RELAY_HWDEC` overrides it); in the player also the subtitle and
+audio track. Settings → Player → Controls: time display (elapsed / total
+or remaining), controls size (normal or large), hide the controls after
+2, 3 or 5 s, and which optional buttons sit in the bar (chapter buttons,
+subtitles, audio, chat; hidden ones are still in ⚙). Every change
+applies right away.
 
 Anywhere in a server (unless you are typing): Space = ready / unready,
-Tab = chat & activity (Tab never moves between buttons). Keys while the
+Tab = chat & activity (Tab never moves between buttons). Anywhere:
+Ctrl+Shift+B = mark a problem in the session log. Keys while the
 player fills the window: Left/Right = seek 10 s, Up/Down = volume, Shift+Right = skip 1:30,
 PgUp/PgDn = previous / next chapter (as in mpv), F = fullscreen, Esc =
-close the chat or fullscreen, else ask to leave, Ctrl+R = reload video,
+close the chat, then fullscreen, then shrink the player to mini; from the
+mini it asks to leave, Ctrl+R = reload video,
 `<` / `>` or Shift+P / Shift+N = previous / next Jellyfin episode,
 Ctrl+1..6 = Anime4K mode A, B, C, A+A, B+B, C+A, Ctrl+0 = shaders off.
 Every seek, skip and chapter jump moves everyone.
 
-Controls: the seek bar marks chapter starts with a diamond; hovering it
+Controls: both designs have the same buttons in the same places, only
-shows the time and the chapter title. The chapters button lists them
+the look differs. Bottom left: play / pause first (it is your ready, like
-(current one checked; click to jump). "1:30" skips ahead 1:30. Audio and
+Space: ✓ while you are ready and the others are not), previous / next
-Subtitles buttons (with the track count) list tracks as "Japanese · E-AC3
+episode (when there is one; next plays Up next first), previous / next
-2.0 · title"; subtitles have Off. Volume (hover the speaker, scroll on
+chapter (when the video has chapters), volume and the time (click it to
-it, or Up/Down) goes to 150 % like mpv: past the tick at 100 % the bar
+switch between elapsed / total and the time left). Bottom right:
-turns amber and mpv amplifies.
+Subtitles and Audio (with the track count; tracks listed as "Japanese ·
+E-AC3 2.0 · title", subtitles with Off), ⚙, chat and fullscreen last.
+Everything else is in ⚙: chapters (current one checked; click to jump),
+Skip 1:30, upscaling shader, change video, copy link, reload video,
+mark everyone ready, mark a problem, player settings and leave. The top
+bar has the title, Up next and back to the library (in fullscreen: exit
+fullscreen and the window buttons). Volume (scroll anywhere on the
+video, hover the speaker, or Up/Down) goes to 150 % like mpv: past the
+tick at 100 % the bar turns amber and mpv amplifies; a scroll or key
+shows the volume for a moment. Lists and menus under the mouse scroll
+as usual.
 
-The uosc player design (⚙ → Player design, Standard by default,
+Standard (the default): a seek bar that marks chapter starts with a
-switches right away): video controls modeled on mpv's uosc theme. A thick
+diamond (hovering it shows the time and the chapter title) over a row
-timeline across the bottom shows the played part, the cached part ahead
+of round buttons. Minimal (⚙ → Player settings → Player design, switches
-(hatched), chapter starts as diamonds and the time; hovering it shows the
+right away): a translucent timeline across the bottom tints what has
-chapter title and the time there. With the controls hidden it stays as a
+played, stripes the part not downloaded yet, marks chapter starts with
-thin line (unless "Progress line when hidden" is off). Above it flat buttons: ≡ menu, Subtitles and Audio (with the
+dots (click one to jump), shows the elapsed time left and the total or
-track count), the shader badge (the active Anime4K mode, e.g. "A HQ"),
+the time left right (click it to switch) and, while less than a minute
-ready, chapters, 1:30, previous / next episode, change video, volume, ⚙
+is buffered, the buffered seconds next to the position; hovering it shows
-and fullscreen; the title top left, chat and back-to-library top right. Keys and skip buttons work
+the time there and the chapter title. With the controls hidden it stays
-the same.
+as a thin line (unless "Progress line when hidden" is off). Its buttons
+sit in two glass capsules above it. Minimal's timeline and controls are
+inspired by [uosc](https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc) by tomasklaen
+(LGPL-2.1).
 
-Skipping: during the opening a "Skip OP" button floats in the corner (it
+Skipping: during the opening a "Skip OP" button shows bottom right, just
+above the controls (it
 jumps to the end of the opening), during the ending "Skip ED" (to the end
-of the ending only; what comes after is yours to skip). Any skip button
+of the ending only; what comes after is yours to skip). "Skip OP" and
-(also "Skip 1:30") shows for 5 seconds when it comes up, then only while
+"Skip 1:30" show for 5 seconds when they come up, then only while the
-the controls are up (move the mouse). The opening and
+controls are up (move the mouse); "Skip ED" and "Next episode" show only
+while the controls are up. The opening and
 ending come from Jellyfin's intro / outro segments when your Jellyfin has
 them (needs a segment plugin, e.g. Intro Skipper), else from chapter names
 (OP, Opening, Intro / ED, Ending, Credits, Outro). Without an opening or
@@ -246,11 +397,14 @@ Watching:
   directly with their own sign-in. Jellyfin tracks progress per account:
   your watched state, Continue watching and resume point follow what you
   saw (reported on start, every 10 s, on pause, resume, seek and track
-  change, and when it stops).
+  change, and when it stops). Watched means you actually played most of
+  it (or reached the ending after half), not where you stopped: opening
+  a watched episode to check a moment keeps it watched, and a quick peek
+  leaves no resume point.
 - Friends without an account watch through the server: whoever put the
   item up passes it on automatically, with their own sign-in, which never
   leaves their computer (only the current item, only to people in the
-  session). They show "via host" in the member list (click the avatars). When the app hosts,
+  session). They show "via server" in the member list (click the avatars). When the app hosts,
   or a dedicated server has its own login (`--jellyfin <file>`, see
   [docs/ARCHITECTURE.md](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md), Jellyfin relay), the server
   fetches it itself instead.
@@ -258,10 +412,11 @@ Watching:
   "No Jellyfin account here for ..." with a button to link one; it plays as
   soon as you are signed in.
 
-Episodes: the ⏮ / ⏭ buttons next to the controls (or `<` / `>`,
+Episodes: the ⏮ / ⏭ buttons next to play (or `<` / `>`,
 Shift+P / Shift+N) put up the previous or next episode for everyone. From
 the ending (when it is known, see Skipping above; else in the last two
-minutes) a "Next episode" button floats in the corner. When an
+minutes) a "Next episode" button floats in the corner while the controls
+are up. When an
 episode ends, a card shows what is next with Play next; with "Play the
 next episode automatically" (Settings, on by default) it counts down 10 s
 first, and Cancel stops it on your screen (seeking back stops it for
@@ -273,26 +428,53 @@ Your choice is remembered per series (and as a default) and the closest
 match (language, then title, then codec and channels) is selected on the
 next episode. This is per person; nobody else is affected.
 
-"Change video" in the player's controls opens the Library tab (the player
+⚙ → Change video in the player opens the Library tab (the player
 goes mini): the library starts on the series you are watching with the
 current season, else where you left it.
 
 Anyone can put up a file from their own computer, also on a dedicated
 server: it streams from your computer through the server to everyone (the
 server keeps a few minutes in memory, so seeks and skipping the opening
-are quick). Keep the app open while it plays. For a link you choose how
+are quick). Keep the app open while it plays. A link goes up "Through
-the others get it:
+me": your computer opens it and passes it on, so it plays for everyone
-- Everyone fetches it (default): each app plays the link itself.
+whenever it plays for you (you can't tell ahead which sites want cookies,
+and YouTube may start asking any day). Under "Other ways" there are two more:
+- Everyone fetches it: each app plays the link itself.
 - Server fetches it: the server downloads it once for everyone, for links
   that are slow or blocked for some. The server must be able to reach it,
   and it must have a password (an open server refuses: anyone could make
   it fetch addresses only it can reach).
-- Through me: your computer downloads it and passes it on, for links only
-  you can open.
 
-The last two need a link to a video file (not a page like YouTube) and
+Web pages work in all three: the app and the dedicated server each
-never show the link to anyone. Your upload has to beat the video's
+download [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) by themselves (checked
-bitrate: a 25-minute 2 GB episode is about 11 Mbit/s.
+against the release's checksums, updated once a day; Settings → Player
+shows its version and has "Update now"), so there is nothing to install.
+Sites that refuse guests (Bilibili answers "HTTP Error 412", YouTube may
+ask to sign in) need cookies: Settings → Player → yt-dlp → Cookies reads
+them from a browser, or from a cookies.txt or a cookie extension's JSON
+export (picked or dropped; every site in it is kept). They stay on this
+computer and are used by its yt-dlp only (your own playback, "through
+me", and a server you host). Cookies log yt-dlp in as you on those
+sites: keep the file private, and for YouTube consider a throwaway
+account (Google may flag accounts used with yt-dlp).
+YouTube works in all three too, and so do pages and links that only
+offer streaming playlists (HLS `.m3u8`, DASH `.mpd`, the HLS of X videos).
+Through me and Server fetches it never show the link to anyone; they can't pass on live
+streams or DRM-protected video (use "Everyone fetches it" for live).
+Your upload has to beat the video's bitrate: a 25-minute 2 GB episode is
+about 11 Mbit/s.
+
+The member list (click the avatars) shows where the video comes from on
+top: who passes it on, or that the server fetches it, everyone plays the
+link, or everyone streams it from Jellyfin, with how many watch through
+the server and, for a relay, how fast it arrives against what the video
+needs (the bar's mark; past it is keeping up). It turns amber when the
+source is too slow or reconnecting, red when it left (the others play
+out what the server already has), and whoever passes it on is told once
+when their upload is too slow. Each member's line says how they get it
+("via server" with their speed, or "direct") after a dot for their
+buffer: green enough to play on, amber low, red empty. A red dot on one
+member while the source keeps up is their own connection.
 
 ## Video quality and shaders
 
@@ -302,9 +484,9 @@ affected. The app ships [Anime4K](https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K) v4.0.1
 C (480p), A+A, B+B, C+A, each as HQ (strong GPUs, GTX 1080 and up) or Fast
 (the guide's low-end set). "Custom shaders" runs your own `.glsl` files.
 
-Pick one with the ✨ button in the player's control bar (also in
+Pick one with ⚙ → Upscaling shader in the player (also in
 fullscreen) or Ctrl+0..6; the change applies live and is saved, so the next
-session starts with it. The player's ⚙ and Settings → Player set it too,
+session starts with it. ⚙ → Player settings and Settings → Player set it too,
 with HQ or Fast (used by Ctrl+1..6); Settings → Player holds the custom
 files. Shaders cost GPU time
 every frame and need hardware video rendering: on media_kit's software
@@ -316,7 +498,7 @@ fails to load shows a toast and switches shaders off.
 - "host offline - check address and port": wrong address, or the port is not open.
 - "wrong server password": password mismatch.
 - "host runs a different version": update the app on both sides.
-- Picture frozen but sound fine: Ctrl+R reloads the video; the app also does it automatically.
+- Picture frozen but sound fine: Ctrl+R reloads the video.
 - Everyone waits at "waiting for X": X has not buffered 4 seconds yet or has not pressed Space.
 - Windows: the build is new; if something is off there, say so.
 

apps/desktop/assets/icon/icon.svg

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 256 256">
+<defs><linearGradient id="bg" x1="0" y1="0" x2="1" y2="1"><stop offset="0" stop-color="#2d2547"/><stop offset="1" stop-color="#14111d"/></linearGradient><linearGradient id="t1" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x1="50.7" y1="148.7" x2="184.6" y2="71.4"><stop offset="0" stop-color="#f0795a" stop-opacity="0"/><stop offset="0.45" stop-color="#f0795a" stop-opacity="0.85"/><stop offset="1" stop-color="#ffc56b"/></linearGradient><linearGradient id="t2" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x1="205.3" y1="107.3" x2="71.4" y2="184.6"><stop offset="0" stop-color="#ffc56b" stop-opacity="0"/><stop offset="0.45" stop-color="#ffc56b" stop-opacity="0.85"/><stop offset="1" stop-color="#f0795a"/></linearGradient></defs>
+<rect x="8" y="8" width="240" height="240" rx="56" fill="url(#bg)"/>
+<circle cx="128" cy="128" r="80" fill="none" stroke="#ffffff" stroke-opacity="0.10" stroke-width="6"/>
+<path d="M205.27 107.29 A80 80 0 0 1 71.43 184.57" fill="none" stroke="url(#t2)" stroke-width="7" stroke-linecap="butt"/><path d="M50.73 148.71 A80 80 0 0 1 184.57 71.43" fill="none" stroke="url(#t1)" stroke-width="7" stroke-linecap="butt"/>
+<path d="M110 96 L110 160 L162 128 Z" fill="#fff1d6" stroke="#fff1d6" stroke-width="16" stroke-linejoin="round"/>
+<path d="M71.4 161.6 Q74.7 181.3 94.4 184.6 Q74.7 187.8 71.4 207.6 Q68.2 187.8 48.4 184.6 Q68.2 181.3 71.4 161.6 Z" fill="#f0795a"/>
+<path d="M184.6 40.4 Q188.9 67.1 215.6 71.4 Q188.9 75.8 184.6 102.4 Q180.2 75.8 153.6 71.4 Q180.2 67.1 184.6 40.4 Z" fill="#ffc56b"/>
+</svg>

apps/desktop/lib/app.dart

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'src/screens/home/ui.dart';
 import 'src/shell/app_shell.dart';
 import 'src/widgets/app_keys.dart';
+import 'src/widgets/app_menu.dart';
 
 class WatchTogetherApp extends StatelessWidget {
   const WatchTogetherApp({super.key});
@@ -11,7 +12,9 @@ class WatchTogetherApp extends StatelessWidget {
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     return MaterialApp(
       title: appName,
-      theme: ThemeData.dark(),
+      // Material's own menus (the player's track menus, sort) wear the
+      // app menu's surface.
+      theme: AppMenuStyle.theme(ThemeData.dark()),
       shortcuts: appShortcuts,
       home: const AppKeys(child: AppShell()),
     );

apps/desktop/lib/main.dart

@@ -1,16 +1,20 @@
+import 'dart:async';
 import 'dart:io';
 
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:hive_ce_flutter/hive_flutter.dart';
 import 'package:media_kit/media_kit.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
-import 'package:window_manager/window_manager.dart';
 
 import 'app.dart';
+import 'src/platform/app_log.dart';
+import 'src/platform/app_shutdown.dart';
+import 'src/platform/desktop_entry.dart';
 import 'src/screens/home/ui.dart';
+import 'src/session/app_events.dart' show UpdateAvailable;
 import 'src/state/session_state.dart';
 import 'src/state/settings.dart';
-import 'src/update/updater.dart';
+import 'src/update/update_controller.dart' show UpdateController, UpdatePhase, launchArgs;
 
 Future<void> main(List<String> args) async {
   launchArgs = List.unmodifiable(args);
@@ -37,47 +41,34 @@ Future<void> main(List<String> args) async {
         ),
       );
   WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
-  await windowManager.ensureInitialized();
+  await startAppLogging();
-  await windowManager.setPreventClose(true);
-  windowManager.addListener(_CloseGuard());
-  const windowOptions = WindowOptions(
-    size: Size(1280, 720),
-    minimumSize: Size(160, 90),
-    center: true,
-    backgroundColor: Color(0xFF000000),
-    titleBarStyle: TitleBarStyle.hidden,
-    title: appName,
-  );
-  windowManager.waitUntilReadyToShow(windowOptions, () async {
-    await windowManager.show();
-    await windowManager.focus();
-  });
   await Hive.initFlutter();
   await AppSettings.instance.ensureLoaded();
+  // Close button / Alt+F4: the orderly close ([shutDownApp]), so others
+  // see "left", a hosted server shuts down and no player outlives the
+  // engine.
+  final ports = SessionState.instance.ports;
+  await ports.shell.start(title: appName, onCloseRequest: shutDownApp);
   try {
     await SessionState.instance.loadForm();
   } catch (e, st) {
     debugPrint('load connect form failed: $e\n$st');
   }
   MediaKit.ensureInitialized();
-  runApp(const WatchTogetherApp());
+  // yt-dlp for web page links: downloaded on first run, kept current.
-}
+  ports.links.warmUp();
-
+  // Linux: the launcher entry and icon Wayland needs (release installs).
-/// Close button / Alt+F4: leave gracefully first (others see "left", a
+  unawaited(installDesktopEntry());
-/// hosted server shuts down), bounded so a hung socket can't keep the
+  // A found update is an event too (the band shows it).
-/// window open.
+  final updates = UpdateController.instance;
-class _CloseGuard with WindowListener {
+  updates.status.addListener(() {
-  bool _closing = false;
+    final s = updates.status.value;
-
+    final version = s.manifest?.version;
-  @override
+    if (s.phase == UpdatePhase.available && version != null) {
-  Future<void> onWindowClose() async {
+      SessionState.instance.notifier.notify(UpdateAvailable(version));
-    if (_closing) return;
-    _closing = true;
-    try {
-      await SessionState.instance.leave().timeout(const Duration(seconds: 2));
-    } catch (e) {
-      debugPrint('leave on close failed: $e');
     }
-    await windowManager.destroy();
+  });
-  }
+  runApp(const WatchTogetherApp());
+  // The sound device opens once the window is up, not on the first sound.
+  Future.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 2), SessionState.instance.sfx.warmUp);
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/control_menus.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show JellyfinStreamType;
+
+import '../jellyfin/track_prefs.dart' show MpvTrack;
+import '../playback/media_marks.dart';
+import '../shaders/shader_menu.dart';
+import '../shell/mark_problem.dart';
+import '../state/settings.dart';
+import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
+import '../widgets/copy_open.dart';
+import 'frame.dart';
+import 'model/controls_layout.dart';
+import 'model/controls_model.dart';
+import 'player_settings.dart';
+
+// The controls' menus, shared by both skins: the track and chapter lists
+// and the ⚙ menu, all on the app's menu (`showAppMenu`), anchored on the
+// button that opens them. Each keeps the controls up while open.
+
+/// How many tracks of [type] there are.
+int trackCount(List<MpvTrack> tracks, JellyfinStreamType type) => tracks.where((t) => t.type == type).length;
+
+/// The audio or subtitle tracks ("Japanese · E-AC3 2.0 · title"), mpv's
+/// selection checked; subtitles start with Off.
+List<AppMenuItem<TrackPick>> trackMenuItems(JellyfinStreamType type, List<MpvTrack> tracks) {
+  final audio = type == JellyfinStreamType.audio;
+  final list = tracks.where((t) => t.type == type).toList();
+  return [
+    if (!audio)
+      AppMenuItem(
+        key: const ValueKey('track-off'),
+        value: (aid: null, sid: null, subtitlesOff: true),
+        label: 'Off',
+        checked: !list.any((t) => t.selected),
+      ),
+    if (audio && list.isEmpty)
+      const AppMenuItem(value: (aid: null, sid: null, subtitlesOff: false), label: 'None', enabled: false),
+    for (final t in list)
+      AppMenuItem(
+        key: ValueKey('track-${t.type.name}-${t.id}'),
+        value: audio ? (aid: t.id, sid: null, subtitlesOff: false) : (aid: null, sid: t.id, subtitlesOff: false),
+        label: t.label,
+        checked: t.selected,
+      ),
+  ];
+}
+
+/// Chapters with their start times, the playing one checked.
+List<AppMenuItem<MediaChapter>> chapterMenuItems(List<MediaChapter> chapters, int? current) => [
+  for (final c in chapters)
+    AppMenuItem(
+      key: ValueKey('chapter-${c.index}'),
+      value: c,
+      label: c.title.isEmpty ? 'Chapter ${c.index + 1}' : c.title,
+      hint: formatClock(c.start),
+      checked: c.index == current,
+    ),
+];
+
+Future<T?> _menu<T>(BuildContext context, PlayerControlsModel model, List<AppMenuItem<T>> items) async {
+  model.menusOpen++;
+  try {
+    return await showAppMenu<T>(context, items: items);
+  } finally {
+    model.menusOpen--;
+  }
+}
+
+/// The audio or subtitle list; a pick is applied (and remembered).
+Future<void> openTrackMenu(BuildContext context, PlayerControlsModel model, JellyfinStreamType type) async {
+  final pick = await _menu(context, model, trackMenuItems(type, model.tracks.peek()));
+  if (pick != null) model.pickTrack(pick);
+}
+
+/// The chapter list; a pick jumps there for everyone.
+Future<void> openChapterMenu(BuildContext context, PlayerControlsModel model) async {
+  final pick = await _menu(context, model, chapterMenuItems(model.chapters.peek(), model.currentChapter.peek()));
+  if (pick != null) model.pickChapter(pick);
+}
+
+/// The ⚙ menu: every action that is not a bar button.
+Future<void> openControlsMenu(BuildContext context, PlayerControlsModel model) async {
+  final s = AppSettings.instance;
+  final shader = shaderShortLabel(s.shaderPreset.peek(), s.shaderQuality.peek()) ?? 'Off';
+  final pick = await _menu(context, model, [
+    for (final a in model.menu())
+      AppMenuItem(
+        key: ValueKey('controls-menu-${a.name}'),
+        value: a,
+        label: a.label,
+        hint: a == ControlAction.shaders ? shader : a.hint,
+      ),
+  ]);
+  if (pick != null && context.mounted) await runControlAction(context, model, pick);
+}
+
+/// Runs a ⚙ menu action; [context] anchors what it opens next.
+Future<void> runControlAction(BuildContext context, PlayerControlsModel model, ControlAction action) async {
+  switch (action) {
+    case ControlAction.chapters:
+      await openChapterMenu(context, model);
+    case ControlAction.subtitles:
+      await openTrackMenu(context, model, JellyfinStreamType.subtitle);
+    case ControlAction.audio:
+      await openTrackMenu(context, model, JellyfinStreamType.audio);
+    case ControlAction.skipForward:
+      model.skipForward();
+    case ControlAction.shaders:
+      model.menusOpen++;
+      try {
+        await ControlsFrame.holdWhile(
+          context,
+          () => showShaderMenu(context, renderMode: model.renderMode, onPick: model.pickShader),
+        );
+      } finally {
+        model.menusOpen--;
+      }
+    case ControlAction.chat:
+      model.toggleChat();
+    case ControlAction.changeVideo:
+      model.changeVideo();
+    case ControlAction.copyLink:
+      final link = model.link();
+      if (link != null) await copyToClipboard(link, done: 'Link copied');
+    case ControlAction.reload:
+      model.reload();
+    case ControlAction.markAllReady:
+      model.markAllReady();
+    case ControlAction.markProblem:
+      await ControlsFrame.holdWhile(context, () => showMarkProblem(context));
+    case ControlAction.playerSettings:
+      await showPlayerSettings(context, renderMode: model.renderMode);
+    case ControlAction.leave:
+      model.leave();
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/controls_probe.dart

@@ -2,57 +2,74 @@ import 'dart:async';
 
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 
-/// Follows whether media_kit's desktop controls around [child] are up,
+/// What keeps the player's controls up besides the mouse on them: the
-/// by the same rule they use: up on mount and on any mouse movement,
+/// mouse on a floating element over the picture (a pill, a card, the
-/// down [hideAfter] later or when the mouse leaves. media_kit does not
+/// status pill: [ControlsHoldRegion]) or an open popover. While anything
-/// expose its visibility; this lets the player draw a progress line while
+/// holds, the controls stay up; on release they hide on their usual
-/// they are down. Never takes input.
+/// countdown. Both skins follow it (through `ControlsFrame`).
-class ControlsHoverProbe extends StatefulWidget {
+class ControlsHold extends ChangeNotifier {
-  final ValueNotifier<bool> shown;
+  final _by = <Object>{};
-  final Duration hideAfter;
+  bool _told = false;
-  final Widget child;
+  bool _queued = false;
-  const ControlsHoverProbe({super.key, required this.shown, required this.hideAfter, required this.child});
+  bool _disposed = false;
 
-  @override
+  bool get held => _told;
-  State<ControlsHoverProbe> createState() => _ControlsHoverProbeState();
-}
 
-class _ControlsHoverProbeState extends State<ControlsHoverProbe> {
+  /// [who] holds ([on]) or lets go. Listeners hear it in a microtask, never
-  Timer? _timer;
+  /// during a build or a dispose.
-
+  void set(Object who, bool on) {
-  @override
+    if (on ? !_by.add(who) : !_by.remove(who)) return;
-  void initState() {
+    if (_queued) return;
-    super.initState();
+    _queued = true;
-    // Not during this build: the line listening to [shown] may be built.
+    scheduleMicrotask(() {
-    WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) {
+      _queued = false;
-      if (mounted) _wake();
+      if (_disposed) return;
+      final now = _by.isNotEmpty;
+      if (now == _told) return;
+      _told = now;
+      notifyListeners();
     });
   }
 
   @override
   void dispose() {
-    _timer?.cancel();
+    _disposed = true;
     super.dispose();
   }
+}
 
-  void _wake() {
+/// The mouse on [child] counts as the mouse on the controls: it holds
-    widget.shown.value = true;
+/// [hold] while it is there.
-    _timer?.cancel();
+class ControlsHoldRegion extends StatefulWidget {
-    _timer = Timer(widget.hideAfter, _hide);
+  final ControlsHold? hold;
-  }
+  final Widget child;
+  const ControlsHoldRegion({super.key, required this.hold, required this.child});
 
-  void _hide() {
+  @override
-    _timer?.cancel();
+  State<ControlsHoldRegion> createState() => _ControlsHoldRegionState();
-    if (mounted) widget.shown.value = false;
+}
+
+class _ControlsHoldRegionState extends State<ControlsHoldRegion> {
+  @override
+  void didUpdateWidget(ControlsHoldRegion oldWidget) {
+    super.didUpdateWidget(oldWidget);
+    if (oldWidget.hold != widget.hold) oldWidget.hold?.set(this, false);
   }
 
   @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) => MouseRegion(
+  void dispose() {
-        opaque: false,
+    widget.hold?.set(this, false);
-        hitTestBehavior: HitTestBehavior.translucent,
+    super.dispose();
-        onEnter: (_) => _wake(),
+  }
-        onHover: (_) => _wake(),
+
-        onExit: (_) => _hide(),
+  @override
-        child: widget.child,
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-      );
+    final hold = widget.hold;
+    if (hold == null) return widget.child;
+    return MouseRegion(
+      onEnter: (_) => hold.set(this, true),
+      onExit: (_) => hold.set(this, false),
+      child: widget.child,
+    );
+  }
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/frame.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,216 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+
+import 'package:flutter/gestures.dart' show kPrimaryMouseButton;
+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+
+import 'controls_probe.dart' show ControlsHold;
+
+// The frame both control skins live in: when the controls are up, and the
+// double-click on the picture. Mouse movement shows them; [hideAfter]
+// without any (or the mouse leaving) hides them and the cursor. Holds keep
+// them up: a seek drag (no hover events arrive), an open menu (a route
+// takes the mouse), and the session's [ControlsHold] (the mouse on a
+// floating pill or card, the Up next popover).
+
+class ControlsFrame extends StatefulWidget {
+  /// Draws the controls; [visible] false while they are hidden.
+  final Widget Function(BuildContext context, bool visible) builder;
+  final VoidCallback? onDoubleClick;
+
+  /// Bands at the top and bottom where a double-click is the bars', not
+  /// the picture's.
+  final double barTop;
+  final double barBottom;
+  final Duration hideAfter;
+
+  /// Follows whether the controls are up (for overlays outside them).
+  final ValueNotifier<bool>? shown;
+
+  /// Keeps them up while held.
+  final ControlsHold? holdBy;
+  const ControlsFrame({
+    super.key,
+    required this.builder,
+    this.onDoubleClick,
+    this.barTop = 0,
+    this.barBottom = 0,
+    this.hideAfter = const Duration(seconds: 3),
+    this.shown,
+    this.holdBy,
+  });
+
+  /// The frame around [context], for widgets that keep it up (a drag, a
+  /// menu).
+  static ControlsFrameState? maybeOf(BuildContext context) => context.findAncestorStateOfType<ControlsFrameState>();
+
+  /// Runs [open] (a menu, a popover) with the controls around [context]
+  /// held up, if there are any.
+  static Future<T> holdWhile<T>(BuildContext context, Future<T> Function() open) {
+    final frame = maybeOf(context);
+    return frame == null ? open() : frame.holdDuring(open);
+  }
+
+  /// The fade of the controls.
+  static const fade = Duration(milliseconds: 150);
+
+  @override
+  State<ControlsFrame> createState() => ControlsFrameState();
+}
+
+class ControlsFrameState extends State<ControlsFrame> {
+  bool _visible = true;
+  int _holds = 0;
+  bool _heldBy = false;
+  Timer? _timer;
+
+  bool get visible => _visible;
+
+  @override
+  void initState() {
+    super.initState();
+    widget.holdBy?.addListener(_holdByChanged);
+    // Not during this build: an overlay listening to [shown] may be built.
+    WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) {
+      if (mounted) widget.shown?.value = true;
+    });
+    _hideLater();
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void didUpdateWidget(ControlsFrame oldWidget) {
+    super.didUpdateWidget(oldWidget);
+    if (oldWidget.holdBy != widget.holdBy) {
+      oldWidget.holdBy?.removeListener(_holdByChanged);
+      widget.holdBy?.addListener(_holdByChanged);
+      _holdByChanged();
+    }
+    if (oldWidget.hideAfter != widget.hideAfter && _visible) _hideLater();
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void dispose() {
+    widget.holdBy?.removeListener(_holdByChanged);
+    _timer?.cancel();
+    super.dispose();
+  }
+
+  void _holdByChanged() {
+    final on = widget.holdBy?.held ?? false;
+    if (on == _heldBy || !mounted) return;
+    _heldBy = on;
+    hold(on);
+  }
+
+  /// Show the controls and restart the hide countdown.
+  void wake() {
+    if (!_visible && mounted) {
+      setState(() => _visible = true);
+      widget.shown?.value = true;
+    }
+    _hideLater();
+  }
+
+  /// Keep the controls up while [on] (paired calls).
+  void hold(bool on) {
+    _holds = on ? _holds + 1 : (_holds - 1).clamp(0, 1 << 20);
+    wake();
+  }
+
+  /// Runs [open] (a menu) with the controls held up.
+  Future<T> holdDuring<T>(Future<T> Function() open) async {
+    hold(true);
+    try {
+      return await open();
+    } finally {
+      if (mounted) hold(false);
+    }
+  }
+
+  void _hideLater() {
+    _timer?.cancel();
+    _timer = Timer(widget.hideAfter, _hide);
+  }
+
+  void _hide() {
+    if (!mounted || _holds > 0 || !_visible) return;
+    setState(() => _visible = false);
+    widget.shown?.value = false;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    return MouseRegion(
+      cursor: _visible ? SystemMouseCursors.basic : SystemMouseCursors.none,
+      onEnter: (_) => wake(),
+      onHover: (_) => wake(),
+      onExit: (_) {
+        _timer?.cancel();
+        _hide();
+      },
+      child: Stack(
+        fit: StackFit.expand,
+        children: [
+          if (widget.onDoubleClick != null)
+            Positioned.fill(
+              child: DoubleClickListener(
+                onDoubleClick: widget.onDoubleClick!,
+                skipTop: _visible ? widget.barTop : 0,
+                skipBottom: _visible ? widget.barBottom : 0,
+                child: const ColoredBox(color: Color(0x00000000), child: SizedBox.expand()),
+              ),
+            ),
+          widget.builder(context, _visible),
+        ],
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// Double-click on the picture (not on the bars) without joining the
+/// gesture arena, so single clicks on buttons stay instant.
+class DoubleClickListener extends StatefulWidget {
+  final VoidCallback onDoubleClick;
+  final double skipTop, skipBottom;
+  final Widget child;
+  const DoubleClickListener({
+    super.key,
+    required this.onDoubleClick,
+    this.skipTop = 0,
+    this.skipBottom = 0,
+    required this.child,
+  });
+
+  @override
+  State<DoubleClickListener> createState() => _DoubleClickListenerState();
+}
+
+class _DoubleClickListenerState extends State<DoubleClickListener> {
+  DateTime? _last;
+  Offset? _lastAt;
+
+  void _down(PointerDownEvent e) {
+    if (e.buttons != kPrimaryMouseButton) return;
+    final h = context.size?.height ?? 0;
+    final y = e.localPosition.dy;
+    if (y < widget.skipTop || y > h - widget.skipBottom) {
+      _last = null;
+      return;
+    }
+    final now = DateTime.now();
+    final last = _last, at = _lastAt;
+    if (last != null &&
+        at != null &&
+        now.difference(last) < const Duration(milliseconds: 400) &&
+        (e.localPosition - at).distance < 24) {
+      _last = null;
+      widget.onDoubleClick();
+      return;
+    }
+    _last = now;
+    _lastAt = e.localPosition;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) =>
+      Listener(behavior: HitTestBehavior.translucent, onPointerDown: _down, child: widget.child);
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/minimal/minimal_controls.dart

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+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show JellyfinStreamType;
+
+import '../../queue/queue_ui.dart';
+import '../../shell/now_playing_title.dart';
+import '../../state/settings.dart';
+import '../control_menus.dart';
+import '../controls_probe.dart' show ControlsHold;
+import '../frame.dart';
+import '../model/controls_layout.dart';
+import '../model/controls_model.dart';
+import '../model/controls_prefs.dart';
+import '../volume.dart';
+import 'style.dart';
+import 'timeline.dart';
+
+// The Minimal skin (inspired by mpv's uosc): a timeline band across the
+// bottom that carries the clock, and above it the buttons in two glass
+// capsules, in the layout's order. Top: what plays, Up next and the window
+// controls. Hidden, the band shrinks to a thin progress line (unless
+// switched off).
+
+class MinimalControls extends StatelessWidget {
+  final PlayerControlsModel model;
+  final bool visible;
+  final double scale;
+  final ControlsHold? hold;
+  final Widget? windowButtons;
+  const MinimalControls({
+    super.key,
+    required this.model,
+    required this.visible,
+    this.scale = 1,
+    this.hold,
+    this.windowButtons,
+  });
+
+  static const _rowGap = 8.0;
+
+  /// The button row's height at [scale] (a capsule).
+  static double rowHeight(double scale) => MinimalStyle.button * scale + 2 * MinimalStyle.capsulePad;
+
+  /// Buttons and timeline at [scale].
+  static double bottomHeight(double scale) => rowHeight(scale) + _rowGap + MinimalTimeline.heightFor(scale);
+
+  /// The top bar's height.
+  static const topHeight = 72.0;
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    const fade = ControlsFrame.fade;
+    Widget shown(Widget child, {Key? key}) => IgnorePointer(
+      key: key,
+      ignoring: !visible,
+      child: AnimatedOpacity(duration: fade, opacity: visible ? 1 : 0, child: child),
+    );
+    return Stack(
+      children: [
+        Positioned(
+          left: 0,
+          right: 0,
+          top: 0,
+          child: shown(
+            key: const ValueKey('minimal-top'),
+            DecoratedBox(
+              decoration: const BoxDecoration(
+                gradient: LinearGradient(
+                  begin: Alignment.topCenter,
+                  end: Alignment.bottomCenter,
+                  colors: [Color(0x99000000), Color(0x00000000)],
+                ),
+              ),
+              child: SizedBox(
+                height: topHeight + 24,
+                child: Padding(padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(16, 0, 10, 24), child: _top()),
+              ),
+            ),
+          ),
+        ),
+        Positioned(
+          left: 0,
+          right: 0,
+          bottom: 0,
+          child: Column(
+            mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
+            crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
+            children: [
+              shown(
+                key: const ValueKey('minimal-buttons'),
+                Padding(
+                  padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(12, 0, 12, _rowGap),
+                  child: SizedBox(
+                    height: rowHeight(scale),
+                    child: SignalBuilder(
+                      builder: (context) {
+                        final s = model.snapshot.value;
+                        final layout = model.bar.value;
+                        // The clock lives on the timeline.
+                        List<Widget> cluster(List<BarControl> cs) => [
+                          for (final c in cs)
+                            if (c != BarControl.time) _control(context, c, s),
+                        ];
+                        return Row(
+                          children: [
+                            MinimalCapsule(scale: scale, children: cluster(layout.left)),
+                            const Spacer(),
+                            MinimalCapsule(scale: scale, children: cluster(layout.right)),
+                          ],
+                        );
+                      },
+                    ),
+                  ),
+                ),
+              ),
+              SignalBuilder(
+                builder: (context) {
+                  final line = AppSettings.instance.progressLine.value;
+                  return AnimatedOpacity(
+                    key: const ValueKey('minimal-timeline-wrap'),
+                    duration: fade,
+                    opacity: visible || line ? 1 : 0,
+                    child: MinimalTimeline(
+                      position: model.position.value,
+                      duration: model.duration.value,
+                      buffered: model.buffered.value,
+                      chapters: model.chapters.value,
+                      expanded: visible,
+                      remaining: model.settings.timeDisplay.value == TimeDisplay.remaining,
+                      scale: scale,
+                      onSeek: model.seek,
+                      onToggleTime: model.toggleTimeDisplay,
+                    ),
+                  );
+                },
+              ),
+            ],
+          ),
+        ),
+      ],
+    );
+  }
+
+  Widget _top() {
+    final m = model;
+    return Row(
+      children: [
+        const Expanded(
+          child: Align(alignment: AlignmentDirectional.centerStart, child: NowPlayingTitle()),
+        ),
+        UpNextButton(queue: m.queue, onPlayNextEpisode: m.playNextEpisode, look: UpNextLook.minimal, hold: hold),
+        const SizedBox(width: 4),
+        SignalBuilder(
+          builder: (context) {
+            final full = m.fullscreen.value;
+            return MinimalButton(
+              key: const ValueKey('minimal-collapse'),
+              icon: full ? Icons.fullscreen_exit_rounded : Icons.close_fullscreen_rounded,
+              tooltip: full ? 'Exit fullscreen (Esc)' : 'Back to the library (keeps playing)',
+              onPressed: full ? m.toggleFullscreen : m.collapse,
+            );
+          },
+        ),
+        ?windowButtons,
+      ],
+    );
+  }
+
+  Widget _control(BuildContext context, BarControl c, ControlsSnapshot s) {
+    final m = model;
+    final key = ValueKey('control-${c.name}');
+    final enabled = controlEnabled(c, s);
+    Widget button(VoidCallback? onPressed, {int? badge, bool accent = false}) => MinimalButton(
+      key: key,
+      icon: controlIcon(c, s),
+      tooltip: controlTooltip(c, s),
+      badge: badge,
+      accent: accent,
+      scale: scale,
+      onPressed: enabled ? onPressed : null,
+    );
+    switch (c) {
+      case BarControl.playPause:
+        return Padding(
+          padding: EdgeInsets.only(right: 4 * scale),
+          child: button(m.togglePlay, accent: true),
+        );
+      case BarControl.previous:
+        return button(m.previous);
+      case BarControl.next:
+        return button(m.next);
+      case BarControl.chapterPrevious:
+        return button(() => m.stepChapter(-1));
+      case BarControl.chapterNext:
+        return button(() => m.stepChapter(1));
+      case BarControl.volume:
+        return SignalBuilder(
+          key: key,
+          builder: (context) => VolumeControl(
+            volume: m.volume.value,
+            onChanged: m.setVolume,
+            onToggleMute: m.toggleMute,
+            sliderColor: Theme.of(context).colorScheme.primary,
+            trackColor: MinimalStyle.dim.withValues(alpha: 0.4),
+            button: (context, i, color, tip, onPressed) =>
+                MinimalButton(icon: i, tooltip: tip, color: color, scale: scale, onPressed: onPressed),
+          ),
+        );
+      case BarControl.time:
+        return const SizedBox.shrink();
+      case BarControl.subtitles || BarControl.audio:
+        final type = c == BarControl.audio ? JellyfinStreamType.audio : JellyfinStreamType.subtitle;
+        return SignalBuilder(
+          key: key,
+          builder: (context) => Builder(
+            builder: (context) => MinimalButton(
+              icon: controlIcon(c, s),
+              tooltip: controlTooltip(c, s),
+              badge: trackCount(m.tracks.value, type),
+              scale: scale,
+              onPressed: () => openTrackMenu(context, m, type),
+            ),
+          ),
+        );
+      case BarControl.settings:
+        return Builder(
+          key: key,
+          builder: (context) => MinimalButton(
+            icon: controlIcon(c, s),
+            tooltip: controlTooltip(c, s),
+            scale: scale,
+            onPressed: () => openControlsMenu(context, m),
+          ),
+        );
+      case BarControl.chat:
+        return SignalBuilder(
+          key: key,
+          builder: (context) => MinimalButton(
+            icon: controlIcon(c, s),
+            tooltip: controlTooltip(c, s),
+            badge: m.unread.value,
+            scale: scale,
+            onPressed: m.toggleChat,
+          ),
+        );
+      case BarControl.fullscreen:
+        return button(m.toggleFullscreen);
+    }
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/minimal/style.dart

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+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+
+import '../../widgets/app_menu.dart' show AppMenuStyle;
+
+// The Minimal skin's look: the app's glass and accent (the theme's primary)
+// on a thick timeline band, with soft rounded buttons in two glass capsules.
+
+abstract final class MinimalStyle {
+  /// The timeline band (no blur: it spans the width over the picture).
+  static const band = Color(0xCC0E0E12);
+
+  /// The capsules holding the buttons: the player pills' glass.
+  static const capsule = AppMenuStyle.pillGlass;
+  static const hover = Color(0x1FFFFFFF);
+  static const text = Colors.white;
+  static const dim = Color(0xB3FFFFFF);
+  static const radius = 10.0;
+  static const fontSize = 13.0;
+
+  /// The tooltips and the timeline's hover tip.
+  static const tip = Color(0xEB18181C);
+
+  /// A button's box at scale 1.
+  static const button = 38.0;
+
+  /// The capsules' padding around the buttons.
+  static const capsulePad = 4.0;
+}
+
+/// The Minimal skin's tooltip: the app's dark glass colour, above.
+class MinimalTooltip extends StatelessWidget {
+  final String message;
+  final Widget child;
+  const MinimalTooltip({super.key, required this.message, required this.child});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    if (message.isEmpty) return child;
+    return Tooltip(
+      message: message,
+      preferBelow: false,
+      verticalOffset: 28,
+      waitDuration: const Duration(milliseconds: 300),
+      padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 10, vertical: 5),
+      decoration: BoxDecoration(
+        color: MinimalStyle.tip,
+        borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(8),
+        border: Border.all(color: AppMenuStyle.border, width: 0.5),
+      ),
+      textStyle: const TextStyle(color: MinimalStyle.text, fontSize: 12),
+      child: child,
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// A Minimal button: a white icon on a rounded square that lights on hover
+/// ([accent]: filled with the theme's primary, the play button), an
+/// optional [label] and a count [badge]. Never takes focus.
+class MinimalButton extends StatefulWidget {
+  final IconData icon;
+  final String tooltip;
+  final VoidCallback? onPressed;
+  final String? label;
+  final int? badge;
+  final bool accent;
+  final Color? color;
+  final double scale;
+  const MinimalButton({
+    super.key,
+    required this.icon,
+    required this.tooltip,
+    required this.onPressed,
+    this.label,
+    this.badge,
+    this.accent = false,
+    this.color,
+    this.scale = 1,
+  });
+
+  @override
+  State<MinimalButton> createState() => _MinimalButtonState();
+}
+
+class _MinimalButtonState extends State<MinimalButton> {
+  bool _hover = false;
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final w = widget;
+    final primary = Theme.of(context).colorScheme.primary;
+    final onPrimary = Theme.of(context).colorScheme.onPrimary;
+    final enabled = w.onPressed != null;
+    final size = MinimalStyle.button * w.scale;
+    final fg = !enabled
+        ? MinimalStyle.dim.withValues(alpha: 0.35)
+        : w.accent
+        ? onPrimary
+        : (w.color ?? MinimalStyle.text);
+    final bg = w.accent
+        ? (_hover ? Color.lerp(primary, Colors.white, 0.18)! : primary)
+        : (_hover && enabled ? MinimalStyle.hover : Colors.transparent);
+    final badge = w.badge;
+    return MinimalTooltip(
+      message: w.tooltip,
+      child: MouseRegion(
+        cursor: enabled ? SystemMouseCursors.click : SystemMouseCursors.basic,
+        onEnter: (_) => setState(() => _hover = true),
+        onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hover = false),
+        child: GestureDetector(
+          behavior: HitTestBehavior.opaque,
+          onTap: w.onPressed,
+          child: AnimatedContainer(
+            duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 120),
+            height: size,
+            constraints: BoxConstraints(minWidth: size),
+            padding: EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: w.label == null ? 0 : 10 * w.scale),
+            decoration: BoxDecoration(
+              color: bg,
+              borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(w.accent ? size / 2 : MinimalStyle.radius * w.scale),
+            ),
+            child: Row(
+              mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
+              mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
+              children: [
+                Stack(
+                  clipBehavior: Clip.none,
+                  children: [
+                    Icon(w.icon, color: fg, size: (w.accent ? 26 : 22) * w.scale),
+                    if (badge != null && badge > 0)
+                      Positioned(
+                        right: -7,
+                        top: -5,
+                        child: Container(
+                          key: const ValueKey('minimal-badge'),
+                          padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 4),
+                          decoration: BoxDecoration(color: primary, borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(999)),
+                          child: Text(
+                            '$badge',
+                            style: TextStyle(color: onPrimary, fontSize: 9, height: 1.35, fontWeight: FontWeight.w700),
+                          ),
+                        ),
+                      ),
+                  ],
+                ),
+                if (w.label != null) ...[
+                  SizedBox(width: 6 * w.scale),
+                  Text(
+                    w.label!,
+                    style: TextStyle(
+                      color: fg,
+                      fontSize: MinimalStyle.fontSize * w.scale,
+                      fontFeatures: const [FontFeature.tabularFigures()],
+                    ),
+                  ),
+                ],
+              ],
+            ),
+          ),
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// A glass capsule around a row of Minimal buttons.
+class MinimalCapsule extends StatelessWidget {
+  final List<Widget> children;
+  final double scale;
+  const MinimalCapsule({super.key, required this.children, this.scale = 1});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final r = BorderRadius.circular(MinimalStyle.radius * scale + MinimalStyle.capsulePad);
+    return DecoratedBox(
+      decoration: BoxDecoration(
+        color: MinimalStyle.capsule,
+        borderRadius: r,
+        border: Border.all(color: AppMenuStyle.border, width: 0.5),
+      ),
+      child: Padding(
+        padding: const EdgeInsets.all(MinimalStyle.capsulePad),
+        child: Row(mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min, spacing: 2, children: children),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/minimal/timeline.dart

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+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:math' as math;
+
+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+
+import '../../playback/media_marks.dart';
+import '../frame.dart';
+import 'style.dart';
+
+// The Minimal skin's timeline: a band across the bottom with the played
+// part tinted in the accent and the position as a line, the part not
+// downloaded yet striped, chapter starts as dots on the top edge (click one
+// to jump), the elapsed time left and the total or the time left right,
+// the buffered seconds by the position while under a minute, and a tip
+// with the time (and the chapter title) under the mouse. Hidden, it shrinks
+// to a thin progress line.
+//
+// Inspired by the timeline of uosc (github.com/tomasklaen/uosc, LGPL-2.1,
+// by tomasklaen): the striped unbuffered part, the remaining time and the
+// thin line when hidden come from there. The drawing, geometry and values
+// here are our own.
+
+/// Sizes at scale 1.
+abstract final class MinimalTimelineSpec {
+  /// The band's height while the controls are up.
+  static const size = 36.0;
+
+  /// What is left of it while they are hidden.
+  static const lineSize = 3.0;
+
+  /// The position line.
+  static const lineWidth = 2.0;
+  static const fontSize = 15.0;
+
+  /// The times' inset from the ends.
+  static const inset = 12.0;
+
+  /// A chapter dot's radius (doubled-ish while hovered).
+  static const dot = 3.5;
+
+  /// The cache label shows while less than this is buffered ahead.
+  static const bufferedThreshold = Duration(seconds: 60);
+
+  /// Collapse / grow.
+  static const animation = Duration(milliseconds: 120);
+}
+
+/// Fraction of [total] at [d], 0..1 (0 without a duration).
+double timelineFraction(Duration d, Duration total) {
+  final t = total.inMicroseconds;
+  if (t <= 0) return 0;
+  return (d.inMicroseconds / t).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+}
+
+/// Where the part not downloaded yet starts (it runs to the end), as a
+/// fraction; null when nothing known is missing. We know only the end of
+/// mpv's cache ahead ([buffered]); a cache within half a second of the end
+/// leaves nothing.
+double? uncachedFrom({required Duration position, required Duration buffered, required Duration duration}) {
+  if (duration <= Duration.zero || buffered <= Duration.zero) return null;
+  final from = buffered > position ? buffered : position;
+  if (duration - from <= const Duration(milliseconds: 500)) return null;
+  return timelineFraction(from, duration);
+}
+
+/// The cache label by the position ("12s"): the seconds buffered ahead,
+/// while under [MinimalTimelineSpec.bufferedThreshold] and the cache does
+/// not reach the end.
+String? cacheLabel({required Duration position, required Duration buffered, required Duration duration}) {
+  if (duration <= Duration.zero || buffered <= Duration.zero) return null;
+  if (duration - buffered <= const Duration(milliseconds: 500)) return null;
+  final ahead = buffered > position ? buffered - position : Duration.zero;
+  if (ahead >= MinimalTimelineSpec.bufferedThreshold) return null;
+  return '${(ahead.inMilliseconds / 1000).round()}s';
+}
+
+/// The band's height while it animates between hidden (0) and shown (1).
+double minimalBandSize(double visibility, double scale) =>
+    MinimalTimelineSpec.lineSize +
+    ((MinimalTimelineSpec.size * scale - MinimalTimelineSpec.lineSize) * visibility).roundToDouble();
+
+/// The Minimal timeline. [expanded] false (the controls hidden) shrinks it,
+/// animated, to the progress line. Seeks ([onSeek]) on press, on every drag
+/// move and on release; a press on a hovered chapter dot jumps to that
+/// chapter, one on the right-hand time switches it ([onToggleTime]).
+class MinimalTimeline extends StatefulWidget {
+  final Duration position;
+  final Duration duration;
+
+  /// End of the cached range.
+  final Duration buffered;
+  final List<MediaChapter> chapters;
+  final bool expanded;
+
+  /// The right-hand time: the time left instead of the total.
+  final bool remaining;
+  final double scale;
+  final ValueChanged<Duration> onSeek;
+  final VoidCallback? onToggleTime;
+  const MinimalTimeline({
+    super.key,
+    required this.position,
+    required this.duration,
+    this.buffered = Duration.zero,
+    this.chapters = const [],
+    this.expanded = true,
+    this.remaining = true,
+    this.scale = 1,
+    required this.onSeek,
+    this.onToggleTime,
+  });
+
+  static double heightFor(double scale) => MinimalTimelineSpec.size * scale;
+  static const collapsedHeight = MinimalTimelineSpec.lineSize;
+
+  @override
+  State<MinimalTimeline> createState() => _MinimalTimelineState();
+}
+
+class _MinimalTimelineState extends State<MinimalTimeline> {
+  Offset? _hover;
+  bool _dragging = false;
+  double _dragFraction = 0;
+  Duration? _lastSent;
+  // A released seek, shown until the position catches up (else the line
+  // jumps back to the old position for a moment).
+  double? _pending;
+  Timer? _pendingTimer;
+
+  double get _scale => widget.scale;
+  Duration _at(double fraction) => widget.duration * fraction.clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+
+  void _send(Duration d) {
+    if (d == _lastSent) return;
+    _lastSent = d;
+    widget.onSeek(d);
+  }
+
+  void _drag(bool on) {
+    if (_dragging == on) return;
+    setState(() => _dragging = on);
+    ControlsFrame.maybeOf(context)?.hold(on);
+  }
+
+  void _settle(double fraction) {
+    _pending = fraction;
+    _pendingTimer?.cancel();
+    _pendingTimer = Timer(const Duration(seconds: 2), () {
+      if (mounted) setState(() => _pending = null);
+    });
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void didUpdateWidget(MinimalTimeline old) {
+    super.didUpdateWidget(old);
+    if (!widget.expanded && old.expanded) _hover = null;
+    final p = _pending;
+    if (p != null && widget.duration > Duration.zero) {
+      final off = (widget.position - _at(p)).abs();
+      if (off < const Duration(milliseconds: 1500)) {
+        _pending = null;
+        _pendingTimer?.cancel();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void dispose() {
+    _pendingTimer?.cancel();
+    // A drag cut short by a rebuild must not keep the controls up.
+    if (_dragging) ControlsFrame.maybeOf(context)?.hold(false);
+    super.dispose();
+  }
+
+  double _dotRadius(bool hovered) => MinimalTimelineSpec.dot * _scale * (hovered ? 1.7 : 1);
+
+  /// The chapter whose dot is within reach of [at].
+  int? _hoveredChapter(double width, List<MediaChapter> marks, Offset? at) {
+    if (at == null || _dragging) return null;
+    final reach = _dotRadius(false) * 2.5;
+    int? best;
+    var bestD = double.infinity;
+    for (var i = 0; i < marks.length; i++) {
+      final cx = width * timelineFraction(marks[i].start, widget.duration);
+      final d = (Offset(cx, 0) - at).distance;
+      if (d <= reach && d < bestD) {
+        best = i;
+        bestD = d;
+      }
+    }
+    return best;
+  }
+
+  String? _rightText(Duration shown) {
+    final d = widget.duration;
+    if (d <= Duration.zero) return null;
+    if (!widget.remaining) return formatClock(d);
+    final left = d - shown;
+    return '-${formatClock(left.isNegative ? Duration.zero : left)}';
+  }
+
+  // The painter's text takes the app's font (a TextPainter does not
+  // inherit it).
+  String? _font;
+
+  TextStyle get _timeStyle => TextStyle(
+    fontFamily: _font,
+    color: MinimalStyle.text,
+    fontSize: MinimalTimelineSpec.fontSize * _scale,
+    height: 1,
+    fontWeight: FontWeight.w500,
+    fontFeatures: const [FontFeature.tabularFigures()],
+  );
+
+  /// Where the right-hand time sits (a press there switches it).
+  bool _onRightTime(Offset at, double width, String? text) {
+    if (text == null || widget.onToggleTime == null) return false;
+    final tp = TextPainter(
+      text: TextSpan(text: text, style: _timeStyle),
+      textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
+    )..layout();
+    return at.dx >= width - MinimalTimelineSpec.inset * _scale - tp.width - 6;
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    _font = DefaultTextStyle.of(context).style.fontFamily ?? Theme.of(context).textTheme.bodyMedium?.fontFamily;
+    return LayoutBuilder(
+      builder: (context, constraints) => TweenAnimationBuilder<double>(
+        tween: Tween(end: widget.expanded ? 1 : 0),
+        duration: MinimalTimelineSpec.animation,
+        builder: (context, visibility, _) => _band(context, constraints.maxWidth, visibility),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+
+  Widget _band(BuildContext context, double width, double visibility) {
+    final expanded = widget.expanded;
+    final duration = widget.duration;
+    final size = minimalBandSize(visibility, _scale);
+    final progress = _dragging ? _dragFraction : (_pending ?? timelineFraction(widget.position, duration));
+    final shown = _at(progress);
+    final marks = duration > Duration.zero ? widget.chapters : const <MediaChapter>[];
+    final hover = expanded ? _hover : null;
+    final hovered = _hoveredChapter(width, marks, hover);
+    final hoverFraction = hovered != null
+        ? timelineFraction(marks[hovered].start, duration)
+        : (hover == null || duration <= Duration.zero || width <= 0 ? null : (hover.dx / width).clamp(0.0, 1.0));
+    final hoverAt = hoverFraction == null ? null : _at(hoverFraction);
+    final cursorX = hoverFraction == null ? null : width * hoverFraction;
+    final hoverChapter = hoverAt == null ? null : chapterIndexAt(widget.chapters, hoverAt);
+    final hoverTitle = hoverChapter == null ? '' : widget.chapters[hoverChapter].title;
+    // Text fades out before it would overflow the shrinking band.
+    final minText = MinimalTimelineSpec.fontSize * _scale;
+    final textOpacity = ((size - minText) / (minText / 2)).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+    final right = _rightText(shown);
+    final primary = Theme.of(context).colorScheme.primary;
+    final painter = MinimalTimelinePainter(
+      progress: progress,
+      visibility: visibility,
+      accent: primary,
+      scale: _scale,
+      uncached: uncachedFrom(position: widget.position, buffered: widget.buffered, duration: duration),
+      chapters: [for (final c in marks) timelineFraction(c.start, duration)],
+      hoveredChapter: hovered,
+      hoverX: hovered == null ? cursorX : null,
+      textOpacity: textOpacity,
+      elapsed: duration > Duration.zero ? formatClock(shown) : null,
+      right: right,
+      cache: cacheLabel(position: widget.position, buffered: widget.buffered, duration: duration),
+      timeStyle: _timeStyle,
+    );
+    final bar = SizedBox(
+      key: const ValueKey('minimal-timeline'),
+      width: width,
+      height: size,
+      child: Stack(
+        clipBehavior: Clip.none,
+        children: [
+          Positioned.fill(
+            child: RepaintBoundary(child: CustomPaint(painter: painter)),
+          ),
+          if (hoverAt != null && cursorX != null)
+            Positioned(
+              left: 0,
+              right: 0,
+              bottom: size + 8,
+              height: 120,
+              child: IgnorePointer(
+                child: CustomMultiChildLayout(
+                  delegate: _TipLayout(x: cursorX),
+                  children: [
+                    LayoutId(
+                      id: #tip,
+                      child: _HoverTip(time: formatClock(hoverAt), chapter: hoverTitle, scale: _scale),
+                    ),
+                  ],
+                ),
+              ),
+            ),
+        ],
+      ),
+    );
+    if (!expanded) return IgnorePointer(child: bar);
+    Offset clampTo(Offset p) => Offset(p.dx.clamp(0.0, width), p.dy);
+    return MouseRegion(
+      cursor: SystemMouseCursors.click,
+      onEnter: (e) => setState(() => _hover = clampTo(e.localPosition)),
+      onHover: (e) => setState(() => _hover = clampTo(e.localPosition)),
+      onExit: (_) {
+        if (!_dragging) setState(() => _hover = null);
+      },
+      child: Listener(
+        behavior: HitTestBehavior.opaque,
+        onPointerDown: (e) {
+          if (width <= 0) return;
+          final at = clampTo(e.localPosition);
+          if (_onRightTime(at, width, right)) {
+            widget.onToggleTime?.call();
+            return;
+          }
+          if (duration <= Duration.zero) return;
+          final chapter = _hoveredChapter(width, marks, at);
+          _lastSent = null;
+          if (chapter != null) {
+            _settle(timelineFraction(marks[chapter].start, duration));
+            _send(marks[chapter].start);
+            setState(() {});
+            return;
+          }
+          _pending = null;
+          _dragFraction = (at.dx / width).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+          _drag(true);
+          _send(_at(_dragFraction));
+        },
+        onPointerMove: (e) {
+          if (!_dragging) return;
+          final at = clampTo(e.localPosition);
+          setState(() {
+            _hover = at;
+            _dragFraction = (at.dx / width).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+          });
+          _send(_at(_dragFraction));
+        },
+        onPointerUp: (e) {
+          if (!_dragging) return;
+          _send(_at(_dragFraction));
+          _settle(_dragFraction);
+          final p = e.localPosition;
+          if (p.dx < 0 || p.dx > width || p.dy < 0 || p.dy > size) _hover = null;
+          _drag(false);
+        },
+        onPointerCancel: (_) => _drag(false),
+        child: bar,
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+class _HoverTip extends StatelessWidget {
+  final String time;
+  final String chapter;
+  final double scale;
+  const _HoverTip({required this.time, required this.chapter, required this.scale});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    return Container(
+      constraints: const BoxConstraints(maxWidth: 360),
+      padding: EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 10 * scale, vertical: 5 * scale),
+      decoration: BoxDecoration(
+        color: MinimalStyle.tip,
+        borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(8),
+        border: Border.all(color: const Color(0x1FFFFFFF), width: 0.5),
+      ),
+      child: Column(
+        mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
+        children: [
+          if (chapter.isNotEmpty)
+            Text(
+              chapter,
+              key: const ValueKey('minimal-hover-chapter'),
+              maxLines: 1,
+              overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+              style: TextStyle(color: MinimalStyle.text, fontSize: 13 * scale, fontWeight: FontWeight.w600),
+            ),
+          Text(
+            time,
+            key: const ValueKey('minimal-hover-time'),
+            style: TextStyle(
+              color: chapter.isEmpty ? MinimalStyle.text : MinimalStyle.dim,
+              fontSize: 13 * scale,
+              fontFeatures: const [FontFeature.tabularFigures()],
+            ),
+          ),
+        ],
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// The hover tip centred on [x], kept inside the band's ends.
+class _TipLayout extends MultiChildLayoutDelegate {
+  final double x;
+  _TipLayout({required this.x});
+
+  @override
+  void performLayout(Size size) {
+    const gap = 4.0;
+    final tip = layoutChild(#tip, BoxConstraints.loose(size));
+    final left = (x - tip.width / 2).clamp(gap, math.max(gap, size.width - gap - tip.width)).toDouble();
+    positionChild(#tip, Offset(left, size.height - tip.height));
+  }
+
+  @override
+  bool shouldRelayout(_TipLayout old) => old.x != x;
+}
+
+/// Paints the band: background, the played tint and the (white) position
+/// line, the stripes over the part not downloaded, chapter marks, the
+/// times, the hover line.
+class MinimalTimelinePainter extends CustomPainter {
+  /// The playing position, 0..1.
+  final double progress;
+
+  /// 0 hidden .. 1 shown.
+  final double visibility;
+  final Color accent;
+  final double scale;
+
+  /// Start of the part not downloaded (to the end), as a fraction.
+  final double? uncached;
+
+  /// Chapter starts, as fractions.
+  final List<double> chapters;
+  final int? hoveredChapter;
+  final double? hoverX;
+  final double textOpacity;
+  final String? elapsed;
+  final String? right;
+  final String? cache;
+  final TextStyle timeStyle;
+  const MinimalTimelinePainter({
+    required this.progress,
+    this.visibility = 1,
+    this.accent = Colors.white,
+    this.scale = 1,
+    this.uncached,
+    this.chapters = const [],
+    this.hoveredChapter,
+    this.hoverX,
+    this.textOpacity = 1,
+    this.elapsed,
+    this.right,
+    this.cache,
+    this.timeStyle = const TextStyle(fontSize: MinimalTimelineSpec.fontSize),
+  });
+
+  /// x of the position line's centre.
+  double lineX(double width) {
+    final lw = MinimalTimelineSpec.lineWidth * scale;
+    return (width * progress).clamp(lw / 2, math.max(lw / 2, width - lw / 2));
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void paint(Canvas canvas, Size size) {
+    final w = size.width, h = size.height;
+    final x = lineX(w);
+    final band = Offset.zero & size;
+    // The band, darker as it grows; hidden, a faint track.
+    canvas.drawRect(band, Paint()..color = Color.lerp(const Color(0x40FFFFFF), MinimalStyle.band, visibility)!);
+    // Played: an accent tint, solid once the band is a line.
+    canvas.drawRect(
+      Rect.fromLTRB(0, 0, x, h),
+      Paint()..color = accent.withValues(alpha: 0.28 + 0.72 * (1 - visibility)),
+    );
+    _stripes(canvas, w, h);
+    _chapters(canvas, w, h);
+    if (visibility > 0) {
+      final lw = MinimalTimelineSpec.lineWidth * scale;
+      canvas.drawRect(
+        Rect.fromLTRB(x - lw / 2, 0, x + lw / 2, h),
+        Paint()..color = Colors.white.withValues(alpha: visibility),
+      );
+    }
+    if (textOpacity > 0) _times(canvas, w, h, x);
+    final hx = hoverX;
+    if (hx != null) {
+      canvas.drawRect(Rect.fromLTRB(hx - 0.5, 0, hx + 0.5, h), Paint()..color = Colors.white.withValues(alpha: 0.45));
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Thin 45° stripes over the part not downloaded yet.
+  void _stripes(Canvas canvas, double w, double h) {
+    final from = uncached;
+    if (from == null) return;
+    final ax = (w * from).floorToDouble();
+    if (ax >= w) return;
+    final period = 7.0 * scale;
+    canvas.save();
+    canvas.clipRect(Rect.fromLTRB(ax, 0, w, h));
+    final paint = Paint()
+      ..color = Colors.white.withValues(alpha: 0.10 + 0.08 * (1 - visibility))
+      ..strokeWidth = 1.5 * scale;
+    for (var c = (ax / period).floorToDouble() * period - h; c <= w; c += period) {
+      canvas.drawLine(Offset(c, h), Offset(c + h, 0), paint);
+    }
+    canvas.restore();
+  }
+
+  void _chapters(Canvas canvas, double w, double h) {
+    final cut = Paint()..color = Colors.black.withValues(alpha: 0.55);
+    for (final f in chapters) {
+      if (f <= 0) continue;
+      final cx = w * f;
+      canvas.drawRect(Rect.fromLTRB(cx - 0.5, 0, cx + 0.5, h), cut);
+    }
+    if (visibility <= 0) return;
+    final r = MinimalTimelineSpec.dot * scale * visibility;
+    void dot(double f, double radius, Color fill) {
+      final c = Offset(w * f, 0);
+      canvas.drawCircle(c, radius + 1, Paint()..color = Colors.black.withValues(alpha: 0.7));
+      canvas.drawCircle(c, radius, Paint()..color = fill);
+    }
+
+    // Not at 0: the band's start says that already.
+    for (var i = 0; i < chapters.length; i++) {
+      if (i != hoveredChapter && chapters[i] > 0) dot(chapters[i], r, Colors.white.withValues(alpha: 0.9));
+    }
+    final hv = hoveredChapter;
+    if (hv != null && hv < chapters.length) dot(chapters[hv], r * 1.7, accent);
+  }
+
+  TextPainter _text(String s, TextStyle style) => TextPainter(
+    text: TextSpan(text: s, style: style),
+    textDirection: TextDirection.ltr,
+  )..layout();
+
+  /// White text with a soft shadow, so it reads over the accent tint too.
+  void _label(Canvas canvas, String s, TextStyle style, Offset at) {
+    final o = textOpacity;
+    _text(
+      s,
+      style.copyWith(
+        color: (style.color ?? Colors.white).withValues(alpha: o),
+        shadows: [Shadow(color: Colors.black.withValues(alpha: 0.8 * o), blurRadius: 3)],
+      ),
+    ).paint(canvas, at);
+  }
+
+  void _times(Canvas canvas, double w, double h, double lineX) {
+    final inset = MinimalTimelineSpec.inset * scale;
+    final fs = timeStyle.fontSize ?? MinimalTimelineSpec.fontSize;
+    final cy = h / 2;
+    final e = elapsed, r = right;
+    final ew = e == null ? 0.0 : _text(e, timeStyle).width;
+    final rw = r == null ? 0.0 : _text(r, timeStyle).width;
+    final c = cache;
+    if (c != null) {
+      final cs = timeStyle.copyWith(fontSize: fs * 0.8, color: MinimalStyle.dim);
+      final cw = _text(c, cs).width;
+      const margin = 6.0;
+      var x = lineX + margin;
+      final minX = inset + margin + ew, maxX = w - inset - margin - rw;
+      if (x < minX) {
+        x = minX;
+      } else if (x + cw > maxX) {
+        x = maxX - cw;
+      }
+      _label(canvas, c, cs, Offset(x, cy - fs * 0.4));
+    }
+    if (e != null) _label(canvas, e, timeStyle, Offset(inset, cy - fs / 2));
+    if (r != null) _label(canvas, r, timeStyle, Offset(w - inset - rw, cy - fs / 2));
+  }
+
+  @override
+  bool shouldRepaint(MinimalTimelinePainter old) => true;
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/model/controls_layout.dart

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+import 'package:flutter/material.dart' show IconData, Icons;
+
+import '../../playback/media_marks.dart' show formatClock;
+import 'controls_prefs.dart';
+
+// The controls layout, defined once for both skins: which controls the
+// bottom bar has, in which order, which actions sit in the ⚙ menu instead,
+// and their icons, tooltips and labels. Pure: everything here is a
+// function of a [ControlsSnapshot] and the user's choices, so tests cover
+// it without a player.
+
+/// What playback does as this viewer sees it. In a server "play" is being
+/// ready: the video plays once everyone is.
+enum PlayState {
+  /// The video plays (the button pauses: you go unready).
+  playing,
+
+  /// You are ready; the others are not yet (the button unreadies you).
+  waiting,
+
+  /// You are not ready (the button readies you).
+  paused,
+
+  /// The media ended.
+  finished,
+}
+
+/// A control in the bottom bar.
+enum BarControl {
+  playPause,
+
+  /// Previous episode.
+  previous,
+
+  /// Up next's first item, else the next episode.
+  next,
+  chapterPrevious,
+  chapterNext,
+  volume,
+  time,
+  subtitles,
+  audio,
+
+  /// ⚙: everything that is not a bar button.
+  settings,
+  chat,
+  fullscreen,
+}
+
+/// An action in the ⚙ menu.
+enum ControlAction {
+  chapters('Chapters…', null),
+  subtitles('Subtitles…', null),
+  audio('Audio…', null),
+  skipForward('Skip 1:30', 'Shift+Right'),
+  shaders('Upscaling shader…', 'Ctrl+0…6'),
+  chat('Chat & activity', 'Tab'),
+  changeVideo('Change video', null),
+  copyLink('Copy link', null),
+  reload('Reload video', 'Ctrl+R'),
+  markAllReady('Mark everyone ready', null),
+  markProblem('Mark a problem', 'Ctrl+Shift+B'),
+  playerSettings('Player settings…', null),
+  leave('Leave server', null);
+
+  final String label;
+  final String? hint;
+  const ControlAction(this.label, this.hint);
+}
+
+/// The bar's order, left cluster then right cluster. The play button is
+/// always first and fullscreen always last; controls that do not apply
+/// (no episode, no chapters) or that the user hid are left out, the rest
+/// keep their order.
+abstract final class ControlsLayout {
+  static const left = [
+    BarControl.playPause,
+    BarControl.previous,
+    BarControl.next,
+    BarControl.chapterPrevious,
+    BarControl.chapterNext,
+    BarControl.volume,
+    BarControl.time,
+  ];
+  static const right = [
+    BarControl.subtitles,
+    BarControl.audio,
+    BarControl.settings,
+    BarControl.chat,
+    BarControl.fullscreen,
+  ];
+
+  /// The ⚙ menu's order.
+  static const menu = ControlAction.values;
+}
+
+/// What the layout depends on, at one moment.
+class ControlsSnapshot {
+  final PlayState play;
+
+  /// The previous episode's label; null: none.
+  final String? previousLabel;
+
+  /// Up next's first item's title, else the next episode's label; null:
+  /// nothing next.
+  final String? nextLabel;
+
+  /// [nextLabel] is Up next (not an episode).
+  final bool nextIsUpNext;
+  final bool hasChapters;
+
+  /// The media's length is known (seeks and skips make sense).
+  final bool hasDuration;
+
+  /// Watching alone (no one to mark ready).
+  final bool solo;
+
+  /// A link to copy (`SessionCoordinator.currentLink`).
+  final bool hasLink;
+  final bool fullscreen;
+  final bool chatOpen;
+  const ControlsSnapshot({
+    this.play = PlayState.paused,
+    this.previousLabel,
+    this.nextLabel,
+    this.nextIsUpNext = false,
+    this.hasChapters = false,
+    this.hasDuration = false,
+    this.solo = false,
+    this.hasLink = false,
+    this.fullscreen = false,
+    this.chatOpen = false,
+  });
+}
+
+/// The bar's two clusters for [s], in [ControlsLayout] order.
+({List<BarControl> left, List<BarControl> right}) barControls(ControlsSnapshot s, Set<OptionalControl> hidden) {
+  bool on(BarControl c) => switch (c) {
+    BarControl.previous => s.previousLabel != null,
+    BarControl.next => s.nextLabel != null,
+    BarControl.chapterPrevious || BarControl.chapterNext => s.hasChapters && !hidden.contains(OptionalControl.chapters),
+    BarControl.subtitles => !hidden.contains(OptionalControl.subtitles),
+    BarControl.audio => !hidden.contains(OptionalControl.audio),
+    BarControl.chat => !hidden.contains(OptionalControl.chat),
+    _ => true,
+  };
+  return (
+    left: [
+      for (final c in ControlsLayout.left)
+        if (on(c)) c,
+    ],
+    right: [
+      for (final c in ControlsLayout.right)
+        if (on(c)) c,
+    ],
+  );
+}
+
+/// The ⚙ menu for [s]: every action that applies, minus those the bar
+/// already shows.
+List<ControlAction> menuActions(ControlsSnapshot s, Set<OptionalControl> hidden) => [
+  for (final a in ControlsLayout.menu)
+    if (switch (a) {
+      ControlAction.chapters => s.hasChapters,
+      ControlAction.subtitles => hidden.contains(OptionalControl.subtitles),
+      ControlAction.audio => hidden.contains(OptionalControl.audio),
+      ControlAction.skipForward => s.hasDuration,
+      ControlAction.chat => hidden.contains(OptionalControl.chat),
+      ControlAction.copyLink => s.hasLink,
+      ControlAction.markAllReady => !s.solo,
+      _ => true,
+    })
+      a,
+];
+
+/// Whether a bar control does something now (a skin dims it otherwise).
+bool controlEnabled(BarControl c, ControlsSnapshot s) => switch (c) {
+  BarControl.chapterPrevious || BarControl.chapterNext => s.hasChapters && s.hasDuration,
+  BarControl.previous => s.previousLabel != null,
+  BarControl.next => s.nextLabel != null,
+  _ => true,
+};
+
+/// The icon of a bar control (volume and the clock draw their own).
+IconData controlIcon(BarControl c, ControlsSnapshot s) => switch (c) {
+  BarControl.playPause => switch (s.play) {
+    PlayState.playing => Icons.pause_rounded,
+    // Ready: the check says so; a click unreadies.
+    PlayState.waiting => Icons.check_rounded,
+    PlayState.finished => Icons.replay_rounded,
+    PlayState.paused => Icons.play_arrow_rounded,
+  },
+  BarControl.previous => Icons.skip_previous_rounded,
+  BarControl.next => Icons.skip_next_rounded,
+  BarControl.chapterPrevious => Icons.chevron_left_rounded,
+  BarControl.chapterNext => Icons.chevron_right_rounded,
+  BarControl.volume => Icons.volume_up_rounded,
+  BarControl.time => Icons.schedule_rounded,
+  BarControl.subtitles => Icons.subtitles_outlined,
+  BarControl.audio => Icons.graphic_eq_rounded,
+  BarControl.settings => Icons.settings_outlined,
+  BarControl.chat => s.chatOpen ? Icons.chat_bubble_rounded : Icons.chat_bubble_outline_rounded,
+  BarControl.fullscreen => s.fullscreen ? Icons.fullscreen_exit_rounded : Icons.fullscreen_rounded,
+};
+
+/// The tooltip of a bar control, with its key.
+String controlTooltip(BarControl c, ControlsSnapshot s) => switch (c) {
+  BarControl.playPause => switch (s.play) {
+    PlayState.playing => 'Pause for everyone (Space)',
+    PlayState.waiting => 'Ready, waiting for the others (Space: not ready)',
+    PlayState.paused => s.solo ? 'Play (Space)' : 'Ready: play when everyone is (Space)',
+    PlayState.finished => 'Ready (Space)',
+  },
+  BarControl.previous => 'Previous: ${s.previousLabel ?? ''}  (< or Shift+P)',
+  BarControl.next => '${s.nextIsUpNext ? 'Up next' : 'Next'}: ${s.nextLabel ?? ''}  (> or Shift+N)',
+  BarControl.chapterPrevious => 'Previous chapter (PgUp)',
+  BarControl.chapterNext => 'Next chapter (PgDn)',
+  BarControl.volume => 'Volume (scroll, ↑ / ↓)',
+  BarControl.time => 'Elapsed / remaining (click to switch)',
+  BarControl.subtitles => 'Subtitles',
+  BarControl.audio => 'Audio',
+  BarControl.settings => 'Settings and more',
+  BarControl.chat => 'Chat & activity (Tab)',
+  BarControl.fullscreen => s.fullscreen ? 'Exit fullscreen (F, Esc)' : 'Fullscreen (F)',
+};
+
+/// The bar's clock: "6:00 / 24:00", or the time left ("-18:00"); "0:00"
+/// parts while the length is unknown.
+String clockText(Duration position, Duration duration, TimeDisplay display) {
+  if (display == TimeDisplay.remaining && duration > Duration.zero) {
+    final left = duration - position;
+    return '-${formatClock(left.isNegative ? Duration.zero : left)}';
+  }
+  return '${formatClock(position)} / ${formatClock(duration)}';
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/model/controls_model.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
+
+import '../../jellyfin/track_prefs.dart' show MpvTrack;
+import '../../playback/media_marks.dart';
+import '../../playback/playback_controller.dart';
+import '../../queue/queue_controller.dart';
+import '../../session/session_coordinator.dart';
+import '../../shaders/shader_presets.dart';
+import '../../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../../state/settings.dart';
+import '../player_settings.dart' show applyShaderChoice;
+import '../volume.dart' as vol;
+import 'controls_layout.dart';
+
+/// A track pick from a track menu: audio id, subtitle id, or off.
+typedef TrackPick = ({int? aid, int? sid, bool subtitlesOff});
+
+/// The player controls, independent of how they look: what the controls
+/// show (state, as signals) and what they do (actions), wired to the
+/// session once. Both skins only draw this and call its actions, so a
+/// control added here shows in both. Built by the session player per
+/// mount; [fullscreen], [chatOpen] and [unread] are the shell's, passed in.
+class PlayerControlsModel {
+  final SessionCoordinator coord;
+  final ReadonlySignal<bool> fullscreen;
+  final ReadonlySignal<bool> chatOpen;
+  final ReadonlySignal<int> unread;
+  final VoidCallback _toggleFullscreen;
+  final VoidCallback _toggleChat;
+  final VoidCallback _changeVideo;
+  final VoidCallback _collapse;
+  final VoidCallback _leave;
+
+  PlayerControlsModel({
+    required this.coord,
+    required this.fullscreen,
+    required this.chatOpen,
+    required this.unread,
+    required VoidCallback onToggleFullscreen,
+    required VoidCallback onToggleChat,
+    required VoidCallback onChangeVideo,
+    required VoidCallback onCollapse,
+    required VoidCallback onLeave,
+  }) : _toggleFullscreen = onToggleFullscreen,
+       _toggleChat = onToggleChat,
+       _changeVideo = onChangeVideo,
+       _collapse = onCollapse,
+       _leave = onLeave;
+
+  PlaybackController get playback => coord.playback;
+  QueueController get queue => coord.queue;
+  AppSettings get settings => AppSettings.instance;
+
+  // ---------------------------------------------------------------- state
+
+  ReadonlySignal<Duration> get position => playback.position;
+  ReadonlySignal<Duration> get duration => playback.duration;
+
+  /// End of the cached range ahead of the position.
+  ReadonlySignal<Duration> get buffered => playback.buffered;
+  ReadonlySignal<List<MediaChapter>> get chapters => playback.chapters;
+  ReadonlySignal<int?> get currentChapter => playback.currentChapter;
+  ReadonlySignal<List<MpvTrack>> get tracks => playback.tracks;
+
+  /// 0..`maxVolume`.
+  ReadonlySignal<double> get volume => playback.volume;
+  ReadonlySignal<SkipOffer?> get skipOffer => coord.skipOffer;
+  ReadonlySignal<RenderMode> get renderMode => playback.renderMode;
+
+  /// Play / pause as the session sees it ([PlayState]).
+  late final Computed<PlayState> play = computed(() {
+    final r = coord.serverState.value;
+    final self = coord.selfMember.value;
+    return switch (r?.transport) {
+      'playing' => PlayState.playing,
+      'finished' => PlayState.finished,
+      _ => (self?.ready ?? false) && (self?.inSet ?? false) ? PlayState.waiting : PlayState.paused,
+    };
+  });
+
+  /// Everything the layout depends on (not the position: that changes
+  /// four times a second and only the timeline needs it).
+  late final Computed<ControlsSnapshot> snapshot = computed(() {
+    final items = queue.items.value;
+    final next = coord.nextEpisode.value;
+    return ControlsSnapshot(
+      play: play.value,
+      previousLabel: coord.previousEpisode.value?.label,
+      nextLabel: items.isNotEmpty ? items.first.title : next?.label,
+      nextIsUpNext: items.isNotEmpty,
+      hasChapters: chapters.value.isNotEmpty,
+      hasDuration: duration.value > Duration.zero,
+      solo: SessionState.instance.solo.value,
+      // Not a signal: read again whenever the state changes.
+      hasLink: coord.serverState.value != null && coord.currentLink() != null,
+      fullscreen: fullscreen.value,
+      chatOpen: chatOpen.value,
+    );
+  });
+
+  /// The bar's clusters, in the layout's order.
+  late final Computed<({List<BarControl> left, List<BarControl> right})> bar = computed(
+    () => barControls(snapshot.value, settings.hiddenControls.value),
+  );
+
+  /// What the ⚙ menu lists now.
+  List<ControlAction> menu() => menuActions(snapshot.peek(), settings.hiddenControls.peek());
+
+  /// Ticks on each wheel / key volume step: the skins flash the volume.
+  final volumeFlash = ValueNotifier(0);
+
+  /// A menu of the controls is open (the player's Esc closes it).
+  int menusOpen = 0;
+
+  void dispose() => volumeFlash.dispose();
+
+  // -------------------------------------------------------------- actions
+
+  /// Space: ready / not ready (being ready is "play" in a server).
+  void togglePlay() => coord.toggleReady();
+
+  /// A seek bar's press or drag; through `player.seek`, the user-seek
+  /// path, so everyone follows.
+  void seek(Duration to) => playback.player.seek(to);
+
+  /// Arrow keys: ±[secs], relative to a seek still in flight.
+  void nudge(double secs) => coord.nudge(secs);
+
+  /// +1:30 for everyone.
+  void skipForward() => coord.skipForward();
+
+  /// A skip pill (Skip OP / ED / 1:30).
+  void skip(SkipOffer offer) => coord.skip(offer);
+
+  /// PgDn (+1) / PgUp (-1). False when there is no chapter to go to.
+  bool stepChapter(int delta) => coord.stepChapter(delta);
+
+  void pickChapter(MediaChapter c) => coord.seekTo(c.start.inMicroseconds / 1e6);
+
+  /// Up next's first item, else the next episode. False when neither.
+  bool next() {
+    if (queue.items.peek().isNotEmpty) {
+      queue.skip();
+      return true;
+    }
+    if (coord.nextEpisode.peek() == null) return false;
+    coord.playNextEpisode();
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  /// The previous episode. False without one.
+  bool previous() {
+    if (coord.previousEpisode.peek() == null) return false;
+    coord.playPreviousEpisode();
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  void playNextEpisode() => coord.playNextEpisode();
+
+  void setVolume(double v) => playback.player.setVolume(v.clamp(0.0, vol.maxVolume));
+
+  /// One volume step up (+1) or down (-1) from the wheel or ↑ / ↓;
+  /// flashes the volume readout.
+  void stepVolume(int step) {
+    setVolume(vol.stepVolume(volume.peek(), step * vol.volumeStep));
+    volumeFlash.value++;
+  }
+
+  double _beforeMute = 100;
+
+  /// The speaker: mute, or back to the volume before.
+  void toggleMute() {
+    final v = volume.peek();
+    if (v > 0) {
+      _beforeMute = v;
+      setVolume(0);
+    } else {
+      setVolume(_beforeMute <= 0 ? 100 : _beforeMute);
+    }
+  }
+
+  void pickTrack(TrackPick p) => coord.selectTrack(aid: p.aid, sid: p.sid, subtitlesOff: p.subtitlesOff);
+
+  /// Saved as the choice and applied live; a null quality keeps the
+  /// saved one.
+  void pickShader(ShaderPreset preset, ShaderQuality? quality) => applyShaderChoice(preset, quality);
+
+  void toggleTimeDisplay() => settings.setTimeDisplay(settings.timeDisplay.peek().toggled);
+
+  void toggleFullscreen() => _toggleFullscreen();
+
+  void toggleChat() {
+    coord.markInput();
+    _toggleChat();
+  }
+
+  void changeVideo() => _changeVideo();
+
+  /// Back to the library (keeps playing in the mini player).
+  void collapse() => _collapse();
+
+  /// Asks before leaving the server.
+  void leave() => _leave();
+
+  void reload() {
+    coord.markInput();
+    coord.reloadVideo();
+  }
+
+  void markAllReady() => coord.forcePlayAll();
+
+  String? link() => coord.currentLink();
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/model/controls_prefs.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+// The player controls' user choices (Settings → Player, stored in
+// `AppSettings`). Plain values: the layout spec and both skins read them.
+
+/// The controls' look. Both skins draw the same controls model in the same
+/// order ([ControlsLayout]); only the look differs.
+enum ControlsSkin {
+  /// Material-style bar: a seek bar over a row of round icon buttons.
+  standard('Standard'),
+
+  /// The app's own timeline skin (inspired by mpv's uosc): a thick band
+  /// with the buffered part, chapters and times, flat glass buttons.
+  minimal('Minimal');
+
+  final String label;
+  const ControlsSkin(this.label);
+
+  /// A stored name; the old `mpvControls` flag (true: the uosc design)
+  /// when there is none.
+  static ControlsSkin fromStored(Object? name, {Object? legacyMpvControls}) {
+    for (final s in values) {
+      if (s.name == name) return s;
+    }
+    return legacyMpvControls == true ? minimal : standard;
+  }
+}
+
+/// The bar's clock: "6:00 / 24:00" or the time left ("-18:00").
+enum TimeDisplay {
+  elapsed('Elapsed / total'),
+  remaining('Remaining');
+
+  final String label;
+  const TimeDisplay(this.label);
+
+  TimeDisplay get toggled => this == elapsed ? remaining : elapsed;
+}
+
+/// Bar and button size.
+enum ControlsSize {
+  normal('Normal', 1.0),
+  large('Large', 1.25);
+
+  final String label;
+  final double scale;
+  const ControlsSize(this.label, this.scale);
+}
+
+/// Bar buttons the user may hide; hidden ones are still in ⚙.
+enum OptionalControl {
+  chapters('Chapter buttons', 'Previous / next chapter (PgUp / PgDn)'),
+  subtitles('Subtitles', 'The subtitle track list'),
+  audio('Audio', 'The audio track list'),
+  chat('Chat', 'Chat & activity (Tab)');
+
+  final String label;
+  final String help;
+  const OptionalControl(this.label, this.help);
+}
+
+/// The auto-hide delays offered (seconds).
+const controlsHideChoices = [2, 3, 5];
+
+/// The default auto-hide delay (seconds).
+const defaultControlsHideSecs = 3;

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/player_settings.dart

@@ -8,13 +8,15 @@ import '../jellyfin/track_prefs.dart' show MpvTrack;
 import '../playback/playback_controller.dart' show PlaybackController, RenderMode;
 import '../shaders/shader_presets.dart';
 import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../shell/mark_problem.dart';
 import '../shell/motion.dart';
 import '../state/settings.dart';
-import 'uosc/buttons.dart';
+import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
-import 'uosc/controls.dart';
+import 'frame.dart';
+import 'model/controls_prefs.dart';
 
-// Everything about the player, defined once: the rows of the ⚙ card in
+// Everything about the player, defined once: the rows of the player
-// both control designs and of Settings → Player. Each row reads and
+// settings card (⚙ → Player settings, both skins) and of Settings → Player. Each row reads and
 // writes [AppSettings] and applies to a running player right away.
 
 /// One setting: a label, one line of help under it, the control at the
@@ -56,29 +58,16 @@ class SettingRow extends StatelessWidget {
   }
 }
 
-DropdownButton<T> _dropdown<T>({
+AppSelect<T> _dropdown<T>({
   required Key key,
   required T value,
   required List<(T, String)> items,
   required ValueChanged<T> onChanged,
   bool expanded = false,
 }) =>
-    DropdownButton<T>(
+    AppSelect<T>(key: key, value: value, items: items, onChanged: onChanged, expanded: expanded);
-      key: key,
-      value: value,
-      isExpanded: expanded,
-      underline: const SizedBox.shrink(),
-      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
-      items: [
-        for (final (v, label) in items)
-          DropdownMenuItem(value: v, child: Text(label, maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis)),
-      ],
-      onChanged: (v) {
-        if (v != null) onChanged(v);
-      },
-    );
 
-/// Standard (our bars over media_kit's controls) or uosc. Live.
+/// The controls' skin: Standard or Minimal. Live.
 class PlayerDesignSetting extends StatelessWidget {
   const PlayerDesignSetting({super.key});
 
@@ -88,12 +77,100 @@ class PlayerDesignSetting extends StatelessWidget {
     return SignalBuilder(
       builder: (context) => SettingRow(
         label: 'Player design',
-        help: 'uosc is modeled on mpv: a thick timeline with chapters and what is cached',
+        help: 'Minimal has a thick timeline with chapters and what is downloaded yet',
-        control: _dropdown<bool>(
+        control: _dropdown<ControlsSkin>(
           key: const ValueKey('player-design'),
-          value: s.mpvControls.value,
+          value: s.controlsSkin.value,
-          items: const [(false, 'Standard'), (true, 'uosc')],
+          items: [for (final k in ControlsSkin.values) (k, k.label)],
-          onChanged: s.setMpvControls,
+          onChanged: s.setControlsSkin,
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// The bar's clock: elapsed / total or the time left. Live.
+class TimeDisplaySetting extends StatelessWidget {
+  const TimeDisplaySetting({super.key});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final s = AppSettings.instance;
+    return SignalBuilder(
+      builder: (context) => SettingRow(
+        label: 'Time display',
+        help: 'Also switched by a click on the time',
+        control: _dropdown<TimeDisplay>(
+          key: const ValueKey('time-display'),
+          value: s.timeDisplay.value,
+          items: [for (final t in TimeDisplay.values) (t, t.label)],
+          onChanged: s.setTimeDisplay,
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// Normal or large bar and buttons. Live.
+class ControlsSizeSetting extends StatelessWidget {
+  const ControlsSizeSetting({super.key});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final s = AppSettings.instance;
+    return SignalBuilder(
+      builder: (context) => SettingRow(
+        label: 'Controls size',
+        help: 'Large makes the bar and its buttons a quarter bigger',
+        control: _dropdown<ControlsSize>(
+          key: const ValueKey('controls-size'),
+          value: s.controlsSize.value,
+          items: [for (final z in ControlsSize.values) (z, z.label)],
+          onChanged: s.setControlsSize,
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// How long the controls stay up without mouse movement. Live.
+class HideDelaySetting extends StatelessWidget {
+  const HideDelaySetting({super.key});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final s = AppSettings.instance;
+    return SignalBuilder(
+      builder: (context) => SettingRow(
+        label: 'Hide the controls after',
+        help: 'Without mouse movement over the video',
+        control: _dropdown<int>(
+          key: const ValueKey('controls-hide'),
+          value: s.controlsHideSecs.value,
+          items: [for (final secs in controlsHideChoices) (secs, '$secs s')],
+          onChanged: s.setControlsHideSecs,
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// One optional bar button on or off (off: it is still in ⚙). Live.
+class BarButtonSetting extends StatelessWidget {
+  final OptionalControl control;
+  const BarButtonSetting({super.key, required this.control});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final s = AppSettings.instance;
+    return SignalBuilder(
+      builder: (context) => SettingRow(
+        label: control.label,
+        help: control.help,
+        control: Switch(
+          key: ValueKey('bar-${control.name}'),
+          value: !s.hiddenControls.value.contains(control),
+          onChanged: (on) => s.setControlShown(control, on),
         ),
       ),
     );
@@ -307,7 +384,20 @@ class TrackSetting extends StatelessWidget {
   }
 }
 
-/// The player rows of Settings → Player and the ⚙ card, in order.
+/// The controls' own choices (Settings → Player → Controls).
+List<Widget> controlsSettingRows() => [
+  const TimeDisplaySetting(),
+  const ControlsSizeSetting(),
+  const HideDelaySetting(),
+  const Padding(
+    padding: EdgeInsets.only(top: 10, bottom: 2),
+    child: Text('Buttons in the bar (hidden ones stay in ⚙)', style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w600)),
+  ),
+  for (final c in OptionalControl.values) BarButtonSetting(control: c),
+];
+
+/// The player rows of Settings → Player and the player settings card, in
+/// order.
 List<Widget> playerSettingRows({ReadonlySignal<RenderMode>? renderMode}) => [
       const PlayerDesignSetting(),
       const ProgressLineSetting(),
@@ -315,7 +405,8 @@ List<Widget> playerSettingRows({ReadonlySignal<RenderMode>? renderMode}) => [
       const HwdecSetting(),
     ];
 
-/// The ⚙ card: every player setting, plus the running player's tracks.
+/// The player settings card: every player setting, plus the running
+/// player's tracks.
 class PlayerSettingsCard extends StatelessWidget {
   final ReadonlySignal<RenderMode>? renderMode;
   /// Show the audio / subtitle pickers (a player is running).
@@ -324,19 +415,18 @@ class PlayerSettingsCard extends StatelessWidget {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return Material(
+    // The app's glass, like the Up next popover and the menus.
+    return AppGlass(
       key: const ValueKey('player-settings-card'),
-      elevation: 12,
-      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(16),
       child: SizedBox(
         width: 420,
         child: Padding(
-          padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(18, 14, 18, 10),
+          padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(16, 12, 16, 10),
           child: Column(
             mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
             crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
             children: [
-              const Text('Player', style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w700, fontSize: 16)),
+              const Text('Player', style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w600, fontSize: 14)),
               const SizedBox(height: 4),
               ...playerSettingRows(renderMode: renderMode),
               if (tracks) ...[
@@ -345,9 +435,16 @@ class PlayerSettingsCard extends StatelessWidget {
                 const TrackSetting(type: JellyfinStreamType.audio),
               ],
               const SizedBox(height: 4),
-              Text(
+              Row(
-                'Custom shader files: Settings → Player',
+                children: [
-                style: TextStyle(color: Theme.of(context).colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12),
+                  Expanded(
+                    child: Text(
+                      'Controls layout and custom shaders: Settings → Player',
+                      style: TextStyle(color: Theme.of(context).colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12),
+                    ),
+                  ),
+                  const MarkProblemButton(),
+                ],
               ),
             ],
           ),
@@ -357,51 +454,14 @@ class PlayerSettingsCard extends StatelessWidget {
   }
 }
 
-/// Opens the ⚙ card over the player, near the controls' right end. The
+/// Opens the player settings card over the player, near the controls'
-/// uosc controls stay up while it is open.
+/// right end; the controls stay up while it is open.
-Future<void> showPlayerSettings(BuildContext context, {ReadonlySignal<RenderMode>? renderMode}) {
+Future<void> showPlayerSettings(BuildContext context, {ReadonlySignal<RenderMode>? renderMode}) =>
-  Future<void> open() => showPopover<void>(
+    ControlsFrame.holdWhile(
+      context,
+      () => showPopover<void>(
         context,
         at: const Alignment(0.96, 0.5),
         child: PlayerSettingsCard(renderMode: renderMode),
-      );
+      ),
-  final controls = UoscControls.maybeOf(context);
-  return controls == null ? open() : controls.holdDuring(open);
-}
-
-/// ⚙ in the standard controls' bottom bar.
-class PlayerSettingsButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final FocusNode? focusNode;
-  final ReadonlySignal<RenderMode>? renderMode;
-  const PlayerSettingsButton({super.key, this.focusNode, this.renderMode});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return IconButton(
-      key: const ValueKey('player-settings'),
-      focusNode: focusNode,
-      tooltip: 'Player settings',
-      color: Colors.white,
-      iconSize: 20,
-      visualDensity: VisualDensity.compact,
-      icon: const Icon(Icons.tune),
-      onPressed: () => showPlayerSettings(context, renderMode: renderMode),
     );
-  }
-}
-
-/// ⚙ in the uosc controls' button row.
-class UoscPlayerSettingsButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final ReadonlySignal<RenderMode>? renderMode;
-  const UoscPlayerSettingsButton({super.key, this.renderMode});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return UoscButton(
-      key: const ValueKey('uosc-player-settings'),
-      icon: Icons.tune_rounded,
-      tooltip: 'Player settings',
-      onPressed: () => showPlayerSettings(context, renderMode: renderMode),
-    );
-  }
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/session_controls.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
+
+import '../state/settings.dart';
+import 'controls_probe.dart' show ControlsHold;
+import 'frame.dart';
+import 'minimal/minimal_controls.dart';
+import 'model/controls_model.dart';
+import 'model/controls_prefs.dart';
+import 'standard/standard_controls.dart';
+
+// The session's controls: one [ControlsFrame] (when they are up) around the
+// skin the settings pick, both drawing the same [PlayerControlsModel].
+// Skin, size and the hide delay follow the settings live.
+
+/// The bottom controls' height in [skin] at [size] (the player's floating
+/// pills sit just above it).
+double controlsBottomHeight(ControlsSkin skin, ControlsSize size) => switch (skin) {
+  ControlsSkin.standard => StandardControls.bottomHeight(size.scale),
+  ControlsSkin.minimal => MinimalControls.bottomHeight(size.scale),
+};
+
+/// The top bar's height in [skin].
+double controlsTopHeight(ControlsSkin skin) => switch (skin) {
+  ControlsSkin.standard => StandardControls.topHeight,
+  ControlsSkin.minimal => MinimalControls.topHeight,
+};
+
+class SessionControls extends StatelessWidget {
+  final PlayerControlsModel model;
+
+  /// Follows whether the controls are up.
+  final ValueNotifier<bool> shown;
+  final ControlsHold hold;
+  final VoidCallback onDoubleClick;
+  final Widget? windowButtons;
+  const SessionControls({
+    super.key,
+    required this.model,
+    required this.shown,
+    required this.hold,
+    required this.onDoubleClick,
+    this.windowButtons,
+  });
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final s = AppSettings.instance;
+    return SignalBuilder(
+      builder: (context) {
+        final skin = s.controlsSkin.value;
+        final size = s.controlsSize.value;
+        final scale = size.scale;
+        return ControlsFrame(
+          // A new frame per skin: each starts up, like a fresh mount.
+          key: ValueKey(skin),
+          shown: shown,
+          holdBy: hold,
+          hideAfter: Duration(seconds: s.controlsHideSecs.value),
+          onDoubleClick: onDoubleClick,
+          barTop: controlsTopHeight(skin),
+          barBottom: controlsBottomHeight(skin, size),
+          builder: (context, visible) => switch (skin) {
+            ControlsSkin.standard => StandardControls(
+              model: model,
+              visible: visible,
+              scale: scale,
+              hold: hold,
+              windowButtons: windowButtons,
+            ),
+            ControlsSkin.minimal => MinimalControls(
+              model: model,
+              visible: visible,
+              scale: scale,
+              hold: hold,
+              windowButtons: windowButtons,
+            ),
+          },
+        );
+      },
+    );
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/standard/seek_bar.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+import 'dart:math' as math;
+
+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+
+import '../../playback/media_marks.dart';
+import '../frame.dart';
+
+// The Standard skin's seek bar: a Material-style track with the played and
+// buffered parts, chapter marks and a hover tip.
+
+/// The seek bar: played / buffered track, a diamond at each chapter start
+/// (not the one at 0), and on hover the time with the chapter title above
+/// it. Like media_kit's bar it reports a seek on every drag move and on
+/// release ([onSeek]); the session routes those through the user-seek path
+/// (debounced, everyone follows).
+class ChapterSeekBar extends StatefulWidget {
+  final Duration position;
+  final Duration duration;
+  final Duration buffer;
+  final List<MediaChapter> chapters;
+  final ValueChanged<Duration> onSeek;
+
+  /// The bar's height (its hit area); the track is centred in it.
+  final double height;
+  const ChapterSeekBar({
+    super.key,
+    required this.position,
+    required this.duration,
+    this.buffer = Duration.zero,
+    this.chapters = const [],
+    required this.onSeek,
+    this.height = ChapterSeekBar.defaultHeight,
+  });
+
+  static const defaultHeight = 28.0;
+
+  @override
+  State<ChapterSeekBar> createState() => _ChapterSeekBarState();
+}
+
+class _ChapterSeekBarState extends State<ChapterSeekBar> {
+  double? _hoverX;
+  bool _dragging = false;
+  double _dragFraction = 0;
+
+  double _fraction(Duration d) {
+    final total = widget.duration.inMicroseconds;
+    if (total <= 0) return 0;
+    return (d.inMicroseconds / total).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+  }
+
+  Duration _at(double fraction) => widget.duration * fraction.clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+
+  // A drag sends no hover events: the controls are held up through it.
+  void _drag(bool on) {
+    if (_dragging == on) return;
+    setState(() => _dragging = on);
+    ControlsFrame.maybeOf(context)?.hold(on);
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void dispose() {
+    if (_dragging) ControlsFrame.maybeOf(context)?.hold(false);
+    super.dispose();
+  }
+
+  void _seekTo(double x, double width) {
+    if (widget.duration <= Duration.zero || width <= 0) return;
+    _dragFraction = (x / width).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+    widget.onSeek(_at(_dragFraction));
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final primary = Theme.of(context).colorScheme.primary;
+    return LayoutBuilder(
+      builder: (context, constraints) {
+        final width = constraints.maxWidth;
+        final active = _hoverX != null || _dragging;
+        final barHeight = active ? 5.0 : 3.0;
+        final played = _dragging ? _dragFraction : _fraction(widget.position);
+        final mid = widget.height / 2;
+        final hoverX = _hoverX;
+        final hoverAt = hoverX == null || width <= 0 ? null : _at(hoverX / width);
+        final hoverChapter = hoverAt == null ? null : chapterIndexAt(widget.chapters, hoverAt);
+        final hoverTitle = hoverChapter == null ? '' : widget.chapters[hoverChapter].title;
+        return MouseRegion(
+          cursor: SystemMouseCursors.click,
+          onEnter: (e) => setState(() => _hoverX = e.localPosition.dx.clamp(0, width)),
+          onHover: (e) => setState(() => _hoverX = e.localPosition.dx.clamp(0, width)),
+          onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hoverX = null),
+          child: Listener(
+            behavior: HitTestBehavior.opaque,
+            onPointerDown: (e) {
+              _dragFraction = width <= 0 ? 0 : (e.localPosition.dx / width).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+              _drag(true);
+            },
+            onPointerMove: (e) {
+              setState(() => _hoverX = e.localPosition.dx.clamp(0, width));
+              _seekTo(e.localPosition.dx, width);
+            },
+            onPointerUp: (e) {
+              _seekTo(e.localPosition.dx, width);
+              _drag(false);
+            },
+            onPointerCancel: (_) => _drag(false),
+            child: SizedBox(
+              key: const ValueKey('seek-bar'),
+              width: width,
+              height: widget.height,
+              child: Stack(
+                clipBehavior: Clip.none,
+                children: [
+                  Positioned(
+                    left: 0,
+                    right: 0,
+                    top: mid - barHeight / 2,
+                    height: barHeight,
+                    child: Container(color: Colors.white24),
+                  ),
+                  Positioned(
+                    left: 0,
+                    top: mid - barHeight / 2,
+                    height: barHeight,
+                    width: width * _fraction(widget.buffer),
+                    child: Container(color: Colors.white24),
+                  ),
+                  if (hoverX != null && !_dragging)
+                    Positioned(
+                      left: 0,
+                      top: mid - barHeight / 2,
+                      height: barHeight,
+                      width: hoverX,
+                      child: Container(color: Colors.white24),
+                    ),
+                  Positioned(
+                    left: 0,
+                    top: mid - barHeight / 2,
+                    height: barHeight,
+                    width: width * played,
+                    child: Container(color: primary),
+                  ),
+                  for (final c in widget.chapters)
+                    if (c.start > Duration.zero && widget.duration > Duration.zero)
+                      Positioned(
+                        key: ValueKey('chapter-mark-${c.index}'),
+                        left: width * _fraction(c.start) - 4,
+                        top: mid - 4,
+                        width: 8,
+                        height: 8,
+                        child: IgnorePointer(
+                          child: Transform.rotate(
+                            angle: math.pi / 4,
+                            child: Container(
+                              margin: const EdgeInsets.all(1),
+                              decoration: BoxDecoration(
+                                color: Colors.white,
+                                border: Border.all(color: Colors.black54, width: 0.8),
+                              ),
+                            ),
+                          ),
+                        ),
+                      ),
+                  if (active)
+                    Positioned(
+                      left: width * played - 6,
+                      top: mid - 6,
+                      width: 12,
+                      height: 12,
+                      child: IgnorePointer(
+                        child: DecoratedBox(
+                          decoration: BoxDecoration(color: primary, shape: BoxShape.circle),
+                        ),
+                      ),
+                    ),
+                  if (hoverAt != null)
+                    Positioned(
+                      // Kept clear of the window edges (the tip is centred).
+                      left: hoverX!.clamp(math.min(60.0, width / 2), math.max(width - 60, width / 2)),
+                      bottom: widget.height - 2,
+                      child: IgnorePointer(
+                        child: FractionalTranslation(
+                          translation: const Offset(-0.5, 0),
+                          child: _HoverTip(title: hoverTitle, time: formatClock(hoverAt)),
+                        ),
+                      ),
+                    ),
+                ],
+              ),
+            ),
+          ),
+        );
+      },
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+class _HoverTip extends StatelessWidget {
+  final String title;
+  final String time;
+  const _HoverTip({required this.title, required this.time});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    return Container(
+      constraints: const BoxConstraints(maxWidth: 320),
+      padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 8, vertical: 4),
+      decoration: BoxDecoration(color: Colors.black.withValues(alpha: 0.8), borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6)),
+      child: Column(
+        mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
+        children: [
+          if (title.isNotEmpty)
+            Text(
+              title,
+              key: const ValueKey('seek-hover-chapter'),
+              maxLines: 1,
+              overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+              style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white, fontSize: 12, fontWeight: FontWeight.w600),
+            ),
+          Text(
+            time,
+            key: const ValueKey('seek-hover-time'),
+            style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white70, fontSize: 11),
+          ),
+        ],
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/standard/standard_controls.dart

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+import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show JellyfinStreamType;
+
+import '../../queue/queue_ui.dart';
+import '../../shell/now_playing_title.dart';
+import '../../state/settings.dart';
+import '../control_menus.dart';
+import '../controls_probe.dart' show ControlsHold;
+import '../frame.dart';
+import '../model/controls_layout.dart';
+import '../model/controls_model.dart';
+import '../volume.dart';
+import 'seek_bar.dart';
+
+// The Standard skin: Material-style bars over the picture. Top: what plays,
+// Up next and the window controls; bottom: the seek bar (chapter marks,
+// hover time) over a row of round icon buttons in the layout's order.
+// Hidden, a thin progress line stays (unless switched off).
+
+class StandardControls extends StatelessWidget {
+  final PlayerControlsModel model;
+  final bool visible;
+  final double scale;
+  final ControlsHold? hold;
+
+  /// Right of the top bar's own buttons (the window buttons in fullscreen).
+  final Widget? windowButtons;
+  const StandardControls({
+    super.key,
+    required this.model,
+    required this.visible,
+    this.scale = 1,
+    this.hold,
+    this.windowButtons,
+  });
+
+  /// The top bar: room for the cover (2:3, 60 px tall).
+  static const topHeight = 72.0;
+  static const _rowHeight = 56.0;
+
+  /// The bottom bar (seek bar and buttons) at [scale].
+  static double bottomHeight(double scale) => (_rowHeight + ChapterSeekBar.defaultHeight) * scale;
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    const fade = ControlsFrame.fade;
+    Widget bar(Widget child) => IgnorePointer(
+      ignoring: !visible,
+      child: AnimatedOpacity(duration: fade, opacity: visible ? 1 : 0, child: child),
+    );
+    // No button here takes focus (Space is the ready key); the top bar's
+    // Up next keeps its own (its popover has a text field).
+    return Stack(
+      children: [
+        Positioned(
+          left: 0,
+          right: 0,
+          top: 0,
+          child: bar(
+            DecoratedBox(
+              decoration: const BoxDecoration(
+                gradient: LinearGradient(
+                  begin: Alignment.topCenter,
+                  end: Alignment.bottomCenter,
+                  colors: [Color(0x99000000), Color(0x00000000)],
+                ),
+              ),
+              child: SizedBox(
+                key: const ValueKey('standard-top'),
+                height: topHeight,
+                child: Padding(padding: const EdgeInsets.only(left: 16, right: 8), child: _top()),
+              ),
+            ),
+          ),
+        ),
+        Positioned(
+          left: 0,
+          right: 0,
+          bottom: 0,
+          child: bar(
+            DecoratedBox(
+              decoration: const BoxDecoration(
+                gradient: LinearGradient(
+                  begin: Alignment.topCenter,
+                  end: Alignment.bottomCenter,
+                  colors: [Color(0x00000000), Color(0xB3000000)],
+                ),
+              ),
+              child: Padding(
+                padding: EdgeInsets.only(top: 24 * scale),
+                child: SizedBox(
+                  key: const ValueKey('standard-bottom'),
+                  height: bottomHeight(scale),
+                  child: Column(
+                    children: [
+                      Padding(
+                        padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 16),
+                        child: SignalBuilder(
+                          builder: (context) => ChapterSeekBar(
+                            position: model.position.value,
+                            duration: model.duration.value,
+                            buffer: model.buffered.value,
+                            chapters: model.chapters.value,
+                            height: ChapterSeekBar.defaultHeight * scale,
+                            onSeek: model.seek,
+                          ),
+                        ),
+                      ),
+                      Expanded(
+                        child: Padding(
+                          padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 8),
+                          child: ExcludeFocus(
+                            child: SignalBuilder(
+                              builder: (context) {
+                                final s = model.snapshot.value;
+                                final layout = model.bar.value;
+                                return Row(
+                                  key: const ValueKey('standard-buttons'),
+                                  children: [
+                                    for (final c in layout.left) _control(context, c, s),
+                                    const Spacer(),
+                                    for (final c in layout.right) _control(context, c, s),
+                                  ],
+                                );
+                              },
+                            ),
+                          ),
+                        ),
+                      ),
+                    ],
+                  ),
+                ),
+              ),
+            ),
+          ),
+        ),
+        // Hidden: the thin progress line.
+        Positioned(
+          left: 0,
+          right: 0,
+          bottom: 0,
+          child: IgnorePointer(
+            child: SignalBuilder(
+              builder: (context) {
+                if (visible || !AppSettings.instance.progressLine.value) return const SizedBox.shrink();
+                final d = model.duration.value, p = model.position.value;
+                final v = d.inMilliseconds == 0 ? 0.0 : (p.inMilliseconds / d.inMilliseconds).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
+                return LinearProgressIndicator(
+                  key: const ValueKey('progress-line-standard'),
+                  value: v,
+                  minHeight: 2,
+                  backgroundColor: Colors.transparent,
+                );
+              },
+            ),
+          ),
+        ),
+      ],
+    );
+  }
+
+  Widget _top() {
+    final m = model;
+    return Row(
+      children: [
+        const Expanded(child: NowPlayingTitle()),
+        UpNextButton(queue: m.queue, onPlayNextEpisode: m.playNextEpisode, look: UpNextLook.standard, hold: hold),
+        SignalBuilder(
+          builder: (context) {
+            final full = m.fullscreen.value;
+            return ExcludeFocus(
+              child: _IconButton(
+                key: const ValueKey('standard-collapse'),
+                icon: full ? Icons.fullscreen_exit_rounded : Icons.close_fullscreen_rounded,
+                tooltip: full ? 'Exit fullscreen (Esc)' : 'Back to the library (keeps playing)',
+                onPressed: full ? m.toggleFullscreen : m.collapse,
+              ),
+            );
+          },
+        ),
+        ?windowButtons,
+      ],
+    );
+  }
+
+  Widget _control(BuildContext context, BarControl c, ControlsSnapshot s) {
+    final m = model;
+    final key = ValueKey('control-${c.name}');
+    final enabled = controlEnabled(c, s);
+    Widget icon(VoidCallback? onPressed, {int badge = 0, double size = 24, Color? color}) => _IconButton(
+      key: key,
+      icon: controlIcon(c, s),
+      tooltip: controlTooltip(c, s),
+      badge: badge,
+      size: size * scale,
+      color: color,
+      onPressed: enabled ? onPressed : null,
+    );
+    switch (c) {
+      case BarControl.playPause:
+        final waiting = s.play == PlayState.waiting;
+        return icon(m.togglePlay, size: 30, color: waiting ? Theme.of(context).colorScheme.primary : null);
+      case BarControl.previous:
+        return icon(m.previous);
+      case BarControl.next:
+        return icon(m.next);
+      case BarControl.chapterPrevious:
+        return icon(() => m.stepChapter(-1));
+      case BarControl.chapterNext:
+        return icon(() => m.stepChapter(1));
+      case BarControl.volume:
+        return SignalBuilder(
+          key: key,
+          builder: (context) => VolumeControl(
+            volume: m.volume.value,
+            onChanged: m.setVolume,
+            onToggleMute: m.toggleMute,
+            button: (context, i, color, tip, onPressed) =>
+                _IconButton(icon: i, tooltip: tip, color: color, size: 24 * scale, onPressed: onPressed),
+          ),
+        );
+      case BarControl.time:
+        return SignalBuilder(
+          key: key,
+          builder: (context) => _Clock(
+            text: clockText(m.position.value, m.duration.value, m.settings.timeDisplay.value),
+            tooltip: controlTooltip(c, s),
+            scale: scale,
+            onPressed: m.toggleTimeDisplay,
+          ),
+        );
+      case BarControl.subtitles || BarControl.audio:
+        final type = c == BarControl.audio ? JellyfinStreamType.audio : JellyfinStreamType.subtitle;
+        return SignalBuilder(
+          key: key,
+          builder: (context) => Builder(
+            builder: (context) => _IconButton(
+              icon: controlIcon(c, s),
+              tooltip: controlTooltip(c, s),
+              badge: trackCount(m.tracks.value, type),
+              size: 22 * scale,
+              onPressed: () => openTrackMenu(context, m, type),
+            ),
+          ),
+        );
+      case BarControl.settings:
+        return Builder(
+          key: key,
+          builder: (context) => _IconButton(
+            icon: controlIcon(c, s),
+            tooltip: controlTooltip(c, s),
+            size: 22 * scale,
+            onPressed: () => openControlsMenu(context, m),
+          ),
+        );
+      case BarControl.chat:
+        return SignalBuilder(
+          key: key,
+          builder: (context) => _IconButton(
+            icon: controlIcon(c, s),
+            tooltip: controlTooltip(c, s),
+            badge: m.unread.value,
+            size: 22 * scale,
+            onPressed: m.toggleChat,
+          ),
+        );
+      case BarControl.fullscreen:
+        return icon(m.toggleFullscreen, size: 26);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/// A round white icon button with an optional count badge (the Material
+/// look of media_kit's bar).
+class _IconButton extends StatelessWidget {
+  final IconData icon;
+  final String tooltip;
+  final VoidCallback? onPressed;
+  final int badge;
+  final double size;
+  final Color? color;
+  const _IconButton({
+    super.key,
+    required this.icon,
+    required this.tooltip,
+    required this.onPressed,
+    this.badge = 0,
+    this.size = 24,
+    this.color,
+  });
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
+    return IconButton(
+      tooltip: tooltip,
+      iconSize: size,
+      color: color ?? Colors.white,
+      disabledColor: Colors.white38,
+      onPressed: onPressed,
+      icon: Badge(
+        isLabelVisible: badge > 0,
+        backgroundColor: scheme.primary,
+        textColor: scheme.onPrimary,
+        label: Text('$badge'),
+        child: Icon(icon),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/// The clock: "6:00 / 24:00" or "-18:00"; a click switches.
+class _Clock extends StatelessWidget {
+  final String text;
+  final String tooltip;
+  final double scale;
+  final VoidCallback onPressed;
+  const _Clock({required this.text, required this.tooltip, required this.scale, required this.onPressed});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    return Tooltip(
+      message: tooltip,
+      waitDuration: const Duration(milliseconds: 500),
+      child: TextButton(
+        style: TextButton.styleFrom(
+          foregroundColor: Colors.white,
+          padding: EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 10 * scale),
+          tapTargetSize: MaterialTapTargetSize.shrinkWrap,
+        ),
+        onPressed: onPressed,
+        child: Text(
+          text,
+          style: TextStyle(fontSize: 14 * scale, fontFeatures: const [FontFeature.tabularFigures()]),
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/uosc/buttons.dart

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-import 'package:flutter/gestures.dart';
-import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
-import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show JellyfinStreamType;
-
-import '../../jellyfin/track_prefs.dart' show MpvTrack;
-import '../../playback/media_marks.dart';
-import '../../playback/playback_controller.dart' show RenderMode;
-import '../../screens/session/player_controls.dart' show TrackPick;
-import '../../shaders/shader_menu.dart';
-import '../../shaders/shader_presets.dart';
-import '../../state/settings.dart';
-import '../volume.dart';
-import 'controls.dart';
-import 'menu.dart';
-import 'style.dart';
-
-/// Flat uosc button: a white icon (optionally a [label] beside it and a
-/// small count [badge] in the corner), a faint highlight on hover, a dark
-/// tooltip. Never takes focus (the session's keys are global).
-class UoscButton extends StatefulWidget {
-  final IconData icon;
-  final String tooltip;
-  final VoidCallback? onPressed;
-  final String? label;
-  final int? badge;
-  /// Tint for an "on" state (ready, shaders on).
-  final Color? color;
-  const UoscButton({
-    super.key,
-    required this.icon,
-    required this.tooltip,
-    required this.onPressed,
-    this.label,
-    this.badge,
-    this.color,
-  });
-
-  @override
-  State<UoscButton> createState() => _UoscButtonState();
-}
-
-class _UoscButtonState extends State<UoscButton> {
-  bool _hover = false;
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final w = widget;
-    final color = w.onPressed == null ? UoscStyle.dim.withValues(alpha: 0.4) : (w.color ?? UoscStyle.text);
-    final badge = w.badge;
-    return UoscTooltip(
-      message: w.tooltip,
-      child: MouseRegion(
-        cursor: w.onPressed == null ? SystemMouseCursors.basic : SystemMouseCursors.click,
-        onEnter: (_) => setState(() => _hover = true),
-        onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hover = false),
-        child: GestureDetector(
-          behavior: HitTestBehavior.opaque,
-          onTap: w.onPressed,
-          child: Container(
-            height: UoscControls.buttonRowHeight,
-            constraints: const BoxConstraints(minWidth: UoscControls.buttonRowHeight),
-            padding: EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: w.label == null ? 0 : 8),
-            decoration: BoxDecoration(
-              color: _hover && w.onPressed != null ? UoscStyle.hover : Colors.transparent,
-              borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(UoscStyle.radius),
-            ),
-            child: Row(
-              mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-              mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
-              children: [
-                Stack(
-                  clipBehavior: Clip.none,
-                  children: [
-                    Icon(w.icon, color: color, size: 22),
-                    if (badge != null && badge > 0)
-                      Positioned(
-                        right: -8,
-                        bottom: -5,
-                        child: Container(
-                          key: const ValueKey('uosc-badge'),
-                          padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 3),
-                          decoration: BoxDecoration(
-                            color: UoscStyle.text,
-                            borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(3),
-                          ),
-                          child: Text('$badge',
-                              style: const TextStyle(
-                                  color: Colors.black, fontSize: 9, height: 1.3, fontWeight: FontWeight.w700)),
-                        ),
-                      ),
-                  ],
-                ),
-                if (w.label != null) ...[
-                  const SizedBox(width: 6),
-                  Text(w.label!, style: TextStyle(color: color, fontSize: UoscStyle.fontSize)),
-                ],
-              ],
-            ),
-          ),
-        ),
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Badge-style text button ("HQ" in uosc): a small outlined box with a
-/// short label, filled when [active].
-class UoscBadgeButton extends StatefulWidget {
-  final String text;
-  final String tooltip;
-  final bool active;
-  final VoidCallback onPressed;
-  const UoscBadgeButton({
-    super.key,
-    required this.text,
-    required this.tooltip,
-    required this.active,
-    required this.onPressed,
-  });
-
-  @override
-  State<UoscBadgeButton> createState() => _UoscBadgeButtonState();
-}
-
-class _UoscBadgeButtonState extends State<UoscBadgeButton> {
-  bool _hover = false;
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final w = widget;
-    return UoscTooltip(
-      message: w.tooltip,
-      child: MouseRegion(
-        cursor: SystemMouseCursors.click,
-        onEnter: (_) => setState(() => _hover = true),
-        onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hover = false),
-        child: GestureDetector(
-          behavior: HitTestBehavior.opaque,
-          onTap: w.onPressed,
-          child: Container(
-            height: UoscControls.buttonRowHeight,
-            padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 6),
-            decoration: BoxDecoration(
-              color: _hover ? UoscStyle.hover : Colors.transparent,
-              borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(UoscStyle.radius),
-            ),
-            alignment: Alignment.center,
-            child: Container(
-              padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 5, vertical: 1),
-              decoration: BoxDecoration(
-                color: w.active ? UoscStyle.text : Colors.transparent,
-                border: Border.all(color: w.active ? UoscStyle.text : UoscStyle.dim, width: 1.4),
-                borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(3),
-              ),
-              child: Text(w.text,
-                  style: TextStyle(
-                      color: w.active ? Colors.black : UoscStyle.dim,
-                      fontSize: 11,
-                      fontWeight: FontWeight.w800,
-                      letterSpacing: 0.3)),
-            ),
-          ),
-        ),
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Volume: click mutes / unmutes, hovering shows a [VolumeBar] up to
-/// [maxVolume], the wheel steps 5 %.
-class UoscVolumeButton extends StatefulWidget {
-  /// 0..[maxVolume].
-  final double volume;
-  final ValueChanged<double> onChanged;
-  const UoscVolumeButton({super.key, required this.volume, required this.onChanged});
-
-  @override
-  State<UoscVolumeButton> createState() => _UoscVolumeButtonState();
-}
-
-class _UoscVolumeButtonState extends State<UoscVolumeButton> {
-  double _beforeMute = 100;
-  bool _hover = false;
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final v = widget.volume;
-    final icon = v <= 0 ? Icons.volume_off_rounded : (v < 50 ? Icons.volume_down_rounded : Icons.volume_up_rounded);
-    return MouseRegion(
-      onEnter: (_) => setState(() => _hover = true),
-      onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hover = false),
-      child: Listener(
-        onPointerSignal: (e) {
-          if (e is PointerScrollEvent && e.scrollDelta.dy != 0) {
-            widget.onChanged(stepVolume(v, e.scrollDelta.dy < 0 ? 5 : -5));
-          }
-        },
-        child: Row(
-          mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-          children: [
-            AnimatedSize(
-              duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 150),
-              child: _hover
-                  ? Padding(
-                      padding: const EdgeInsets.only(left: 6, right: 2),
-                      child: VolumeBar(
-                        key: const ValueKey('uosc-volume-bar'),
-                        volume: v,
-                        onChanged: widget.onChanged,
-                        color: UoscStyle.text,
-                        trackColor: UoscStyle.dim.withValues(alpha: 0.5),
-                      ),
-                    )
-                  : const SizedBox.shrink(),
-            ),
-            UoscButton(
-              key: const ValueKey('uosc-volume'),
-              icon: icon,
-              color: v > 100 ? boostColor : null,
-              tooltip: 'Volume ${v.round()} % (scroll to change)',
-              onPressed: () {
-                if (v > 0) {
-                  _beforeMute = v;
-                  widget.onChanged(0);
-                } else {
-                  widget.onChanged(_beforeMute <= 0 ? 100 : _beforeMute);
-                }
-              },
-            ),
-          ],
-        ),
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Subtitles or audio: the icon with the track count; the menu lists the
-/// tracks (mpv's selection active).
-class UoscTracksButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final JellyfinStreamType type;
-  final List<MpvTrack> tracks;
-  final void Function(TrackPick pick) onPick;
-  final ValueChanged<bool>? onMenuOpen;
-  const UoscTracksButton({super.key, required this.type, required this.tracks, required this.onPick, this.onMenuOpen});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final audio = type == JellyfinStreamType.audio;
-    final count = tracks.where((t) => t.type == type).length;
-    return UoscButton(
-      key: ValueKey(audio ? 'uosc-audio' : 'uosc-subtitles'),
-      icon: audio ? Icons.graphic_eq_rounded : Icons.subtitles_outlined,
-      tooltip: audio ? 'Audio' : 'Subtitles',
-      badge: count,
-      onPressed: () async {
-        onMenuOpen?.call(true);
-        final pick = await showUoscMenu<TrackPick>(context,
-            title: audio ? 'Audio' : 'Subtitles', items: trackMenuItems(type, tracks));
-        onMenuOpen?.call(false);
-        if (pick != null) onPick(pick);
-      },
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Chapters: the list with start times, the playing one active; a pick
-/// jumps there. Nothing without chapters.
-class UoscChaptersButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final List<MediaChapter> chapters;
-  final int? current;
-  final Duration duration;
-  final ValueChanged<MediaChapter> onPick;
-  final ValueChanged<bool>? onMenuOpen;
-  const UoscChaptersButton({
-    super.key,
-    required this.chapters,
-    required this.current,
-    required this.duration,
-    required this.onPick,
-    this.onMenuOpen,
-  });
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    if (chapters.isEmpty) return const SizedBox.shrink();
-    return UoscButton(
-      key: const ValueKey('uosc-chapters'),
-      icon: Icons.bookmarks_outlined,
-      tooltip: 'Chapters (PgUp / PgDn)',
-      onPressed: () async {
-        onMenuOpen?.call(true);
-        final pick = await showUoscMenu<MediaChapter>(context,
-            title: 'Chapters', items: chapterMenuItems(chapters, current, duration));
-        onMenuOpen?.call(false);
-        if (pick != null) onPick(pick);
-      },
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Shaders as uosc's quality badge: the active Anime4K preset ("A HQ"),
-/// "4K" dimmed when off. Opens the shader menu.
-class UoscShaderButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final ReadonlySignal<RenderMode> renderMode;
-  final void Function(ShaderPreset preset, ShaderQuality? quality) onPick;
-  final ValueChanged<bool>? onMenuOpen;
-  const UoscShaderButton({super.key, required this.renderMode, required this.onPick, this.onMenuOpen});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final s = AppSettings.instance;
-    return SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
-      final preset = s.shaderPreset.value;
-      final quality = s.shaderQuality.value;
-      final short = shaderShortLabel(preset, quality);
-      return Builder(
-        builder: (context) => UoscBadgeButton(
-          key: const ValueKey('uosc-shaders'),
-          text: short ?? '4K',
-          active: short != null,
-          tooltip: short == null
-              ? 'Shaders: off (Ctrl+1..6)'
-              : 'Shaders: ${shaderLabel(preset, quality)} (Ctrl+0 off)',
-          onPressed: () {
-            final controls = UoscControls.maybeOf(context);
-            Future<void> open() =>
-                showShaderMenu(context, renderMode: renderMode, onPick: onPick, onMenuOpen: onMenuOpen);
-            controls == null ? open() : controls.holdDuring(open);
-          },
-        ),
-      );
-    });
-  }
-}
-
-/// One entry of the ≡ menu.
-typedef UoscAction = ({String title, String? hint, VoidCallback run});
-
-/// ≡: the session's actions as a menu.
-class UoscMainMenuButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final List<UoscAction> actions;
-  final ValueChanged<bool>? onMenuOpen;
-  const UoscMainMenuButton({super.key, required this.actions, this.onMenuOpen});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return UoscButton(
-      key: const ValueKey('uosc-menu-button'),
-      icon: Icons.menu_rounded,
-      tooltip: 'Menu',
-      onPressed: () async {
-        onMenuOpen?.call(true);
-        final pick = await showUoscMenu<UoscAction>(context, items: [
-          for (final a in actions) UoscMenuItem(value: a, title: a.title, hint: a.hint),
-        ]);
-        onMenuOpen?.call(false);
-        pick?.run();
-      },
-    );
-  }
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/uosc/controls.dart

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-import 'dart:async';
-
-import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
-
-import '../../state/settings.dart';
-
-// The mpv-style (uosc) controls frame: a full-width timeline at the
-// bottom with a row of flat buttons above it, the title top left and a
-// corner widget top right.
-// Mouse movement shows them; after [UoscControls.hideAfter] without any
-// they fade out, the timeline shrinks to a 2 px line (gone when "Progress
-// line when hidden" is off) and the cursor hides. Our own frame: no
-// media_kit controls state to reach into.
-
-class UoscControls extends StatefulWidget {
-  /// The timeline; [expanded] is false while the controls are hidden.
-  final Widget Function(BuildContext context, bool expanded) timeline;
-  /// Buttons left and right of the row above the timeline.
-  final List<Widget> left;
-  final List<Widget> right;
-  /// Top-right corner (chat, back to the library), shown with the controls.
-  final Widget? top;
-  /// Top left (what is playing), shown with the controls; gets the width
-  /// [top] leaves.
-  final Widget? topLeft;
-  final VoidCallback? onDoubleTap;
-  final Duration hideAfter;
-  /// Follows whether the controls are up (for overlays outside them).
-  final ValueNotifier<bool>? shown;
-  const UoscControls({
-    super.key,
-    required this.timeline,
-    this.left = const [],
-    this.right = const [],
-    this.top,
-    this.topLeft,
-    this.onDoubleTap,
-    this.hideAfter = const Duration(seconds: 3),
-    this.shown,
-  });
-
-  static const buttonRowHeight = 40.0;
-
-  /// The controls around [context], for widgets that need them kept up
-  /// (a timeline drag, an open menu).
-  static UoscControlsState? maybeOf(BuildContext context) =>
-      context.findAncestorStateOfType<UoscControlsState>();
-
-  @override
-  State<UoscControls> createState() => UoscControlsState();
-}
-
-class UoscControlsState extends State<UoscControls> {
-  bool _visible = true;
-  int _holds = 0;
-  Timer? _timer;
-
-  bool get visible => _visible;
-
-  @override
-  void initState() {
-    super.initState();
-    // Not during this build: an overlay listening to [shown] may be built.
-    WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) {
-      if (mounted) widget.shown?.value = true;
-    });
-    _hideLater();
-  }
-
-  @override
-  void dispose() {
-    _timer?.cancel();
-    super.dispose();
-  }
-
-  /// Show the controls and restart the hide countdown.
-  void wake() {
-    if (!_visible && mounted) {
-      setState(() => _visible = true);
-      widget.shown?.value = true;
-    }
-    _hideLater();
-  }
-
-  /// Keep the controls up while [on] (paired calls): a drag sends no
-  /// hover events and a menu route takes the mouse.
-  void hold(bool on) {
-    _holds = on ? _holds + 1 : (_holds - 1).clamp(0, 1 << 20);
-    wake();
-  }
-
-  /// Runs [open] (a menu) with the controls held up.
-  Future<T> holdDuring<T>(Future<T> Function() open) async {
-    hold(true);
-    try {
-      return await open();
-    } finally {
-      if (mounted) hold(false);
-    }
-  }
-
-  void _hideLater() {
-    _timer?.cancel();
-    _timer = Timer(widget.hideAfter, _hide);
-  }
-
-  void _hide() {
-    if (!mounted || _holds > 0 || !_visible) return;
-    setState(() => _visible = false);
-    widget.shown?.value = false;
-  }
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final visible = _visible;
-    const fade = Duration(milliseconds: 150);
-    return MouseRegion(
-      cursor: visible ? SystemMouseCursors.basic : SystemMouseCursors.none,
-      onEnter: (_) => wake(),
-      onHover: (_) => wake(),
-      onExit: (_) {
-        _timer?.cancel();
-        _hide();
-      },
-      child: Stack(
-        children: [
-          Positioned.fill(
-            child: GestureDetector(
-              behavior: HitTestBehavior.opaque,
-              onDoubleTap: widget.onDoubleTap,
-            ),
-          ),
-          Positioned(
-            left: 0,
-            right: 0,
-            bottom: 0,
-            height: 160,
-            child: IgnorePointer(
-              child: AnimatedOpacity(
-                duration: fade,
-                opacity: visible ? 1 : 0,
-                child: const DecoratedBox(
-                  decoration: BoxDecoration(
-                    gradient: LinearGradient(
-                      begin: Alignment.topCenter,
-                      end: Alignment.bottomCenter,
-                      colors: [Color(0x00000000), Color(0x8C000000)],
-                    ),
-                  ),
-                ),
-              ),
-            ),
-          ),
-          if (widget.topLeft != null)
-            Positioned(
-              left: 0,
-              right: 0,
-              top: 0,
-              height: 120,
-              child: IgnorePointer(
-                child: AnimatedOpacity(
-                  duration: fade,
-                  opacity: visible ? 1 : 0,
-                  child: const DecoratedBox(
-                    decoration: BoxDecoration(
-                      gradient: LinearGradient(
-                        begin: Alignment.topCenter,
-                        end: Alignment.bottomCenter,
-                        colors: [Color(0x8C000000), Color(0x00000000)],
-                      ),
-                    ),
-                  ),
-                ),
-              ),
-            ),
-          if (widget.top != null || widget.topLeft != null)
-            Positioned(
-              top: 0,
-              left: 0,
-              right: 0,
-              child: IgnorePointer(
-                key: const ValueKey('uosc-top'),
-                ignoring: !visible,
-                child: AnimatedOpacity(
-                  duration: fade,
-                  opacity: visible ? 1 : 0,
-                  child: Row(
-                    crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
-                    children: [
-                      Expanded(
-                        child: Padding(
-                          padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(16, 12, 16, 0),
-                          child: widget.topLeft == null
-                              ? const SizedBox.shrink()
-                              : Align(alignment: AlignmentDirectional.centerStart, child: widget.topLeft),
-                        ),
-                      ),
-                      ?widget.top,
-                    ],
-                  ),
-                ),
-              ),
-            ),
-          Positioned(
-            left: 0,
-            right: 0,
-            bottom: 0,
-            child: Column(
-              mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-              crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
-              children: [
-                IgnorePointer(
-                  key: const ValueKey('uosc-buttons'),
-                  ignoring: !visible,
-                  child: AnimatedOpacity(
-                    duration: fade,
-                    opacity: visible ? 1 : 0,
-                    child: Padding(
-                      padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(6, 0, 6, 4),
-                      child: SizedBox(
-                        height: UoscControls.buttonRowHeight,
-                        child: Row(children: [...widget.left, const Spacer(), ...widget.right]),
-                      ),
-                    ),
-                  ),
-                ),
-                // Hidden: the collapsed timeline is the progress line,
-                // unless the player settings turn it off.
-                SignalBuilder(
-                  builder: (context) {
-                    final line = AppSettings.instance.progressLine.value;
-                    return AnimatedOpacity(
-                      key: const ValueKey('uosc-timeline-wrap'),
-                      duration: fade,
-                      opacity: visible || line ? 1 : 0,
-                      child: widget.timeline(context, visible),
-                    );
-                  },
-                ),
-              ],
-            ),
-          ),
-        ],
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// The session's controls: the standard ones ([material]) or, with the
-/// "Player design" setting on uosc, the uosc ones ([mpv]). Switches live
-/// when the setting changes.
-class SessionControlsSwitch extends StatelessWidget {
-  final WidgetBuilder material;
-  final WidgetBuilder mpv;
-  const SessionControlsSwitch({super.key, required this.material, required this.mpv});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return SignalBuilder(
-      builder: (context) =>
-          AppSettings.instance.mpvControls.value ? mpv(context) : material(context),
-    );
-  }
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/uosc/menu.dart

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-import 'dart:math' as math;
-
-import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show JellyfinStreamType;
-
-import '../../jellyfin/track_prefs.dart' show MpvTrack;
-import '../../playback/media_marks.dart';
-import '../../screens/session/player_controls.dart' show TrackPick;
-import 'controls.dart';
-import 'style.dart';
-
-/// One row of a uosc menu: [title], a dim [hint] on the right (a time, a
-/// key), [active] = the current one (highlighted).
-class UoscMenuItem<T> {
-  final T value;
-  final String title;
-  final String? hint;
-  final bool active;
-  final bool enabled;
-  const UoscMenuItem({
-    required this.value,
-    required this.title,
-    this.hint,
-    this.active = false,
-    this.enabled = true,
-  });
-}
-
-/// A flat dark menu over the controls, above the widget of [context] (the
-/// button that opens it), with an optional [title] row. Resolves to the
-/// picked value, or null when dismissed (click outside, Esc). Keeps the
-/// controls up while open.
-Future<T?> showUoscMenu<T>(
-  BuildContext context, {
-  String? title,
-  required List<UoscMenuItem<T>> items,
-}) {
-  final navigator = Navigator.of(context);
-  final overlay = navigator.overlay!.context.findRenderObject() as RenderBox;
-  final box = context.findRenderObject() as RenderBox;
-  final anchor = Rect.fromPoints(
-    box.localToGlobal(Offset.zero, ancestor: overlay),
-    box.localToGlobal(box.size.bottomRight(Offset.zero), ancestor: overlay),
-  );
-  Future<T?> open() => navigator.push<T>(_UoscMenuRoute<T>(anchor: anchor, title: title, items: items));
-  final controls = UoscControls.maybeOf(context);
-  return controls == null ? open() : controls.holdDuring(open);
-}
-
-class _UoscMenuRoute<T> extends PopupRoute<T> {
-  final Rect anchor;
-  final String? title;
-  final List<UoscMenuItem<T>> items;
-  _UoscMenuRoute({required this.anchor, required this.title, required this.items});
-
-  @override
-  Color? get barrierColor => null;
-
-  @override
-  bool get barrierDismissible => true;
-
-  @override
-  String? get barrierLabel => 'Close menu';
-
-  @override
-  Duration get transitionDuration => Duration.zero;
-
-  @override
-  Widget buildPage(BuildContext context, Animation<double> animation, Animation<double> secondaryAnimation) {
-    return LayoutBuilder(builder: (context, constraints) {
-      const width = 360.0;
-      final screen = constraints.biggest;
-      final left = anchor.left.clamp(8.0, math.max(8.0, screen.width - width - 8));
-      final maxHeight = math.max(120.0, anchor.top - 16);
-      return Stack(
-        children: [
-          Positioned(
-            left: left.toDouble(),
-            bottom: screen.height - anchor.top + 6,
-            width: math.min(width, screen.width - 16),
-            child: ConstrainedBox(
-              constraints: BoxConstraints(maxHeight: maxHeight),
-              child: UoscMenuPanel<T>(
-                title: title,
-                items: items,
-                onPick: (v) => Navigator.of(context).pop(v),
-              ),
-            ),
-          ),
-        ],
-      );
-    });
-  }
-}
-
-/// The menu's panel alone (tests pump it without a route).
-class UoscMenuPanel<T> extends StatefulWidget {
-  final String? title;
-  final List<UoscMenuItem<T>> items;
-  final ValueChanged<T> onPick;
-  const UoscMenuPanel({super.key, this.title, required this.items, required this.onPick});
-
-  static const rowHeight = 36.0;
-
-  @override
-  State<UoscMenuPanel<T>> createState() => _UoscMenuPanelState<T>();
-}
-
-class _UoscMenuPanelState<T> extends State<UoscMenuPanel<T>> {
-  // Long lists open on the current row.
-  late final _scroll = ScrollController(
-      initialScrollOffset: math.max(0, widget.items.indexWhere((i) => i.active) - 3) * UoscMenuPanel.rowHeight);
-
-  @override
-  void dispose() {
-    _scroll.dispose();
-    super.dispose();
-  }
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final title = widget.title;
-    return Material(
-      key: const ValueKey('uosc-menu'),
-      color: UoscStyle.panel,
-      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(UoscStyle.radius * 2),
-      clipBehavior: Clip.antiAlias,
-      child: Column(
-        mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-        crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
-        children: [
-          if (title != null)
-            Container(
-              height: 34,
-              alignment: Alignment.center,
-              decoration: const BoxDecoration(border: Border(bottom: BorderSide(color: Color(0x22FFFFFF)))),
-              child: Text(title,
-                  style: const TextStyle(color: UoscStyle.dim, fontSize: UoscStyle.fontSize, fontWeight: FontWeight.w600)),
-            ),
-          Flexible(
-            child: ListView.builder(
-              shrinkWrap: true,
-              padding: const EdgeInsets.all(4),
-              controller: _scroll,
-              itemCount: widget.items.length,
-              itemExtent: UoscMenuPanel.rowHeight,
-              itemBuilder: (context, i) => _Row<T>(item: widget.items[i], onPick: widget.onPick),
-            ),
-          ),
-        ],
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-class _Row<T> extends StatefulWidget {
-  final UoscMenuItem<T> item;
-  final ValueChanged<T> onPick;
-  const _Row({super.key, required this.item, required this.onPick});
-
-  @override
-  State<_Row<T>> createState() => _RowState<T>();
-}
-
-class _RowState<T> extends State<_Row<T>> {
-  bool _hover = false;
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final item = widget.item;
-    final color = item.active
-        ? UoscStyle.fill
-        : _hover && item.enabled
-            ? UoscStyle.hover
-            : Colors.transparent;
-    final textColor = item.enabled ? UoscStyle.text : UoscStyle.dim.withValues(alpha: 0.4);
-    return MouseRegion(
-      cursor: item.enabled ? SystemMouseCursors.click : SystemMouseCursors.basic,
-      onEnter: (_) => setState(() => _hover = true),
-      onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hover = false),
-      child: GestureDetector(
-        key: ValueKey('uosc-menu-item-${item.title}'),
-        behavior: HitTestBehavior.opaque,
-        onTap: item.enabled ? () => widget.onPick(item.value) : null,
-        child: Container(
-          padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 10),
-          decoration: BoxDecoration(color: color, borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(UoscStyle.radius)),
-          child: Row(
-            children: [
-              Expanded(
-                child: Text(item.title,
-                    maxLines: 1,
-                    overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                    style: TextStyle(
-                        color: textColor,
-                        fontSize: UoscStyle.fontSize,
-                        fontWeight: item.active ? FontWeight.w600 : FontWeight.normal)),
-              ),
-              if (item.hint != null) ...[
-                const SizedBox(width: 12),
-                Text(item.hint!,
-                    style: TextStyle(
-                        color: item.active ? UoscStyle.text : UoscStyle.dim,
-                        fontSize: 12,
-                        fontFeatures: const [FontFeature.tabularFigures()])),
-              ],
-            ],
-          ),
-        ),
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Chapters with their start times, the playing one active.
-List<UoscMenuItem<MediaChapter>> chapterMenuItems(List<MediaChapter> chapters, int? current, Duration duration) {
-  final withHours = duration >= const Duration(hours: 1);
-  return [
-    for (final c in chapters)
-      UoscMenuItem(
-        value: c,
-        title: c.title.isEmpty ? 'Chapter ${c.index + 1}' : c.title,
-        hint: formatUoscTime(c.start, withHours: withHours),
-        active: c.index == current,
-      ),
-  ];
-}
-
-/// The audio or subtitle tracks ("Japanese · E-AC3 2.0 · title"), mpv's
-/// selection active; subtitles start with Off.
-List<UoscMenuItem<TrackPick>> trackMenuItems(JellyfinStreamType type, List<MpvTrack> tracks) {
-  final audio = type == JellyfinStreamType.audio;
-  final list = tracks.where((t) => t.type == type).toList();
-  return [
-    if (!audio)
-      UoscMenuItem(
-        value: (aid: null, sid: null, subtitlesOff: true),
-        title: 'Off',
-        active: !list.any((t) => t.selected),
-      ),
-    for (final t in list)
-      UoscMenuItem(
-        value: audio ? (aid: t.id, sid: null, subtitlesOff: false) : (aid: null, sid: t.id, subtitlesOff: false),
-        title: t.label,
-        hint: '#${t.id}',
-        active: t.selected,
-      ),
-  ];
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/uosc/style.dart

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-import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-
-// Look of the experimental mpv-style controls, after the uosc theme as the
-// owner runs it: flat black panels, white icons, a muted blue fill.
-
-abstract final class UoscStyle {
-  /// Timeline background and the boxes on it.
-  static const bar = Color(0xCC000000);
-  /// Played part of the timeline; also the active menu row.
-  static const fill = Color(0xFF4C6A8E);
-  /// Menus and tooltips.
-  static const panel = Color(0xF0101010);
-  static const hover = Color(0x24FFFFFF);
-  static const text = Colors.white;
-  static const dim = Color(0xA6FFFFFF);
-  static const radius = 4.0;
-  static const fontSize = 13.0;
-}
-
-/// uosc's clock: "01:51", "1:02:03" style but zero-padded ("01:02:03")
-/// once [withHours] (the media is an hour or longer).
-String formatUoscTime(Duration d, {bool withHours = false}) {
-  final t = d.isNegative ? Duration.zero : d;
-  String two(int n) => n.toString().padLeft(2, '0');
-  final h = t.inHours, m = t.inMinutes % 60, s = t.inSeconds % 60;
-  return withHours || h > 0 ? '${two(h)}:${two(m)}:${two(s)}' : '${two(m)}:${two(s)}';
-}
-
-/// Dark rounded hover tip ("Subtitles"), shown above its child.
-class UoscTooltip extends StatelessWidget {
-  final String message;
-  final Widget child;
-  const UoscTooltip({super.key, required this.message, required this.child});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    if (message.isEmpty) return child;
-    return Tooltip(
-      message: message,
-      preferBelow: false,
-      verticalOffset: 26,
-      waitDuration: const Duration(milliseconds: 250),
-      padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 8, vertical: 4),
-      decoration: BoxDecoration(
-        color: UoscStyle.panel,
-        borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(UoscStyle.radius),
-      ),
-      textStyle: const TextStyle(color: UoscStyle.text, fontSize: 12),
-      child: child,
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// A small dark box with one line of text (the timeline's times, the
-/// hover chapter title).
-class UoscBox extends StatelessWidget {
-  final String text;
-  final Color color;
-  final TextStyle style;
-  const UoscBox(
-    this.text, {
-    super.key,
-    this.color = UoscStyle.panel,
-    this.style = const TextStyle(color: UoscStyle.text, fontSize: UoscStyle.fontSize),
-  });
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return Container(
-      constraints: const BoxConstraints(maxWidth: 360),
-      padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 7, vertical: 3),
-      decoration: BoxDecoration(color: color, borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(UoscStyle.radius)),
-      child: Text(text,
-          maxLines: 1,
-          overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-          style: style.copyWith(fontFeatures: const [FontFeature.tabularFigures()])),
-    );
-  }
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/uosc/timeline.dart

@@ -1,287 +0,0 @@
-import 'dart:math' as math;
-
-import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-
-import '../../playback/media_marks.dart';
-import 'controls.dart';
-import 'style.dart';
-
-/// Fraction of [total] at [d], 0..1 (0 without a duration).
-double timelineFraction(Duration d, Duration total) {
-  final t = total.inMicroseconds;
-  if (t <= 0) return 0;
-  return (d.inMicroseconds / t).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-}
-
-/// The cached-ahead part of a timeline of [size]: from the playing
-/// position to the end of mpv's cache. Null when nothing is cached ahead.
-Rect? cacheRect(Size size, {required Duration position, required Duration buffered, required Duration duration}) {
-  final from = timelineFraction(position, duration) * size.width;
-  final to = timelineFraction(buffered, duration) * size.width;
-  if (to - from < 0.5) return null;
-  return Rect.fromLTRB(from, 0, to, size.height);
-}
-
-/// The hatching of [r]: 45° strokes from bottom-left to top-right,
-/// [spacing] apart along x, across all of [r] (the painter clips them).
-/// The first starts half a step in, so none just grazes the corner.
-List<(Offset, Offset)> hatchLines(Rect r, {double spacing = 6}) {
-  if (r.isEmpty || spacing <= 0) return const [];
-  final h = r.height;
-  return [
-    for (var x = r.left - h + spacing / 2; x < r.right; x += spacing) (Offset(x, r.bottom), Offset(x + h, r.top)),
-  ];
-}
-
-/// The uosc timeline: full width, elapsed part filled, the cached range
-/// ahead hatched, chapter starts as white diamonds on the top edge, the
-/// current time in a box at the left and the duration at the right.
-/// Hover shows the chapter title over the hover time. When the controls
-/// hide ([expanded] false) it shrinks to a thin line with chapter ticks.
-/// Like the media_kit bar it reports a seek on every drag move and on
-/// release ([onSeek]); the session sends those through the user-seek path.
-class UoscTimeline extends StatefulWidget {
-  final Duration position;
-  final Duration duration;
-  /// End of the cached range ([PlaybackController.buffered]).
-  final Duration buffered;
-  final List<MediaChapter> chapters;
-  final bool expanded;
-  final ValueChanged<Duration> onSeek;
-  const UoscTimeline({
-    super.key,
-    required this.position,
-    required this.duration,
-    this.buffered = Duration.zero,
-    this.chapters = const [],
-    this.expanded = true,
-    required this.onSeek,
-  });
-
-  static const height = 30.0;
-  static const collapsedHeight = 2.0;
-
-  @override
-  State<UoscTimeline> createState() => _UoscTimelineState();
-}
-
-class _UoscTimelineState extends State<UoscTimeline> {
-  double? _hoverX;
-  bool _dragging = false;
-  double _dragFraction = 0;
-
-  Duration _at(double fraction) => widget.duration * fraction.clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-
-  void _seekTo(double x, double width) {
-    if (widget.duration <= Duration.zero || width <= 0) return;
-    _dragFraction = (x / width).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-    widget.onSeek(_at(_dragFraction));
-  }
-
-  void _drag(bool on) {
-    if (_dragging == on) return;
-    setState(() => _dragging = on);
-    UoscControls.maybeOf(context)?.hold(on);
-  }
-
-  @override
-  void didUpdateWidget(UoscTimeline old) {
-    super.didUpdateWidget(old);
-    if (!widget.expanded && old.expanded) _hoverX = null;
-  }
-
-  @override
-  void dispose() {
-    // A drag cut short by a rebuild must not keep the controls up.
-    if (_dragging) UoscControls.maybeOf(context)?.hold(false);
-    super.dispose();
-  }
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return LayoutBuilder(builder: (context, constraints) {
-      final width = constraints.maxWidth;
-      final expanded = widget.expanded;
-      final h = expanded ? UoscTimeline.height : UoscTimeline.collapsedHeight;
-      final played = _dragging ? _dragFraction : timelineFraction(widget.position, widget.duration);
-      final hoverX = expanded ? _hoverX : null;
-      final hoverAt = hoverX == null || width <= 0 ? null : _at(hoverX / width);
-      final hoverChapter = hoverAt == null ? null : chapterIndexAt(widget.chapters, hoverAt);
-      final hoverTitle = hoverChapter == null ? '' : widget.chapters[hoverChapter].title;
-      final withHours = widget.duration >= const Duration(hours: 1);
-      final marks = [
-        for (final c in widget.chapters)
-          if (c.start > Duration.zero && widget.duration > Duration.zero) c,
-      ];
-      final bar = SizedBox(
-        key: const ValueKey('uosc-timeline'),
-        width: width,
-        height: h,
-        child: Stack(
-          clipBehavior: Clip.none,
-          children: [
-            Positioned.fill(
-              child: CustomPaint(
-                painter: UoscTimelinePainter(
-                  played: played,
-                  cache: (size) => cacheRect(size,
-                      position: widget.position, buffered: widget.buffered, duration: widget.duration),
-                  cacheKey: (widget.position, widget.buffered, widget.duration),
-                  hoverX: _dragging ? null : hoverX,
-                  hatched: expanded,
-                ),
-              ),
-            ),
-            for (final c in marks)
-              if (expanded)
-                Positioned(
-                  key: ValueKey('uosc-chapter-${c.index}'),
-                  left: width * timelineFraction(c.start, widget.duration) - 4,
-                  top: -4,
-                  width: 8,
-                  height: 8,
-                  child: IgnorePointer(
-                    child: Transform.rotate(
-                      angle: math.pi / 4,
-                      child: Container(
-                        margin: const EdgeInsets.all(1.2),
-                        decoration: BoxDecoration(
-                          color: Colors.white,
-                          border: Border.all(color: Colors.black54, width: 0.6),
-                        ),
-                      ),
-                    ),
-                  ),
-                )
-              else
-                Positioned(
-                  key: ValueKey('uosc-chapter-tick-${c.index}'),
-                  left: width * timelineFraction(c.start, widget.duration) - 1,
-                  top: -2,
-                  width: 2,
-                  height: h + 2,
-                  child: const IgnorePointer(child: ColoredBox(color: Colors.white70)),
-                ),
-            if (expanded) ...[
-              Positioned(
-                left: 4,
-                top: 0,
-                bottom: 0,
-                child: IgnorePointer(
-                  child: Center(
-                    child: UoscBox(formatUoscTime(_at(played), withHours: withHours),
-                        key: const ValueKey('uosc-time'), color: UoscStyle.bar),
-                  ),
-                ),
-              ),
-              Positioned(
-                right: 4,
-                top: 0,
-                bottom: 0,
-                child: IgnorePointer(
-                  child: Center(
-                    child: UoscBox(formatUoscTime(widget.duration, withHours: withHours),
-                        key: const ValueKey('uosc-duration'), color: UoscStyle.bar),
-                  ),
-                ),
-              ),
-            ],
-            if (hoverAt != null)
-              Positioned(
-                // Kept clear of the window edges (the tip is centred).
-                left: hoverX!.clamp(math.min(60.0, width / 2), math.max(width - 60, width / 2)),
-                bottom: h + 8,
-                child: IgnorePointer(
-                  child: FractionalTranslation(
-                    translation: const Offset(-0.5, 0),
-                    child: Column(
-                      mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-                      spacing: 4,
-                      children: [
-                        if (hoverTitle.isNotEmpty) UoscBox(hoverTitle, key: const ValueKey('uosc-hover-chapter')),
-                        UoscBox(formatUoscTime(hoverAt, withHours: withHours),
-                            key: const ValueKey('uosc-hover-time')),
-                      ],
-                    ),
-                  ),
-                ),
-              ),
-          ],
-        ),
-      );
-      if (!expanded) return IgnorePointer(child: bar);
-      return MouseRegion(
-        cursor: SystemMouseCursors.click,
-        onEnter: (e) => setState(() => _hoverX = e.localPosition.dx.clamp(0, width)),
-        onHover: (e) => setState(() => _hoverX = e.localPosition.dx.clamp(0, width)),
-        onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hoverX = null),
-        child: Listener(
-          behavior: HitTestBehavior.opaque,
-          onPointerDown: (e) {
-            _dragFraction = width <= 0 ? 0 : (e.localPosition.dx / width).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-            _drag(true);
-          },
-          onPointerMove: (e) {
-            setState(() => _hoverX = e.localPosition.dx.clamp(0, width));
-            _seekTo(e.localPosition.dx, width);
-          },
-          onPointerUp: (e) {
-            _seekTo(e.localPosition.dx, width);
-            _drag(false);
-          },
-          onPointerCancel: (_) => _drag(false),
-          child: bar,
-        ),
-      );
-    });
-  }
-}
-
-/// Background, cached range (hatched, or a faint band when collapsed),
-/// the played part and the hover line.
-class UoscTimelinePainter extends CustomPainter {
-  final double played;
-  final Rect? Function(Size size) cache;
-  /// What [cache] depends on (repaint when it changes).
-  final Object cacheKey;
-  final double? hoverX;
-  final bool hatched;
-  const UoscTimelinePainter({
-    required this.played,
-    required this.cache,
-    required this.cacheKey,
-    this.hoverX,
-    this.hatched = true,
-  });
-
-  @override
-  void paint(Canvas canvas, Size size) {
-    final all = Offset.zero & size;
-    canvas.drawRect(all, Paint()..color = UoscStyle.bar);
-    final c = cache(size);
-    if (c != null) {
-      if (hatched) {
-        canvas.save();
-        canvas.clipRect(c);
-        final stroke = Paint()
-          ..color = const Color(0x40FFFFFF)
-          ..strokeWidth = 1.5;
-        for (final (a, b) in hatchLines(c)) {
-          canvas.drawLine(a, b, stroke);
-        }
-        canvas.restore();
-      } else {
-        canvas.drawRect(c, Paint()..color = const Color(0x40FFFFFF));
-      }
-    }
-    canvas.drawRect(Rect.fromLTWH(0, 0, size.width * played, size.height), Paint()..color = UoscStyle.fill);
-    final x = hoverX;
-    if (x != null) {
-      canvas.drawRect(Rect.fromLTWH(x - 0.5, 0, 1, size.height), Paint()..color = Colors.white70);
-    }
-  }
-
-  @override
-  bool shouldRepaint(UoscTimelinePainter old) =>
-      old.played != played || old.cacheKey != cacheKey || old.hoverX != hoverX || old.hatched != hatched;
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/controls/volume.dart

@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show ValueListenable;
 import 'package:flutter/gestures.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-import 'package:media_kit/media_kit.dart';
 
 import '../playback/playback_controller.dart' show PlaybackController;
+import '../widgets/app_menu.dart' show AppGlass;
 
 /// The player's top volume (mpv's `volume-max`): past 100 % mpv amplifies.
 const maxVolume = PlaybackController.maxVolume * 1.0;
@@ -10,9 +13,170 @@ const maxVolume = PlaybackController.maxVolume * 1.0;
 /// The part of the volume bar above 100 %.
 const boostColor = Color(0xFFFFB74D);
 
+/// One wheel notch or arrow key.
+const volumeStep = 5.0;
+
 /// [volume] moved by [delta] (wheel, keys), kept within 0..[maxVolume].
 double stepVolume(double volume, double delta) => (volume + delta).clamp(0.0, maxVolume);
 
+/// Turns wheel deltas into volume steps: a mouse notch (a big delta) is
+/// one step, small smooth-scroll deltas add up to one. Mostly horizontal
+/// scrolls (Shift+wheel, sideways pans) are no steps.
+class WheelSteps {
+  // Flutter makes a notch 53 px on Linux, 60 on Windows (3 lines).
+  static const _notch = 50.0;
+  double _sum = 0;
+
+  /// Whether [e] is a vertical scroll (the only kind that steps).
+  static bool vertical(PointerSignalEvent e) =>
+      e is PointerScrollEvent && e.scrollDelta.dy != 0 && e.scrollDelta.dy.abs() > e.scrollDelta.dx.abs();
+
+  /// +1 louder (wheel up), -1 quieter, 0 not a step yet.
+  int take(PointerScrollEvent e) {
+    final dy = e.scrollDelta.dy;
+    if (dy.abs() >= _notch) {
+      _sum = 0;
+      return dy < 0 ? 1 : -1;
+    }
+    if (_sum != 0 && _sum.sign != dy.sign) _sum = 0;
+    _sum += dy;
+    if (_sum.abs() < _notch) return 0;
+    final step = _sum < 0 ? 1 : -1;
+    _sum = 0;
+    return step;
+  }
+
+  /// Claims [e] if it is a vertical scroll that nothing under the mouse
+  /// claimed first (a list, a menu), then calls [onStep] per step.
+  void handle(PointerSignalEvent e, ValueChanged<int> onStep) {
+    if (!vertical(e)) return;
+    GestureBinding.instance.pointerSignalResolver.register(e, (event) {
+      final step = take(event as PointerScrollEvent);
+      if (step != 0) onStep(step);
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+/// The wheel anywhere over [child] steps the volume ([onStep]: +1 / -1),
+/// unless something under the mouse scrolls (it claims the event first)
+/// or [enabled] is off.
+class VolumeWheel extends StatefulWidget {
+  final ValueChanged<int> onStep;
+  final bool enabled;
+  final Widget child;
+  const VolumeWheel({super.key, required this.onStep, this.enabled = true, required this.child});
+
+  @override
+  State<VolumeWheel> createState() => _VolumeWheelState();
+}
+
+class _VolumeWheelState extends State<VolumeWheel> {
+  final _steps = WheelSteps();
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) => Listener(
+    onPointerSignal: (e) {
+      if (widget.enabled) _steps.handle(e, widget.onStep);
+    },
+    child: widget.child,
+  );
+}
+
+/// Shows [builder] for a second after each [trigger] tick (a wheel or
+/// key volume step), fading in and out; ignores the mouse.
+class VolumeFlash extends StatefulWidget {
+  final ValueListenable<int> trigger;
+  final WidgetBuilder builder;
+  const VolumeFlash({super.key, required this.trigger, required this.builder});
+
+  /// How long the readout stays after the last step.
+  static const hold = Duration(seconds: 1);
+
+  @override
+  State<VolumeFlash> createState() => _VolumeFlashState();
+}
+
+class _VolumeFlashState extends State<VolumeFlash> {
+  bool _on = false;
+  Timer? _timer;
+
+  @override
+  void initState() {
+    super.initState();
+    widget.trigger.addListener(_flash);
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void didUpdateWidget(VolumeFlash old) {
+    super.didUpdateWidget(old);
+    if (old.trigger != widget.trigger) {
+      old.trigger.removeListener(_flash);
+      widget.trigger.addListener(_flash);
+    }
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void dispose() {
+    widget.trigger.removeListener(_flash);
+    _timer?.cancel();
+    super.dispose();
+  }
+
+  void _flash() {
+    if (!mounted) return;
+    setState(() => _on = true);
+    _timer?.cancel();
+    _timer = Timer(VolumeFlash.hold, () {
+      if (mounted) setState(() => _on = false);
+    });
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) => IgnorePointer(
+    child: AnimatedOpacity(
+      duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 150),
+      opacity: _on ? 1 : 0,
+      child: _on || _timer != null ? widget.builder(context) : const SizedBox.shrink(),
+    ),
+  );
+}
+
+/// The volume readout for [VolumeFlash] (both skins): a glass pill
+/// (the player's pill look) with the icon, a [VolumeBar] and the
+/// percentage.
+class VolumeReadout extends StatelessWidget {
+  final double volume;
+  const VolumeReadout({super.key, required this.volume});
+
+  @override
+  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
+    final v = volume.clamp(0.0, maxVolume);
+    return AppGlass.pill(
+      key: const ValueKey('volume-readout'),
+      child: Padding(
+        padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(12, 4, 14, 4),
+        child: Row(
+          mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
+          children: [
+            Icon(volumeIcon(v), size: 20, color: v > 100 ? boostColor : Colors.white),
+            const SizedBox(width: 8),
+            VolumeBar(volume: v, onChanged: (_) {}, width: 96),
+            const SizedBox(width: 10),
+            SizedBox(
+              width: 44,
+              child: Text(
+                '${v.round()} %',
+                textAlign: TextAlign.right,
+                style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white, fontSize: 13, fontFeatures: [FontFeature.tabularFigures()]),
+              ),
+            ),
+          ],
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+}
+
 /// A thin volume track over 0..[maxVolume]: filled up to the volume, the
 /// part above 100 % in [boostColor], a tick at 100 %. Click or drag sets
 /// it.
@@ -61,86 +225,104 @@ class _VolumePainter extends CustomPainter {
       ..strokeCap = StrokeCap.round;
     canvas.drawLine(Offset(0, y), Offset(size.width, y), line..color = trackColor);
     final full = x(100);
-    canvas.drawLine(Offset(full, y - 5), Offset(full, y + 5), Paint()
+    canvas.drawLine(
-      ..color = trackColor
+      Offset(full, y - 5),
-      ..strokeWidth = 1.5);
+      Offset(full, y + 5),
+      Paint()
+        ..color = trackColor
+        ..strokeWidth = 1.5,
+    );
     if (volume > 0) canvas.drawLine(Offset(0, y), Offset(x(volume.clamp(0, 100)), y), line..color = color);
     if (volume > 100) canvas.drawLine(Offset(full, y), Offset(x(volume), y), line..color = boostColor);
     canvas.drawCircle(Offset(x(volume), y), 5, Paint()..color = volume > 100 ? boostColor : color);
   }
 
   @override
-  bool shouldRepaint(_VolumePainter old) =>
+  bool shouldRepaint(_VolumePainter old) => old.volume != volume || old.color != color || old.trackColor != trackColor;
-      old.volume != volume || old.color != color || old.trackColor != trackColor;
 }
 
-/// Volume for the standard bar (instead of media_kit's, which stops at
+/// The speaker icon for [volume].
-/// 100): the icon mutes / unmutes, hovering shows a [VolumeBar], the
+IconData volumeIcon(double volume) =>
-/// wheel steps 5 %.
+    volume <= 0 ? Icons.volume_off_rounded : (volume < 50 ? Icons.volume_down_rounded : Icons.volume_up_rounded);
-class VolumeButton extends StatefulWidget {
+
-  final Player player;
+/// Builds a skin's button for the [VolumeControl].
-  final FocusNode? focusNode;
+typedef VolumeButtonBuilder = Widget Function(
-  const VolumeButton({super.key, required this.player, this.focusNode});
+  BuildContext context,
+  IconData icon,
+  Color? color,
+  String tooltip,
+  VoidCallback onPressed,
+);
+
+/// The bar's volume, in both skins: the skin's speaker button (click
+/// mutes / unmutes), a [VolumeBar] sliding out on hover, the wheel on it
+/// stepping [volumeStep] (claimed, so the player's wheel skips it).
+class VolumeControl extends StatefulWidget {
+  /// 0..[maxVolume].
+  final double volume;
+  final ValueChanged<double> onChanged;
+  final VoidCallback onToggleMute;
+  final VolumeButtonBuilder button;
+  final Color sliderColor;
+  final Color trackColor;
+  final double sliderWidth;
+  const VolumeControl({
+    super.key,
+    required this.volume,
+    required this.onChanged,
+    required this.onToggleMute,
+    required this.button,
+    this.sliderColor = Colors.white,
+    this.trackColor = Colors.white30,
+    this.sliderWidth = 72,
+  });
 
   @override
-  State<VolumeButton> createState() => _VolumeButtonState();
+  State<VolumeControl> createState() => _VolumeControlState();
 }
 
-class _VolumeButtonState extends State<VolumeButton> {
+class _VolumeControlState extends State<VolumeControl> {
+  final _steps = WheelSteps();
   bool _hover = false;
-  double _beforeMute = 100;
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final player = widget.player;
+    final v = widget.volume;
-    return StreamBuilder<double>(
+    return MouseRegion(
-      stream: player.stream.volume,
+      onEnter: (_) => setState(() => _hover = true),
-      initialData: player.state.volume,
+      onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hover = false),
-      builder: (context, snap) {
+      child: Listener(
-        final v = snap.data ?? 100;
+        onPointerSignal: (e) => _steps.handle(e, (step) => widget.onChanged(stepVolume(v, step * volumeStep))),
-        return MouseRegion(
+        child: Row(
-          onEnter: (_) => setState(() => _hover = true),
+          key: const ValueKey('volume-control'),
-          onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hover = false),
+          mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-          child: Listener(
+          children: [
-            onPointerSignal: (e) {
+            widget.button(
-              if (e is PointerScrollEvent && e.scrollDelta.dy != 0) {
+              context,
-                player.setVolume(stepVolume(v, e.scrollDelta.dy < 0 ? 5 : -5));
+              volumeIcon(v),
-              }
+              v > 100 ? boostColor : null,
-            },
+              'Volume ${v.round()} %  (scroll, ↑ / ↓)',
-            child: Row(
+              widget.onToggleMute,
-              mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-              children: [
-                const SizedBox(width: 4),
-                IconButton(
-                  key: const ValueKey('volume-button'),
-                  focusNode: widget.focusNode,
-                  tooltip: 'Volume ${v.round()} %',
-                  iconSize: 22,
-                  color: Colors.white,
-                  onPressed: () {
-                    if (v > 0) {
-                      _beforeMute = v;
-                      player.setVolume(0);
-                    } else {
-                      player.setVolume(_beforeMute <= 0 ? 100 : _beforeMute);
-                    }
-                  },
-                  icon: Icon(v <= 0 ? Icons.volume_off : (v < 50 ? Icons.volume_down : Icons.volume_up)),
-                ),
-                AnimatedSize(
-                  duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 150),
-                  child: _hover
-                      ? Padding(
-                          padding: const EdgeInsets.only(left: 4, right: 12),
-                          child: VolumeBar(volume: v, onChanged: player.setVolume),
-                        )
-                      : const SizedBox.shrink(),
-                ),
-              ],
             ),
-          ),
+            AnimatedSize(
-        );
+              duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 150),
-      },
+              child: _hover
+                  ? Padding(
+                      padding: const EdgeInsets.only(left: 4, right: 8),
+                      child: VolumeBar(
+                        key: const ValueKey('volume-bar'),
+                        volume: v,
+                        onChanged: widget.onChanged,
+                        width: widget.sliderWidth,
+                        color: widget.sliderColor,
+                        trackColor: widget.trackColor,
+                      ),
+                    )
+                  : const SizedBox.shrink(),
+            ),
+          ],
+        ),
+      ),
     );
   }
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/files/thumbnails.dart

@@ -33,15 +33,36 @@ const _timeout = Duration(seconds: 20);
 int _running = 0;
 final _waiting = <Completer<void>>[];
 final _inFlight = <String, Future<Thumbnail?>>{};
+final _players = <Player>{};
+bool _closed = false;
+
+/// App close: no new thumbnails, running ones stop at their next check
+/// and dispose their player. Players still up after [deadline] are
+/// disposed here, so no mpv outlives the engine.
+Future<void> cancelAllThumbnails({
+  Duration deadline = const Duration(milliseconds: 800),
+}) async {
+  _closed = true;
+  try {
+    await Future.wait(_inFlight.values.toList()).timeout(deadline);
+  } catch (_) {}
+  for (final p in _players.toList()) {
+    _players.remove(p);
+    try {
+      await p.dispose().timeout(deadline);
+    } catch (_) {}
+  }
+}
 
 /// The cached or freshly made thumbnail of the video at [path], or null
 /// when it can't be made (not a video, unreadable, timed out, cancelled).
 /// Never throws. [cancelled] is checked while queued and before the
 /// expensive steps: a scrolled-away tile returns null without decoding.
 Future<Thumbnail?> thumbnailFor(String path, {bool Function()? cancelled}) {
+  if (_closed) return Future.value(null);
   final existing = _inFlight[path];
   if (existing != null) return existing;
-  final f = _thumbnailFor(path, cancelled ?? () => false).catchError((
+  final f = _thumbnailFor(path, () => _closed || (cancelled?.call() ?? false)).catchError((
     Object e,
     StackTrace st,
   ) {
@@ -136,6 +157,7 @@ Future<Thumbnail?> _generate(
       bufferSize: 4 << 20,
     ),
   );
+  _players.add(player);
   try {
     final mpv = player.platform as NativePlayer;
     for (final (k, v) in [
@@ -176,6 +198,7 @@ Future<Thumbnail?> _generate(
     }
     return null;
   } finally {
-    await player.dispose();
+    // [cancelAllThumbnails] may have taken it already.
+    if (_players.remove(player)) await player.dispose();
   }
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/files/ui/file_tiles.dart

@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ import 'thumb.dart';
 // The Files page's rows and cards: a series header, an episode row (also
 // used for Recent), a loose-video card, and the empty states.
 
-/// Shown on play controls while there is nobody to watch with.
-const offlinePlayHint = 'Join or host to watch';
-
 /// What a play control is doing right now.
 enum PlayState { idle, starting, playing }
 
@@ -28,10 +25,6 @@ String parentName(String path) => baseName(File(path).parent.path);
 /// Cleaned title of a loose video: `Title (2019)`.
 String cleanTitle(ParsedName p) => p.year == null ? p.series : '${p.series} (${p.year})';
 
-/// Disabled with [offlinePlayHint] when [onTap] is null because offline.
-Widget _offlineTip(bool offline, Widget child) =>
-    offline ? Tooltip(message: offlinePlayHint, child: child) : child;
-
 class SeriesHeader extends StatelessWidget {
   final SeriesGroup group;
   final ThumbCache thumbs;
@@ -110,9 +103,8 @@ class FileRow extends StatelessWidget {
   final String? size;
   final PlayState state;
   final ThumbCache thumbs;
-  /// Null disables the row ([offline] adds the reason as a tooltip).
+  /// Null disables the row.
   final VoidCallback? onTap;
-  final bool offline;
   final bool indent;
   final Widget? trailing;
   const FileRow({
@@ -124,7 +116,6 @@ class FileRow extends StatelessWidget {
     required this.state,
     required this.thumbs,
     required this.onTap,
-    required this.offline,
     this.indent = true,
     this.trailing,
   });
@@ -148,62 +139,59 @@ class FileRow extends StatelessWidget {
       builder: (context, t, _) {
         final duration = durationText(t);
         final meta = [?duration, ?size].join(' · ');
-        return _offlineTip(
+        return Material(
-          offline,
+          color: playing ? scheme.primary.withValues(alpha: 0.08) : Colors.transparent,
-          Material(
+          borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
-            color: playing ? scheme.primary.withValues(alpha: 0.08) : Colors.transparent,
+          child: InkWell(
+            onTap: onTap,
             borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
-            child: InkWell(
+            child: Padding(
-              onTap: onTap,
+              padding: EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(indent ? 20 : 4, 5, 8, 5),
-              borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
+              child: Row(
-              child: Padding(
+                children: [
-                padding: EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(indent ? 20 : 4, 5, 8, 5),
+                  ClipRRect(
-                child: Row(
+                    borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
-                  children: [
+                    child: ThumbImage(t, width: 80, height: 45),
-                    ClipRRect(
+                  ),
-                      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
+                  const SizedBox(width: 10),
-                      child: ThumbImage(t, width: 80, height: 45),
+                  SizedBox(width: 20, child: Center(child: icon)),
-                    ),
+                  const SizedBox(width: 10),
-                    const SizedBox(width: 10),
+                  Expanded(
-                    SizedBox(width: 20, child: Center(child: icon)),
+                    child: Column(
-                    const SizedBox(width: 10),
+                      crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
-                    Expanded(
+                      children: [
-                      child: Column(
+                        Row(
-                        crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+                          children: [
-                        children: [
+                            Flexible(
-                          Row(
+                              child: Text(
-                            children: [
+                                title,
-                              Flexible(
+                                maxLines: 1,
-                                child: Text(
+                                overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                                  title,
+                                style: TextStyle(
-                                  maxLines: 1,
+                                  fontWeight: FontWeight.w600,
-                                  overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                                  color: playing ? scheme.primary : null,
-                                  style: TextStyle(
-                                    fontWeight: FontWeight.w600,
-                                    color: playing ? scheme.primary : null,
-                                  ),
                                 ),
                               ),
-                              if (playing) ...[
+                            ),
-                                const SizedBox(width: 8),
+                            if (playing) ...[
-                                Pill('now playing', scheme.primary),
+                              const SizedBox(width: 8),
-                              ],
+                              Pill('now playing', scheme.primary),
                             ],
-                          ),
+                          ],
-                          Text(subtitle,
+                        ),
-                              maxLines: 1,
+                        Text(subtitle,
-                              overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                            maxLines: 1,
-                              style: TextStyle(color: muted, fontSize: 12)),
+                            overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                        ],
+                            style: TextStyle(color: muted, fontSize: 12)),
-                      ),
+                      ],
                     ),
-                    if (meta.isNotEmpty) ...[
+                  ),
-                      const SizedBox(width: 12),
+                  if (meta.isNotEmpty) ...[
-                      Text(meta, style: TextStyle(color: muted, fontSize: 12)),
+                    const SizedBox(width: 12),
-                    ],
+                    Text(meta, style: TextStyle(color: muted, fontSize: 12)),
-                    ?trailing,
                   ],
-                ),
+                  ?trailing,
+                ],
               ),
             ),
           ),
@@ -223,14 +211,12 @@ class VideoCard extends StatelessWidget {
   final PlayState state;
   final ThumbCache thumbs;
   final VoidCallback? onTap;
-  final bool offline;
   const VideoCard({
     super.key,
     required this.video,
     required this.state,
     required this.thumbs,
     required this.onTap,
-    required this.offline,
   });
 
   @override
@@ -242,65 +228,62 @@ class VideoCard extends StatelessWidget {
       path: video.path,
       builder: (context, t, _) {
         final duration = durationText(t);
-        return _offlineTip(
+        return InkWell(
-          offline,
+          onTap: onTap,
-          InkWell(
+          borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(12),
-            onTap: onTap,
+          child: Column(
-            borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(12),
+            crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
-            child: Column(
+            children: [
-              crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+              AspectRatio(
-              children: [
+                aspectRatio: 16 / 9,
-                AspectRatio(
+                child: Container(
-                  aspectRatio: 16 / 9,
+                  decoration: BoxDecoration(
-                  child: Container(
+                    borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(12),
-                    decoration: BoxDecoration(
+                    border: Border.all(
-                      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(12),
+                      color: playing ? scheme.primary : Colors.transparent,
-                      border: Border.all(
+                      width: 2,
-                        color: playing ? scheme.primary : Colors.transparent,
-                        width: 2,
-                      ),
                     ),
-                    child: ClipRRect(
+                  ),
-                      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
+                  child: ClipRRect(
-                      child: Stack(
+                    borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
-                        fit: StackFit.expand,
+                    child: Stack(
-                        children: [
+                      fit: StackFit.expand,
-                          ThumbImage(t),
+                      children: [
-                          if (duration != null)
+                        ThumbImage(t),
-                            Positioned(right: 6, bottom: 6, child: _Badge(duration)),
+                        if (duration != null)
-                          if (state != PlayState.idle)
+                          Positioned(right: 6, bottom: 6, child: _Badge(duration)),
-                            Container(
+                        if (state != PlayState.idle)
-                              color: Colors.black38,
+                          Container(
-                              alignment: Alignment.center,
+                            color: Colors.black38,
-                              child: state == PlayState.playing
+                            alignment: Alignment.center,
-                                  ? const Icon(Icons.graphic_eq, color: Colors.white, size: 32)
+                            child: state == PlayState.playing
-                                  : const SizedBox.square(
+                                ? const Icon(Icons.graphic_eq, color: Colors.white, size: 32)
-                                      dimension: 28,
+                                : const SizedBox.square(
-                                      child: CircularProgressIndicator(
+                                    dimension: 28,
-                                          strokeWidth: 3, color: Colors.white)),
+                                    child: CircularProgressIndicator(
-                            ),
+                                        strokeWidth: 3, color: Colors.white)),
-                        ],
+                          ),
-                      ),
+                      ],
                     ),
                   ),
                 ),
-                const SizedBox(height: 6),
+              ),
-                Flexible(
+              const SizedBox(height: 6),
-                  child: Text(
+              Flexible(
-                    cleanTitle(video.parsed),
+                child: Text(
-                    maxLines: 2,
+                  cleanTitle(video.parsed),
-                    overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                  maxLines: 2,
-                    style: TextStyle(
+                  overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                      fontWeight: FontWeight.w600,
+                  style: TextStyle(
-                      fontSize: 13,
+                    fontWeight: FontWeight.w600,
-                      color: playing ? scheme.primary : null,
+                    fontSize: 13,
-                    ),
+                    color: playing ? scheme.primary : null,
                   ),
                 ),
-                Text(formatSize(video.size),
+              ),
-                    style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12)),
+              Text(formatSize(video.size),
-              ],
+                  style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12)),
-            ),
+            ],
           ),
         );
       },

apps/desktop/lib/src/files/ui/files_page.dart

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 import 'dart:async';
 import 'dart:io';
 
-import 'package:file_picker/file_picker.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
 import '../../shell/motion.dart';
+import '../../platform/ports/folder_access.dart';
+import '../../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../../widgets/app_menu.dart';
 import '../folder_store.dart';
 import '../name_parser.dart';
 import '../scanner.dart';
@@ -31,6 +33,8 @@ String? _lastOpen;
 final _expanded = <String>{};
 final _showRequests = ValueNotifier(0);
 
+FolderAccess get _folders => SessionState.instance.ports.folders;
+
 /// Opens [dir] (null: Recent) in the Files page: now if one is showing,
 /// else when it next opens.
 void showFilesFolder(String? dir) {
@@ -48,16 +52,18 @@ void resetFilesPageSession() {
 }
 
 class FilesPage extends StatefulWidget {
-  /// In a session: false disables playing (browsing still works).
+  /// Nobody else watches (offline or solo): no relay notice.
-  final bool online;
+  final bool solo;
   /// The file will stream from this computer through the server.
   final bool relayed;
   /// Plays [path] in the session; returns an error text, or null.
   final Future<String?> Function(String path) onPlay;
+  /// Adds [path] to Up next (right-click on a video); null: no server.
+  final Future<String?> Function(String path, {bool next})? onAddToQueue;
   final String? nowPlayingPath;
   /// Defaults to [thumbnailFor].
   final ThumbnailLoader? thumbnails;
-  /// Defaults to [scanFolder].
+  /// Defaults to [FolderAccess.scan].
   final Future<FolderScan> Function(String dir)? scan;
   /// Defaults to [FolderStore.instance].
   final FolderStore? store;
@@ -67,9 +73,10 @@ class FilesPage extends StatefulWidget {
 
   const FilesPage({
     super.key,
-    required this.online,
+    this.solo = false,
     required this.relayed,
     required this.onPlay,
+    this.onAddToQueue,
     this.nowPlayingPath,
     this.thumbnails,
     this.scan,
@@ -138,7 +145,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
 
   void _shown() => _select(_lastOpen);
 
-  Future<FolderScan> _runScan(String dir) => (widget.scan ?? scanFolder)(dir);
+  Future<FolderScan> _runScan(String dir) => (widget.scan ?? _folders.scan)(dir);
 
   void _select(String? dir) {
     setState(() {
@@ -172,7 +179,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
     String? dir;
     try {
       dir = await (widget.pickFolder ??
-          () => FilePicker.getDirectoryPath(dialogTitle: 'Add a folder with videos'))();
+          () => _folders.pickFolder(dialogTitle: 'Add a folder with videos'))();
     } catch (e) {
       _showError('Folder dialog unavailable (${e.runtimeType})');
     }
@@ -192,12 +199,8 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
   }
 
   static Future<String?> _pickVideo() async {
-    final files = await FilePicker.pickFiles(
+    final files = await _folders.pickFiles(dialogTitle: 'Pick a video', extensions: videoExtensions.toList());
-      dialogTitle: 'Pick a video',
+    return files.firstOrNull;
-      type: FileType.custom,
-      allowedExtensions: videoExtensions.toList(),
-    );
-    return files.isEmpty ? null : files.first.path;
   }
 
   void _removeFolder(String dir) {
@@ -207,7 +210,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
   }
 
   Future<void> _play(String path) async {
-    if (!widget.online || _starting != null) return;
+    if (_starting != null) return;
     setState(() {
       _starting = path;
       _error = null;
@@ -236,7 +239,36 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
           ? PlayState.playing
           : PlayState.idle;
 
-  VoidCallback? _tapOf(String path) => widget.online ? () => _play(path) : null;
+  VoidCallback _tapOf(String path) => () => _play(path);
+
+  /// Right-click on a video ([context]: its tile): Put it up, Add to
+  /// queue, Play next.
+  Future<void> _menu(BuildContext context, String path) async {
+    final add = widget.onAddToQueue;
+    if (add == null) return;
+    final pick = await showAppMenu<int>(context, items: [
+      AppMenuItem(value: 0, label: widget.solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
+      const AppMenuItem(value: 1, label: 'Add to queue'),
+      const AppMenuItem(value: 2, label: 'Play next'),
+    ]);
+    if (pick == null || !mounted) return;
+    if (pick == 0) return _play(path);
+    String? error;
+    try {
+      error = await add(path, next: pick == 2);
+    } catch (e) {
+      error = '$e';
+    }
+    if (error != null) _showError(error);
+  }
+
+  /// [child] with the right-click menu (when there is a server).
+  Widget _menuable(String path, Widget child) => widget.onAddToQueue == null
+      ? child
+      : KeyedSubtree(
+          key: ValueKey('menu:$path'),
+          child: Builder(
+              builder: (context) => GestureDetector(onSecondaryTap: () => _menu(context, path), child: child)));
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) => LayoutBuilder(
@@ -264,9 +296,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
         },
       );
 
-  Widget _browseButton(Widget Function(VoidCallback? onPressed) build) => widget.online
+  Widget _browseButton(Widget Function(VoidCallback? onPressed) build) => build(_browse);
-      ? build(_browse)
-      : Tooltip(message: offlinePlayHint, child: build(null));
 
   Widget _sidebar(BuildContext context, List<String> folders, String? open) {
     final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
@@ -345,7 +375,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
     final top = <Widget>[
       _header(context, open),
       if (narrow) _chips(folders, open),
-      if (widget.online && widget.relayed) const _RelayNotice(),
+      if (!widget.solo && widget.relayed) const _RelayNotice(),
       AnimatedSize(
         duration: easeTime,
         curve: ease,
@@ -470,15 +500,16 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
         itemCount: recent.length,
         itemBuilder: (context, i) {
           final path = recent[i];
-          return _RecentRow(
+          return _menuable(
-            key: ValueKey(path),
+              path,
-            path: path,
+              _RecentRow(
-            state: _stateOf(path),
+                key: ValueKey(path),
-            thumbs: _thumbs,
+                path: path,
-            onTap: _tapOf(path),
+                state: _stateOf(path),
-            offline: !widget.online,
+                thumbs: _thumbs,
-            onRemove: () => _store.removeRecent(path),
+                onTap: _tapOf(path),
-          );
+                onRemove: () => _store.removeRecent(path),
+              ));
         },
       ),
     ];
@@ -557,7 +588,7 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
       ),
       if (scan.videos.isEmpty)
         SliverToBoxAdapter(
-          child: Directory(dir).existsSync()
+          child: _folders.folderExists(dir)
               ? const FilesEmpty(
                   Icons.search_off,
                   'No videos here',
@@ -585,17 +616,18 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
               onTap: () => setState(() => _expanded.contains(id) ? _expanded.remove(id) : _expanded.add(id)),
             );
           }
-          return FileRow(
+          return _menuable(
-            key: ValueKey(v.path),
+              v.path,
-            path: v.path,
+              FileRow(
-            title: v.parsed.label.isEmpty ? v.parsed.series : v.parsed.label,
+                key: ValueKey(v.path),
-            subtitle: v.name,
+                path: v.path,
-            size: formatSize(v.size),
+                title: v.parsed.label.isEmpty ? v.parsed.series : v.parsed.label,
-            state: _stateOf(v.path),
+                subtitle: v.name,
-            thumbs: _thumbs,
+                size: formatSize(v.size),
-            onTap: _tapOf(v.path),
+                state: _stateOf(v.path),
-            offline: !widget.online,
+                thumbs: _thumbs,
-          );
+                onTap: _tapOf(v.path),
+              ));
         },
       ),
       // Everything else (movies, clips) as a thumbnail grid.
@@ -624,14 +656,15 @@ class _FilesPageState extends State<FilesPage> {
             itemCount: loose.length,
             itemBuilder: (context, i) {
               final v = loose[i];
-              return VideoCard(
+              return _menuable(
-                key: ValueKey(v.path),
+                  v.path,
-                video: v,
+                  VideoCard(
-                state: _stateOf(v.path),
+                    key: ValueKey(v.path),
-                thumbs: _thumbs,
+                    video: v,
-                onTap: _tapOf(v.path),
+                    state: _stateOf(v.path),
-                offline: !widget.online,
+                    thumbs: _thumbs,
-              );
+                    onTap: _tapOf(v.path),
+                  ));
             },
           );
         }),
@@ -647,7 +680,6 @@ class _RecentRow extends StatefulWidget {
   final PlayState state;
   final ThumbCache thumbs;
   final VoidCallback? onTap;
-  final bool offline;
   final VoidCallback onRemove;
   const _RecentRow({
     super.key,
@@ -655,7 +687,6 @@ class _RecentRow extends StatefulWidget {
     required this.state,
     required this.thumbs,
     required this.onTap,
-    required this.offline,
     required this.onRemove,
   });
 
@@ -669,7 +700,7 @@ class _RecentRowState extends State<_RecentRow> {
   @override
   void initState() {
     super.initState();
-    File(widget.path).stat().then((s) {
+    _folders.stat(widget.path).then((s) {
       if (mounted) setState(() => _stat = s);
     }, onError: (Object _) {});
   }
@@ -688,7 +719,6 @@ class _RecentRowState extends State<_RecentRow> {
       state: widget.state,
       thumbs: widget.thumbs,
       onTap: missing ? null : widget.onTap,
-      offline: widget.offline && !missing,
       indent: false,
       trailing: IconButton(
         tooltip: 'Remove from recent',

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/accounts.dart

@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ import 'package:hive_ce/hive.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../screens/home/picked_media.dart';
-import '../screens/home/ui.dart' show appName;
-import '../update/updater.dart' show appVersion;
 
 // Linked Jellyfin servers, one account per ServerId, in their own Hive box.
 //
@@ -196,6 +194,13 @@ class JellyfinAccounts extends ChangeNotifier {
   JellyfinAccount? account(String serverId) =>
       _accounts.where((a) => a.serverId == serverId).firstOrNull;
 
+  /// [itemId]'s page in the web UI of linked server [serverId] ("Open in
+  /// Jellyfin"); null when that server is not linked here.
+  String? webUrlOf(String serverId, String itemId) {
+    final a = account(serverId);
+    return a == null ? null : jellyfinWebUrl(a.baseUrl, itemId, serverId: serverId);
+  }
+
   /// The chosen default, else the first linked server.
   JellyfinAccount? get defaultAccount =>
       (_defaultServerId == null ? null : account(_defaultServerId!)) ?? _accounts.firstOrNull;
@@ -215,7 +220,8 @@ class JellyfinAccounts extends ChangeNotifier {
   String get deviceId => _deviceId;
 
   JellyfinClientInfo get clientInfo => JellyfinClientInfo(
-        client: appName,
+        // The old name on purpose: Jellyfin lists devices under it.
+        client: 'Watch Together',
         device: deviceName ?? _hostname(),
         deviceId: _deviceId.isEmpty ? 'unknown' : _deviceId,
         version: appVersion,
@@ -544,6 +550,17 @@ class JellyfinAccounts extends ChangeNotifier {
   /// Drops cached browse results (refresh button, after a pick).
   void invalidate(String serverId) => _clearMemo(serverId);
 
+  final _watched = StreamController<String>.broadcast();
+
+  /// Server ids whose watched state this app just changed (a stop report):
+  /// their cached lists are gone, and browse views reload.
+  Stream<String> get watched => _watched.stream;
+
+  void watchedChanged(String serverId) {
+    _clearMemo(serverId);
+    _watched.add(serverId);
+  }
+
   @override
   void dispose() {
     _disposed = true;

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/browse_scope.dart

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import 'accounts.dart';
 import 'format.dart';
+import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
+import '../widgets/copy_open.dart';
 
 /// One level of the library browser's back stack.
 sealed class BrowseRoute {
@@ -156,7 +158,14 @@ class BrowseController extends ChangeNotifier {
   final JellyfinAccounts accounts;
   /// Clock for the Continue row's age cut-off (tests pin it).
   final DateTime Function() now;
-  BrowseController(this.accounts, {this.now = DateTime.now});
+  BrowseController(this.accounts, {this.now = DateTime.now}) {
+    // Back from watching: the rows show what was just watched.
+    _watchedSub = accounts.watched.listen((id) {
+      if (!_disposed && id == serverId) dataChanged();
+    });
+  }
+
+  late final StreamSubscription<String> _watchedSub;
 
   String? _serverId;
   List<BrowseRoute> _stack = const [HomeRoute()];
@@ -258,10 +267,19 @@ class BrowseController extends ChangeNotifier {
   @override
   void dispose() {
     _disposed = true;
+    unawaited(_watchedSub.cancel());
     super.dispose();
   }
 }
 
+/// An item's title to copy: an episode with its series ("Show · Name").
+String jellyfinCopyTitle(JellyfinItem item) {
+  final series = item.seriesName;
+  return item.kind == JellyfinItemKind.episode && series != null && series.isNotEmpty
+      ? '$series · ${item.name}'
+      : item.name;
+}
+
 /// What every browser page needs, provided by [JellyfinBrowser].
 class BrowseScope extends InheritedWidget {
   final JellyfinAccounts accounts;
@@ -274,6 +292,9 @@ class BrowseScope extends InheritedWidget {
   final ValueChanged<JellyfinItem> onSelect;
   /// Double-click: put it up (a series: its next episode).
   final ValueChanged<JellyfinItem> onPutUp;
+  /// Adds it to Up next (with next: right after what plays); null: no
+  /// server (the cards' menu then only copies and opens).
+  final void Function(JellyfinItem item, {bool next})? onAddToQueue;
   /// Home shows the library chips itself (the Library tab has them in its
   /// header instead).
   final bool libraryStrip;
@@ -287,6 +308,7 @@ class BrowseScope extends InheritedWidget {
     required this.selectedItemId,
     required this.onSelect,
     required this.onPutUp,
+    this.onAddToQueue,
     this.libraryStrip = true,
     required super.child,
   });
@@ -296,6 +318,33 @@ class BrowseScope extends InheritedWidget {
 
   void onOpen(BrowseRoute route) => controller.open(route);
 
+  /// Right-click on a card ([context]: the card): Put it up, Add to queue,
+  /// Play next (playable, in a server), Copy title, Open in Jellyfin.
+  Future<void> cardMenu(BuildContext context, JellyfinItem item) async {
+    final queue = isSelectable(item) ? onAddToQueue : null;
+    final pick = await showAppMenu<int>(context, items: [
+      if (queue != null) ...const [
+        AppMenuItem(value: 0, label: 'Put it up'),
+        AppMenuItem(value: 1, label: 'Add to queue'),
+        AppMenuItem(value: 2, label: 'Play next'),
+      ],
+      const AppMenuItem(value: 3, label: ReuseText.copyTitle),
+      const AppMenuItem(value: 4, label: ReuseText.openInJellyfin),
+    ]);
+    switch (pick) {
+      case 0:
+        onPutUp(item);
+      case 1:
+        queue!(item);
+      case 2:
+        queue!(item, next: true);
+      case 3:
+        await copyToClipboard(jellyfinCopyTitle(item), done: 'Title copied');
+      case 4:
+        await openLink(jellyfinWebUrl(client.baseUrl, item.id, serverId: account.serverId));
+    }
+  }
+
   /// Cached browse call on this server.
   Future<T> load<T>(String key, Future<T> Function(JellyfinClient c) fn) =>
       accounts.cached(account.serverId, key, () => fn(client));

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/browser.dart

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ class JellyfinBrowser extends StatefulWidget {
   final JellyfinSelection? selected;
   final ValueChanged<JellyfinSelection> onSelect;
   final ValueChanged<JellyfinSelection> onPutUp;
+  /// Right-click on a card: Add to queue / Play next; null: no server.
+  final void Function(JellyfinSelection item, {bool next})? onAddToQueue;
   final VoidCallback? onOpenIntegrations;
   final Duration searchDebounce;
   /// Opens here instead of the remembered location (the series of the
@@ -43,6 +45,7 @@ class JellyfinBrowser extends StatefulWidget {
     required this.accounts,
     required this.onSelect,
     required this.onPutUp,
+    this.onAddToQueue,
     this.controller,
     this.selected,
     this.onOpenIntegrations,
@@ -221,6 +224,10 @@ class _JellyfinBrowserState extends State<JellyfinBrowser> {
       selectedItemId: sel != null && sel.serverId == account.serverId ? sel.itemId : null,
       onSelect: (item) => widget.onSelect(JellyfinSelection(account.serverId, item.id, item)),
       onPutUp: (item) => widget.onPutUp(JellyfinSelection(account.serverId, item.id, item)),
+      onAddToQueue: widget.onAddToQueue == null
+          ? null
+          : (item, {next = false}) =>
+              widget.onAddToQueue!(JellyfinSelection(account.serverId, item.id, item), next: next),
       libraryStrip: widget.libraryStrip,
       child: Focus(
         onKeyEvent: _onKey,

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/cards.dart

@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ class _MediaCardState extends State<MediaCard> {
         focusColor: Colors.transparent,
         hoverColor: Colors.transparent,
         onTap: () => _tap(scope),
+        onSecondaryTap: () => scope.cardMenu(context, item),
         onHover: (h) => setState(() => _hover = h),
         onFocusChange: (f) => setState(() => _focus = f),
         child: Column(

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/details_panel.dart

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../shell/motion.dart';
+import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
+import '../widgets/copy_open.dart';
 import 'accounts.dart';
 import 'browse_scope.dart';
 import 'cards.dart' show doubleClickTime, kindIcon;
@@ -32,26 +34,30 @@ typedef _Data = ({
 });
 
 /// The selected card's details, at the right of the library: banner,
-/// title, meta, "Put it up · S1E3" (a disabled Play with [offlineHint]
+/// title, meta, "Put it up · S1E3" ("Play · S1E3" when watching
-/// offline), mark watched / unwatched, remove from Continue, overview and,
+/// [solo]), mark watched / unwatched, remove from Continue, overview and,
 /// for a series or an episode, the episode list (click picks which
 /// episode goes up, double-click puts it up). Reloads when the
 /// [controller]'s data version moves.
 class JellyfinDetailsPanel extends StatefulWidget {
   final BrowseController controller;
   final JellyfinSelection selection;
-  /// Null when online; else why nothing can go up.
+  /// Nobody else watches (offline or solo): the button says Play.
-  final String? offlineHint;
+  final bool solo;
   /// Puts [item] (playable) up; returns an error text, or null when sent.
   final Future<String?> Function(JellyfinSelection item) onPutUp;
+  /// Adds [item] to Up next (with next: right after what plays); null: no
+  /// server, no queue actions.
+  final Future<String?> Function(JellyfinSelection item, {bool next})? onAddToQueue;
   final VoidCallback onClose;
   const JellyfinDetailsPanel({
     super.key,
     required this.controller,
     required this.selection,
     required this.onPutUp,
+    this.onAddToQueue,
     required this.onClose,
-    this.offlineHint,
+    this.solo = false,
   });
 
   @override
@@ -104,7 +110,7 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
       _cached('episodes:$seriesId:$seasonId', (c) => c.episodes(seriesId, seasonId: seasonId));
 
   Future<void> _putUp(JellyfinItem target) async {
-    if (_busy || widget.offlineHint != null) return;
+    if (_busy) return;
     setState(() {
       _busy = true;
       _error = null;
@@ -122,6 +128,55 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
     });
   }
 
+  Future<void> _queue(JellyfinItem target, {bool next = false}) async {
+    final add = widget.onAddToQueue;
+    if (add == null || _busy) return;
+    setState(() {
+      _busy = true;
+      _error = null;
+    });
+    String? error;
+    try {
+      error = await add(JellyfinSelection(_serverId, target.id, target), next: next);
+    } catch (e) {
+      error = '$e';
+    }
+    if (!mounted) return;
+    setState(() {
+      _busy = false;
+      _error = error;
+    });
+  }
+
+  /// Right-click on an episode ([context]: its row): Put it up, Add to
+  /// queue, Play next (in a server), Copy title, Open in Jellyfin.
+  Future<void> _episodeMenu(BuildContext context, JellyfinItem e) async {
+    final queue = widget.onAddToQueue != null;
+    if (queue) setState(() => _targetId = e.id);
+    final client = _client;
+    final pick = await showAppMenu<int>(context, items: [
+      if (queue) ...[
+        AppMenuItem(value: 0, label: widget.solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
+        const AppMenuItem(value: 1, label: 'Add to queue'),
+        const AppMenuItem(value: 2, label: 'Play next'),
+      ],
+      const AppMenuItem(value: 3, label: ReuseText.copyTitle),
+      if (client != null) const AppMenuItem(value: 4, label: ReuseText.openInJellyfin),
+    ]);
+    switch (pick) {
+      case 0:
+        await _putUp(e);
+      case 1:
+        await _queue(e);
+      case 2:
+        await _queue(e, next: true);
+      case 3:
+        await copyToClipboard(jellyfinCopyTitle(e), done: 'Title copied');
+      case 4:
+        await openLink(jellyfinWebUrl(client!.baseUrl, e.id, serverId: _serverId));
+    }
+  }
+
   /// Runs a watched-state change, then lets every row reload.
   Future<void> _change(Future<void> Function(JellyfinClient c) action) async {
     final c = _client;
@@ -253,14 +308,8 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
       if (shown.communityRating != null) '★ ${shown.communityRating!.toStringAsFixed(1)}',
       if (!isSeries && shown.userData.played) 'Watched',
     ].join(' · ');
-    final hint = widget.offlineHint;
+    final verb = widget.solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up';
-    final label = playable == null
+    final label = playable != null && isSeries ? '$verb · ${playable.episodeLabel ?? playable.name}' : verb;
-        ? (hint == null ? 'Put it up' : 'Play')
-        : hint != null
-            ? 'Play'
-            : isSeries
-                ? 'Put it up · ${playable.episodeLabel ?? playable.name}'
-                : 'Put it up';
     final inContinue = playable != null &&
         (playable.userData.isResumable || _c.continueKeys.contains(continueKey(playable)));
     final left = playable == null ? null : timeLeft(playable);
@@ -307,12 +356,22 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
                 children: [
                   FilledButton.icon(
                     key: const ValueKey('details-put-up'),
-                    onPressed: playable == null || hint != null || _busy ? null : () => _putUp(playable),
+                    onPressed: playable == null || _busy ? null : () => _putUp(playable),
                     icon: _busy
                         ? const SizedBox.square(dimension: 16, child: CircularProgressIndicator(strokeWidth: 2))
                         : const Icon(Icons.play_arrow),
                     label: Text(label, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis),
                   ),
+                  if (playable != null && widget.onAddToQueue != null)
+                    GestureDetector(
+                      onSecondaryTap: _busy ? null : () => _queue(playable, next: true),
+                      child: IconButton(
+                        key: const ValueKey('details-add-queue'),
+                        onPressed: _busy ? null : () => _queue(playable),
+                        tooltip: 'Add to queue (right-click: play next)',
+                        icon: const Icon(Icons.playlist_add_rounded),
+                      ),
+                    ),
                   if (playable != null)
                     IconButton(
                       key: const ValueKey('details-watched'),
@@ -334,14 +393,21 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
                       onPressed: () => _c.open(SeriesRoute(d.series!, seasonId: seasonId)),
                       icon: const Icon(Icons.open_in_new),
                     ),
+                  if (client != null)
+                    IconButton(
+                      key: const ValueKey('details-open-jellyfin'),
+                      tooltip: ReuseText.openInJellyfin,
+                      onPressed: () => openLink(jellyfinWebUrl(client.baseUrl, shown.id, serverId: _serverId)),
+                      icon: const Icon(Icons.open_in_browser_rounded),
+                    ),
                 ],
               ),
-              if (hint != null || _error != null) ...[
+              if (_error != null) ...[
                 const SizedBox(height: 6),
                 Text(
-                  _error ?? hint!,
+                  _error!,
                   key: const ValueKey('details-hint'),
-                  style: t.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: _error != null ? scheme.error : Colors.grey),
+                  style: t.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: scheme.error),
                 ),
               ],
               if (isSeries && playable != null) ...[
@@ -398,17 +464,13 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
       children: [
         const Expanded(child: Text('Episodes', style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w600))),
         if (seasons.length > 1)
-          DropdownButton<String>(
+          Flexible(
-            key: const ValueKey('details-season'),
+            child: AppSelect<String?>(
-            value: seasonId,
+              key: const ValueKey('details-season'),
-            isDense: true,
+              value: seasonId,
-            underline: const SizedBox.shrink(),
+              items: [for (final s in seasons) (s.id, s.name)],
-            borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
+              onChanged: (id) => setState(() => _seasonId = id),
-            items: [
+            ),
-              for (final s in seasons)
-                DropdownMenuItem(value: s.id, child: Text(s.name, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis)),
-            ],
-            onChanged: (id) => setState(() => _seasonId = id),
           ),
       ],
     );
@@ -422,10 +484,12 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
     return Material(
       color: isTarget ? scheme.primary.withValues(alpha: 0.10) : Colors.transparent,
       borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(8),
-      child: InkWell(
+      // The row's own context: its menu opens at the row.
+      child: Builder(builder: (context) => InkWell(
         key: ValueKey('details-episode-${e.id}'),
         borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(8),
         onTap: () => _tapEpisode(e),
+        onSecondaryTap: () => _episodeMenu(context, e),
         child: Padding(
           padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 5, horizontal: 4),
           child: Row(
@@ -470,7 +534,7 @@ class _JellyfinDetailsPanelState extends State<JellyfinDetailsPanel> {
             ],
           ),
         ),
-      ),
+      )),
     );
   }
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/home_page.dart

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../state/settings.dart';
+import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
 import 'browse_scope.dart';
 import 'cards.dart';
 import 'home_rows.dart';
@@ -184,18 +185,18 @@ class _LatestRow extends StatelessWidget {
                   onPressed: () => scope.onOpen(LibraryRoute(view, sort: 'added')),
                   child: const Text('Show all'),
                 ),
-                PopupMenuButton<void>(
+                AppMenuButton<bool>(
                   key: ValueKey('latest-menu-${view.id}'),
                   tooltip: 'Row options',
-                  icon: const Icon(Icons.more_vert, size: 18),
+                  items: () => [
-                  itemBuilder: (context) => [
+                    AppMenuItem(
-                    CheckedPopupMenuItem(
                       key: const ValueKey('hide-rereleases'),
+                      value: !hide,
                       checked: hide,
-                      onTap: () => AppSettings.instance.setHideReReleases(!hide),
+                      label: 'Hide re-releases in Latest',
-                      child: const Text('Hide re-releases in Latest'),
                     ),
                   ],
+                  onSelected: AppSettings.instance.setHideReReleases,
                 ),
               ],
             ),

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/picker_source.dart

@@ -7,26 +7,31 @@ import 'browser.dart';
 import 'sign_in_panel.dart';
 
 /// The Library's Jellyfin source: the library browser once a server is
-/// linked, else an inline add-server panel.
+/// linked, else [empty] (default: an inline add-server panel).
 class JellyfinPickerSource extends StatefulWidget {
   final JellyfinAccounts accounts;
   final BrowseController? controller;
   final JellyfinSelection? selected;
   final ValueChanged<JellyfinSelection> onSelect;
   final ValueChanged<JellyfinSelection> onPutUp;
+  final void Function(JellyfinSelection item, {bool next})? onAddToQueue;
   final VoidCallback? onOpenIntegrations;
   final BrowseStart? start;
   final bool libraryStrip;
+  /// Shown while no server is linked.
+  final WidgetBuilder? empty;
   const JellyfinPickerSource({
     super.key,
     this.start,
     required this.accounts,
     required this.onSelect,
     required this.onPutUp,
+    this.onAddToQueue,
     this.controller,
     this.selected,
     this.onOpenIntegrations,
     this.libraryStrip = true,
+    this.empty,
   });
 
   @override
@@ -49,6 +54,7 @@ class _JellyfinPickerSourceState extends State<JellyfinPickerSource> {
         if (!a.loaded) {
           return const Center(child: CircularProgressIndicator(strokeWidth: 2));
         }
+        if (a.isEmpty && widget.empty != null) return widget.empty!(context);
         if (a.isEmpty) return _LinkFirst(accounts: a, onOpenIntegrations: widget.onOpenIntegrations);
         return JellyfinBrowser(
           key: const ValueKey('media-jellyfin'),
@@ -57,6 +63,7 @@ class _JellyfinPickerSourceState extends State<JellyfinPickerSource> {
           selected: widget.selected,
           onSelect: widget.onSelect,
           onPutUp: widget.onPutUp,
+          onAddToQueue: widget.onAddToQueue,
           onOpenIntegrations: widget.onOpenIntegrations,
           start: widget.start,
           libraryStrip: widget.libraryStrip,

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/progress.dart

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:math' as math;
 
 import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
@@ -24,6 +25,14 @@ class PlayerSnapshot {
 /// go out one after another; a failure is logged and handed to [onError]
 /// (the session shows one quiet toast) and never touches playback. A 401
 /// calls [onUnauthorized] and ends reporting.
+///
+/// Watched or not is [WatchSession]'s rule, not Jellyfin's position
+/// percentages (see ARCHITECTURE.md "Jellyfin in a session"): an item
+/// played before ([playedBefore]) stays played (re-marked after Playing,
+/// Progress without a position, Stopped without one, then marked played
+/// again); otherwise Progress leaves the position out past
+/// [_noPositionFrom] of the runtime so Jellyfin cannot mark it played on
+/// its own, and Stopped carries what the rule says.
 class JellyfinProgressReporter {
   final JellyfinClient client;
   final String itemId;
@@ -34,20 +43,41 @@ class JellyfinProgressReporter {
   final void Function(Object error)? onError;
   final VoidCallback? onUnauthorized;
 
+  /// What this viewer watched of the item while it was open here.
+  final WatchSession watch;
+
   JellyfinProgressReporter({
     required this.client,
     required this.itemId,
     required this.source,
     required this.playSessionId,
+    bool playedBefore = false,
+    int resumeTicksBefore = 0,
     this.interval = const Duration(seconds: 10),
     this.onError,
     this.onUnauthorized,
+    this.onStopped,
     DateTime Function()? clock,
-  }) : _clock = clock ?? DateTime.now;
+  })  : _clock = clock ?? DateTime.now,
+        _keepPlayed = playedBefore,
+        _runtime = (source.runTimeTicks ?? 0) / jellyfinTicksPerSecond,
+        watch = WatchSession(
+            playedBefore: playedBefore, resumeBefore: resumeTicksBefore / jellyfinTicksPerSecond);
+
+  /// Past this share of the runtime Progress carries no position: Jellyfin
+  /// marks an item played past its "max resume" share (90 % by default).
+  static const _noPositionFrom = 0.85;
+
+  /// After Stopped (and a mark played) went out: the item's watched
+  /// state on the server may differ from what lists show.
+  final void Function()? onStopped;
 
   Future<void> _chain = Future.value();
   bool _playing = false;
   bool _dead = false;
+  bool _keepPlayed;
+  double _runtime;
+  double? _endingStart;
   PlayerSnapshot? _last;
   DateTime? _lastAt;
   DateTime? _lastSentAt;
@@ -55,13 +85,23 @@ class JellyfinProgressReporter {
   /// Between [start] and [stop].
   bool get active => _playing && !_dead;
 
+  /// The item counts as played here (before, or by the rule at a stop).
+  bool get keepsPlayed => _keepPlayed;
+
+  /// The player's duration (used when Jellyfin gave no runtime) and where
+  /// the ending starts (Outro segment / ED chapter), seconds.
+  void timeline({double duration = 0, double? endingStart}) {
+    if ((source.runTimeTicks ?? 0) <= 0 && duration > 0) _runtime = duration;
+    _endingStart = endingStart;
+  }
+
   /// The report body for [s]: ticks, pause, and mpv's aid/sid mapped to
   /// Jellyfin stream indices (-1 = subtitles off).
-  JellyfinPlaybackReport reportFor(PlayerSnapshot s) => JellyfinPlaybackReport(
+  JellyfinPlaybackReport reportFor(PlayerSnapshot s, {bool withPosition = true}) => JellyfinPlaybackReport(
         itemId: itemId,
         mediaSourceId: source.id,
         playSessionId: playSessionId,
-        positionTicks: (s.position * jellyfinTicksPerSecond).round(),
+        positionTicks: withPosition ? _ticks(s.position) : null,
         isPaused: s.paused,
         audioStreamIndex: s.aid == null
             ? null
@@ -71,13 +111,24 @@ class JellyfinProgressReporter {
             : source.jellyfinIndexForMpvTrack(JellyfinStreamType.subtitle, s.sid!),
       );
 
+  static int _ticks(double secs) => (secs * jellyfinTicksPerSecond).round();
+
+  /// Progress may carry the position: not for a played item, not without
+  /// a runtime and not near the end (either would let Jellyfin decide).
+  bool _progressPosition(double position) =>
+      !_keepPlayed && _runtime > 0 && position < _noPositionFrom * _runtime;
+
   /// Playing: once the media is open. Again after [stop] (played to the
-  /// end, then someone seeked back) starts reporting anew.
+  /// end, then someone seeked back) starts reporting anew. A played item
+  /// is marked played again right after (Jellyfin up to 10.11 clears it
+  /// on Playing).
   void start(PlayerSnapshot s) {
     if (_playing || _dead) return;
     _playing = true;
     _mark(s);
+    watch.sample(s.position, playing: !s.paused, at: _clock());
     _send('Playing', () => client.reportPlaybackStart(reportFor(s)));
+    if (_keepPlayed) _send('played', () => client.markPlayed(itemId));
   }
 
   /// Progress when due (see the class doc).
@@ -85,6 +136,7 @@ class JellyfinProgressReporter {
     if (!_playing || _dead) return;
     final last = _last, lastAt = _lastAt, sentAt = _lastSentAt;
     final now = _clock();
+    watch.sample(s.position, playing: !s.paused, at: now);
     var due = force || last == null || lastAt == null || sentAt == null;
     if (!due) {
       final elapsed = now.difference(lastAt).inMilliseconds / 1000;
@@ -99,16 +151,44 @@ class JellyfinProgressReporter {
     _lastAt = now;
     if (!due) return;
     _lastSentAt = now;
-    _send('Progress', () => client.reportPlaybackProgress(reportFor(s)));
+    final report = reportFor(s, withPosition: _progressPosition(s.position));
+    _send('Progress', () => client.reportPlaybackProgress(report));
   }
 
-  /// Stopped (swap, leave, kick, window close, played to the end).
+  /// Stopped (swap, leave, kick, window close, played to the end), as
+  /// [WatchSession.verdict] says: played (or kept played) -> no position,
+  /// then marked played; a peek -> the resume point from before; part way
+  /// -> the position, held under [_noPositionFrom] of the runtime.
   /// Completes when it and everything before it went out.
   Future<void> stop(PlayerSnapshot s) {
     if (!_playing || _dead) return _chain;
     _playing = false;
-    _send('Stopped', () => client.reportPlaybackStopped(reportFor(s)));
+    watch.sample(s.position, playing: !s.paused, at: _clock());
-    return _chain;
+    final v = _keepPlayed
+        ? const WatchVerdict(WatchOutcome.keepPlayed)
+        : watch.verdict(runtime: _runtime, endingStart: _endingStart);
+    debugPrint('jellyfin $itemId: $v (covered ${watch.covered.round()} s of ${_runtime.round()} s)');
+    final int? ticks;
+    switch (v.outcome) {
+      case WatchOutcome.played || WatchOutcome.keepPlayed:
+        _keepPlayed = true;
+        ticks = null;
+      case WatchOutcome.peek:
+        ticks = _ticks(watch.resumeBefore);
+      case WatchOutcome.partial:
+        final at = v.resumeAt ?? s.position;
+        ticks = _ticks(_runtime > 0 ? math.min(at, _noPositionFrom * _runtime) : at);
+    }
+    final report = JellyfinPlaybackReport(
+        itemId: itemId, mediaSourceId: source.id, playSessionId: playSessionId, positionTicks: ticks);
+    _send('Stopped', () => client.reportPlaybackStopped(report));
+    if (ticks == null) {
+      _send('played', () => client.markPlayed(itemId));
+      // Marking played keeps a resume point Progress left (Continue would
+      // still list it, "3 min left"): clear it.
+      _send('resume cleared', () => client.clearResumePosition(itemId));
+    }
+    return _chain = _chain.then((_) => onStopped?.call());
   }
 
   void _mark(PlayerSnapshot s) {

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/series_page.dart

@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ class _EpisodeTileState extends State<EpisodeTile> {
         key: ValueKey('episode-${e.id}'),
         focusColor: Colors.transparent,
         onTap: () => _tap(scope),
+        onSecondaryTap: () => scope.cardMenu(context, widget.episode),
         onHover: (h) => setState(() => _hover = h),
         onFocusChange: (f) => setState(() => _focus = f),
         child: Padding(

apps/desktop/lib/src/jellyfin/session_media.dart

@@ -318,10 +318,11 @@ Future<({EpisodeLink? previous, EpisodeLink? next})> findAdjacentEpisodes(OwnPla
   }
 }
 
-/// When the floating "Next episode" pill appears: at [endingStart] (the
+/// Where the "Next episode" pill's window starts: at [endingStart] (the
 /// ED: Jellyfin Outro segment or ED-titled chapter, see `endingRange`)
 /// when one is known inside [runtime], else the last two minutes of
-/// [runtime] (all of it for shorter media).
+/// [runtime] (all of it for shorter media). The pill shows only while the
+/// controls are up (`PillGate`), so a guessed window costs nothing.
 Duration nextPromptStart(JellyfinItem? item, Duration runtime, {Duration? endingStart}) {
   if (endingStart != null && endingStart > Duration.zero && endingStart < runtime) {
     return endingStart;
@@ -332,13 +333,13 @@ Duration nextPromptStart(JellyfinItem? item, Duration runtime, {Duration? ending
 
 /// Who performs the auto-advance swap, so several counting clients do not
 /// swap twice: the lowest member id among members that play the item with
-/// their own account (`jf[serverId] == true`, not stale). Only what every
+/// their own account (`jf[serverId] == true`, not stale, not out). Only what every
 /// client sees in `state` decides (who put the item up is not in it: a
 /// late joiner never saw that swap), so all clients agree.
 String? autoAdvanceSwapper(List<MemberView> members, String serverId) {
   final eligible = [
     for (final m in members)
-      if (!m.stale && m.jf[serverId] == true) m
+      if (!m.stale && !m.out && m.jf[serverId] == true) m
   ];
   if (eligible.isEmpty) return null;
   eligible.sort((a, b) => compareMemberIds(a.id, b.id));

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/app_log.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+import 'package:path_provider/path_provider.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../screens/home/ui.dart' show appName, displayVersion;
+import '../state/session_state.dart';
+
+// The app's log on disk (<app support>/logs/app-YYYY-MM-DD.log; core's
+// logging.dart writes, rotates and redacts it), debugPrint routed into it,
+// and the "Copy diagnostics" text of Settings → About.
+
+final _appLog = createLogger('app');
+
+/// The logs folder, once [startAppLogging] ran.
+String? appLogDir;
+
+/// Opens the log files and routes `debugPrint` and uncaught errors into
+/// the log. Needs Flutter's binding (path_provider).
+Future<void> startAppLogging() async {
+  try {
+    final base = await getApplicationSupportDirectory();
+    final dir = '${base.path}${Platform.pathSeparator}logs';
+    if (startLogFiles(dir) != null) appLogDir = dir;
+  } catch (e) {
+    _appLog.warning('no log files: $e');
+  }
+  // Everything the app prints for diagnosis lands in the file too (the
+  // log's console output replaces the print).
+  debugPrint = (String? message, {int? wrapWidth}) {
+    if (message == null || message.isEmpty) return;
+    final bad = RegExp(r'fail|error|crash|exception', caseSensitive: false).hasMatch(message);
+    bad ? _appLog.warning(message) : _appLog.info(message);
+  };
+  PlatformDispatcher.instance.onError = (error, stack) {
+    _appLog.severe('uncaught: $error', error, stack);
+    return false;
+  };
+  _appLog.info('$appName ${displayVersion()} on ${Platform.operatingSystem} '
+      '${Platform.operatingSystemVersion}, pid $pid, Dart ${Platform.version.split(' ').first}');
+}
+
+/// The text "Copy diagnostics" gives: versions, then the last [since] of
+/// the app log (its hosted server's records included), already redacted;
+/// with [sessionLog], the server's session log of the same hours after it
+/// (every member's shared lines and the server's, merged).
+Future<String> diagnosticsText({Duration since = const Duration(hours: 6), bool sessionLog = false}) async {
+  final b = StringBuffer()
+    ..writeln('$appName ${displayVersion()}')
+    ..writeln('OS: ${Platform.operatingSystem} ${Platform.operatingSystemVersion}')
+    ..writeln('Dart: ${Platform.version.split(' ').first}');
+  try {
+    final mpv = await SessionState.instance.coordinator.playback.mpvVersion().timeout(const Duration(seconds: 2));
+    b.writeln('mpv: ${mpv ?? 'no player yet'}');
+  } catch (_) {
+    b.writeln('mpv: unknown');
+  }
+  try {
+    final y = await SessionState.instance.ports.links.ytDlp.timeout(const Duration(seconds: 2));
+    final cookies = y.cookies.read(count: false);
+    b.writeln('yt-dlp: ${y.version ?? 'not ready'}${y.lastError == null ? '' : ' (${y.lastError})'}, '
+        'cookies: ${cookies == null ? 'none' : 'set'}');
+  } catch (_) {
+    b.writeln('yt-dlp: unknown');
+  }
+  final files = logFiles;
+  b.writeln('Log: ${files?.currentPath ?? 'none (console only)'}');
+  b.writeln('--- last ${since.inHours} h of the log ---');
+  b.write(files?.recent(since) ?? '');
+  if (sessionLog) {
+    final server = await SessionState.instance.coordinator.sessionLog(hours: since.inHours);
+    b
+      ..writeln()
+      ..writeln("--- last ${since.inHours} h of the server's session log ---")
+      ..write(server ?? "(none: the server keeps no session log, or it couldn't be reached)");
+  }
+  return redactLog(b.toString());
+}
+
+/// Saves [text] next to the logs as `diagnostics-<time>.txt`; its path,
+/// or null when it could not be written.
+Future<String?> saveDiagnostics(String text) async {
+  final dir = appLogDir;
+  if (dir == null) return null;
+  final t = DateTime.now();
+  String two(int n) => n.toString().padLeft(2, '0');
+  final path = '$dir${Platform.pathSeparator}diagnostics-${t.year}${two(t.month)}${two(t.day)}-'
+      '${two(t.hour)}${two(t.minute)}${two(t.second)}.txt';
+  try {
+    // Older ones go after the log files' week.
+    for (final e in Directory(dir).listSync()) {
+      if (e is File &&
+          e.uri.pathSegments.last.startsWith('diagnostics-') &&
+          t.difference(e.statSync().modified) > const Duration(days: 7)) {
+        e.deleteSync();
+      }
+    }
+    await File(path).writeAsString(text);
+    return path;
+  } catch (e) {
+    _appLog.warning('cannot save diagnostics: $e');
+    return null;
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/app_shutdown.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+
+import '../files/thumbnails.dart';
+import '../state/session_state.dart';
+
+// The one way out of the app (close button, Alt+F4, Update and restart).
+// Order matters: every mpv player goes before the engine does (a live one
+// calls a dead Dart callback), then the network goodbye, then the window
+// closes through the platform's normal path so the engine is torn down
+// inside the message loop. The runners end the process right after
+// (`linux/runner/main.cc`, `windows/runner/main.cpp`).
+
+bool _shuttingDown = false;
+
+/// True once [shutDownApp] started.
+bool get shuttingDown => _shuttingDown;
+
+/// Hides the window, releases every player and the sound device, leaves
+/// (others see "left", a hosted server stops), runs [beforeQuit], then
+/// closes the window. Every step is bounded; a second call does nothing.
+Future<void> shutDownApp({Future<void> Function()? beforeQuit}) async {
+  if (_shuttingDown) return;
+  _shuttingDown = true;
+  final session = SessionState.instance;
+  final shell = session.ports.shell;
+  final total = Stopwatch()..start();
+  await _step('window save', shell.saveWindow(), const Duration(milliseconds: 500));
+  await _step('hide', shell.hide(), const Duration(milliseconds: 500));
+  await Future.wait([
+    _step('players', session.coordinator.releasePlayers(), const Duration(seconds: 3)),
+    _step('thumbnails', cancelAllThumbnails(), const Duration(milliseconds: 1500)),
+    _step('sounds', session.sfx.dispose(), const Duration(milliseconds: 500)),
+  ]);
+  // Windows: media_kit_video frees a player's video output on a thread of
+  // its own after dispose returns; it must be done before the engine
+  // stops, or the plugin's teardown waits on it for good.
+  if (Platform.isWindows) await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 300));
+  // Jellyfin stop report, last diagnostics, the goodbye, then the hosted
+  // server: 3 s in all.
+  await _step('leave', session.leave(), const Duration(milliseconds: 2500));
+  await _step('server stop', session.stopServer(), const Duration(milliseconds: 500));
+  if (beforeQuit != null) await _step('before quit', beforeQuit(), const Duration(seconds: 3));
+  debugPrint('close: ready to quit after ${total.elapsedMilliseconds} ms');
+  await shell.quit();
+  // The engine stops with the window, so this only fires when the close
+  // did not go through. A kill, not exit(): no exit handlers (NVIDIA's
+  // EGL one segfaults, Windows DLL detach can hang).
+  Timer(const Duration(seconds: 3), () {
+    debugPrint('close: the window did not close; ending the process');
+    Process.killPid(pid, ProcessSignal.sigkill);
+  });
+}
+
+Future<void> _step(String what, Future<void>? f, Duration limit) async {
+  if (f == null) return;
+  final sw = Stopwatch()..start();
+  try {
+    await f.timeout(limit);
+  } on TimeoutException {
+    debugPrint('close: $what did not finish in ${limit.inMilliseconds} ms');
+  } catch (e) {
+    debugPrint('close: $what failed: $e');
+  }
+  if (sw.elapsedMilliseconds > 200) debugPrint('close: $what took ${sw.elapsedMilliseconds} ms');
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/audio/sound_engine.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:typed_data';
+
+import 'package:flutter_soloud/flutter_soloud.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+final _log = createLogger('sound');
+
+/// What [SoundEngine] needs from an audio library: [SoLoudBackend] in the
+/// app, a fake in tests. A sound handle is whatever [load] returns.
+abstract class AudioBackend {
+  Future<void> init();
+  /// Decodes [wav] (a whole WAV file) into memory under [name].
+  Future<Object> load(String name, Uint8List wav);
+  /// Starts one voice of [sound] at [volume] (linear gain, 0..1); voices
+  /// overlap.
+  void play(Object sound, double volume);
+  Future<void> unload(Object sound);
+  Future<void> deinit();
+}
+
+/// flutter_soloud (SoLoud mixing into miniaudio's output device).
+class SoLoudBackend implements AudioBackend {
+  SoLoud get _s => SoLoud.instance;
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> init() => _s.init();
+
+  @override
+  Future<Object> load(String name, Uint8List wav) => _s.loadMem(name, wav);
+
+  @override
+  void play(Object sound, double volume) => _s.play(sound as AudioSource, volume: volume);
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> unload(Object sound) => _s.disposeSource(sound as AudioSource);
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> deinit() => _s.deinitAsync();
+}
+
+/// The app's short in-memory sounds. The audio device opens on [warmUp] or
+/// the first [play]; if it can't (no device, a broken driver) the engine
+/// logs once and every play is silently dropped. Each sound is loaded once
+/// per slot from the WAV bytes its renderer gives; a new key in a slot
+/// replaces (and frees) what the slot held.
+class SoundEngine {
+  final AudioBackend _backend;
+  SoundEngine({AudioBackend? backend}) : _backend = backend ?? SoLoudBackend();
+
+  Future<bool>? _ready;
+  var _disposed = false;
+  /// Per slot: the loaded key and its sound (null: failed to load).
+  final Map<String, (String, Future<Object?>)> _slots = {};
+  /// Load names are unique: SoLoud hands back the old sound for a name it
+  /// already holds, which would defeat a re-render.
+  var _loads = 0;
+
+  /// Opens the audio device now, so the first sound has no wait.
+  Future<bool> warmUp() => _ready ??= _init();
+
+  Future<bool> _init() async {
+    if (_disposed) return false;
+    try {
+      await _backend.init();
+      return true;
+    } catch (e) {
+      _log.warning('no sounds: audio init failed: $e');
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Plays the sound of [slot] at [volume] (linear gain). [key] names what
+  /// [wav] renders: the same key reuses the loaded sound; another key, or
+  /// [fresh], renders and loads it again.
+  Future<void> play(String slot, String key, Future<Uint8List> Function() wav,
+      {required double volume, bool fresh = false}) async {
+    if (_disposed || volume <= 0) return;
+    if (!await warmUp() || _disposed) return;
+    var held = _slots[slot];
+    if (held == null || held.$1 != key || fresh) {
+      if (held != null) unawaited(_unload(held.$2));
+      held = (key, _load(key, wav));
+      _slots[slot] = held;
+    }
+    final sound = await held.$2;
+    if (sound == null) {
+      // Retry on the next play.
+      if (identical(_slots[slot], held)) _slots.remove(slot);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (_disposed || !identical(_slots[slot], held)) return;
+    try {
+      _backend.play(sound, volume.clamp(0.0, 1.0));
+    } catch (e) {
+      _log.warning('sound $key: $e');
+    }
+  }
+
+  Future<Object?> _load(String key, Future<Uint8List> Function() wav) async {
+    try {
+      return await _backend.load('$key#${_loads++}', await wav());
+    } catch (e) {
+      _log.warning('sound $key: $e');
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _unload(Future<Object?> sound) async {
+    try {
+      final s = await sound;
+      if (s != null && !_disposed) await _backend.unload(s);
+    } catch (e) {
+      _log.fine('unload: $e');
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Frees every sound and closes the audio device. Plays after it are
+  /// dropped.
+  Future<void> dispose() async {
+    if (_disposed) return;
+    _disposed = true;
+    _slots.clear();
+    final ready = _ready;
+    if (ready == null || !await ready) return;
+    try {
+      // Deinit frees the loaded sounds with the engine.
+      await _backend.deinit();
+    } catch (e) {
+      _log.warning('audio deinit: $e');
+    }
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop/attention.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
+
+/// The runner's window channel (linux/runner/my_application.cc,
+/// windows/runner/flutter_window.cpp).
+const _window = MethodChannel('starsync/window');
+
+/// Asks the desktop to point at the app's window (taskbar flash, urgency
+/// hint) when it is not focused; nothing when it is. The runner clears it
+/// once the window gets focus. Quietly nothing where the runner lacks it.
+Future<void> requestWindowAttention() async {
+  try {
+    await _window.invokeMethod<void>('attention');
+  } on MissingPluginException {
+    // Tests, other platforms.
+  } catch (e) {
+    debugPrint('window attention: $e');
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop/desktop_folders.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:file_picker/file_picker.dart';
+
+import '../../files/scanner.dart';
+import '../ports/folder_access.dart';
+import '../ports/url_opener.dart';
+
+/// [FolderAccess] on a desktop file system: file_picker's dialogs, the
+/// [scanFolder] walk, the file manager through [UrlOpener].
+class DesktopFolders implements FolderAccess {
+  final UrlOpener urls;
+  const DesktopFolders(this.urls);
+
+  @override
+  Future<String?> pickFolder({required String dialogTitle}) => FilePicker.getDirectoryPath(dialogTitle: dialogTitle);
+
+  @override
+  Future<List<String>> pickFiles({required String dialogTitle, required List<String> extensions}) async {
+    final files = await FilePicker.pickFiles(
+      dialogTitle: dialogTitle,
+      type: FileType.custom,
+      allowedExtensions: extensions,
+    );
+    return [for (final f in files) ?f.path];
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<FolderScan> scan(String dir) => scanFolder(dir);
+
+  @override
+  bool folderExists(String dir) => Directory(dir).existsSync();
+
+  @override
+  Future<FileStat> stat(String path) => File(path).stat();
+
+  // The file manager opens a folder path the way a browser opens a link.
+  @override
+  Future<bool> reveal(String dir) => urls.open(Uri.directory(dir).toString());
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop/desktop_ports.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import '../../playback/yt_dlp_app.dart';
+import '../ports/ports.dart';
+import 'desktop_folders.dart';
+import 'desktop_shell.dart';
+import 'desktop_urls.dart';
+
+/// The desktop's [Ports].
+Ports desktopPorts() {
+  const urls = DesktopUrls();
+  return Ports(
+    shell: DesktopShell(),
+    urls: urls,
+    folders: const DesktopFolders(urls),
+    links: AppYtDlp.instance,
+    notifications: const NoSystemNotifications(),
+  );
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop/desktop_shell.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+
+import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
+import 'package:fox_utils/fox_utils.dart' show ClipboardX, DesktopDropX, DropTarget;
+import 'package:hive_ce_flutter/hive_flutter.dart';
+import 'package:window_manager/window_manager.dart';
+
+import '../../state/settings.dart' show settingsBoxName;
+import 'attention.dart';
+import '../ports/shell_port.dart';
+import 'window_memory.dart';
+
+/// [ShellPort] on Linux and Windows: window_manager for the window,
+/// [WindowMemory] for its size and place, the runner's channel for
+/// attention, fox_utils for drops and the clipboard.
+class DesktopShell implements ShellPort {
+  WindowMemory? _memory;
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> start({required String title, required Future<void> Function() onCloseRequest}) async {
+    await windowManager.ensureInitialized();
+    await windowManager.setPreventClose(true);
+    final memory = _memory = WindowMemory(Hive.isBoxOpen(settingsBoxName) ? Hive.box(settingsBoxName) : null);
+    windowManager.addListener(_CloseGuard(onCloseRequest));
+    final windowOptions = WindowOptions(
+      size: memory.size,
+      minimumSize: const Size(160, 90),
+      center: !memory.hasPosition,
+      backgroundColor: const Color(0xFF000000),
+      titleBarStyle: TitleBarStyle.hidden,
+      title: title,
+    );
+    unawaited(windowManager.waitUntilReadyToShow(windowOptions, () async {
+      await memory.restore();
+      await windowManager.show();
+      await windowManager.focus();
+    }));
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> setFullScreen(bool on) => windowManager.setFullScreen(on);
+  @override
+  Future<void> minimize() => windowManager.minimize();
+  @override
+  Future<bool> isMaximized() => windowManager.isMaximized();
+  @override
+  Future<void> maximize() => windowManager.maximize();
+  @override
+  Future<void> unmaximize() => windowManager.unmaximize();
+
+  @override
+  void Function() watchMaximized(void Function(bool maximized) onChange) {
+    final l = _MaximizeWatch(onChange);
+    windowManager.addListener(l);
+    return () => windowManager.removeListener(l);
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> startDragging() => windowManager.startDragging();
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> requestClose() => windowManager.close();
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> saveWindow() async => _memory?.save();
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> hide() => windowManager.hide();
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> quit() async {
+    try {
+      await windowManager.setPreventClose(false);
+      await windowManager.close();
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('window close failed: $e');
+      await windowManager.destroy();
+    }
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> requestAttention() => requestWindowAttention();
+
+  @override
+  Future<Paste> readPaste() async {
+    var files = const <String>[];
+    String? text;
+    try {
+      files = await ClipboardX.readFiles();
+    } catch (_) {}
+    if (files.isEmpty) {
+      try {
+        text = await ClipboardX.readText();
+      } catch (_) {}
+    }
+    return (files: files, text: text);
+  }
+
+  @override
+  Widget dropTarget({
+    Key? key,
+    bool enable = true,
+    VoidCallback? onEnter,
+    VoidCallback? onExit,
+    required void Function(List<String> paths, Offset at) onDrop,
+    required Widget child,
+  }) =>
+      DropTarget(
+        key: key,
+        enable: enable,
+        onDragEntered: onEnter == null ? null : (_) => onEnter(),
+        onDragExited: onExit == null ? null : (_) => onExit(),
+        onDragDone: (d) => onDrop(DesktopDropX.pathsOf(d.files), d.localPosition),
+        child: child,
+      );
+}
+
+/// Close button / Alt+F4 run the orderly close instead.
+class _CloseGuard with WindowListener {
+  final Future<void> Function() onClose;
+  _CloseGuard(this.onClose);
+  @override
+  void onWindowClose() => unawaited(onClose());
+}
+
+class _MaximizeWatch with WindowListener {
+  final void Function(bool) onChange;
+  _MaximizeWatch(this.onChange);
+  @override
+  void onWindowMaximize() => onChange(true);
+  @override
+  void onWindowUnmaximize() => onChange(false);
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop/desktop_urls.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import '../ports/url_opener.dart';
+
+/// [UrlOpener] without url_launcher: `xdg-open`, `open` or Windows'
+/// `url.dll` handler.
+class DesktopUrls implements UrlOpener {
+  const DesktopUrls();
+
+  @override
+  Future<bool> open(String url) async {
+    try {
+      final ProcessResult r;
+      if (Platform.isWindows) {
+        r = await Process.run('rundll32', ['url.dll,FileProtocolHandler', url]);
+      } else if (Platform.isMacOS) {
+        r = await Process.run('open', [url]);
+      } else {
+        r = await Process.run('xdg-open', [url]);
+      }
+      return r.exitCode == 0;
+    } catch (_) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop/window_memory.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io';
+import 'dart:ui';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+import 'package:hive_ce_flutter/hive_flutter.dart';
+import 'package:screen_retriever/screen_retriever.dart';
+import 'package:window_manager/window_manager.dart';
+
+/// The window's size, position and maximized state across restarts (and
+/// hot restarts), in the settings box. The size and position kept are
+/// the normal (unmaximized) ones; fullscreen is never saved or restored.
+/// Wayland lets no app place its own window, so there only the size and
+/// maximized state come back (the compositor decides the position).
+class WindowMemory with WindowListener {
+  static const _key = 'windowBounds';
+  static const defaultSize = Size(1280, 720);
+
+  // Null when the settings box failed to open: defaults, nothing saved.
+  final Box? _box;
+  Timer? _save;
+  WindowMemory(this._box);
+
+  static bool get _canPlace => !(Platform.isLinux && Platform.environment['WAYLAND_DISPLAY'] != null);
+
+  Map? get _saved => _box?.get(_key) is Map ? _box!.get(_key) as Map : null;
+
+  /// The size to open at: the last normal size, else [defaultSize].
+  Size get size {
+    final s = _saved;
+    final w = s?['w'], h = s?['h'];
+    return w is num && h is num && w >= 160 && h >= 90 ? Size(w.toDouble(), h.toDouble()) : defaultSize;
+  }
+
+  /// Whether a saved position exists to place the window at (else center).
+  bool get hasPosition => _canPlace && _saved?['x'] is num && _saved?['y'] is num;
+
+  /// After the window shows: back to the saved position when it still
+  /// lands on a connected display, maximized when it was; then listens.
+  Future<void> restore() async {
+    final s = _saved;
+    try {
+      if (s != null && hasPosition) {
+        final rect = Offset((s['x'] as num).toDouble(), (s['y'] as num).toDouble()) & size;
+        if (await _onSomeDisplay(rect)) {
+          await windowManager.setPosition(rect.topLeft);
+        } else {
+          await windowManager.center();
+        }
+      }
+      if (s?['max'] == true) await windowManager.maximize();
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('window restore failed: $e');
+    }
+    windowManager.addListener(this);
+  }
+
+  // At least a 100×50 corner of the title area on a display's visible area.
+  static Future<bool> _onSomeDisplay(Rect r) async {
+    final grip = Rect.fromLTWH(r.left, r.top, r.width.clamp(0, 100).toDouble(), 50);
+    for (final d in await screenRetriever.getAllDisplays()) {
+      final area = (d.visiblePosition ?? Offset.zero) & (d.visibleSize ?? d.size);
+      if (area.overlaps(grip)) return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  void _later() {
+    _save?.cancel();
+    _save = Timer(const Duration(milliseconds: 400), () => unawaited(save()));
+  }
+
+  /// Writes the current state now (also on close).
+  Future<void> save() async {
+    _save?.cancel();
+    final box = _box;
+    if (box == null) return;
+    try {
+      if (await windowManager.isFullScreen() || await windowManager.isMinimized()) return;
+      final max = await windowManager.isMaximized();
+      final s = Map<String, Object?>.of((_saved ?? const {}).cast<String, Object?>());
+      s['max'] = max;
+      if (!max) {
+        final b = await windowManager.getBounds();
+        s['w'] = b.width;
+        s['h'] = b.height;
+        if (_canPlace) {
+          s['x'] = b.left;
+          s['y'] = b.top;
+        }
+      }
+      await box.put(_key, s);
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('window save failed: $e');
+    }
+  }
+
+  @override
+  void onWindowResized() => _later();
+  @override
+  void onWindowMoved() => _later();
+  @override
+  void onWindowMaximize() => _later();
+  @override
+  void onWindowUnmaximize() => _later();
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/desktop_entry.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show findInstallRoot;
+
+/// The app's id: GTK's application id, so the Wayland `app_id` the
+/// compositor matches to [desktopFileName] for the window's icon.
+const appId = 'moe.senkochan.watch_together';
+const desktopFileName = '$appId.desktop';
+
+/// Linux release installs (an unpacked tarball) carry no launcher entry, so
+/// Wayland shows a generic icon. On start: write the `.desktop` file into
+/// `~/.local/share/applications` (Exec = this binary) and the icon into
+/// the hicolor theme, only when something changed (a moved install, a new
+/// icon). Never in debug runs; failures only log.
+Future<void> installDesktopEntry({String? executable, String? dataHome, String? home}) async {
+  if (!Platform.isLinux || kDebugMode) return;
+  try {
+    final exe = executable ?? Platform.resolvedExecutable;
+    final root = findInstallRoot(exe, windows: false);
+    if (root == null) return;
+    final share = dataHome ?? Platform.environment['XDG_DATA_HOME'] ??
+        '${home ?? Platform.environment['HOME']}/.local/share';
+    final icons = '${root.path}/data/flutter_assets/assets/icon';
+    for (final size in const [16, 32, 48, 64, 128, 256, 512]) {
+      final src = File('$icons/icon_$size.png');
+      if (!src.existsSync()) continue;
+      final dst = File('$share/icons/hicolor/${size}x$size/apps/$appId.png');
+      if (dst.existsSync() && dst.lengthSync() == src.lengthSync()) continue;
+      await dst.parent.create(recursive: true);
+      await src.copy(dst.path);
+    }
+    final entry = desktopEntryText(exe);
+    final file = File('$share/applications/$desktopFileName');
+    if (file.existsSync() && file.readAsStringSync() == entry) return;
+    await file.parent.create(recursive: true);
+    await file.writeAsString(entry);
+  } catch (e) {
+    debugPrint('desktop entry: $e');
+  }
+}
+
+@visibleForTesting
+String desktopEntryText(String exe) => '''[Desktop Entry]
+Type=Application
+Name=Starsync
+Comment=Watch videos in sync with friends
+Exec="$exe"
+Icon=$appId
+StartupWMClass=$appId
+Categories=AudioVideo;Video;Player;Network;
+Terminal=false
+''';

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/folder_access.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import 'dart:io' show FileStat;
+
+import '../../files/scanner.dart' show FolderScan;
+
+/// The user's folders and files: picking them, listing videos, looking a
+/// path up. Paths for now; a platform without them (Android's tree URIs)
+/// brings its own implementation.
+abstract interface class FolderAccess {
+  /// The system folder dialog; null when cancelled.
+  Future<String?> pickFolder({required String dialogTitle});
+
+  /// The system file dialog limited to [extensions]; the picked paths
+  /// (empty when cancelled).
+  Future<List<String>> pickFiles({required String dialogTitle, required List<String> extensions});
+
+  /// The videos under [dir] (see [FolderScan]); never throws.
+  Future<FolderScan> scan(String dir);
+
+  /// Whether the folder [dir] exists.
+  bool folderExists(String dir);
+
+  /// Size and dates of [path]; throws when it is gone.
+  Future<FileStat> stat(String path);
+
+  /// Shows the folder [dir] in the file manager; false when nothing
+  /// opened it.
+  Future<bool> reveal(String dir);
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/link_resolver.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show LinkProbe, YtDlp;
+
+/// Web page links: what they are and how they play, through the app's
+/// yt-dlp (a process on desktop).
+abstract interface class LinkResolver {
+  /// The yt-dlp behind it (relaying a link, cookies, the hosted server's
+  /// shared folder).
+  Future<YtDlp> get ytDlp;
+
+  /// Gets it ready in the background (download on first run, updates).
+  void warmUp();
+
+  /// mpv's `ytdl-raw-options` (sub languages, cookies).
+  Future<String> mpvRawOptions();
+
+  /// What [url] is, remembered for a while ([keep]); [fresh] asks again.
+  Future<LinkProbe> probe(String url, {Duration keep, bool fresh});
+
+  /// [url] no longer needs keeping longer than usual.
+  void release(String url);
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/ports.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import 'folder_access.dart';
+import 'link_resolver.dart';
+import 'shell_port.dart';
+import 'system_notifications.dart';
+import 'url_opener.dart';
+
+export 'folder_access.dart';
+export 'link_resolver.dart';
+export 'shell_port.dart';
+export 'system_notifications.dart';
+export 'url_opener.dart';
+
+/// The platform as the app sees it: one set, made in the composition
+/// root ([SessionState]) and handed on from there.
+class Ports {
+  final ShellPort shell;
+  final UrlOpener urls;
+  final FolderAccess folders;
+  final LinkResolver links;
+  final SystemNotifications notifications;
+  const Ports({
+    required this.shell,
+    required this.urls,
+    required this.folders,
+    required this.links,
+    required this.notifications,
+  });
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/shell_port.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
+
+/// What the clipboard holds for a paste: its files, else its text.
+typedef Paste = ({List<String> files, String? text});
+
+/// The app window and what the desktop hands it (drops, pastes). The
+/// desktop implementation wraps window_manager and fox_utils
+/// ([DesktopShell]); another platform brings its own.
+abstract interface class ShellPort {
+  /// Before the first frame: the window shown at its remembered size and
+  /// place; a close request (close button, Alt+F4) runs [onCloseRequest]
+  /// instead of closing.
+  Future<void> start({required String title, required Future<void> Function() onCloseRequest});
+
+  Future<void> setFullScreen(bool on);
+  Future<void> minimize();
+  Future<bool> isMaximized();
+  Future<void> maximize();
+  Future<void> unmaximize();
+
+  /// Calls [onChange] whenever the window is maximized or restored;
+  /// returns the call that stops it.
+  void Function() watchMaximized(void Function(bool maximized) onChange);
+
+  /// Moves the window with the pointer (a press on the title area).
+  Future<void> startDragging();
+
+  /// Asks to close the window: the same path as the close button.
+  Future<void> requestClose();
+
+  /// The way out: remembers the window, hides it ([hide]), and later
+  /// closes it for good ([quit]).
+  Future<void> saveWindow();
+  Future<void> hide();
+  Future<void> quit();
+
+  /// Points the desktop at the window when it is not focused (taskbar
+  /// flash, urgency hint); nothing when it is.
+  Future<void> requestAttention();
+
+  /// The clipboard's files, else its text (Ctrl+V outside a text field).
+  Future<Paste> readPaste();
+
+  /// [child] taking dropped files ([onDrop]: their paths and where they
+  /// landed); [enable] off lets drops through.
+  Widget dropTarget({
+    Key? key,
+    bool enable = true,
+    VoidCallback? onEnter,
+    VoidCallback? onExit,
+    required void Function(List<String> paths, Offset at) onDrop,
+    required Widget child,
+  });
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/system_notifications.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/// Notifications outside the window (the desktop's notification center,
+/// Android's shade). The policy that uses them comes with the Notifier.
+abstract interface class SystemNotifications {
+  /// Shows [title] / [body]; replaces the one with the same [tag].
+  Future<void> show({required String title, required String body, String tag = ''});
+}
+
+/// Shows nothing (desktop today).
+class NoSystemNotifications implements SystemNotifications {
+  const NoSystemNotifications();
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> show({required String title, required String body, String tag = ''}) async {}
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/platform/ports/url_opener.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+/// Opens links outside the app.
+abstract interface class UrlOpener {
+  /// Opens [url] with the system's handler (a browser for web links, the
+  /// file manager for a `file:` folder); false when nothing opened it.
+  Future<bool> open(String url);
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/playback/frame_watchdog.dart

@@ -1,120 +0,0 @@
-import 'dart:typed_data';
-
-/// FNV-1a over a 15x15 grid of RGB(A) pixels in the central half of an
-/// image. Used on a small capture of what the compositor shows: the
-/// centre is video, the edges carry the (changing) control overlays.
-int hashCenterPixels(ByteData rgba, int width, int height) {
-  var x = 0x811c9dc5;
-  if (width <= 0 || height <= 0) return x;
-  for (var gy = 1; gy < 16; gy++) {
-    for (var gx = 1; gx < 16; gx++) {
-      final px = (width * (0.25 + 0.5 * gx / 16)).floor();
-      final py = (height * (0.25 + 0.5 * gy / 16)).floor();
-      final o = (py * width + px) * 4;
-      if (o + 3 > rgba.lengthInBytes) continue;
-      for (var c = 0; c < 3; c++) {
-        x = ((x ^ rgba.getUint8(o + c)) * 0x01000193) & 0xffffffff;
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  return x;
-}
-
-/// FNV-1a over ~4k bytes spread evenly across a raw frame (mpv
-/// `screenshot-raw`); dimension-agnostic, enough to tell frames apart.
-int hashSpread(Uint8List bytes) {
-  var x = 0x811c9dc5;
-  if (bytes.isEmpty) return x;
-  final step = bytes.length <= 4096 ? 1 : bytes.length ~/ 4096;
-  for (var i = 0; i < bytes.length; i += step) {
-    x = ((x ^ bytes[i]) * 0x01000193) & 0xffffffff;
-  }
-  return x;
-}
-
-/// One sample of player state, taken about once a second.
-class FrameSample {
-  final DateTime at;
-  final double position;
-
-  /// Fingerprint of the picture currently shown on screen; null when it
-  /// cannot be captured (no view, hidden window, headless).
-  final int? frames;
-
-  /// Playing, not buffering, rate > 0, video track present, window
-  /// visible. Anything else disarms the watchdog.
-  final bool eligible;
-  const FrameSample({
-    required this.at,
-    required this.position,
-    required this.frames,
-    required this.eligible,
-  });
-}
-
-/// Detects a frozen picture: position advances normally but the shown
-/// picture stands still for [stallAfter]. Seeks (position jumps), pauses,
-/// buffering and missing captures all reset the stall clock. A hit is a
-/// suspicion only — a still scene looks the same — so the caller confirms
-/// it against the decoder and calls [dismiss] when it was a still scene.
-/// Fires at most once until the picture is seen moving again for
-/// [rearmAfter], so a player that stays (or soon gets) frozen after a
-/// reload does not reload in a loop. [reset] keeps that latch.
-class FrameWatchdog {
-  static const stallAfter = Duration(seconds: 3);
-  static const rearmAfter = Duration(seconds: 10);
-
-  FrameSample? _last;
-  DateTime? _stallSince;
-  DateTime? _healthySince;
-  bool _fired = false;
-
-  void reset() {
-    _last = null;
-    _stallSince = null;
-    _healthySince = null;
-  }
-
-  /// The last hit was a still scene: re-arm, but wait a full
-  /// [stallAfter] before suspecting again.
-  void dismiss() {
-    _fired = false;
-    _stallSince = null;
-  }
-
-  /// Returns true exactly when a freeze is suspected.
-  bool feed(FrameSample s) {
-    final last = _last;
-    _last = s;
-    if (!s.eligible || s.frames == null || last == null ||
-        !last.eligible || last.frames == null) {
-      _stallSince = null;
-      _healthySince = null;
-      return false;
-    }
-    if (s.frames != last.frames) {
-      _stallSince = null;
-      _healthySince ??= last.at;
-      if (s.at.difference(_healthySince!) >= rearmAfter) _fired = false;
-      return false;
-    }
-    _healthySince = null;
-    final wall = s.at.difference(last.at).inMilliseconds / 1000.0;
-    final moved = s.position - last.position;
-    // Normal playback only: a jump (seek) or a standstill (stall, the
-    // position itself stuck) is not a frozen picture.
-    final normal = wall > 0 && moved > wall * 0.5 && moved < wall * 2 + 0.5;
-    if (!normal) {
-      _stallSince = null;
-      return false;
-    }
-    _stallSince ??= last.at;
-    if (_fired) return false;
-    if (s.at.difference(_stallSince!) >= stallAfter) {
-      _fired = true;
-      _stallSince = null;
-      return true;
-    }
-    return false;
-  }
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/playback/playback_controller.dart

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:ffi' show Int8;
 import 'dart:io';
 
-import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show listEquals;
+import 'package:ffi/ffi.dart' show StringUtf8Pointer, malloc;
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show listEquals, mapEquals;
 import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
 import 'package:media_kit/media_kit.dart';
 import 'package:media_kit_video/media_kit_video.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
-import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show JellyfinStreamType;
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show JellyfinStreamType, LogThrottle, createLogger;
 
 import '../jellyfin/track_prefs.dart' show MpvTrack;
 import '../shaders/shader_assets.dart';
@@ -14,20 +16,23 @@ import '../shaders/shader_presets.dart';
 import '../state/settings.dart';
 import '../sync/state_diff.dart';
 import '../sync/user_seek.dart';
-import 'frame_watchdog.dart';
 import 'media_marks.dart';
+import 'yt_dlp_app.dart' show AppYtDlp, ytdlFormat;
 
-/// Owns one mpv [Player] (and its [VideoController]) per session: created
+/// Owns the session's mpv [Player] (and its [VideoController]): created
 /// by [init] on join, released by [dispose] on leave, swapped by
-/// [recreate] for "Reload video". Never reuse a player across sessions —
+/// [recreate] for "Reload video" and by [openUrl] for every new media (a
-/// a GPU-side freeze sticks to the player, not to the widget.
+/// promoted preload or a fresh player). Never reuse a player for other
+/// media — a GPU-side freeze sticks to the player, not to the widget.
 class PlaybackController {
   /// Read-ahead target: about two minutes rides out short outages and
   /// makes skipping an intro instant.
   static const readAheadSecs = 150;
   /// Forward demuxer cache. Holds [readAheadSecs] up to ~14 Mbit/s (a
   /// 1.4 GB / 24 min file is ~8); higher bitrates get less time. In RAM:
-  /// media_kit sets cache-on-disk but no cache-dir, so mpv falls back.
+  /// `cache-on-disk=no` (media_kit sets it on but no cache-dir, so mpv
+  /// fell back to RAM anyway, warning "Failed to create file cache." per
+  /// open).
   static const maxBytes = 256 * 1024 * 1024;
   /// Back buffer (media_kit sets it to bufferSize too): enough for a short
   /// seek back without holding another 256 MiB.
@@ -38,9 +43,6 @@ class PlaybackController {
 
   SyncPlayer? _player;
   VideoController? _video;
-  Timer? _watchTimer;
-  bool _probing = false;
-  final FrameWatchdog _watchdog = FrameWatchdog();
   StreamSubscription<PlayerLog>? _logSub;
   final List<StreamSubscription<Object?>> _timeSubs = [];
   String _chapterJson = '';
@@ -57,12 +59,53 @@ class PlaybackController {
   /// otherwise, so no texture outlives its player.
   final alive = signal(false);
 
-  /// Called once when the watchdog sees a frozen picture.
+  /// mpv's yt-dlp hook could not open the current link (its error text).
-  void Function()? onFrozen;
+  void Function(String error)? onYtdlError;
 
-  /// Fingerprint of the picture on screen, installed by the video view
+  /// The current media failed to load (the HTTP error when there was one,
-  /// (`ShownFrameProbe.sample`). Without it the watchdog stays idle.
+  /// e.g. a CDN's 403), at most once per [openUrl].
-  Future<int?> Function()? shownFrame;
+  void Function(String error)? onLoadError;
+
+  // Per opened media: the last HTTP error ffmpeg logged, and whether a
+  // load error was reported.
+  String? _httpError;
+  bool _loadErrorSent = false;
+
+  /// mpv's log level for this app. media_kit drains mpv's log on the UI
+  /// thread one line at a time, so a chatty level (ffmpeg retrying a
+  /// refused request logs every attempt) can starve the UI: warnings and
+  /// errors only, except while the video output starts ([video]), when
+  /// the render-mode probe needs mpv's verbose GL init lines.
+  static const logLevel = 'warn';
+
+  /// Points mpv's yt-dlp hook at [path] (the app's managed copy) for web
+  /// page links, at most 1080p, once per player; its cookies
+  /// (`ytdl-raw-options`) whenever they changed.
+  Future<void> useYtDlp(String path) async {
+    final p = _player;
+    if (p == null) return;
+    try {
+      _ytdlPath = path;
+      final dynamic platform = p.platform;
+      if (!identical(p, _ytdlSetOn)) {
+        await platform?.setProperty('script-opts', 'ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=$path');
+        await platform?.setProperty('ytdl-format', ytdlFormat);
+        _ytdlSetOn = p;
+        _ytdlRaw = '';
+      }
+      final raw = await AppYtDlp.instance.mpvRawOptions();
+      if (raw != _ytdlRaw && identical(p, _player)) {
+        await platform?.setProperty('ytdl-raw-options', raw);
+        _ytdlRaw = raw;
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('yt-dlp path not set: $e');
+    }
+  }
+
+  Player? _ytdlSetOn;
+  String _ytdlRaw = '';
+  String? _ytdlPath;
 
   Player get player => _player!;
 
@@ -108,6 +151,9 @@ class PlaybackController {
   /// `demuxer-cache-time`, media_kit's `buffer`), in 250 ms steps.
   final buffered = signal(Duration.zero);
 
+  /// The player's volume, 0..[maxVolume] (media_kit's `volume`).
+  final volume = signal(100.0);
+
   /// The opening ([openingRange]: Intro segment, else an OP-titled
   /// chapter) and the ending ([endingRange]: Outro, else ED-titled).
   late final Computed<SkipRange?> opening =
@@ -131,6 +177,8 @@ class PlaybackController {
     final existing = _video;
     if (existing != null) return existing;
     final hwdec = _hwdecOverride;
+    _logRenderEnv();
+    _requestLog(player, 'v'); // back to [logLevel] by _detectRenderMode
     // media_kit's video output sets hwdec itself on attach ('auto' unless
     // configured), which used to override SYNC_RELAY_HWDEC.
     final video = _video = VideoController(
@@ -149,17 +197,19 @@ class PlaybackController {
     return AppSettings.instance.hwdec.peek();
   }
 
+  SyncPlayer _newPlayer({required int bufferSize, required MPVLogLevel logLevel}) => SyncPlayer(
+          configuration: PlayerConfiguration(
+        bufferSize: bufferSize,
+        libass: true,
+        vo: Platform.environment['SYNC_RELAY_VO'],
+        logLevel: logLevel,
+      ))
+        ..onUserSeek = (d) => onUserSeek?.call(d);
+
   Future<void> init() async {
     if (_player != null) return;
-    _player = SyncPlayer(
+    _player = _newPlayer(bufferSize: maxBytes, logLevel: MPVLogLevel.warn); // see [logLevel]
-        configuration: PlayerConfiguration(
+    _held = false;
-      bufferSize: maxBytes,
-      libass: true,
-      vo: Platform.environment['SYNC_RELAY_VO'],
-      // Verbose: the render-mode probe needs mpv's GL init lines.
-      logLevel: MPVLogLevel.v,
-    ))
-      ..onUserSeek = (d) => onUserSeek?.call(d);
     _shaders = '';
     renderMode.value = RenderMode.unknown;
     shaderNotice.value = null;
@@ -168,8 +218,6 @@ class PlaybackController {
     await _pinBufferProps();
     await _pin('volume-max', '$maxVolume');
     await applyShaders();
-    _watchdog.reset();
-    _watchTimer = Timer.periodic(const Duration(seconds: 1), (_) => _watch());
     generation.value++;
     alive.value = true;
   }
@@ -187,9 +235,9 @@ class PlaybackController {
     }
   }
 
-  Future<void> _pin(String property, String value) async {
+  Future<void> _pin(String property, String value, [Player? on]) async {
     try {
-      final dynamic platform = player.platform;
+      final dynamic platform = (on ?? player).platform;
       await platform?.setProperty(property, value);
       final got = '${await platform?.getProperty(property)}';
       if (!pinMatches(value, got)) {
@@ -202,18 +250,40 @@ class PlaybackController {
     }
   }
 
-  Future<void> _pinBufferProps() async {
+  Future<void> _pinBufferProps([Player? on, int ahead = maxBytes, int back = maxBackBytes]) async {
-    pinMismatches.clear();
+    if (on == null) pinMismatches.clear();
-    await _pin('demuxer-readahead-secs', '$readAheadSecs');
+    await _pin('demuxer-readahead-secs', '$readAheadSecs', on);
-    await _pin('cache-secs', '$readAheadSecs');
+    await _pin('cache-secs', '$readAheadSecs', on);
-    await _pin('demuxer-max-bytes', '$maxBytes');
+    await _pin('demuxer-max-bytes', '$ahead', on);
-    await _pin('demuxer-max-back-bytes', '$maxBackBytes');
+    await _pin('demuxer-max-back-bytes', '$back', on);
+    await _pin('cache-on-disk', 'no', on);
     final hwdec = _hwdecOverride;
     if (hwdec != null) {
-      await _pin('hwdec', hwdec);
+      await _pin('hwdec', hwdec, on);
+    }
+    await _pin('stream-lavf-o', streamLavfOptions, on);
+  }
+
+  /// ffmpeg's HTTP options (mpv `stream-lavf-o`, comma form): reconnect
+  /// after a dropped connection, also on a streamed (growing) relay
+  /// response, and a server error (5xx) while connecting; a refused request
+  /// (4xx) fails at once. At most 3 tries per read, 4 s apart at most.
+  static const streamLavfOptions = 'reconnect_streamed=1,reconnect_on_http_error=5xx,'
+      'reconnect_delay_max=4,reconnect_max_retries=3';
+
+  // mpv_request_log_messages on [p]'s handle (media_kit has no API for it).
+  static void _requestLog(Player p, String level) {
+    try {
+      final dynamic platform = p.platform;
+      final name = level.toNativeUtf8();
+      try {
+        platform.mpv.mpv_request_log_messages(platform.ctx, name.cast<Int8>());
+      } finally {
+        malloc.free(name);
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('mpv log level $level not set: $e');
     }
-    await _pin('stream-lavf-o',
-        'reconnect_streamed=1,reconnect_on_http_error=1,reconnect_delay_max=4');
   }
 
   /// Puts the saved shader choice (Settings, Ctrl+0..6, shader button) on
@@ -244,13 +314,12 @@ class PlaybackController {
     }
     if (!identical(p, _player)) return;
     if (problem != null) paths = const [];
-    final value = joinShaderPaths(paths);
+    if (joinShaderPaths(paths) != _shaders || problem != null) {
-    if (value != _shaders || problem != null) {
+      final took = await setShaderPaths(paths);
-      final got = await setShaderValue(value);
       if (!identical(p, _player)) return;
-      if (problem == null && got != value) {
+      if (problem == null && !took) {
         problem = 'mpv did not take them';
-        await setShaderValue('');
+        await setShaderPaths(const []);
       }
     }
     if (problem != null) {
@@ -260,20 +329,23 @@ class PlaybackController {
     }
   }
 
-  /// Sets mpv `glsl-shaders` on the current player and returns the
+  /// Sets mpv `glsl-shaders` to [paths] on the current player; true when
-  /// read-back (null on error).
+  /// mpv's read-back is that list ([shaderListMatches]: old mpv prints it
+  /// joined with ',').
   @visibleForTesting
-  Future<String?> setShaderValue(String value) async {
+  Future<bool> setShaderPaths(List<String> paths) async {
+    final value = joinShaderPaths(paths);
     try {
       final dynamic platform = player.platform;
       await platform?.setProperty('glsl-shaders', value);
       final got = '${await platform?.getProperty('glsl-shaders')}';
-      _shaders = got;
+      final took = shaderListMatches(paths, got);
-      if (got != value) debugPrint('glsl-shaders=$value not applied: "$got"');
+      _shaders = took ? value : got;
-      return got;
+      if (!took) debugPrint('glsl-shaders=$value not applied: "$got"');
+      return took;
     } catch (e, st) {
       debugPrint('glsl-shaders=$value failed: $e\n$st');
-      return null;
+      return false;
     }
   }
 
@@ -298,7 +370,35 @@ class PlaybackController {
   // an error there while shaders are on is a shader that failed to load
   // or compile (mpv then renders without it).
   void _onLog(PlayerLog log) {
+    _toAppLog(log);
+    if (log.prefix == 'ytdl_hook' && (log.level == 'error' || log.level == 'fatal')) {
+      final text = log.text.trim().replaceFirst(RegExp(r'^ERROR:\s*'), '');
+      if (text.isNotEmpty) {
+        _loadErrorSent = true;
+        onYtdlError?.call(text);
+      }
+      return;
+    }
+    // ffmpeg logs through one mpv instance per process (the first one
+    // alive), so the HTTP status is a bonus, not a given.
+    if (log.prefix == 'ffmpeg') {
+      final http = RegExp(r'HTTP error \d{3}.*').firstMatch(log.text);
+      if (http != null) _httpError = http[0]!.trim();
+      return;
+    }
+    // Nothing playable opened (a track of mpv's yt-dlp EDL refused, ...).
+    if (!_loadErrorSent && _loadFailed(log, duration.peek())) {
+      _loadErrorSent = true;
+      final http = _httpError;
+      _mpvLog.warning('cannot open the media: [${log.prefix}] ${log.text.trim()}'
+          '${http == null ? ' (no HTTP error logged; a request that timed out after 5 s looks like this)' : ' ($http)'}');
+      onLoadError?.call(http == null ? 'the video stream could not be opened' : 'the video server answered $http');
+      return;
+    }
     if (log.prefix != 'libmpv_render') return;
+    // Which GL the video output got (verbose, heard only during the
+    // render-mode probe): kept in the app log.
+    if (_glInfo.hasMatch(log.text)) _mpvLog.info('render: [libmpv_render] ${log.text.trim()}');
     if (log.text.contains('suspected software renderer')) {
       _setRenderMode(RenderMode.softwareGl);
     } else if (log.text.startsWith('GL_VERSION') &&
@@ -311,12 +411,84 @@ class PlaybackController {
       _shaders = '';
       _shaderOp = _shaderOp.then((_) async {
         if (!identical(p, _player)) return;
-        await setShaderValue('');
+        await setShaderPaths(const []);
         _turnShadersOff('Shaders failed in mpv (${log.text}) — turned off');
       });
     }
   }
 
+  // mpv's warnings and errors (the session player's; ffmpeg's through
+  // whichever player logs them) go to the app log, a few per kind at a
+  // time: a refused request makes ffmpeg retry and warn on every try.
+  static final _mpvLog = createLogger('mpv');
+  static final _mpvThrottle = LogThrottle(burst: 5);
+
+  // mpv's GL init lines (`GL_VENDOR='...'`, `Detected desktop OpenGL 4.6.`).
+  static final _glInfo =
+      RegExp(r'^\s*(GL_(VENDOR|RENDERER|VERSION|SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION)=|Detected (GLES|desktop OpenGL))');
+
+  // Once per app start: what decides how media_kit and mpv render (the
+  // display server, Flutter's and Mesa's overrides). Not secrets.
+  static bool _renderEnvLogged = false;
+  static void _logRenderEnv() {
+    if (_renderEnvLogged || !Platform.isLinux) return;
+    _renderEnvLogged = true;
+    const names = [
+      'XDG_SESSION_TYPE',
+      'WAYLAND_DISPLAY',
+      'DISPLAY',
+      'GDK_BACKEND',
+      'FLUTTER_LINUX_RENDERER',
+      'LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE',
+      '__EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES',
+    ];
+    final env = Platform.environment;
+    _mpvLog.info('render env: ${[for (final n in names) '$n=${env[n] ?? '-'}'].join(' ')}');
+  }
+
+  // Once per player, after its first frame: the decoder mpv picked; the
+  // first time per app start also mpv's and ffmpeg's versions.
+  static bool _versionsLogged = false;
+  Player? _frameLoggedFor;
+  Future<void> _logFirstFrame(Player p, int? width) async {
+    if (width == null || width <= 0 || identical(p, _frameLoggedFor)) return;
+    _frameLoggedFor = p;
+    try {
+      final dynamic platform = p.platform;
+      final current = await platform?.getProperty('hwdec-current');
+      final wanted = await platform?.getProperty('hwdec');
+      _mpvLog.info('render: first frame ${p.state.width}x${p.state.height}, '
+          'hwdec-current=${'$current'.isEmpty ? 'no' : current} (hwdec=$wanted), mode ${renderMode.peek().name}');
+      if (!_versionsLogged) {
+        _versionsLogged = true;
+        _mpvLog.info('render: ${await platform?.getProperty('mpv-version')}, '
+            'ffmpeg ${await platform?.getProperty('ffmpeg-version')}');
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('first frame info: $e');
+    }
+  }
+
+  static void _toAppLog(PlayerLog log, {String player = ''}) {
+    final level = log.level;
+    if (level != 'warn' && level != 'error' && level != 'fatal') return;
+    final text = log.text.trim();
+    if (text.isEmpty) return;
+    final pass = _mpvThrottle.allow('$player${log.prefix} $level ${text.length > 40 ? text.substring(0, 40) : text}');
+    if (pass == null) return;
+    final line = '$pass$player[${log.prefix}] $text';
+    level == 'warn' ? _mpvLog.info(line) : _mpvLog.warning(line);
+  }
+
+  /// [log] says the media could not be opened: before a [duration] is
+  /// known, mpv's fatal "nothing to play" or a demuxer error, or a yt-dlp
+  /// hook error.
+  static bool _loadFailed(PlayerLog log, Duration duration) {
+    if (log.prefix == 'ytdl_hook') return log.level == 'error' || log.level == 'fatal';
+    return duration == Duration.zero &&
+        ((log.prefix == 'cplayer' && log.level == 'fatal') || (log.prefix == 'demux' && log.level == 'error'));
+  }
+
   void _setRenderMode(RenderMode mode) {
     renderMode.value = mode;
     lastRenderMode.value = mode;
@@ -328,107 +500,77 @@ class PlaybackController {
   Future<void> _detectRenderMode(Player p, VideoController video) async {
     try {
       await video.platform.future;
+      await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 1500));
     } catch (_) {
       return;
+    } finally {
+      if (identical(p, _player)) _requestLog(p, logLevel);
     }
-    await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 1500));
+    if (!identical(p, _player)) return;
-    if (!identical(p, _player) || renderMode.peek() != RenderMode.unknown) {
+    final mode = renderMode.peek();
+    if (mode != RenderMode.unknown) {
+      _mpvLog.info('render: ${mode.name} (${mode == RenderMode.gpu ? 'OpenGL on the GPU' : 'OpenGL on the CPU'})');
       return;
     }
     _setRenderMode(RenderMode.software);
-    debugPrint('video output: software rendering (no GL init logged)');
+    _mpvLog.info("render: software (no GL init logged: media_kit's own fallback; "
+        'its reason is on stderr, "media_kit: VideoOutput: ..." when run from a terminal)');
     if (_shaders.isNotEmpty) {
       _notice('Shaders have no effect: video uses software rendering');
     }
   }
 
-  /// Fingerprint of the decoder's current frame (mpv `screenshot-raw`,
+  /// `mpv-version` and `ffmpeg-version` of the session player, for
-  /// off-thread); null without video.
+  /// diagnostics; null when there is no player.
-  Future<int?> _sourceFrame(Player p) async {
+  Future<String?> mpvVersion() async {
+    final p = _player;
+    if (p == null) return null;
     try {
-      final raw = await p.screenshot(format: null);
+      final dynamic platform = p.platform;
-      return raw == null || raw.isEmpty ? null : hashSpread(raw);
+      return '${await platform?.getProperty('mpv-version')}, ffmpeg ${await platform?.getProperty('ffmpeg-version')}';
     } catch (_) {
       return null;
     }
   }
 
-  /// A suspected freeze is real only if mpv's own frames still move: a
-  /// still scene looks frozen on screen too.
-  Future<bool> _sourceMoving(Player p) async {
-    final a = await _sourceFrame(p);
-    await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 500));
-    if (!identical(p, _player) || !p.state.playing) return false;
-    final b = await _sourceFrame(p);
-    return a != null && b != null && a != b;
-  }
-
-  static bool get _windowVisible {
-    try {
-      final s = WidgetsBinding.instance.lifecycleState;
-      return s == null ||
-          s == AppLifecycleState.resumed ||
-          s == AppLifecycleState.inactive;
-    } catch (_) {
-      return false;
-    }
-  }
-
-  Future<void> _watch() async {
-    final p = _player;
-    final probe = shownFrame;
-    // Only meaningful once the video view is up.
-    if (p == null || _video == null || probe == null || _probing) return;
-    _probing = true;
-    try {
-      final frames = await probe();
-      if (!identical(p, _player)) return;
-      final s = p.state;
-      final eligible = s.playing &&
-          !s.buffering &&
-          !s.completed &&
-          s.rate > 0 &&
-          (s.width ?? 0) > 0 &&
-          _windowVisible;
-      final fired = _watchdog.feed(FrameSample(
-        at: DateTime.now(),
-        position: positionSecs,
-        frames: frames,
-        eligible: eligible,
-      ));
-      if (fired) {
-        if (await _sourceMoving(p) && identical(p, _player)) {
-          debugPrint('video watchdog: picture stuck while mpv frames move');
-          onFrozen?.call();
-        } else {
-          _watchdog.dismiss();
-        }
-      }
-    } finally {
-      _probing = false;
-    }
-  }
-
   /// Opens [url] paused. [headers] go with every request for it (mpv
   /// `http-header-fields`): a Jellyfin token travels there, not in the URL.
-  Future<void> openUrl(String url, {Map<String, String>? headers}) async {
+  /// Each media gets its own player: when [preload] holds the same [url]
-    if (!_ready) return;
+  /// and [headers], that player becomes this one (true: promoted, its
+  /// buffer comes along); else a player that already held media is
+  /// replaced by a fresh one first ([onFreshPlayer] once it is up), unless
+  /// [keepPlayer] (the same media again, e.g. after a reconnect).
+  Future<bool> openUrl(String url,
+      {Map<String, String>? headers, bool keepPlayer = false, void Function()? onFreshPlayer}) async {
+    if (!_ready) return false;
+    final pre = _pre;
+    if (pre != null && pre.matches(url, headers)) {
+      if (await _promote(pre)) return true;
+    }
+    if (_held && !keepPlayer && await _freshPlayer()) onFreshPlayer?.call();
+    if (!_ready) return false;
     try {
+      _held = true;
       _chapterJson = '';
+      _httpError = null;
+      _loadErrorSent = false;
       chapters.value = const [];
       tracks.value = const [];
       buffered.value = Duration.zero;
       // An empty map, not null: media_kit caches headers per URI.
       await player.open(Media(url, httpHeaders: headers ?? const {}), play: false);
+      return false;
     } catch (e, st) {
       debugPrint('open ${Uri.tryParse(url)?.replace(query: '') ?? 'media'} failed: $e\n$st');
       rethrow;
     }
   }
 
-  // Position / duration from media_kit's streams; chapter-list and
+  // Position, duration and volume from media_kit's streams; chapter-list and
   // track-list observed in mpv (read back as JSON).
   void _watchMarks(SyncPlayer p) {
+    volume.value = p.state.volume;
+    _timeSubs.add(p.stream.volume.listen((v) => volume.value = v));
     _timeSubs.add(p.stream.position.listen((d) {
       // At the end the bar shows full: mpv's last position is the last
       // frame's start (and the 250 ms steps round down), short of duration.
@@ -442,6 +584,8 @@ class PlaybackController {
     _timeSubs.add(p.stream.completed.listen((done) {
       if (done && duration.value > Duration.zero) position.value = duration.value;
     }));
+    _timeSubs.add(p.stream.width.listen((w) => _logFirstFrame(p, w)));
+    unawaited(_logFirstFrame(p, p.state.width)); // a promoted preload has one already
     _timeSubs.add(p.stream.buffer.listen((d) {
       final ms = d.inMilliseconds;
       buffered.value = Duration(milliseconds: ms - ms % 250);
@@ -588,10 +732,9 @@ class PlaybackController {
   /// Release the player. The view drops its texture first ([alive] goes
   /// false, one frame passes), then mpv is torn down.
   Future<void> dispose() async {
+    await dropPreload();
     final p = _player;
     if (p == null) return;
-    _watchTimer?.cancel();
-    _watchTimer = null;
     await _logSub?.cancel();
     _logSub = null;
     for (final sub in _timeSubs) {
@@ -600,6 +743,7 @@ class PlaybackController {
     _timeSubs.clear();
     _player = null;
     _video = null;
+    _held = false;
     alive.value = false;
     _clearMarks();
     await _settleUi();
@@ -608,6 +752,24 @@ class PlaybackController {
     } catch (_) {}
   }
 
+  /// App close: every mpv this controller holds goes before the engine
+  /// does (a live one calls back into a dead isolate): the preload, the
+  /// session player and the one still retiring, each bounded by [each].
+  /// A player an open in flight brought up meanwhile goes too.
+  Future<void> disposeAll({Duration each = const Duration(milliseconds: 1500)}) async {
+    Future<void> bounded(Future<void> f) => f.timeout(each).catchError((Object _) {});
+    for (var round = 0; round < 2; round++) {
+      final pre = _pre;
+      _pre = null;
+      await Future.wait([
+        if (pre != null) bounded(_disposePreload(pre)),
+        bounded(_retiring),
+        bounded(dispose()),
+      ]);
+      if (_player == null && _pre == null) return;
+    }
+  }
+
   // Two frames: one may already be mid-build when [alive] flips. Then
   // the length of a route pop (the fullscreen route holds its own `Video`
   // and leaves animated). Bounded, since a hidden window renders no
@@ -622,6 +784,246 @@ class PlaybackController {
     } catch (_) {}
   }
 
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------ preload
+  //
+  // A second, hidden player holding what plays next (Up next's first
+  // item), open paused at its start and muted, with a small cache: its
+  // first seconds are in before anyone asks. [openUrl] for the same URL
+  // promotes it to the session player (see ARCHITECTURE.md "Getting
+  // ready"). One at a time.
+
+  /// Preloading on (env `SYNC_RELAY_PRELOAD=0` turns it off; tests set it).
+  bool preloadEnabled = Platform.environment['SYNC_RELAY_PRELOAD'] != '0';
+
+  /// The preload's forward cache: its first seconds and the container's
+  /// index, at little memory. Raised to [maxBytes] when promoted.
+  static const preloadBytes = 48 * 1024 * 1024;
+  static const _preloadBackBytes = 8 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+  _Preload? _pre;
+
+  /// The URL preloaded now (null: none).
+  String? get preloadUrl => _pre?.url;
+
+  /// Opens [url] in the hidden preload player (replacing any other), and
+  /// completes once [need] seconds are buffered or the whole media is:
+  /// true, false when it failed (or was dropped or replaced meanwhile).
+  /// The same [url] and [headers] again is the same preload unless
+  /// [fresh]. [ytdlPath]: mpv's yt-dlp hook for web pages.
+  Future<bool> preload(String url,
+      {Map<String, String>? headers, String? ytdlPath, double need = 4, bool fresh = false}) async {
+    if (!preloadEnabled || !_ready) return false;
+    final had = _pre;
+    if (had != null && had.matches(url, headers) && !had.failed && !fresh) return had.ready.future;
+    // Set before any await: a second call for the same URL finds it.
+    _pre = null;
+    if (had != null) unawaited(_disposePreload(had));
+    final p = _newPlayer(bufferSize: preloadBytes, logLevel: MPVLogLevel.error);
+    final pre = _pre = _Preload(p, url, headers ?? const {});
+    pre.logSub = p.stream.log.listen((log) {
+      // ffmpeg logs through one mpv per process: the first one, and once
+      // that is gone (a promotion disposes it) the next one created, which
+      // can be this preload. Its HTTP errors still name the session's.
+      if (log.prefix == 'ffmpeg') return _onLog(log);
+      _toAppLog(log, player: 'preload ');
+      if (_loadFailed(log, p.state.duration)) pre.fail();
+    });
+    try {
+      await _pinBufferProps(p, preloadBytes, _preloadBackBytes);
+      await _pin('volume-max', '$maxVolume', p);
+      await _pin('mute', 'yes', p);
+      final path = ytdlPath ?? _ytdlPath;
+      if (path != null) {
+        pre.ytdlRaw = await _setYtdl(p, path);
+        pre.ytdl = true;
+      }
+      // With a view up, its own video output: mpv decodes (media_kit
+      // starts players with vid=no) and the first frame is there.
+      if (_video != null) {
+        pre.video = VideoController(p, configuration: VideoControllerConfiguration(hwdec: _hwdecOverride));
+        await pre.video!.platform.future;
+      }
+      if (!identical(_pre, pre)) {
+        pre.fail();
+        return false;
+      }
+      await p.open(Media(url, httpHeaders: headers ?? const {}), play: false);
+      if (!pre.opened.isCompleted) pre.opened.complete();
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('preload failed: $e');
+      pre.fail();
+      return false;
+    }
+    unawaited(_watchPreload(pre, need));
+    return pre.ready.future;
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _watchPreload(_Preload pre, double need) async {
+    final end = DateTime.now().add(const Duration(seconds: 60));
+    while (identical(_pre, pre) && !pre.failed && DateTime.now().isBefore(end)) {
+      final st = pre.player.state;
+      final secs = st.duration.inMilliseconds / 1000;
+      final buffered = (st.buffer - st.position).inMilliseconds / 1000;
+      if (secs > 0 && (buffered >= need || st.buffer.inMilliseconds / 1000 >= secs - 0.5)) {
+        if (!pre.ready.isCompleted) pre.ready.complete(true);
+        return;
+      }
+      await Future.delayed(const Duration(milliseconds: 200));
+    }
+    if (!pre.ready.isCompleted) pre.ready.complete(false);
+  }
+
+  /// Drops the preload (nothing to get ready, or something else is).
+  Future<void> dropPreload() async {
+    final pre = _pre;
+    if (pre == null) return;
+    _pre = null;
+    await _disposePreload(pre);
+  }
+
+  Future<void> _disposePreload(_Preload pre) async {
+    pre.fail();
+    await pre.logSub?.cancel();
+    try {
+      await pre.player.dispose();
+    } catch (_) {}
+  }
+
+  /// [pre] becomes the session player ([_adopt]); the full cache pins
+  /// replace its small ones.
+  Future<bool> _promote(_Preload pre) async {
+    await pre.opened.future;
+    final old = _player;
+    if (!identical(_pre, pre) || old == null) return false;
+    _pre = null;
+    if (pre.failed) {
+      unawaited(_disposePreload(pre));
+      return false;
+    }
+    await pre.logSub?.cancel();
+    if (!pre.ready.isCompleted) pre.ready.complete(true);
+    final p = pre.player;
+    await _adopt(p, pre.video, ytdl: pre.ytdl, ytdlRaw: pre.ytdlRaw);
+    try {
+      await _pin('mute', 'no', p);
+      await _pinBufferProps(p);
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('promoted player settings: $e');
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  // The current player has had media opened in it (one fresh from [init]
+  // has not, so the first open after join or Reload video uses it).
+  bool _held = false;
+
+  // The last replaced player until it is disposed: a fresh player waits
+  // for it, so at most one old player lingers.
+  Future<void> _retiring = Future.value();
+
+  /// Replaces the current player with a fresh one set up like [init]'s
+  /// (pins, hwdec, volume, yt-dlp hook, shaders, observers), its video
+  /// output ready before the view swaps to it when the view is up. True
+  /// once it is the session player.
+  Future<bool> _freshPlayer() async {
+    await _retiring;
+    final old = _player;
+    if (old == null) return false;
+    final p = _newPlayer(bufferSize: maxBytes, logLevel: MPVLogLevel.warn); // see [logLevel]
+    VideoController? video;
+    var ytdl = false, ytdlRaw = '';
+    try {
+      pinMismatches.clear();
+      await _pinBufferProps(p);
+      await _pin('volume-max', '$maxVolume', p);
+      final path = _ytdlPath;
+      if (path != null) {
+        ytdlRaw = await _setYtdl(p, path);
+        ytdl = true;
+      }
+      // The view is up: the new output is created (and its texture
+      // registered) before the view swaps, so the old picture stays until
+      // then. Created by the view instead while the render mode is not
+      // known yet, so the probe hears its GL init ([video]).
+      if (_video != null && renderMode.peek() != RenderMode.unknown) {
+        video = VideoController(p, configuration: VideoControllerConfiguration(hwdec: _hwdecOverride));
+        await video.platform.future;
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('fresh player setup: $e');
+    }
+    // Disposed or reloaded meanwhile: that player stays.
+    if (!identical(old, _player)) {
+      try {
+        await p.dispose();
+      } catch (_) {}
+      return false;
+    }
+    await _adopt(p, video, ytdl: ytdl, ytdlRaw: ytdlRaw);
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  /// mpv's yt-dlp hook on [p] (see [useYtDlp]); returns the raw options set.
+  static Future<String> _setYtdl(Player p, String path) async {
+    final dynamic platform = p.platform;
+    await platform?.setProperty('script-opts', 'ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=$path');
+    await platform?.setProperty('ytdl-format', ytdlFormat);
+    final raw = await AppYtDlp.instance.mpvRawOptions();
+    await platform?.setProperty('ytdl-raw-options', raw);
+    return raw;
+  }
+
+  /// [p] becomes the session player (a promoted preload or a fresh
+  /// player): log, marks and track observers move over, the view swaps to
+  /// its video output ([generation]), volume and shaders carry over, and
+  /// the old player is paused and disposed once the view let go of its
+  /// texture (as in [dispose]).
+  Future<void> _adopt(SyncPlayer p, VideoController? video, {required bool ytdl, String ytdlRaw = ''}) async {
+    final old = _player!;
+    final volume = old.state.volume;
+    await _logSub?.cancel();
+    for (final sub in _timeSubs) {
+      await sub.cancel();
+    }
+    _timeSubs.clear();
+    _player = p;
+    _video = video;
+    _held = true;
+    _ytdlSetOn = ytdl ? p : null;
+    _ytdlRaw = ytdlRaw;
+    _chapterJson = '';
+    _httpError = null;
+    _loadErrorSent = false;
+    _shaders = '';
+    final at = p.state.position.inMilliseconds;
+    position.value = Duration(milliseconds: at - at % 250);
+    duration.value = p.state.duration;
+    final ms = p.state.buffer.inMilliseconds;
+    buffered.value = Duration(milliseconds: ms - ms % 250);
+    chapters.value = const [];
+    tracks.value = const [];
+    _logSub = p.stream.log.listen(_onLog);
+    _requestLog(p, logLevel);
+    _watchMarks(p);
+    generation.value++;
+    // Normally stopped already (the coordinator leaves the previous
+    // media first): never two sounds at once.
+    unawaited(old.pause().catchError((_) {}));
+    try {
+      await p.setVolume(volume);
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('new player volume: $e');
+    }
+    unawaited(applyShaders());
+    unawaited(_refreshTracks());
+    _retiring = () async {
+      await _settleUi();
+      try {
+        await old.dispose();
+      } catch (_) {}
+    }();
+  }
+
   Future<void> stop() async {
     if (!_ready) return;
     try {
@@ -654,3 +1056,27 @@ bool pinMatches(String wanted, String got) {
   final a = double.tryParse(wanted), b = double.tryParse(got);
   return a != null && b != null && a == b;
 }
+
+class _Preload {
+  final SyncPlayer player;
+  final String url;
+  final Map<String, String> headers;
+  VideoController? video;
+  StreamSubscription<PlayerLog>? logSub;
+  /// Completes once the media is handed to mpv (or the preload failed).
+  final opened = Completer<void>();
+  bool ytdl = false;
+  String ytdlRaw = '';
+  bool failed = false;
+  final ready = Completer<bool>();
+  _Preload(this.player, this.url, this.headers);
+
+  bool matches(String url, Map<String, String>? headers) =>
+      url == this.url && mapEquals(headers ?? const {}, this.headers);
+
+  void fail() {
+    failed = true;
+    if (!ready.isCompleted) ready.complete(false);
+    if (!opened.isCompleted) opened.complete();
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/playback/yt_dlp_app.dart

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+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:path_provider/path_provider.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../platform/ports/link_resolver.dart';
+
+/// mpv's `ytdl-format` for links every player opens itself.
+const ytdlFormat = 'bv*[height<=1080]+ba/b';
+
+/// yt-dlp's `--sub-langs` for mpv's hook (its default is `all`), without
+/// Bilibili's danmaku: an XML comment feed served raw-deflate, which
+/// ffmpeg fails to inflate on every read (a warning each time) while the
+/// video waits on it.
+const ytdlSubLangs = 'all,-danmaku';
+
+/// The app's yt-dlp (see [YtDlp]): in the app-support folder, shared with
+/// the hosted server. [probe] remembers what pasted links are for a while,
+/// so the Link preview and the swap ask once.
+class AppYtDlp implements LinkResolver {
+  static final instance = AppYtDlp();
+
+  /// [ytDlp]: a given one (tests); default in the app-support folder.
+  AppYtDlp([YtDlp? ytDlp]) : _ytDlp = ytDlp == null ? null : Future.value(ytDlp);
+
+  Future<YtDlp>? _ytDlp;
+  @override
+  Future<YtDlp> get ytDlp => _ytDlp ??= () async {
+        final base = await getApplicationSupportDirectory();
+        return YtDlp(dir(base.path));
+      }();
+
+  static String dir(String appSupport) => '$appSupport${Platform.pathSeparator}yt-dlp';
+
+  /// Gets yt-dlp ready in the background (download on first run, a daily
+  /// update check afterwards).
+  @override
+  void warmUp() => unawaited(ytDlp.then((y) => y.ensure()).catchError((_) => null));
+
+  /// mpv's `ytdl-raw-options`: [ytdlSubLangs] and the cookies in the
+  /// yt-dlp folder (see [YtDlpCookies]).
+  @override
+  Future<String> mpvRawOptions() async {
+    const subs = 'sub-langs=%${ytdlSubLangs.length}%$ytdlSubLangs';
+    try {
+      final cookies = (await ytDlp).cookies.mpvRawOptions();
+      return cookies.isEmpty ? subs : '$subs,$cookies';
+    } catch (_) {
+      return subs;
+    }
+  }
+
+  final _probes = <String, ({DateTime at, DateTime until, Future<LinkProbe> f})>{};
+  static const _probeTtl = Duration(minutes: 10);
+
+  /// What [url] is, from memory while it is kept (10 minutes from when it
+  /// was probed; [keep] keeps it longer, for Up next's first item, which
+  /// is probed again before that runs out). [fresh] probes again: the
+  /// remembered result stays until the new one is in, and stays when the
+  /// new one fails.
+  @override
+  Future<LinkProbe> probe(String url, {Duration keep = _probeTtl, bool fresh = false}) {
+    final now = DateTime.now();
+    _probes.removeWhere((_, v) => now.isAfter(v.until));
+    final hit = _probes[url];
+    if (hit != null && !fresh) {
+      final longer = hit.at.add(keep);
+      if (longer.isAfter(hit.until)) _probes[url] = (at: hit.at, until: longer, f: hit.f);
+      return hit.f;
+    }
+    final f = ytDlp.then((y) => probeLink(Uri.parse(url), ytDlp: y));
+    final until = now.add(keep);
+    if (hit == null) {
+      _probes[url] = (at: now, until: until, f: f);
+      f.catchError((Object _) {
+        if (_probes[url]?.f == f) _probes.remove(url);
+        return LinkProbe.file(Uri(), -1);
+      });
+    } else {
+      f.then<void>((_) {
+        _probes[url] = (at: now, until: until, f: f);
+      }, onError: (Object _) {});
+    }
+    return f;
+  }
+
+  /// [url] no longer needs keeping longer: back to the usual 10 minutes.
+  @override
+  void release(String url) {
+    final hit = _probes[url];
+    if (hit == null) return;
+    final usual = hit.at.add(_probeTtl);
+    if (usual.isBefore(hit.until)) _probes[url] = (at: hit.at, until: usual, f: hit.f);
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/queue/queue_controller.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,802 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:convert';
+import 'dart:io';
+import 'dart:math';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../files/name_parser.dart';
+import '../files/thumbnails.dart';
+import '../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
+import '../jellyfin/format.dart' show pickFor;
+import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
+import '../screens/home/picked_media.dart';
+import '../session/app_events.dart' show AddedToUpNext;
+import '../session/media_art.dart';
+import '../session/session_coordinator.dart';
+import '../state/settings.dart';
+import '../sync/avatar_cache.dart';
+import 'queue_logic.dart';
+
+// Up next on this client (see ARCHITECTURE.md "Up next"): the server's
+// queue as signals, adding to it (probed, with a picture), the end-of-media
+// countdown for its first item, putting an item up when this app is the
+// one that can, and keeping that item ready.
+
+/// The end-of-media card for the first Up next item. [secondsLeft] null:
+/// no countdown here (auto-advance off, cancelled, or another app puts
+/// it up), the card offers Play now only.
+class UpNextCountdown {
+  final int mediaId;
+  final QueueItem item;
+  final int? secondsLeft;
+  const UpNextCountdown({required this.mediaId, required this.item, this.secondsLeft});
+}
+
+/// The first item's readiness on this app.
+enum WarmState { idle, warming, ready, failed }
+
+class QueueController {
+  final SessionCoordinator coord;
+  QueueController(this.coord);
+
+  /// Queued items' pictures by hash, from `/i/`.
+  late final PictureCache thumbs = PictureCache(coord.connection.client,
+      route: 'i', keep: RelayConstants.maxQueueItems + 8, live: (s) => [for (final q in s.queue) q.thumb]);
+
+  /// Up next, in order (empty when nothing is queued or not in a server).
+  late final Computed<List<QueueItem>> items =
+      computed(() => coord.serverState.value?.queue ?? const <QueueItem>[]);
+
+  final countdown = signal<UpNextCountdown?>(null);
+
+  /// The first item's id and how ready it is here (null: nothing to get
+  /// ready on this app).
+  final warm = signal<({String id, WarmState state})?>(null);
+
+  /// The natural continuation of what plays: the next episodes of the
+  /// Jellyfin series (not queued; shown greyed under Up next).
+  final continuation = signal<List<EpisodeLink>>(const []);
+
+  /// The mediaId whose continuation was cleared here.
+  final _hiddenFor = signal(-1);
+
+  /// The queue popover is open: the Up next button holds the controls up.
+  final popoverOpen = signal(false);
+
+  // What adder-only items stand for, by their key (a link passed on from
+  // here, a file here). Never leaves this app.
+  final Map<String, ({PickedMedia pick, DateTime at})> _local = {};
+  final Map<String, DateTime> _performing = {};
+  final Set<String> _skipped = {};
+  int _cancelledFor = -1;
+  Timer? _timer;
+  bool _attached = false;
+  String _continuationFor = '';
+  final _random = Random.secure();
+
+  String get _me => coord.connection.memberId;
+
+  void attach() {
+    if (_attached) return;
+    _attached = true;
+    coord.connection.states.listen(_onState);
+    effect(() {
+      final next = coord.nextEpisode.value;
+      final plan = coord.jellyfinPlan.value;
+      unawaited(_loadContinuation(next, plan));
+    });
+    // The continuation and the state decide what to get ready; the media
+    // playing having started (or sitting out) lets the preload go.
+    effect(() {
+      shownContinuation.value;
+      coord.settledMediaId.value;
+      coord.selfOut.value;
+      final r = coord.serverState.value;
+      untracked(() => _warm(r));
+    });
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------- adding
+
+  /// Adds [pick] to Up next (at the end, or with [next] right after what
+  /// plays). A link is probed first and refused like Put it up when it
+  /// will not play. Returns an error text, or null when sent.
+  Future<String?> add(PickedMedia pick, {bool next = false}) async {
+    coord.markInput();
+    if (coord.serverState.peek() == null) return 'not in a server';
+    if (items.peek().length >= RelayConstants.maxQueueItems) {
+      return 'Up next is full (${RelayConstants.maxQueueItems} items)';
+    }
+    final ({QueueItem item, Uint8List? thumb}) built;
+    try {
+      final b = await _build(pick);
+      if (b is String) return b;
+      built = b as ({QueueItem item, Uint8List? thumb});
+    } catch (e) {
+      return "couldn't add it: $e";
+    }
+    final item = built.item;
+    if (item.key.isNotEmpty) _local[item.key] = (pick: pick, at: DateTime.now());
+    final thumb = built.thumb;
+    coord.connection.sendQueue(QueueIntent.add(item, next: next, thumb: thumb == null ? '' : base64Encode(thumb)));
+    coord.notify(AddedToUpNext(item.title));
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  /// A continuation episode becomes an Up next item.
+  Future<String?> promote(EpisodeLink e) => add(e.pick);
+
+  /// The item, or an error text.
+  Future<Object> _build(PickedMedia pick) async {
+    switch (pick) {
+      case JellyfinMedia():
+        final accounts = coord.jellyfin;
+        if (accounts.account(pick.serverId) == null) return 'that Jellyfin server is not linked any more';
+        if (accounts.statusOf(pick.serverId) == JellyfinAccountStatus.expired) {
+          return 'Jellyfin sign-in expired — reconnect it in Settings → Jellyfin & integrations';
+        }
+        final client = accounts.clientFor(pick.serverId);
+        final thumb = client == null ? null : await _jellyfinThumb(client, pick.itemId);
+        return (
+          item: QueueItem(
+            media: mediaForPick(pick),
+            how: QueueHow.jellyfin,
+            title: pick.title,
+            sub: pick.subtitle,
+            duration: (pick.runtime?.inMilliseconds ?? 0) / 1000,
+          ),
+          thumb: thumb,
+        );
+      case FileMedia(:final path):
+        final file = File(path);
+        if (!await file.exists()) return 'file not found — check the path';
+        final name = pick.label;
+        final parsed = parseReleaseName(name);
+        final shot = await thumbnailFor(path);
+        Uint8List? thumb;
+        if (shot != null) {
+          try {
+            final bytes = await File(shot.imagePath).readAsBytes();
+            if (bytes.length <= RelayConstants.maxPosterBytes) thumb = bytes;
+          } catch (_) {}
+        }
+        final ep = [
+          if (parsed.season != null) 'S${parsed.season}',
+          if (parsed.episode != null) 'E${parsed.episode}',
+        ].join();
+        return (
+          item: QueueItem(
+            media: HelloMedia(name: name, size: await file.length(), duration: 0),
+            how: QueueHow.file,
+            title: parsed.series.trim().isEmpty ? name : parsed.series.trim(),
+            sub: ep,
+            duration: (shot?.duration.inMilliseconds ?? 0) / 1000,
+            key: _newKey(),
+          ),
+          thumb: thumb,
+        );
+      case LinkMedia(:final url, :final anyway):
+        // Alone, a link plays direct: there is nobody to pass it on to.
+        final relay = coord.solo ? LinkRelay.direct : pick.relay;
+        final linked = await mediaForLink(coord.jellyfin, url);
+        final ref = linked.jellyfin;
+        if (ref != null) {
+          return (
+            item: QueueItem(
+                media: HelloMedia(name: linked.name, size: 0, duration: 0, jellyfin: ref),
+                how: QueueHow.jellyfin,
+                title: ref.title.isEmpty ? linked.name : ref.title,
+                sub: ref.subtitle ?? '',
+                duration: ref.runtimeSecs ?? 0),
+            thumb: null,
+          );
+        }
+        LinkProbe? probe;
+        String? probeError;
+        try {
+          probe = await coord.ytDlp.probe(url).timeout(const Duration(seconds: 45));
+        } catch (e) {
+          probeError = '$e';
+        }
+        final problem = probe == null ? playErrorText(probeError ?? '') : probe.problem;
+        if (problem != null && !anyway) return problem;
+        if (relay == LinkRelay.me) {
+          if (probe == null) return problem ?? "couldn't reach the site";
+          final relayProblem = probe.relayProblem;
+          if (relayProblem != null) return relayProblem;
+        }
+        if (relay == LinkRelay.server && !coord.serverHasPassword) return 'server fetch needs a server password';
+        if (relay == LinkRelay.server && probe != null && probe.isPage && probe.info != null) {
+          final relayProblem = probe.relayProblem;
+          if (relayProblem != null) return relayProblem;
+        }
+        final uri = Uri.tryParse(url) ?? Uri();
+        final info = probe?.info;
+        final title = probe?.title ?? linked.name;
+        final site = info == null
+            ? uri.host
+            : (info.uploader.isNotEmpty ? info.uploader : (info.extractor.isNotEmpty ? info.extractor : uri.host));
+        final thumbUrl = info?.thumbnail == null ? null : Uri.tryParse(info!.thumbnail!);
+        final thumb = thumbUrl == null ? null : (await thumbnailArt(thumbUrl))?.poster;
+        final how = switch (relay) {
+          LinkRelay.direct => QueueHow.direct,
+          LinkRelay.server => QueueHow.server,
+          LinkRelay.me => QueueHow.through,
+        };
+        return (
+          item: QueueItem(
+            media: HelloMedia(
+                name: title,
+                size: 0,
+                duration: 0,
+                url: how == QueueHow.through ? null : url,
+                relay: how == QueueHow.server ? const MediaRelay(fetch: true) : null),
+            how: how,
+            title: title,
+            sub: site,
+            duration: info?.duration ?? 0,
+            key: how == QueueHow.through ? _newKey() : '',
+          ),
+          thumb: thumb,
+        );
+    }
+  }
+
+  String _newKey() => [for (var i = 0; i < 12; i++) _random.nextInt(256).toRadixString(16).padLeft(2, '0')].join();
+
+  /// A wide picture of a Jellyfin item: an episode's own still, else the
+  /// item's (or series') thumb or backdrop, else its poster.
+  Future<Uint8List?> _jellyfinThumb(JellyfinClient client, String itemId) async {
+    try {
+      final item = await client.item(itemId).timeout(const Duration(seconds: 10));
+      final ref = (item.kind == JellyfinItemKind.episode ? item.ownImage(JellyfinImageType.primary) : null) ??
+          item.image(JellyfinImageType.thumb) ??
+          item.image(JellyfinImageType.backdrop) ??
+          item.image(JellyfinImageType.primary);
+      if (ref == null) return null;
+      return await fetchImage(
+          client.imageUrl(ref, maxWidth: 480, quality: 80), client.authHeaders, RelayConstants.maxPosterBytes);
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('queue: no Jellyfin picture for $itemId: $e');
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// [item]'s link as this app may hand it out (Copy link, Open in
+  /// browser): a link everyone opens (it is in the state), or a link this
+  /// app passes on (its adder). Null otherwise: a server-fetched link stays
+  /// with the server, another member's passed-on link with them.
+  String? linkOf(QueueItem item) => switch (item.how) {
+        QueueHow.direct => item.media.url,
+        QueueHow.through when item.by == _me => switch (_local[item.key]?.pick) {
+            LinkMedia(:final url) => url,
+            _ => null,
+          },
+        _ => null,
+      };
+
+  /// [item]'s page on its Jellyfin server, when that server is linked here.
+  String? jellyfinPageOf(QueueItem item) {
+    final ref = item.media.jellyfin;
+    return ref == null ? null : coord.jellyfin.webUrlOf(ref.serverId, ref.itemId);
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------ editing
+
+  void move(String id, int to) {
+    coord.markInput();
+    coord.connection.sendQueue(QueueIntent.move(id, to));
+  }
+
+  void remove(String id) {
+    coord.markInput();
+    coord.connection.sendQueue(QueueIntent.remove(id));
+  }
+
+  /// Plays [id] now: this app puts it up when it is the one that can,
+  /// else it asks the server, and the app that can puts it up.
+  void playNow(String id) {
+    coord.markInput();
+    final r = coord.serverState.peek();
+    final item = r?.queue.where((q) => q.id == id).firstOrNull;
+    if (r == null || item == null) return;
+    if (queuePerformer(item, r.members).id == _me) {
+      _perform(item);
+    } else {
+      coord.connection.sendQueue(QueueIntent.play(id));
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Plays the first Up next item now.
+  void skip() {
+    final first = items.peek().firstOrNull;
+    if (first != null) playNow(first.id);
+  }
+
+  /// Cancel on the end-of-media card: no countdown here for this media.
+  void cancelCountdown() {
+    final c = countdown.peek();
+    _timer?.cancel();
+    _timer = null;
+    if (c == null) return;
+    _cancelledFor = c.mediaId;
+    countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: c.mediaId, item: c.item);
+  }
+
+  /// "Clear": hides the continuation of what plays now (and its next
+  /// episode does not come up by itself).
+  void clearContinuation() {
+    final id = coord.serverState.peek()?.mediaId;
+    if (id != null) _hiddenFor.value = id;
+    if (coord.autoAdvance.peek() != null) coord.cancelAutoAdvance();
+  }
+
+  /// The continuation applies to [mediaId]: nothing is queued and it was
+  /// not cleared.
+  bool continuationShown(int mediaId) =>
+      (coord.serverState.peek()?.queue.isEmpty ?? true) && _hiddenFor.peek() != mediaId;
+
+  /// [continuation] unless cleared for the media playing.
+  late final Computed<List<EpisodeLink>> shownContinuation = computed(() {
+    final id = coord.serverState.value?.mediaId;
+    return id != null && _hiddenFor.value == id ? const <EpisodeLink>[] : continuation.value;
+  });
+
+  // --------------------------------------------------------- per state
+
+  void _onState(StateBroadcast r) {
+    _lastState = r;
+    _prune(r);
+    final queue = r.queue;
+    final play = r.queuePlay;
+    if (play != null) {
+      final item = queue.where((q) => q.id == play).firstOrNull;
+      if (item != null) _bringUp(item, r);
+    }
+    final finished = r.transport == 'finished';
+    if (queue.isNotEmpty && r.media == null) {
+      // Nothing up yet: the first item goes up at once.
+      _bringUp(queue.first, r);
+    } else if (finished && queue.isNotEmpty) {
+      _atEnd(r);
+    } else {
+      if (countdown.peek() != null) _stopCountdown();
+      if (!finished) _cancelledFor = -1;
+    }
+    _warm(r);
+  }
+
+  /// Forgets what no longer matters: performing marks after a minute (a
+  /// swap that never landed may be tried again), local picks no longer
+  /// queued.
+  void _prune(StateBroadcast r) {
+    final now = DateTime.now();
+    _performing.removeWhere((_, at) => now.difference(at) > const Duration(minutes: 1));
+    final keys = {for (final q in r.queue) q.key};
+    _local.removeWhere((k, v) => !keys.contains(k) && now.difference(v.at) > const Duration(minutes: 1));
+    final ids = {for (final q in r.queue) q.id};
+    _skipped.removeWhere((id) => !ids.contains(id));
+  }
+
+  /// [item] should go up now: by this app when it is the one that can;
+  /// nobody can: the lowest member takes it off with the reason.
+  void _bringUp(QueueItem item, StateBroadcast r) {
+    final perf = queuePerformer(item, r.members);
+    if (perf.id == null) {
+      final why = perf.why;
+      if (why != null && queueJanitor(r.members) == _me && _skipped.add(item.id)) {
+        coord.connection.sendQueue(QueueIntent.remove(item.id, why: why));
+      }
+      return;
+    }
+    if (perf.id == _me) _perform(item);
+  }
+
+  /// The media finished with Up next waiting: the card, and with
+  /// auto-advance on the countdown, for its first item.
+  void _atEnd(StateBroadcast r) {
+    // Up next goes before the next episode, even one already counting.
+    if (coord.autoAdvance.peek() != null) coord.cancelAutoAdvance();
+    final head = r.queue.first;
+    final perf = queuePerformer(head, r.members);
+    if (perf.id == null && perf.why != null) {
+      // Taken off by [_bringUp]'s rule; the next state shows the next one.
+      _bringUp(head, r);
+      return;
+    }
+    final c = countdown.peek();
+    if (c != null && c.mediaId == r.mediaId) {
+      if (c.item.id != head.id || c.item.thumb != head.thumb) {
+        countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: c.mediaId, item: head, secondsLeft: c.secondsLeft);
+      }
+      return;
+    }
+    final auto = AppSettings.instance.autoAdvance.peek() && _cancelledFor != r.mediaId;
+    countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: r.mediaId, item: head, secondsLeft: auto ? autoAdvanceSecs : null);
+    _timer?.cancel();
+    _timer = auto ? Timer.periodic(const Duration(seconds: 1), (_) => _tick()) : null;
+  }
+
+  void _tick() {
+    final c = countdown.peek();
+    final r = coord.serverState.peek();
+    final left = c?.secondsLeft;
+    if (c == null || left == null || r == null || r.mediaId != c.mediaId || r.transport != 'finished') {
+      _stopCountdown();
+      return;
+    }
+    if (left > 1) {
+      countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: c.mediaId, item: c.item, secondsLeft: left - 1);
+      return;
+    }
+    _timer?.cancel();
+    _timer = null;
+    _cancelledFor = c.mediaId;
+    countdown.value = UpNextCountdown(mediaId: c.mediaId, item: c.item);
+    // Decided on the latest state: only the app that can puts it up.
+    final head = r.queue.firstOrNull;
+    if (head != null && queuePerformer(head, r.members).id == _me) _perform(head);
+  }
+
+  void _stopCountdown() {
+    _timer?.cancel();
+    _timer = null;
+    countdown.value = null;
+  }
+
+  /// Puts [item] up from here (once per item while it is in flight).
+  /// When it cannot play after all, it is taken off with the reason.
+  void _perform(QueueItem item) {
+    if (_performing.containsKey(item.id)) return;
+    _performing[item.id] = DateTime.now();
+    unawaited(() async {
+      String? error;
+      try {
+        error = await _swapTo(item);
+      } catch (e) {
+        error = '$e';
+      }
+      if (error != null) {
+        debugPrint('queue: ${item.id} cannot go up: $error');
+        coord.connection.sendQueue(QueueIntent.remove(item.id, why: "couldn't play it ($error)"));
+      }
+    }());
+  }
+
+  Future<String?> _swapTo(QueueItem item) async {
+    switch (item.how) {
+      case QueueHow.jellyfin:
+        final ref = item.media.jellyfin;
+        final pick = ref == null ? null : pickForRef(coord.jellyfin, ref);
+        if (pick == null) return 'no Jellyfin account here for it';
+        coord.swapJellyfin(pick, queueId: item.id);
+        return null;
+      case QueueHow.direct:
+        final url = item.media.url;
+        if (url == null) return 'no link';
+        // Each viewer opens it: one computer's probe does not decide.
+        return coord.swapLink(url, relay: LinkRelay.direct, anyway: true, queueId: item.id);
+      case QueueHow.server:
+        coord.swapQueued(HelloMedia(name: item.title, size: 0, duration: 0, relay: const MediaRelay(fetch: true)),
+            item.id,
+            art: thumbs.bytesFor(item.thumb));
+        return null;
+      case QueueHow.through:
+      case QueueHow.file:
+        final local = _local[item.key];
+        if (local == null) return "it isn't on this computer any more";
+        // Only this app can pass it on, and a member sitting out has
+        // nothing open: back first.
+        if (coord.selfOut.peek()) coord.joinBack();
+        return coord.swapPicked(local.pick, queueId: item.id);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // ------------------------------------------------------------ warming
+
+  /// How long a warm result is kept, when it is resolved again, and when a
+  /// failed one is tried again.
+  static const _warmKeep = Duration(minutes: 35);
+  static const _warmRefresh = Duration(minutes: 30);
+  static const _warmRetry = Duration(minutes: 2);
+
+  String _warmKey = '';
+  String? _warmUrl;
+  Timer? _warmTimer;
+  int _warmGen = 0;
+  // What the preload player should hold once the media playing has
+  // started (null: nothing); [_preloadFresh]: open it again (a link's
+  // refresh).
+  ({String url, Map<String, String>? headers})? _preloadWant;
+  bool _preloadFresh = false;
+  String _preloadKey = '';
+  bool _preloadBusy = false;
+  bool _preloadOk = true;
+  int _preloadGen = 0;
+  StateBroadcast? _lastState;
+
+  bool _ownAccount(String serverId) =>
+      coord.jellyfin.account(serverId) != null && coord.jellyfin.statusOf(serverId) != JellyfinAccountStatus.expired;
+
+  /// What this app gets ready: Up next's first item, else (Up next empty)
+  /// the first continuation episode (only here when this app plays the
+  /// series with its own account). Every app does, each its own copy (see
+  /// [_WarmTarget]); while sitting out only the probe of a link this app
+  /// puts up (its swap reads it). Null: nothing.
+  _WarmTarget? _warmTarget(StateBroadcast? r) {
+    final t = _warmTargetHere(r);
+    if (t == null || !coord.selfOut.peek()) return t;
+    return t.probe == null ? null : _WarmTarget(t.id, probe: t.probe);
+  }
+
+  _WarmTarget? _warmTargetHere(StateBroadcast? r) {
+    if (r == null) return null;
+    final head = r.queue.firstOrNull;
+    if (head != null) {
+      final performer = queuePerformer(head, r.members).id == _me;
+      final local = _local[head.key]?.pick;
+      // The server's warm relay of the item, once bytes can flow: what
+      // everyone without their own copy preloads.
+      final relay = head.media.relay;
+      final warmUrl = relay != null && relay.live ? coord.warmRelayUrl(head, relay) : null;
+      switch (head.how) {
+        case QueueHow.jellyfin:
+          final ref = head.media.jellyfin;
+          if (ref == null) return null;
+          if (_ownAccount(ref.serverId)) return _WarmTarget(head.id, ref: ref);
+          // No account here: the server's login passes it on (`/j`), else
+          // the warm relay a member with an account feeds.
+          final open = r.relayNext ? coord.jellyfinRelayUrl(ref) : warmUrl;
+          return open == null ? null : _WarmTarget(head.id, open: open);
+        case QueueHow.direct:
+          final url = head.media.url;
+          if (url == null) return null;
+          return _WarmTarget(head.id, probe: performer ? url : null, open: url);
+        case QueueHow.through:
+          // Only its adder has the link (and feeds the warm relay).
+          if (!performer) return warmUrl == null ? null : _WarmTarget(head.id, open: warmUrl);
+          final url = local is LinkMedia ? local.url : null;
+          return _WarmTarget(head.id, probe: url, open: url);
+        case QueueHow.file:
+          if (!performer) return warmUrl == null ? null : _WarmTarget(head.id, open: warmUrl);
+          // The host's own file plays from its `/m` URL once it is up.
+          return _WarmTarget(head.id, open: local is FileMedia && coord.hostFile == null ? local.path : null);
+        case QueueHow.server:
+          // The server fetches it into its warm relay; everyone preloads that.
+          if (warmUrl != null) return _WarmTarget(head.id, open: warmUrl);
+          return performer ? _WarmTarget(head.id) : null;
+      }
+    }
+    final next = shownContinuation.peek().firstOrNull;
+    if (next == null) return null;
+    return _WarmTarget('next:${next.item.id}', ref: mediaForPick(next.pick).jellyfin);
+  }
+
+  /// Keeps the one item that plays next ready on this app, so a skip or
+  /// the end of what plays starts it at once: a link probed when this app
+  /// puts it up (`AppYtDlp.probe`, kept while it stays first), a Jellyfin
+  /// item resolved with this app's account
+  /// ([SessionCoordinator.warmJellyfin]), and then opened in the hidden
+  /// preload player ([SessionCoordinator.preloadMedia]) once the media
+  /// playing has started. Done as soon as it is first, again before that
+  /// runs out, dropped when it is no longer first.
+  void _warm(StateBroadcast? r) {
+    _feedWarm(r);
+    final t = _warmTarget(r);
+    final key = t?.key ?? '';
+    if (key != _warmKey) {
+      _dropWarm(r);
+      _warmKey = key;
+      if (t == null) {
+        if (warm.peek() != null) warm.value = null;
+      } else if (t.empty) {
+        warm.value = (id: t.id, state: WarmState.ready);
+      } else {
+        warm.value = (id: t.id, state: WarmState.warming);
+        _resolveWarm(t, fresh: false);
+      }
+    }
+    _syncPreload(r);
+  }
+
+  // The warm relay this app feeds (`<queue id>|<token>`), started once.
+  String _fedWarm = '';
+
+  /// Feeds the server's warm relay of Up next's first item from here when
+  /// it names this member as its source (a link passed on, a file), or a
+  /// Jellyfin item this app puts up with its own account when the server
+  /// asks for a source; see [SessionCoordinator.feedWarm]. The server
+  /// drops the relay (and with it the source) once the item is no longer
+  /// first.
+  void _feedWarm(StateBroadcast? r) {
+    final head = r?.queue.firstOrNull;
+    final relay = head?.media.relay;
+    if (r == null || head == null || relay == null || relay.fetch) return;
+    final key = '${head.id}|${coord.connection.token}';
+    if (key == _fedWarm) return;
+    switch (head.how) {
+      case QueueHow.through:
+      case QueueHow.file:
+        if (relay.source != _me) return;
+        final pick = _local[head.key]?.pick;
+        if (pick is FileMedia) {
+          _fedWarm = key;
+          coord.feedWarm(head.id, RelayMedia.single(FileRelayBytes(File(pick.path))));
+        } else if (pick is LinkMedia) {
+          _fedWarm = key;
+          unawaited(() async {
+            try {
+              // The probe [_resolveWarm] keeps: no second yt-dlp run.
+              final probe = await coord.ytDlp.probe(pick.url, keep: _warmKeep).timeout(const Duration(seconds: 60));
+              final y = await coord.ytDlp.ytDlp;
+              if (_fedWarm != key) return;
+              coord.feedWarm(head.id, LinkRelayMedia(Uri.parse(pick.url), ytDlp: y, probe: probe));
+            } catch (e) {
+              debugPrint('queue: feeding ${head.id}: $e');
+            }
+          }());
+        }
+      case QueueHow.jellyfin:
+        final ref = head.media.jellyfin;
+        if (ref == null || (relay.source.isNotEmpty && relay.source != _me)) return;
+        if (queuePerformer(head, r.members).id != _me) return;
+        // Resolved with this app's account by [_resolveWarm].
+        final w = coord.warmJellyfin;
+        if (w == null || !sameJellyfinItem(w.ref, ref)) return;
+        _fedWarm = key;
+        coord.feedWarm(
+            head.id, RelayMedia.single(HttpRelayBytes(Uri.parse(w.plan.url), headers: w.plan.headers)));
+      case QueueHow.direct:
+      case QueueHow.server:
+        return;
+    }
+  }
+
+  void _dropWarm(StateBroadcast? r) {
+    _warmTimer?.cancel();
+    _warmTimer = null;
+    _warmGen++;
+    _preloadWant = null;
+    final url = _warmUrl;
+    _warmUrl = null;
+    if (url != null) coord.ytDlp.release(url);
+    // Kept while it is what just went up: that open takes it.
+    final w = coord.warmJellyfin;
+    if (w != null && !sameJellyfinItem(w.ref, refOfStateMedia(r?.media))) coord.warmJellyfin = null;
+  }
+
+  void _resolveWarm(_WarmTarget t, {required bool fresh}) {
+    final gen = ++_warmGen;
+    unawaited(() async {
+      var ok = true;
+      ({String url, Map<String, String>? headers})? open;
+      try {
+        final probe = t.probe, ref = t.ref, url = t.open;
+        if (probe != null) {
+          _warmUrl = probe;
+          final p = await coord.ytDlp.probe(probe, keep: _warmKeep, fresh: fresh).timeout(const Duration(seconds: 60));
+          ok = p.problem == null;
+        }
+        if (ref != null) {
+          final plan = await resolveJellyfinRef(coord.jellyfin, ref, relay: false, relayUrl: null);
+          if (gen != _warmGen) return;
+          ok = plan is OwnPlay;
+          if (plan is OwnPlay) {
+            coord.warmJellyfin = (ref: ref, plan: plan, until: DateTime.now().add(_warmKeep));
+            open = (url: plan.url, headers: plan.headers);
+            _feedWarm(coord.serverState.peek());
+          }
+        } else if (url != null && ok) {
+          open = (url: url, headers: null);
+        }
+      } catch (e) {
+        ok = false;
+        debugPrint('queue: getting ${t.id} ready: $e');
+      }
+      if (gen != _warmGen) return;
+      _preloadWant = ok ? open : null;
+      // A refresh opens a link again (a page's stream URLs expire); the
+      // same Jellyfin stream stays as it is.
+      _preloadFresh = fresh && ok && t.ref == null && open != null;
+      final waits = ok && open != null && coord.playback.preloadEnabled;
+      warm.value = (id: t.id, state: !ok ? WarmState.failed : (waits ? WarmState.warming : WarmState.ready));
+      _syncPreload(coord.serverState.peek());
+      _warmTimer = Timer(ok ? _warmRefresh : _warmRetry, () => _resolveWarm(t, fresh: true));
+    }());
+  }
+
+  /// Puts [_preloadWant] in the preload player, or drops what it holds;
+  /// only once the media playing has started (its own open goes first,
+  /// and a preload a swap is about to take is never replaced before), at
+  /// once while sitting out (nothing preloads then).
+  void _syncPreload(StateBroadcast? r) {
+    // The newest state seen here: the coordinator's lags behind while the
+    // same `state` is still being handed to it.
+    final seen = _lastState;
+    if (r == null || (seen != null && seen.mediaId > r.mediaId)) r = seen;
+    if (r == null) return;
+    final out = coord.selfOut.peek();
+    if (!out && r.media != null && coord.settledMediaId.peek() != r.mediaId) return;
+    final want = out ? null : _preloadWant;
+    final playback = coord.playback;
+    if (want == null) {
+      _preloadKey = '';
+      _preloadGen++;
+      if (playback.preloadUrl != null) unawaited(playback.dropPreload());
+      return;
+    }
+    if (!playback.preloadEnabled) return;
+    final key = '${want.url}|${want.headers}';
+    final fresh = _preloadFresh;
+    // Asked for already: in flight, there, or failed (tried again with the
+    // next refresh). One that went away (Reload video) is asked again.
+    if (!fresh && key == _preloadKey && (_preloadBusy || !_preloadOk || playback.preloadUrl == want.url)) return;
+    _preloadFresh = false;
+    _preloadKey = key;
+    _preloadBusy = true;
+    final gen = ++_preloadGen;
+    final id = warm.peek()?.id;
+    unawaited(coord.preloadMedia(want.url, headers: want.headers, fresh: fresh).then((ok) {
+      if (gen != _preloadGen) return;
+      _preloadBusy = false;
+      _preloadOk = ok;
+      // A preload that fails leaves the usual open: nothing to say.
+      if (!ok) debugPrint('queue: preload of $id failed');
+      final w = warm.peek();
+      if (w != null && w.id == id && w.state == WarmState.warming) {
+        warm.value = (id: w.id, state: WarmState.ready);
+      }
+    }));
+  }
+
+  // -------------------------------------------------------- continuation
+
+  /// The next few episodes after the one playing (own account only).
+  Future<void> _loadContinuation(EpisodeLink? next, JellyfinPlan? plan) async {
+    if (next == null || plan is! OwnPlay) {
+      _continuationFor = '';
+      if (continuation.peek().isNotEmpty) continuation.value = const [];
+      return;
+    }
+    final key = '${plan.account.serverId}/${next.item.id}';
+    if (key == _continuationFor) return;
+    _continuationFor = key;
+    continuation.value = [next];
+    final seriesId = next.item.seriesId;
+    if (seriesId == null) return;
+    try {
+      final list = await coord.jellyfin.cached(
+          plan.account.serverId, 'episodes:$seriesId', () => plan.client.episodes(seriesId));
+      if (_continuationFor != key) return;
+      final more = [next];
+      var at = next.item;
+      while (more.length < 4) {
+        final after = episodeAfter(list, at.id);
+        if (after == null) break;
+        more.add(EpisodeLink(after, pickFor(plan.account, after)));
+        at = after;
+      }
+      continuation.value = more;
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugPrint('queue: continuation of $seriesId: $e');
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/// What [QueueController] gets ready for one item on this app: [probe] a
+/// link (the app that puts it up), resolve [ref] with this app's own
+/// account, and preload [open] (or the resolved stream). None of it:
+/// nothing to do here, and it is ready ([empty]).
+class _WarmTarget {
+  final String id;
+  final String? probe;
+  final JellyfinRef? ref;
+  final String? open;
+  const _WarmTarget(this.id, {this.probe, this.ref, this.open});
+
+  bool get empty => probe == null && ref == null && open == null;
+  String get key => '$id|$probe|$open|${ref?.serverId}/${ref?.itemId}/${ref?.mediaSourceId}';
+}

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+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart' show compareMemberIds;
+
+// Who puts an Up next item up. Pure: only what every client sees in
+// `state` decides, so all clients agree without a wire message (like the
+// Jellyfin auto-advance swapper).
+
+/// Who puts [item] up: [id] a member id; null with [why] when nobody here
+/// can (the item is skipped), null without [why] when nobody is around
+/// right now (nothing happens).
+typedef QueuePerformer = ({String? id, String? why});
+
+/// - A link passed on by its adder, or the adder's file: only the adder
+///   (their app has the file, the cookies). Gone: skipped.
+/// - Jellyfin: the adder when it plays that server with its own account,
+///   else the lowest member id that does (`jf[serverId] == true`, not
+///   stale, not sitting out). Nobody: skipped.
+/// - A link everyone opens, or one the server fetches: the adder when
+///   present (not stale or sitting out), else the lowest such member id.
+QueuePerformer queuePerformer(QueueItem item, List<MemberView> members) {
+  MemberView? adder;
+  for (final m in members) {
+    if (m.id == item.by) adder = m;
+  }
+  bool active(MemberView m) => !m.stale && !m.out;
+  if (item.how.adderOnly) {
+    if (adder == null) return (id: null, why: '${_name(item)} left');
+    return (id: adder.id, why: null);
+  }
+  final ref = item.media.jellyfin;
+  if (item.how == QueueHow.jellyfin && ref != null) {
+    bool can(MemberView m) => active(m) && m.jf[ref.serverId] == true;
+    if (adder != null && can(adder)) return (id: adder.id, why: null);
+    final id = autoAdvanceLowest(members.where(can));
+    return id == null ? (id: null, why: 'nobody here has that Jellyfin server') : (id: id, why: null);
+  }
+  if (adder != null && active(adder)) return (id: adder.id, why: null);
+  return (id: autoAdvanceLowest(members.where(active)), why: null);
+}
+
+String _name(QueueItem item) => item.byName.isEmpty ? 'who added it' : item.byName;
+
+/// The lowest member id of [members] ("m2" before "m10"), or null.
+String? autoAdvanceLowest(Iterable<MemberView> members) {
+  final ids = [for (final m in members) m.id]..sort(compareMemberIds);
+  return ids.isEmpty ? null : ids.first;
+}
+
+/// Who takes an item nobody can put up off the queue (`remove` with why):
+/// the lowest member id that is not stale.
+String? queueJanitor(List<MemberView> members) => autoAdvanceLowest(members.where((m) => !m.stale));
+
+/// How [item] plays, in a few words for its row: "through Foxyz" (you:
+/// "through you"), "server fetches", "everyone fetches", "Jellyfin",
+/// "Foxyz's file".
+String queueHowLabel(QueueItem item, {required String selfId}) {
+  final mine = item.by == selfId && selfId.isNotEmpty;
+  final who = mine ? 'you' : _name(item);
+  return switch (item.how) {
+    QueueHow.through => 'through $who',
+    QueueHow.file => mine ? 'your file' : "$who's file",
+    QueueHow.server => 'server fetches',
+    QueueHow.direct => 'everyone fetches',
+    QueueHow.jellyfin => 'Jellyfin',
+  };
+}
+
+/// "1:23:45" / "23:45" for [secs]; empty when unknown.
+String queueClock(double secs) {
+  if (secs <= 0) return '';
+  final s = secs.round();
+  final h = s ~/ 3600, m = (s % 3600) ~/ 60, r = s % 60;
+  String two(int v) => v.toString().padLeft(2, '0');
+  return h > 0 ? '$h:${two(m)}:${two(r)}' : '$m:${two(r)}';
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/schedule/anilist.dart

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import 'dart:ui' show Color;
 import 'package:path_provider/path_provider.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
-import '../update/updater.dart' show appVersion;
 
 // AniList airing schedule (public GraphQL, no login): every episode airing
 // in a time range, with covers, banners and popularity; and a title search

apps/desktop/lib/src/schedule/animeflow.dart

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import 'dart:io';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
-import '../update/updater.dart' show appVersion;
 
 // AnimeFlow app API: what the media server tracks, has, downloads and was
 // asked for. Authenticated with the user's own Jellyfin access token
@@ -148,13 +147,17 @@ class AnimeFlowLibraryItem {
   final String name;
   /// Set when AnimeFlow tracks it.
   final int? seriesId;
-  /// AniList entry per TVDB season.
+  /// AniList entry per TVDB season (the first, when a season spans more).
   final Map<int, int> anilistIds;
+  /// Every AniList entry per season with its episode run (`anilist_map`):
+  /// a season AniList splits (one cour as two entries) has several rows.
+  final List<AniListRun> anilistMap;
   const AnimeFlowLibraryItem({
     required this.jellyfinSeriesId,
     required this.name,
     this.seriesId,
     this.anilistIds = const {},
+    this.anilistMap = const [],
   });
 
   static AnimeFlowLibraryItem fromJson(Map j) => AnimeFlowLibraryItem(
@@ -165,15 +168,38 @@ class AnimeFlowLibraryItem {
           for (final e in ((j['anilist_ids'] as Map?) ?? const {}).entries)
             if (int.tryParse('${e.key}') case final season? when _int(e.value) != null) season: _int(e.value)!,
         },
+        anilistMap: [
+          for (final r in (j['anilist_map'] as List?) ?? const [])
+            if (r is Map && _int(r['season']) != null && _int(r['anilist_id']) != null)
+              AniListRun(
+                season: _int(r['season'])!,
+                anilistId: _int(r['anilist_id'])!,
+                firstEpisode: _int(r['first_episode']) ?? 1,
+                offset: _int(r['offset']) ?? 0,
+              ),
+        ],
       );
 }
 
+/// One AniList entry's run within a TVDB season: TVDB episode e (from
+/// [firstEpisode] to the next run of that season) is AniList episode
+/// e - [offset].
+class AniListRun {
+  final int season;
+  final int anilistId;
+  final int firstEpisode;
+  final int offset;
+  const AniListRun({required this.season, required this.anilistId, this.firstEpisode = 1, this.offset = 0});
+}
+
 class AnimeFlowEpisode {
   /// 0 = specials.
   final int season;
   final int episode;
   final int? absolute;
   final String? title;
+  /// Date-only: midnight Japan time of the broadcast day. Compare it as a
+  /// Japan day (`sameAirDay` in schedule_model.dart), never a local one.
   final DateTime? airDate;
   /// The AniList entry of this episode's season (one AnimeFlow series may
   /// span several AniList entries).
@@ -184,8 +210,11 @@ class AnimeFlowEpisode {
   final EpisodeStatus status;
   /// 0..1, only while downloading.
   final double? progress;
-  /// Only when failed.
+  /// Why it failed; for a missing one with rejected releases, a
+  /// ready-to-show sentence ("2 release(s) found, rejected: …").
   final String? reason;
+  /// Last search for a monitored, not yet downloaded episode.
+  final DateTime? lastSearchedAt;
 
   const AnimeFlowEpisode({
     required this.season,
@@ -198,6 +227,7 @@ class AnimeFlowEpisode {
     required this.status,
     this.progress,
     this.reason,
+    this.lastSearchedAt,
   });
 
   static AnimeFlowEpisode fromJson(Map j) => AnimeFlowEpisode(
@@ -206,11 +236,14 @@ class AnimeFlowEpisode {
         absolute: _int(j['absolute']),
         title: _str(j['episode_title']),
         airDate: _time(j['air_date']),
-        anilistId: _int(j['anilist_id']),
+        // The episode's own entry (a split season rolls into its sequel),
+        // else the series' one.
+        anilistId: _int(j['episode_anilist_id']) ?? _int(j['anilist_id']),
         anilistEpisode: _int(j['anilist_episode']),
         status: EpisodeStatus.parse(j['status']),
         progress: (j['progress'] as num?)?.toDouble(),
         reason: _str(j['reason']),
+        lastSearchedAt: _time(j['last_searched_at']),
       );
 }
 
@@ -222,7 +255,6 @@ class AnimeFlowScheduleItem {
   final int? anidbId;
   final int? tvdbId;
   final String? jellyfinSeriesId;
-  final bool followed;
 
   const AnimeFlowScheduleItem({
     required this.episode,
@@ -231,7 +263,6 @@ class AnimeFlowScheduleItem {
     this.anidbId,
     this.tvdbId,
     this.jellyfinSeriesId,
-    this.followed = false,
   });
 
   static AnimeFlowScheduleItem fromJson(Map j) => AnimeFlowScheduleItem(
@@ -241,7 +272,6 @@ class AnimeFlowScheduleItem {
         anidbId: _int(j['anidb_id']),
         tvdbId: _int(j['tvdb_id']),
         jellyfinSeriesId: _str(j['jellyfin_series_id']),
-        followed: j['followed'] == true,
       );
 }
 
@@ -270,7 +300,6 @@ class AnimeFlowSeries {
   final String? jellyfinSeriesId;
   final SeriesState state;
   final bool monitored;
-  final bool followed;
   final int episodesTotal;
   final int episodesAvailable;
   final DateTime? nextAirDate;
@@ -286,7 +315,6 @@ class AnimeFlowSeries {
     this.jellyfinSeriesId,
     this.state = SeriesState.releasing,
     this.monitored = false,
-    this.followed = false,
     this.episodesTotal = 0,
     this.episodesAvailable = 0,
     this.nextAirDate,
@@ -302,7 +330,6 @@ class AnimeFlowSeries {
         jellyfinSeriesId: _str(j['jellyfin_series_id']),
         state: SeriesState.parse(j['state']),
         monitored: j['monitored'] == true,
-        followed: j['followed'] == true,
         episodesTotal: _int(j['episodes_total']) ?? 0,
         episodesAvailable: _int(j['episodes_available']) ?? 0,
         nextAirDate: _time(j['next_air_date']),
@@ -658,10 +685,6 @@ class AnimeFlowClient {
     return AnimeFlowSeries.fromJson(j is Map ? j : const {});
   }
 
-  /// Follow (or unfollow) a series [view].
-  Future<void> setFollowed(int seriesId, bool followed) =>
-      _call(followed ? 'PUT' : 'DELETE', '/series/$seriesId/follow');
-
   /// Titles that can be requested [request].
   Future<List<AnimeFlowSearchHit>> search(String q) async => [
         for (final h in _items(await _call('GET', '/search', query: {'q': q}))) AnimeFlowSearchHit.fromJson(h),

apps/desktop/lib/src/schedule/schedule_model.dart

@@ -12,14 +12,25 @@ enum ScheduleStatus {
   available,
   downloading,
   upcoming,
+  /// AnimeFlow's `missing`: aired, monitored, no release grabbed yet;
+  /// AnimeFlow grabs it by itself once one appears (nothing to request).
+  /// Also an aired episode of a tracked series AnimeFlow has no row for.
   missing,
   failed,
+  /// AnimeFlow does not monitor it: the only status worth a Request.
   unmonitored,
   /// AnimeFlow does not track this series (or is unreachable).
   notTracked,
-  /// Not tracked by AnimeFlow, but the series is on Jellyfin (`/library`):
+  /// Not tracked by AnimeFlow, the series is on Jellyfin (`/library`) and
-  /// the episode may be there; Put it up finds out.
+  /// so is the episode ([confirmOnJellyfin]; [matchSchedule] alone sets
-  inLibrary;
+  /// it from the series).
+  inLibrary,
+  /// Not tracked, the series is on Jellyfin, the episode aired but is not
+  /// there yet.
+  notOnJellyfin,
+  /// Not tracked, the series is on Jellyfin, the episode aired; whether
+  /// it is there is unknown (no linked account, lookup failed).
+  aired;
 
   static ScheduleStatus of(EpisodeStatus s) => switch (s) {
         EpisodeStatus.available => available,
@@ -37,17 +48,26 @@ class ScheduleEntry {
   final ScheduleStatus status;
   /// 0..1 while downloading.
   final double? progress;
-  /// Why it failed.
+  /// Why it failed, or (missing) why the releases found were rejected.
   final String? reason;
+  /// AnimeFlow's last search for it (missing).
+  final DateTime? lastSearchedAt;
   /// AnimeFlow tracks the series.
   final bool tracked;
-  final bool followed;
+  /// AnimeFlow's series id (requests).
-  /// AnimeFlow's series id (follow, requests).
   final int? seriesId;
-  /// The AnimeFlow season of the matched episode (requests).
+  /// The AnimeFlow season of the matched episode (requests); untracked
+  /// on Jellyfin: the TVDB season of the AniList entry.
   final int? season;
+  /// The TVDB episode number in [season]: tracked, AnimeFlow's own;
+  /// untracked on Jellyfin, AniList episode + the `anilist_map` run's
+  /// offset.
+  final int? jellyfinEpisode;
   /// Play target once available.
   final String? jellyfinSeriesId;
+  /// This user's progress on the Jellyfin episode ([confirmOnJellyfin]);
+  /// null when it is not on Jellyfin or was not looked up.
+  final EpisodeWatch? watch;
   /// The series is on Jellyfin (tracked or not).
   bool get onJellyfin => jellyfinSeriesId != null;
 
@@ -56,13 +76,29 @@ class ScheduleEntry {
     required this.status,
     this.progress,
     this.reason,
+    this.lastSearchedAt,
     this.tracked = false,
-    this.followed = false,
     this.seriesId,
     this.season,
+    this.jellyfinEpisode,
     this.jellyfinSeriesId,
+    this.watch,
   });
 
+  ScheduleEntry copyWith({ScheduleStatus? status, EpisodeWatch? watch}) => ScheduleEntry(
+        airing: airing,
+        status: status ?? this.status,
+        progress: progress,
+        reason: reason,
+        lastSearchedAt: lastSearchedAt,
+        tracked: tracked,
+        seriesId: seriesId,
+        season: season,
+        jellyfinEpisode: jellyfinEpisode,
+        jellyfinSeriesId: jellyfinSeriesId,
+        watch: watch ?? this.watch,
+      );
+
   @override
   String toString() => 'ScheduleEntry(${airing.anilistId}#${airing.episode} $status)';
 }
@@ -73,16 +109,63 @@ ScheduleEntry untrackedEntry(Airing a, DateTime now) => ScheduleEntry(
       status: a.airingAt.isAfter(now) ? ScheduleStatus.upcoming : ScheduleStatus.notTracked,
     );
 
-String _day(DateTime d) {
+/// This user's state of a Jellyfin episode (its `UserData`).
-  final l = d.toLocal();
+class EpisodeWatch {
-  return '${l.year}-${l.month}-${l.day}';
+  final bool played;
+  /// 0..1: the resume point of a partly watched episode (0 = none).
+  final double progress;
+  const EpisodeWatch({this.played = false, this.progress = 0});
+
+  @override
+  bool operator ==(Object other) => other is EpisodeWatch && other.played == played && other.progress == progress;
+  @override
+  int get hashCode => Object.hash(played, progress);
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'EpisodeWatch(${played ? 'played' : '$progress'})';
 }
 
+/// One episode Jellyfin has of a series, as the schedule needs it.
+class JellyfinEpisodeRef {
+  final int season;
+  final int episode;
+  /// Jellyfin's date-only premiere date.
+  final DateTime? premiere;
+  final EpisodeWatch watch;
+  const JellyfinEpisodeRef(this.season, this.episode, {this.premiere, this.watch = const EpisodeWatch()});
+}
+
+// Air dates (AnimeFlow's `air_date`, Jellyfin's premiere date) are
+// date-only: the Japanese broadcast day, sent as midnight Japan time (or
+// midnight UTC by older servers). Both land on the right day read as a
+// Japan (UTC+9, no DST) calendar day, never as a local one: midnight JST
+// is the evening before in Europe and America.
+const _jst = Duration(hours: 9);
+
+/// The Japan calendar day of [t].
+DateTime _jstDay(DateTime t) {
+  final j = t.toUtc().add(_jst);
+  return DateTime.utc(j.year, j.month, j.day);
+}
+
+String _dayKey(DateTime d) => '${d.year}-${d.month}-${d.day}';
+
+/// The Japan days whose air date fits a broadcast at [airingAt]: its own
+/// and, for a late-night slot (before 05:00 JST, "25:30"), the evening
+/// before, which listings often give.
+List<DateTime> _airDays(DateTime airingAt) {
+  final j = airingAt.toUtc().add(_jst);
+  final d = DateTime.utc(j.year, j.month, j.day);
+  return [d, if (j.hour < 5) DateTime.utc(j.year, j.month, j.day - 1)];
+}
+
+/// The date-only [airDate] is the broadcast day of [airingAt] (see
+/// [_airDays]).
+bool sameAirDay(DateTime airDate, DateTime airingAt) => _airDays(airingAt).contains(_jstDay(airDate));
+
 class _SeriesRef {
   final int seriesId;
   final String? jellyfinSeriesId;
-  bool followed;
+  _SeriesRef(this.seriesId, this.jellyfinSeriesId);
-  _SeriesRef(this.seriesId, this.jellyfinSeriesId, this.followed);
 }
 
 /// Merges AniList [airings] with AnimeFlow's [schedule] rows and tracked
@@ -98,51 +181,66 @@ List<ScheduleEntry> matchSchedule(
   DateTime? now,
 }) {
   final at = now ?? DateTime.now();
-  // AniList id -> (Jellyfin series, its TVDB season) from /library.
+  // AniList id -> (Jellyfin series, its TVDB season, TVDB - AniList
-  final lib = <int, (String, int)>{};
+  // episode offset) from /library.
+  final lib = <int, (String, int, int)>{};
   for (final item in library) {
     if (item.jellyfinSeriesId.isEmpty) continue;
+    for (final r in item.anilistMap) {
+      lib[r.anilistId] ??= (item.jellyfinSeriesId, r.season, r.offset);
+    }
     for (final e in item.anilistIds.entries) {
-      lib[e.value] ??= (item.jellyfinSeriesId, e.key);
+      lib[e.value] ??= (item.jellyfinSeriesId, e.key, 0);
     }
   }
   final refs = <int, _SeriesRef>{};
   for (final s in series) {
     final id = s.anilistId;
-    if (id != null) refs[id] ??= _SeriesRef(s.seriesId, s.jellyfinSeriesId, s.followed);
+    if (id != null) refs[id] ??= _SeriesRef(s.seriesId, s.jellyfinSeriesId);
   }
+  // AnimeFlow's AniList episode number wins outright: TVDB numbering runs
+  // on across split entries (JoJo S6E4 is "2nd & 3rd STAGE" ep 3), so a TVDB
+  // or absolute number, or an air day, is only a guess for AniList entries
+  // AnimeFlow gives no AniList numbers for.
+  final byAni = <String, AnimeFlowScheduleItem>{};
   final byEp = <String, AnimeFlowScheduleItem>{};
   final byAbs = <String, AnimeFlowScheduleItem>{};
   final byDay = <String, AnimeFlowScheduleItem>{};
+  final numbered = <int>{};
   for (final it in schedule) {
     final e = it.episode, id = e.anilistId;
     if (id == null) continue;
-    final ref = refs[id] ??= _SeriesRef(it.seriesId, it.jellyfinSeriesId, it.followed);
+    refs[id] ??= _SeriesRef(it.seriesId, it.jellyfinSeriesId);
-    if (it.followed) ref.followed = true;
+    if (e.anilistEpisode != null) {
-    // AnimeFlow's AniList episode number first: TVDB numbering can run on
+      numbered.add(id);
-    // across split cours.
+      byAni.putIfAbsent('$id#${e.anilistEpisode}', () => it);
-    if (e.anilistEpisode != null) byEp.putIfAbsent('$id#${e.anilistEpisode}', () => it);
+    }
     byEp.putIfAbsent('$id#${e.episode}', () => it);
     if (e.absolute != null) byAbs.putIfAbsent('$id#${e.absolute}', () => it);
-    if (e.airDate != null) byDay.putIfAbsent('$id@${_day(e.airDate!)}', () => it);
+    if (e.airDate != null) byDay.putIfAbsent('$id@${_dayKey(_jstDay(e.airDate!))}', () => it);
   }
   return [
     for (final a in airings)
       () {
         final id = a.anilistId;
         final ref = refs[id];
-        final it = byEp['$id#${a.episode}'] ?? byAbs['$id#${a.episode}'] ?? byDay['$id@${_day(a.airingAt)}'];
+        final it = numbered.contains(id)
+            ? byAni['$id#${a.episode}']
+            : byEp['$id#${a.episode}'] ??
+                byAbs['$id#${a.episode}'] ??
+                _airDays(a.airingAt).map((d) => byDay['$id@${_dayKey(d)}']).nonNulls.firstOrNull;
         if (it != null) {
           final e = it.episode;
           return ScheduleEntry(
             airing: a,
             status: ScheduleStatus.of(e.status),
             progress: e.status == EpisodeStatus.downloading ? e.progress : null,
-            reason: e.status == EpisodeStatus.failed ? e.reason : null,
+            reason: e.status == EpisodeStatus.failed || e.status == EpisodeStatus.missing ? e.reason : null,
+            lastSearchedAt: e.lastSearchedAt,
             tracked: true,
-            followed: it.followed || (ref?.followed ?? false),
             seriesId: it.seriesId,
             season: e.season,
+            jellyfinEpisode: e.episode,
             jellyfinSeriesId: it.jellyfinSeriesId ?? ref?.jellyfinSeriesId ?? lib[id]?.$1,
           );
         }
@@ -153,6 +251,7 @@ List<ScheduleEntry> matchSchedule(
             airing: a,
             status: a.airingAt.isAfter(at) ? ScheduleStatus.upcoming : ScheduleStatus.inLibrary,
             season: onJf.$2,
+            jellyfinEpisode: a.episode + onJf.$3,
             jellyfinSeriesId: onJf.$1,
           );
         }
@@ -160,7 +259,6 @@ List<ScheduleEntry> matchSchedule(
           airing: a,
           status: a.airingAt.isAfter(at) ? ScheduleStatus.upcoming : ScheduleStatus.missing,
           tracked: true,
-          followed: ref.followed,
           seriesId: ref.seriesId,
           jellyfinSeriesId: ref.jellyfinSeriesId ?? lib[id]?.$1,
         );
@@ -168,6 +266,46 @@ List<ScheduleEntry> matchSchedule(
   ];
 }
 
+/// The episodes [confirmOnJellyfin] looks up: on Jellyfin, untracked
+/// ([ScheduleStatus.inLibrary]) or available through AnimeFlow.
+bool needsJellyfinLookup(ScheduleEntry e) =>
+    e.jellyfinSeriesId != null && (e.status == ScheduleStatus.inLibrary || e.status == ScheduleStatus.available);
+
+/// Checks [matchSchedule]'s entries against the episodes Jellyfin has:
+/// [episodes] maps a Jellyfin series id to its episodes. An
+/// [ScheduleStatus.inLibrary] one found stays inLibrary, absent becomes
+/// [ScheduleStatus.notOnJellyfin], a series missing from [episodes] (not
+/// looked up) [ScheduleStatus.aired]. Found episodes (inLibrary or
+/// available) get this user's [ScheduleEntry.watch]: (season, episode),
+/// else the one premiered that day.
+List<ScheduleEntry> confirmOnJellyfin(List<ScheduleEntry> entries, Map<String, List<JellyfinEpisodeRef>> episodes) => [
+      for (final e in entries)
+        if (!needsJellyfinLookup(e))
+          e
+        else
+          switch ((episodes[e.jellyfinSeriesId], e.status)) {
+            (null, ScheduleStatus.inLibrary) => e.copyWith(status: ScheduleStatus.aired),
+            (null, _) => e,
+            (final have?, _) => switch (_episodeOf(have, e)) {
+                final x? => e.copyWith(watch: x.watch),
+                null when e.status == ScheduleStatus.inLibrary => e.copyWith(status: ScheduleStatus.notOnJellyfin),
+                null => e,
+              },
+          },
+    ];
+
+JellyfinEpisodeRef? _episodeOf(List<JellyfinEpisodeRef> have, ScheduleEntry e) {
+  final byNumber = have.where((x) => x.season == e.season && x.episode == e.jellyfinEpisode).firstOrNull;
+  if (byNumber != null || !e.tracked) return byNumber;
+  // AnimeFlow's numbering missed (specials, renumbered seasons): the
+  // episode premiered that day, when only one did.
+  return have.where((x) => x.premiere != null && sameAirDay(x.premiere!, e.airing.airingAt)).singleOrNull;
+}
+
+/// The episodes Jellyfin has of a series, as the linked account sees
+/// them; null when it cannot tell (no linked account for that server).
+typedef JellyfinEpisodeLookup = Future<List<JellyfinEpisodeRef>?> Function(String jellyfinSeriesId);
+
 /// One loaded window. Errors are display text; [entries] is empty only
 /// when AniList failed with nothing cached.
 class ScheduleSnapshot {
@@ -203,12 +341,16 @@ class ScheduleSnapshot {
 
 /// Loads AniList and AnimeFlow for a window and merges them.
 class ScheduleRepository {
-  ScheduleRepository({required this.aniList, this.animeFlow, DateTime Function()? now})
+  ScheduleRepository({required this.aniList, this.animeFlow, this.jellyfinEpisodes, DateTime Function()? now})
       : _now = now ?? DateTime.now;
 
   final AniListClient aniList;
   /// Null = not configured (AniList only).
   final AnimeFlowClient? animeFlow;
+  /// Confirms "on Jellyfin" and this user's watched state per episode
+  /// ([confirmOnJellyfin]); null = never confirmed (aired entries read
+  /// [ScheduleStatus.aired], nothing shows as watched).
+  final JellyfinEpisodeLookup? jellyfinEpisodes;
   final DateTime Function() _now;
 
   /// Last week's Monday 00:00 local .. 4 weeks later.
@@ -233,7 +375,8 @@ class ScheduleRepository {
     final flow = await flowF;
     final airings = [...ani.airings]..sort((a, b) => a.airingAt.compareTo(b.airingAt));
     final entries = flow.error == null
-        ? matchSchedule(airings, schedule: flow.schedule, series: flow.series, library: flow.library, now: now)
+        ? await _confirm(
+            matchSchedule(airings, schedule: flow.schedule, series: flow.series, library: flow.library, now: now))
         : [for (final a in airings) untrackedEntry(a, now)];
     return ScheduleSnapshot(
       from: start,
@@ -246,6 +389,27 @@ class ScheduleRepository {
     );
   }
 
+  /// Looks up the episodes of every series an entry on Jellyfin is on
+  /// ([needsJellyfinLookup]), in parallel, one request per series; a
+  /// failed or impossible lookup leaves that series out.
+  Future<List<ScheduleEntry>> _confirm(List<ScheduleEntry> entries) async {
+    final lookup = jellyfinEpisodes;
+    final ids = {
+      for (final e in entries)
+        if (needsJellyfinLookup(e)) e.jellyfinSeriesId!,
+    };
+    final found = <String, List<JellyfinEpisodeRef>>{};
+    if (lookup != null) {
+      await Future.wait([
+        for (final id in ids)
+          lookup(id).then((eps) {
+            if (eps != null) found[id] = eps;
+          }, onError: (_) {}),
+      ]);
+    }
+    return confirmOnJellyfin(entries, found);
+  }
+
   Future<({AnimeFlowMe? me, List<AnimeFlowScheduleItem> schedule, List<AnimeFlowSeries> series, List<AnimeFlowLibraryItem> library, Object? error})>
       _animeFlow(DateTime from, DateTime to, bool force) async {
     final c = animeFlow;

apps/desktop/lib/src/schedule/ui/schedule_actions.dart

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
-import '../../jellyfin/format.dart' show pickFor;
+import '../../jellyfin/format.dart' show pickFor, progressOf;
 import '../../screens/home/picked_media.dart';
 import '../anilist.dart';
 import '../animeflow.dart';
@@ -47,14 +47,9 @@ String friendlyError(Object e) => switch (e) {
   _ => '$e',
 };
 
-bool _sameDay(DateTime a, DateTime b) {
-  final x = a.toLocal(), y = b.toLocal();
-  return x.year == y.year && x.month == y.month && x.day == y.day;
-}
-
 /// AnimeFlow's episode for [e] (its season and numbering), from the
 /// series detail: same AniList id and episode, else absolute number, else
-/// the same air day. Null when the entry is not tracked or nothing fits.
+/// the same air day ([sameAirDay]). Null when the entry is not tracked or nothing fits.
 Future<AnimeFlowEpisode?> flowEpisodeFor(AnimeFlowClient client, ScheduleEntry e) async {
   final id = e.seriesId;
   if (id == null) return null;
@@ -63,7 +58,7 @@ Future<AnimeFlowEpisode?> flowEpisodeFor(AnimeFlowClient client, ScheduleEntry e
   final mine = eps.where((x) => x.anilistId == null || x.anilistId == a.anilistId).toList();
   return mine.where((x) => x.anilistId == a.anilistId && x.episode == a.episode).firstOrNull ??
       mine.where((x) => x.absolute == a.episode).firstOrNull ??
-      mine.where((x) => x.airDate != null && _sameDay(x.airDate!, a.airingAt)).firstOrNull;
+      mine.where((x) => x.airDate != null && sameAirDay(x.airDate!, a.airingAt)).firstOrNull;
 }
 
 /// The (season, episode) AnimeFlow uses for [e]; falls back to the
@@ -78,7 +73,7 @@ Future<({int season, int episode})> flowNumbering(AnimeFlowClient? client, Sched
     }
   }
   if (ep != null) return (season: ep.season, episode: ep.episode);
-  return (season: e.season ?? 1, episode: e.airing.episode);
+  return (season: e.season ?? 1, episode: e.jellyfinEpisode ?? e.airing.episode);
 }
 
 /// The AniDB id of an untracked AniList entry, from AnimeFlow's search:
@@ -112,6 +107,37 @@ JellyfinAccount? jellyfinAccountFor(JellyfinAccounts accounts, AnimeFlowClient?
   return accounts.defaultAccount;
 }
 
+/// The episodes Jellyfin has of [jellyfinSeriesId] (numbers, premiere
+/// date, this user's watched state), seen by the account AnimeFlow's ids
+/// belong to ([jellyfinAccountFor]): the user's own; null without a
+/// linked account. One request per series, memoised a few minutes
+/// ([JellyfinAccounts.cached]; a stop report drops it,
+/// [JellyfinAccounts.watched]).
+Future<List<JellyfinEpisodeRef>?> jellyfinScheduleEpisodes(
+  JellyfinAccounts accounts,
+  AnimeFlowClient? flow,
+  String jellyfinSeriesId,
+) async {
+  await accounts.ensureLoaded(validate: false);
+  final account = jellyfinAccountFor(accounts, flow);
+  final client = account == null ? null : accounts.clientFor(account.serverId);
+  if (account == null || client == null) return null;
+  return accounts.cached(
+    account.serverId,
+    'schedule-episodes:$jellyfinSeriesId',
+    () async => [
+      for (final x in await client.episodes(jellyfinSeriesId))
+        if (x.parentIndexNumber != null && x.indexNumber != null)
+          JellyfinEpisodeRef(
+            x.parentIndexNumber!,
+            x.indexNumber!,
+            premiere: x.premiereDate,
+            watch: EpisodeWatch(played: x.userData.played, progress: x.userData.played ? 0 : progressOf(x)),
+          ),
+    ],
+  );
+}
+
 /// The Jellyfin episode of an available [e] as a media pick. Throws
 /// [ScheduleActionException] (or a client error) when it cannot be found.
 Future<JellyfinMedia> resolveJellyfinEpisode(JellyfinAccounts accounts, AnimeFlowClient? flow, ScheduleEntry e) async {
@@ -134,7 +160,7 @@ Future<JellyfinMedia> resolveJellyfinEpisode(JellyfinAccounts accounts, AnimeFlo
   final a = e.airing;
   final item =
       eps.where((x) => x.parentIndexNumber == n.season && x.indexNumber == n.episode).firstOrNull ??
-      eps.where((x) => x.premiereDate != null && _sameDay(x.premiereDate!, a.airingAt)).singleOrNull ??
+      eps.where((x) => x.premiereDate != null && sameAirDay(x.premiereDate!, a.airingAt)).singleOrNull ??
       eps.where((x) => x.indexNumber == a.episode).singleOrNull;
   if (item == null) {
     throw ScheduleActionException('Episode ${a.episode} of ${a.title} is not on Jellyfin yet');

apps/desktop/lib/src/schedule/ui/schedule_card.dart

@@ -4,17 +4,17 @@ import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import '../schedule_model.dart';
 
 // One day of the Schedule board and its airing cards: cover poster on the
-// left (air time on it, download progress under it), title, episode and
+// left (air time on it, download progress or this user's watch progress
-// status on the right, one full-width action below. Compact mode is a
+// under it, a check once watched), title, episode and status on the
-// slim row.
+// right, one full-width action below. Compact mode is a slim row.
 
 /// What a card's action does, decided by the page.
 enum CardAction {
   none,
   putUp,
 
-  /// Available, but not in a server: shown disabled with a hint.
+  /// Available, nobody else watching (offline or solo): plays it here.
-  playOffline,
+  play,
   request,
   requestSeries,
   requested,
@@ -35,21 +35,55 @@ String countdownText(DateTime at, DateTime now) {
   return 'in ${d.inMinutes}m';
 }
 
+/// Aired, tracked, no release yet: AnimeFlow downloads it by itself.
+bool _waiting(ScheduleEntry e, DateTime now) =>
+    e.status == ScheduleStatus.missing ||
+    (e.status == ScheduleStatus.upcoming && e.tracked && !e.airing.airingAt.isAfter(now));
+
+const waitingHint = 'Aired in Japan; downloads automatically when a release appears';
+
+String _ago(DateTime t, DateTime now) {
+  final m = now.difference(t).inMinutes;
+  return m < 1 ? 'just now' : m < 60 ? '$m min ago' : '${m ~/ 60} h ago';
+}
+
 /// Status line: text, colour, icon.
-(String, Color, IconData) statusBadge(ScheduleEntry e, DateTime now) => switch (e.status) {
+(String, Color, IconData) statusBadge(ScheduleEntry e, DateTime now) => _waiting(e, now)
-  ScheduleStatus.available => ('on Jellyfin', Colors.greenAccent, Icons.check_circle),
+    ? e.reason != null
-  ScheduleStatus.downloading => (
+        // Releases exist but AnimeFlow rejected them (the hint says why).
-    e.progress == null ? 'downloading' : 'downloading ${(e.progress! * 100).round()}%',
+        ? ('release rejected', Colors.orangeAccent, Icons.block)
-    Colors.lightBlueAccent,
+        : (
-    Icons.downloading,
+            e.lastSearchedAt == null ? 'waiting for release' : 'waiting · searched ${_ago(e.lastSearchedAt!, now)}',
-  ),
+            Colors.amber.shade200,
-  ScheduleStatus.upcoming => (countdownText(e.airing.airingAt, now), Colors.amber, Icons.schedule),
+            Icons.hourglass_top,
-  ScheduleStatus.missing => ('missing', Colors.orangeAccent, Icons.report_gmailerrorred),
+          )
-  ScheduleStatus.failed => ('failed${e.reason == null ? '' : ' · ${e.reason}'}', Colors.redAccent, Icons.error_outline),
+    : switch (e.status) {
-  ScheduleStatus.unmonitored => ('not monitored', Colors.grey, Icons.visibility_off_outlined),
+        ScheduleStatus.available => ('on Jellyfin', Colors.greenAccent, Icons.check_circle),
-  ScheduleStatus.notTracked => ('not in AnimeFlow', Colors.grey, Icons.public),
+        ScheduleStatus.downloading => (
-  ScheduleStatus.inLibrary => ('on Jellyfin', Colors.greenAccent, Icons.video_library_outlined),
+          e.progress == null ? 'downloading' : 'downloading ${(e.progress! * 100).round()}%',
-};
+          Colors.lightBlueAccent,
+          Icons.downloading,
+        ),
+        ScheduleStatus.upcoming => (countdownText(e.airing.airingAt, now), Colors.amber, Icons.schedule),
+        ScheduleStatus.missing => ('waiting for release', Colors.amber.shade200, Icons.hourglass_top),
+        ScheduleStatus.failed => (
+          'failed${e.reason == null ? '' : ' · ${e.reason}'}',
+          Colors.redAccent,
+          Icons.error_outline,
+        ),
+        ScheduleStatus.unmonitored => ('not monitored', Colors.grey, Icons.visibility_off_outlined),
+        ScheduleStatus.notTracked => ('not in AnimeFlow', Colors.grey, Icons.public),
+        ScheduleStatus.inLibrary => ('on Jellyfin', Colors.greenAccent, Icons.video_library_outlined),
+        ScheduleStatus.notOnJellyfin => ('aired · not on Jellyfin yet', Colors.grey, Icons.hourglass_empty),
+        ScheduleStatus.aired => ('aired', Colors.grey, Icons.done),
+      };
+
+/// What the status line means, when its text alone does not say.
+String? statusHint(ScheduleEntry e, DateTime now) => !_waiting(e, now)
+    ? null
+    : e.reason != null
+        ? '${e.reason}${e.lastSearchedAt == null ? '' : ' · searched ${_ago(e.lastSearchedAt!, now)}'}'
+        : waitingHint;
 
 class DayColumn extends StatelessWidget {
   final DateTime day;
@@ -125,7 +159,6 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
   final ScheduleEntry entry;
   final DateTime now;
   final bool compact;
-  final bool followed;
   final CardAction action;
 
   /// Why [action] is disabled (no request scope, not on Jellyfin, ...);
@@ -136,20 +169,19 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
   final bool busy;
   final VoidCallback onAction;
 
-  /// Null hides the bookmark (untracked series).
+  /// Right-click ([context]: the card): the page's menu; null: none.
-  final VoidCallback? onFollow;
+  final void Function(BuildContext context)? onMenu;
 
   const AiringCard({
     super.key,
     required this.entry,
     required this.now,
     required this.compact,
-    required this.followed,
     required this.action,
     required this.onAction,
     this.disabledHint,
     this.busy = false,
-    this.onFollow,
+    this.onMenu,
   });
 
   String get _id => '${entry.airing.anilistId}-${entry.airing.episode}';
@@ -157,20 +189,65 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
   Widget _image(String? url, Widget fallback) =>
       url == null ? fallback : Image.network(url, fit: BoxFit.cover, errorBuilder: (_, _, _) => fallback);
 
+  static Widget _hinted(String? hint, Widget child) => hint == null ? child : Tooltip(message: hint, child: child);
+
+  bool get _played => entry.watch?.played ?? false;
+
+  /// A watched episode's cover is a little dimmer.
+  Widget _dimmed(Widget cover) => _played ? Opacity(opacity: 0.6, child: cover) : cover;
+
+  /// This user's state of the episode on Jellyfin: the library cards'
+  /// green check once watched, else a thin bar to the resume point.
+  List<Widget> _watchMarks({bool small = false}) {
+    final w = entry.watch;
+    if (w == null) return const [];
+    if (w.played) {
+      final size = small ? 16.0 : 22.0;
+      return [
+        Positioned(
+          top: small ? 2 : 4,
+          right: small ? 2 : 4,
+          child: Tooltip(
+            message: 'Watched',
+            child: Container(
+              key: ValueKey('watched-$_id'),
+              constraints: BoxConstraints(minWidth: size, minHeight: size),
+              alignment: Alignment.center,
+              decoration: BoxDecoration(color: const Color(0xCC1B5E20), borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(size / 2)),
+              child: Icon(Icons.check, size: small ? 11 : 14, color: Colors.white),
+            ),
+          ),
+        ),
+      ];
+    }
+    if (w.progress <= 0) return const [];
+    return [
+      Positioned(
+        left: 0,
+        right: 0,
+        bottom: 0,
+        child: Tooltip(
+          message: '${(w.progress * 100).round()}% watched',
+          child: LinearProgressIndicator(
+            key: ValueKey('watch-progress-$_id'),
+            value: w.progress,
+            minHeight: small ? 2 : 3,
+            backgroundColor: Colors.black54,
+          ),
+        ),
+      ),
+    ];
+  }
+
   Widget? _button(BuildContext context) {
     final enabled = disabledHint == null && !busy;
     final spinner = const SizedBox(width: 16, height: 16, child: CircularProgressIndicator(strokeWidth: 2));
     Widget? b = switch (action) {
       CardAction.none => null,
-      CardAction.putUp => FilledButton.tonalIcon(
+      CardAction.putUp || CardAction.play => FilledButton.tonalIcon(
         onPressed: enabled ? onAction : null,
         icon: busy ? spinner : const Icon(Icons.play_arrow, size: 18),
-        label: const Text('Put it up'),
+        label: Text(action == CardAction.play ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
-      ),
-      CardAction.playOffline => FilledButton.tonalIcon(
-        onPressed: null,
-        icon: const Icon(Icons.play_arrow, size: 18),
-        label: const Text('Play'),
       ),
       CardAction.request || CardAction.requestSeries => OutlinedButton.icon(
         onPressed: enabled ? onAction : null,
@@ -184,27 +261,12 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
     return disabledHint == null ? b : Tooltip(message: disabledHint!, child: b);
   }
 
-  Widget? _follow(BuildContext context, double size) {
-    final f = onFollow;
-    if (f == null) return null;
-    return IconButton(
-      key: ValueKey('follow-$_id'),
-      onPressed: f,
-      tooltip: followed ? 'Stop following' : 'Follow',
-      visualDensity: VisualDensity.compact,
-      padding: EdgeInsets.zero,
-      constraints: BoxConstraints.tightFor(width: size + 10, height: size + 10),
-      iconSize: size,
-      color: followed ? Theme.of(context).colorScheme.primary : null,
-      icon: Icon(followed ? Icons.bookmark : Icons.bookmark_outline),
-    );
-  }
-
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
     final a = entry.airing;
     final (label, color, icon) = statusBadge(entry, now);
+    final hint = statusHint(entry, now);
     final time = clockText(a.airingAt);
     final tintColor = a.color ?? Colors.blueGrey;
     final tint = DecoratedBox(
@@ -216,7 +278,11 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
         ),
       ),
     );
-    final tap = action == CardAction.putUp && disabledHint == null && !busy ? onAction : null;
+    final tap = (action == CardAction.putUp || action == CardAction.play) && disabledHint == null && !busy
+        ? onAction
+        : null;
+    final onMenu = this.onMenu;
+    final menu = onMenu == null || busy ? null : () => onMenu(context);
     if (compact) {
       final requestable = action == CardAction.request || action == CardAction.requestSeries;
       return Material(
@@ -226,13 +292,21 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
         child: InkWell(
           borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
           onTap: tap,
+          onSecondaryTap: menu,
           child: Padding(
             padding: const EdgeInsets.all(6),
             child: Row(
               children: [
                 ClipRRect(
                   borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
-                  child: SizedBox(width: 34, height: 48, child: _image(a.cover, tint)),
+                  child: SizedBox(
+                    width: 34,
+                    height: 48,
+                    child: Stack(
+                      fit: StackFit.expand,
+                      children: [_dimmed(_image(a.cover, tint)), ..._watchMarks(small: true)],
+                    ),
+                  ),
                 ),
                 const SizedBox(width: 8),
                 Expanded(
@@ -249,7 +323,6 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
                     ],
                   ),
                 ),
-                if (followed && onFollow == null) Icon(Icons.bookmark, size: 14, color: scheme.primary),
                 if (requestable)
                   Tooltip(
                     message: disabledHint ?? (action == CardAction.request ? 'Request' : 'Request series'),
@@ -263,7 +336,7 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
                   )
                 else
                   Tooltip(
-                    message: label,
+                    message: hint == null ? label : '$label: $hint',
                     child: Icon(icon, size: 16, color: color),
                   ),
               ],
@@ -273,7 +346,6 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
       );
     }
     final button = _button(context);
-    final follow = _follow(context, 16);
     // The cover poster leads: it is what people recognise at a glance.
     return Material(
       key: ValueKey('card-$_id'),
@@ -282,6 +354,7 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
       clipBehavior: Clip.antiAlias,
       child: InkWell(
         onTap: tap,
+        onSecondaryTap: menu,
         child: Padding(
           padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8),
           child: Column(
@@ -298,7 +371,7 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
                       child: Stack(
                         fit: StackFit.expand,
                         children: [
-                          _image(a.cover, tint),
+                          _dimmed(_image(a.cover, tint)),
                           Positioned(
                             left: 4,
                             top: 4,
@@ -314,6 +387,7 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
                               ),
                             ),
                           ),
+                          ..._watchMarks(),
                           if (entry.status == ScheduleStatus.downloading)
                             Positioned(
                               left: 0,
@@ -343,40 +417,29 @@ class AiringCard extends StatelessWidget {
                             style: const TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w600, height: 1.25),
                           ),
                           const SizedBox(height: 2),
-                          Row(
+                          Text(
-                            children: [
+                            'Episode ${a.episode}',
-                              Flexible(
+                            maxLines: 1,
-                                child: Text(
+                            overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                                  'Episode ${a.episode}',
+                            style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12),
-                                  maxLines: 1,
-                                  overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                                  style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 12),
-                                ),
-                              ),
-                              const SizedBox(width: 2),
-                              if (follow != null)
-                                follow
-                              else if (followed)
-                                Padding(
-                                  padding: const EdgeInsets.only(left: 4),
-                                  child: Icon(Icons.bookmark, size: 14, color: scheme.primary),
-                                ),
-                            ],
                           ),
                           const Spacer(),
-                          Row(
+                          _hinted(
-                            children: [
+                            hint,
-                              Icon(icon, size: 14, color: color),
+                            Row(
-                              const SizedBox(width: 4),
+                              children: [
-                              Expanded(
+                                Icon(icon, size: 14, color: color),
-                                child: Text(
+                                const SizedBox(width: 4),
-                                  label,
+                                Expanded(
-                                  maxLines: 2,
+                                  child: Text(
-                                  overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                                    label,
-                                  style: TextStyle(color: color, fontSize: 12),
+                                    maxLines: 2,
+                                    overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                                    style: TextStyle(color: color, fontSize: 12),
+                                  ),
                                 ),
-                              ),
+                              ],
-                            ],
+                            ),
                           ),
                         ],
                       ),

apps/desktop/lib/src/schedule/ui/schedule_page.dart

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import '../../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
 import '../../screens/home/picked_media.dart';
 import '../../shell/avatar.dart';
 import '../../shell/motion.dart';
+import '../../widgets/app_menu.dart';
 import '../anilist.dart';
 import '../animeflow.dart';
 import '../schedule_model.dart';
@@ -15,17 +16,23 @@ import 'schedule_card.dart';
 
 // The Schedule tab: one column per day from last week's Monday to four
 // weeks out (AniList), each airing with what AnimeFlow has of it, and the
-// one thing to do about it (put it up, request it). Refreshes every
+// one thing to do about it (put it up, request it; right-click an
-// minute while visible; ETags keep that cheap.
+// available one to queue it). Refreshes every minute while visible; ETags
+// keep that cheap. Episodes on Jellyfin show this user's watched state,
+// reloaded after a playback stops (JellyfinAccounts.watched).
 
-enum ScheduleFilter { jellyfin, following, all }
+enum ScheduleFilter { jellyfin, all }
 
 class SchedulePage extends StatefulWidget {
-  /// In a server: available episodes can be put up.
+  /// Nobody else watches (offline or solo): available episodes say Play
-  final bool online;
+  /// (offline that starts a solo session).
+  final bool solo;
 
   /// Puts a Jellyfin episode up in the server; returns an error to show.
   final Future<String?> Function(JellyfinMedia pick) onPutUp;
+
+  /// Adds an episode to Up next; null: no server, the cards have no menu.
+  final AddToQueue? onAddToQueue;
   final void Function(String message) onToast;
 
   /// Null = the page makes (and closes) its own.
@@ -36,8 +43,9 @@ class SchedulePage extends StatefulWidget {
 
   const SchedulePage({
     super.key,
-    required this.online,
+    this.solo = false,
     required this.onPutUp,
+    this.onAddToQueue,
     required this.onToast,
     this.repository,
     this.accounts,
@@ -63,6 +71,7 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
   bool _refreshing = false;
   int _gen = 0;
   Timer? _timer;
+  StreamSubscription<String>? _watchedSub;
   final _scroll = ScrollController();
   bool _jumped = false;
 
@@ -74,9 +83,6 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
   /// The sheet stays built while it slides out.
   bool _sheetBuilt = false;
 
-  /// Follow toggles not yet confirmed by a reload (series id -> followed).
-  final _followOverride = <int, bool>{};
-
   /// Requested in this run: "anilistId#episode" or "series:anilistId".
   final _requested = <String>{};
 
@@ -96,21 +102,31 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
   void initState() {
     super.initState();
     _ownsRepo = widget.repository == null;
-    _repo =
+    _repo = widget.repository ?? _ownRepo();
-        widget.repository ??
-        ScheduleRepository(
-          aniList: AniListClient(),
-          animeFlow: AnimeFlowClient.fromAccounts(JellyfinAccounts.instance),
-        );
     _load();
     _timer = Timer.periodic(SchedulePage.refreshEvery, (_) {
       if (mounted && !_refreshing && TickerMode.valuesOf(context).enabled) _load();
     });
+    // Back from watching: the cards' watched marks follow (the stop report
+    // already dropped the cached episode lists).
+    _watchedSub = _accounts.watched.listen((_) {
+      if (mounted) _load();
+    });
+  }
+
+  ScheduleRepository _ownRepo() {
+    final flow = AnimeFlowClient.fromAccounts(_accounts);
+    return ScheduleRepository(
+      aniList: AniListClient(),
+      animeFlow: flow,
+      jellyfinEpisodes: (id) => jellyfinScheduleEpisodes(_accounts, flow, id),
+    );
   }
 
   @override
   void dispose() {
     _timer?.cancel();
+    _watchedSub?.cancel();
     _scroll.dispose();
     if (_ownsRepo) {
       _repo.aniList.close();
@@ -185,11 +201,8 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
     animate ? _scroll.animateTo(x, duration: easeTime, curve: ease) : _scroll.jumpTo(x);
   }
 
-  bool _followed(ScheduleEntry e) => (e.seriesId == null ? null : _followOverride[e.seriesId]) ?? e.followed;
-
   bool _shows(ScheduleEntry e) => switch (_filter) {
     ScheduleFilter.jellyfin => e.tracked || e.onJellyfin,
-    ScheduleFilter.following => _followed(e),
     ScheduleFilter.all => _niche || e.tracked || e.airing.popularity >= SchedulePage.nicheBelow,
   };
 
@@ -215,16 +228,17 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
 
   (CardAction, String?) _actionFor(ScheduleEntry e) {
     if (e.status == ScheduleStatus.available || e.status == ScheduleStatus.inLibrary) {
-      if (!widget.online) return (CardAction.playOffline, 'Join or host a server to put it up');
+      final put = widget.solo ? CardAction.play : CardAction.putUp;
-      if (e.jellyfinSeriesId == null) return (CardAction.putUp, 'Not linked to a Jellyfin series yet');
+      if (e.jellyfinSeriesId == null) return (put, 'Not linked to a Jellyfin series yet');
-      return (CardAction.putUp, null);
+      return (put, null);
     }
     final me = _me;
     final CardAction kind;
     if (e.tracked) {
-      kind = e.status == ScheduleStatus.missing || e.status == ScheduleStatus.failed
+      // Only an unmonitored episode is worth asking for: AnimeFlow grabs
-          ? CardAction.request
+      // a missing one (no release yet) by itself once a release appears,
-          : CardAction.none;
+      // and retries a failed one.
+      kind = e.status == ScheduleStatus.unmonitored ? CardAction.request : CardAction.none;
     } else {
       // On Jellyfin already (owner added it by hand): nothing to request.
       kind = me != null && !e.onJellyfin ? CardAction.requestSeries : CardAction.none;
@@ -242,6 +256,7 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
   Future<void> _onAction(ScheduleEntry e, CardAction action) async {
     switch (action) {
       case CardAction.putUp:
+      case CardAction.play:
         return _putUp(e);
       case CardAction.request:
       case CardAction.requestSeries:
@@ -266,6 +281,32 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
     }
   }
 
+  /// Right-click on an available episode ([context]: its card): Put it
+  /// up, Add to queue, Play next.
+  Future<void> _menu(BuildContext context, ScheduleEntry e) async {
+    final add = widget.onAddToQueue;
+    if (add == null) return;
+    final pick = await showAppMenu<int>(context, items: [
+      AppMenuItem(value: 0, label: widget.solo ? 'Play' : 'Put it up'),
+      const AppMenuItem(value: 1, label: 'Add to queue'),
+      const AppMenuItem(value: 2, label: 'Play next'),
+    ]);
+    if (pick == null || !mounted) return;
+    if (pick == 0) return _putUp(e);
+    final key = 'play:${_key(e)}';
+    if (_busy.contains(key)) return;
+    setState(() => _busy.add(key));
+    try {
+      final media = await resolveJellyfinEpisode(_accounts, _flow, e);
+      final err = await add(media, next: pick == 2);
+      if (err != null) _toast(err);
+    } catch (err) {
+      _toast(friendlyError(err));
+    } finally {
+      if (mounted) setState(() => _busy.remove(key));
+    }
+  }
+
   Future<void> _request(ScheduleEntry e) async {
     final c = _flow;
     if (c == null) return;
@@ -335,21 +376,6 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
     },
   );
 
-  Future<void> _toggleFollow(ScheduleEntry e) async {
-    final c = _flow, id = e.seriesId;
-    if (c == null || id == null) return;
-    final next = !_followed(e);
-    setState(() => _followOverride[id] = next);
-    try {
-      await c.setFollowed(id, next);
-      await _load();
-    } catch (err) {
-      _toast(friendlyError(err));
-    } finally {
-      if (mounted) setState(() => _followOverride.remove(id));
-    }
-  }
-
   Future<void> _decide(AnimeFlowRequest r, {required bool approve}) async {
     final c = _flow;
     if (c == null || _reqBusy.contains(r.id)) return;
@@ -387,11 +413,6 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
                 icon: Icon(Icons.video_library_outlined),
                 label: Text('On Jellyfin'),
               ),
-              ButtonSegment(
-                value: ScheduleFilter.following,
-                icon: Icon(Icons.bookmark_outline),
-                label: Text('Following'),
-              ),
               ButtonSegment(value: ScheduleFilter.all, icon: Icon(Icons.public), label: Text('All airing')),
             ],
             selected: {_filter},
@@ -530,17 +551,18 @@ class _SchedulePageState extends State<SchedulePage> {
 
   Widget _card(ScheduleEntry e, DateTime now) {
     final (action, hint) = _actionFor(e);
-    final busy = _busy.contains(action == CardAction.putUp ? 'play:${_key(e)}' : _key(e));
+    final busy = _busy.contains(action == CardAction.putUp || action == CardAction.play ? 'play:${_key(e)}' : _key(e));
     return AiringCard(
       entry: e,
       now: now,
       compact: _compact,
-      followed: _followed(e),
       action: action,
       disabledHint: hint,
       busy: busy,
       onAction: () => _onAction(e, action),
-      onFollow: e.tracked && e.seriesId != null && _flow != null ? () => _toggleFollow(e) : null,
+      onMenu: widget.onAddToQueue != null && (action == CardAction.putUp || action == CardAction.play) && hint == null
+          ? (context) => _menu(context, e)
+          : null,
     );
   }
 

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/about_page.dart

@@ -1,44 +1,27 @@
-import 'dart:io';
-
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
+import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
+import '../../platform/app_log.dart';
+import '../../shell/mark_problem.dart';
+import '../../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../../state/settings.dart';
 import '../../update/update_controller.dart';
-import '../../update/updater.dart';
+import '../../widgets/app_menu.dart';
+import '../../widgets/copy_open.dart';
 import 'settings_page.dart';
 import 'ui.dart';
 import 'update_indicator.dart';
 
-/// Opens [url] in the default browser (no url_launcher dependency).
+/// The Minimal player skin's credit (README says the same).
-Future<bool> openInBrowser(String url) async {
+const uoscCredit = 'Player timeline and controls inspired by uosc by tomasklaen, LGPL-2.1 '
-  try {
+    '(github.com/tomasklaen/uosc).';
-    final ProcessResult r;
-    if (Platform.isWindows) {
-      r = await Process.run('rundll32', ['url.dll,FileProtocolHandler', url]);
-    } else if (Platform.isMacOS) {
-      r = await Process.run('open', [url]);
-    } else {
-      r = await Process.run('xdg-open', [url]);
-    }
-    return r.exitCode == 0;
-  } catch (_) {
-    return false;
-  }
-}
 
-/// Name, version, update state and the source link (Settings → About).
+/// Name, version, update state, the source link and the logs (Settings →
+/// About).
 class AboutPanel extends StatelessWidget {
   final UpdateController? updates;
   const AboutPanel({super.key, this.updates});
 
-  Future<void> _open(BuildContext context) async {
-    final messenger = ScaffoldMessenger.maybeOf(context);
-    if (await openInBrowser(repoUrl)) return;
-    await Clipboard.setData(const ClipboardData(text: repoUrl));
-    messenger?.showSnackBar(
-        const SnackBar(content: Text('Could not open a browser — link copied')));
-  }
-
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     final t = Theme.of(context).textTheme;
@@ -49,7 +32,7 @@ class AboutPanel extends StatelessWidget {
             children: [
               Text(appName, style: t.titleLarge),
               const SizedBox(height: 4),
-              SelectableText('Version $appVersion',
+              SelectableText('Version ${displayVersion()}',
                   style: t.bodyMedium?.copyWith(color: Colors.grey)),
               const SizedBox(height: 4),
               UpdateStatusLine(controller: updates),
@@ -58,20 +41,86 @@ class AboutPanel extends StatelessWidget {
                 children: [
                   Expanded(child: SelectableText(repoUrl, style: t.bodySmall)),
                   IconButton(
-                    tooltip: 'Copy link',
+                    tooltip: ReuseText.copyLink,
                     icon: const Icon(Icons.copy, size: 18),
-                    onPressed: () =>
+                    onPressed: () => copyToClipboard(repoUrl, done: 'Link copied'),
-                        Clipboard.setData(const ClipboardData(text: repoUrl)),
                   ),
                   FilledButton.tonalIcon(
-                    onPressed: () => _open(context),
+                    onPressed: () => openLink(repoUrl),
                     icon: const Icon(Icons.open_in_new, size: 18),
                     label: const Text('Source'),
                   ),
                 ],
               ),
+              const SizedBox(height: 4),
+              Text(uoscCredit, key: const ValueKey('uosc-credit'), style: t.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: Colors.grey)),
+              const SizedBox(height: kGap),
+              Text('Something went wrong? Copy diagnostics and send them to whoever helps you: '
+                  'versions and the last hours of the log, passwords, tokens and cookies left out. '
+                  'In a session it can add the server\'s session log, everyone\'s lines merged. '
+                  'Mark a problem (Ctrl+Shift+B) when it happens so the spot is easy to find.',
+                  style: t.bodySmall?.copyWith(color: Colors.grey)),
+              const SizedBox(height: 8),
+              Wrap(
+                spacing: 8,
+                runSpacing: 8,
+                children: [
+                  Builder(
+                    builder: (context) => FilledButton.tonalIcon(
+                      key: const ValueKey('copy-diagnostics'),
+                      onPressed: () => _copyDiagnostics(context),
+                      icon: const Icon(Icons.bug_report_outlined, size: 18),
+                      label: const Text('Copy diagnostics'),
+                    ),
+                  ),
+                  const MarkProblemButton(outlined: true),
+                  OutlinedButton.icon(
+                    onPressed: appLogDir == null ? null : () => _openLogs(),
+                    icon: const Icon(Icons.folder_open, size: 18),
+                    label: const Text('Open logs folder'),
+                  ),
+                ],
+              ),
+              const SizedBox(height: 8),
+              SignalBuilder(
+                builder: (context) => SwitchListTile(
+                  key: const ValueKey('share-diagnostics'),
+                  contentPadding: EdgeInsets.zero,
+                  title: const Text('Share diagnostics with the server'),
+                  subtitle: const Text('In a session, this app\'s log goes to the server\'s session log, '
+                      'merged with everyone\'s, so a problem can be read afterwards. Never chat; '
+                      'passwords and tokens left out. Off: only a problem you mark is sent.'),
+                  value: AppSettings.instance.shareDiagnostics.value,
+                  onChanged: AppSettings.instance.setShareDiagnostics,
+                ),
+              ),
             ],
           ),
         );
   }
+
+  /// In a session it asks whether to add the server's session log.
+  static Future<void> _copyDiagnostics(BuildContext context) async {
+    var withServer = false;
+    if (SessionState.instance.route.peek() == AppRoute.session) {
+      final pick = await showAppMenu<bool>(context, items: const [
+        AppMenuItem(value: false, label: "This app's log"),
+        AppMenuItem(value: true, label: "This app's and the server's session log"),
+      ]);
+      if (pick == null) return;
+      withServer = pick;
+    }
+    final text = await diagnosticsText(sessionLog: withServer);
+    final saved = await saveDiagnostics(text);
+    await copyToClipboard(text,
+        done: saved == null ? 'Diagnostics copied' : 'Diagnostics copied (also saved in the logs folder)');
+  }
+
+  static Future<void> _openLogs() async {
+    final dir = appLogDir;
+    if (dir == null) return;
+    if (!await SessionState.instance.ports.folders.reveal(dir)) {
+      await copyToClipboard(dir, done: "Couldn't open it — folder path copied");
+    }
+  }
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/connect_flow.dart

@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@ class ConnectFlow extends ChangeNotifier {
   int _attempt = 0;
   bool _disposed = false;
 
-  /// Set when an attempt ends in a kick, so the shell shows the removal
-  /// dialog.
-  void Function(String reason)? onKicked;
-
   @override
   void dispose() {
     _disposed = true;
@@ -101,6 +97,7 @@ class ConnectFlow extends ChangeNotifier {
       _notify();
       return;
     }
+    final fromSolo = mode == ConnectMode.host && _session.solo.value;
     try {
       if (mode == ConnectMode.host) {
         await _session.host(params, form);
@@ -110,20 +107,19 @@ class ConnectFlow extends ChangeNotifier {
     } catch (e) {
       if (myAttempt != _attempt) return;
       busy = null;
-      final kick = _session.coordinator.kickReason.peek();
+      errors[mode] = CardError('Could not connect', '$e');
-      if (kick != null && kick.isNotEmpty) {
-        onKicked?.call(kick);
-      } else {
-        errors[mode] = CardError('Could not connect', '$e');
-      }
       _notify();
       return;
     }
     if (myAttempt != _attempt) {
-      // Cancelled after it got through: back out.
+      // Cancelled after it got through: back out (an Invite: back to solo).
       try {
-        await _session.leave();
+        if (fromSolo) {
-        await _session.stopServer();
+          await _session.cancelInvite();
+        } else {
+          await _session.leave();
+          await _session.stopServer();
+        }
       } catch (_) {}
       return;
     }

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/media_picker.dart

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ class MediaPickerController extends ChangeNotifier {
   final TextEditingController link;
   final TextEditingController file;
   MediaKind _source;
-  LinkRelay _linkRelay = LinkRelay.direct;
+  // Through me unless picked otherwise (Library → Link).
+  LinkRelay _linkRelay = LinkRelay.me;
   JellyfinMedia? _jellyfin;
   JellyfinSelection? _selected;
 

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/picked_media.dart

@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ enum LinkRelay { direct, server, me }
 final class LinkMedia extends PickedMedia {
   final String url;
   final LinkRelay relay;
-  const LinkMedia(this.url, {this.relay = LinkRelay.direct});
+  /// Put it up even though this computer's probe found a problem
+  /// (`LinkProbe.problem`): the server or a friend may still open it.
+  final bool anyway;
+  const LinkMedia(this.url, {this.relay = LinkRelay.direct, this.anyway = false});
 
   @override
   String get label {
@@ -119,3 +122,7 @@ final class JellyfinMedia extends PickedMedia {
   @override
   String toString() => 'JellyfinMedia($serverId/$itemId "$title")';
 }
+
+/// Adds a pick to Up next (with [next]: right after what plays); returns
+/// an error text, or null when sent. Null where there is no server.
+typedef AddToQueue = Future<String?> Function(PickedMedia media, {bool next});

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/settings_page.dart

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-import 'package:file_picker/file_picker.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 
+import '../../state/session_state.dart';
 import '../../state/settings.dart';
 import '../../update/update_controller.dart';
 import 'ui.dart';
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import 'update_indicator.dart';
 const sessionShortcuts = [
   ('Space', 'Toggle ready'),
   ('← / →', 'Seek back / forward 10 s'),
-  ('↑ / ↓', 'Volume up / down (up to 150 %)'),
+  ('↑ / ↓, wheel', 'Volume up / down (up to 150 %)'),
   ('Shift+→', 'Skip 1:30 (for everyone)'),
   ('PgUp / PgDn', 'Previous / next chapter'),
   ('F', 'Toggle fullscreen'),
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ const sessionShortcuts = [
   ('< or Shift+P', 'Put up the previous Jellyfin episode'),
   ('Ctrl+1…6', 'Shaders: Anime4K mode A, B, C, A+A, B+B, C+A'),
   ('Ctrl+0', 'Shaders off'),
-  ('Esc', 'Close the panel or fullscreen, else ask to leave'),
+  ('Esc', 'Close the panel or fullscreen, shrink the player, then ask to leave'),
+  ('Ctrl+Shift+B', 'Mark a problem in the session log (anywhere)'),
 ];
 
 /// One titled card of the Settings tab (rounded Material, so list tiles
@@ -88,12 +89,11 @@ class CustomShaderFiles extends StatelessWidget {
   const CustomShaderFiles({super.key});
 
   Future<void> _addFiles() async {
-    final List<PlatformFile> files;
+    final List<String> files;
     try {
-      files = await FilePicker.pickFiles(
+      files = await SessionState.instance.ports.folders.pickFiles(
         dialogTitle: 'Pick mpv GLSL shaders',
-        type: FileType.custom,
+        extensions: const ['glsl', 'hook'],
-        allowedExtensions: const ['glsl', 'hook'],
       );
     } catch (_) {
       return;
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ class CustomShaderFiles extends StatelessWidget {
     final s = AppSettings.instance;
     final current = s.customShaders.peek();
     final added = [
-      for (final f in files)
+      for (final p in files)
-        if (f.path case final p? when !current.contains(p)) p,
+        if (!current.contains(p)) p,
     ];
     if (added.isNotEmpty) s.setCustomShaders([...current, ...added]);
   }
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ class UpdateSettings extends StatelessWidget {
           builder: (context) => SwitchListTile(
             key: const ValueKey('auto-check-updates'),
             contentPadding: EdgeInsets.zero,
-            title: const Text('Check for updates on start'),
+            title: const Text('Check for updates automatically'),
-            subtitle: const Text('Looks for a new version when the app opens; nothing installs without asking'),
+            subtitle: const Text('When the app opens and every few hours; nothing installs without asking'),
             value: s.autoCheckUpdates.value,
             onChanged: s.setAutoCheckUpdates,
           ),

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/ui.dart

@@ -1,10 +1,31 @@
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show appVersion, isDevBuild;
 
 /// Product name (working title). Change it here only.
-const appName = 'Watch Together';
+const appName = 'Starsync';
 
 const repoUrl = 'https://git.senkochan.moe/Foxyz/sync_replay_project';
 
+/// The pubspec's version: the Flutter tool defines it for every build and
+/// run (`flutter run` too).
+const _pubspecVersion = String.fromEnvironment('FLUTTER_BUILD_NAME');
+
+/// The short commit a packaged build was made from (`tool/package_linux.sh`;
+/// `-dirty` with uncommitted changes); empty otherwise.
+const _gitCommit = String.fromEnvironment('GIT_COMMIT');
+
+/// The version to show: a release's own ("1.1.2"), a test build's with its
+/// commit ("1.1.3-dev.12 · 1a2b3c4"), and for a dev run (no `APP_VERSION`)
+/// the pubspec's with "dev" ("1.1.2 · dev run").
+String displayVersion({String version = appVersion, String pubspec = _pubspecVersion, String commit = _gitCommit}) {
+  if (version == '0.0.0-dev') return pubspec.isEmpty ? 'dev run' : '$pubspec · dev run';
+  return isDevBuild(version) && commit.isNotEmpty ? '$version · $commit' : version;
+}
+
+/// The version in a few characters, always on screen (under the strip's
+/// Settings tab): "1.2.1", "1.2.1-dev.2", "dev run".
+String shortVersion({String version = appVersion}) => version == '0.0.0-dev' ? 'dev run' : version;
+
 const kRadius = 12.0;
 const kGap = 16.0;
 

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/home/update_indicator.dart

@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show isDevBuild;
 
 import '../../update/update_controller.dart';
 import '../../widgets/update_banner.dart';
 import 'ui.dart';
 
-/// Compact "Update vX" pill for the party strip; hidden until there is
+/// The band across the top of the window while an update is up for
-/// something to install. Click opens the full [UpdateBanner].
+/// grabs: "Starsync 1.2.1 is ready", its notes, Update and restart and
-class UpdateIndicator extends StatelessWidget {
+/// Later (gone until the next check or start). The shell keeps it off
+/// the full player while a video is on ([AppShell]).
+class UpdateBar extends StatelessWidget {
   final UpdateController? controller;
-  const UpdateIndicator({super.key, this.controller});
+  const UpdateBar({super.key, this.controller});
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
@@ -21,34 +24,102 @@ class UpdateIndicator extends StatelessWidget {
           return const SizedBox.shrink();
         }
         final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
+        final alert = m.isRequired || s.phase == UpdatePhase.failed;
+        final fg = alert ? scheme.onErrorContainer : scheme.onPrimaryContainer;
+        final current = c.currentVersion;
+        // A release (not a test build) that is behind: say which it runs.
+        final behind = isDevBuild(current) ? null : 'You are running $current';
+        final String title;
+        String detail;
+        switch (s.phase) {
+          case UpdatePhase.downloading:
+            title = 'Downloading $appName ${m.version}… ${((s.progress ?? 0) * 100).round()}%';
+            detail = '';
+          case UpdatePhase.applying:
+            title = 'Installing $appName ${m.version}…';
+            detail = '';
+          case UpdatePhase.restarting:
+            title = 'Restarting into $appName ${m.version}…';
+            detail = '';
+          case UpdatePhase.failed:
+            title = 'Update to $appName ${m.version} failed';
+            detail = '${s.error}';
+          case UpdatePhase.available || UpdatePhase.idle:
+            if (!s.canInstall) {
+              title = 'This copy of $appName is older than the latest release (${m.version})';
+              detail = 'Download the new release and replace this folder by hand';
+            } else if (m.isRequired) {
+              title = '$appName ${m.version} is required to join servers on it';
+              detail = m.notes;
+            } else {
+              title = '$appName ${m.version} is ready';
+              detail = m.notes;
+            }
+            detail = [?behind, detail].where((t) => t.isNotEmpty).join(' · ');
+        }
         final busy = s.phase == UpdatePhase.downloading ||
             s.phase == UpdatePhase.applying ||
             s.phase == UpdatePhase.restarting;
-        final label = switch (s.phase) {
+        return Material(
-          UpdatePhase.downloading =>
+          key: const ValueKey('update-bar'),
-            'Updating ${((s.progress ?? 0) * 100).round()}%',
+          color: alert ? scheme.errorContainer : scheme.primaryContainer,
-          UpdatePhase.applying => 'Installing…',
+          child: Padding(
-          UpdatePhase.restarting => 'Restarting…',
+            padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(16, 8, 12, 8),
-          UpdatePhase.failed => 'Update failed',
+            child: Row(
-          _ => m.isRequired ? 'Required update' : 'Update v${m.version}',
+              children: [
-        };
+                if (busy)
-        return Tooltip(
+                  SizedBox.square(
-          message: 'Show update',
+                    dimension: 18,
-          child: FilledButton.tonalIcon(
+                    child: CircularProgressIndicator(
-            style: FilledButton.styleFrom(
+                      strokeWidth: 2,
-              backgroundColor: m.isRequired || s.phase == UpdatePhase.failed
+                      color: fg,
-                  ? scheme.errorContainer
+                      value: s.phase == UpdatePhase.downloading ? s.progress : null,
-                  : null,
+                    ),
-              visualDensity: VisualDensity.compact,
+                  )
+                else
+                  Icon(Icons.system_update_alt, size: 20, color: fg),
+                const SizedBox(width: 12),
+                Expanded(
+                  child: Column(
+                    crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+                    mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
+                    children: [
+                      Text(title,
+                          maxLines: 1,
+                          overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                          style: TextStyle(color: fg, fontWeight: FontWeight.w600)),
+                      if (detail.isNotEmpty)
+                        Tooltip(
+                          message: detail,
+                          waitDuration: const Duration(milliseconds: 600),
+                          child: Text(detail,
+                              maxLines: 1,
+                              overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                              style: TextStyle(color: fg.withValues(alpha: 0.8), fontSize: 12)),
+                        ),
+                    ],
+                  ),
+                ),
+                if (!busy) ...[
+                  const SizedBox(width: 12),
+                  if (!m.isRequired)
+                    TextButton(
+                      key: const ValueKey('update-later'),
+                      style: TextButton.styleFrom(foregroundColor: fg),
+                      onPressed: c.dismiss,
+                      child: const Text('Later'),
+                    ),
+                  if (s.canInstall) ...[
+                    const SizedBox(width: 4),
+                    FilledButton(
+                      key: const ValueKey('update-install'),
+                      onPressed: c.install,
+                      child: Text(s.phase == UpdatePhase.failed ? 'Retry' : 'Update and restart'),
+                    ),
+                  ],
+                ],
+              ],
             ),
-            onPressed: () => showUpdateDialog(context, controller: c),
-            icon: busy
-                ? const SizedBox(
-                    width: 14,
-                    height: 14,
-                    child: CircularProgressIndicator(strokeWidth: 2))
-                : const Icon(Icons.system_update_alt, size: 18),
-            label: Text(label),
           ),
         );
       },
@@ -85,6 +156,9 @@ Future<void> showUpdateDialog(BuildContext context, {UpdateController? controlle
   );
 }
 
+/// How often a running app looks again (auto-check on).
+const updateCheckEvery = Duration(hours: 4);
+
 enum UpdateCheck { notRun, checking, done }
 
 /// Progress of this run's update check, for Settings/About wording.

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/session/jellyfin_widgets.dart

@@ -2,43 +2,14 @@ import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 
 import '../../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
 import '../../session/session_coordinator.dart' show AutoAdvance, autoAdvanceSecs;
+import '../../widgets/app_menu.dart' show AppGlass;
 import 'player_controls.dart' show FloatingPill;
 
 // Jellyfin pieces of the session player. Plain widgets fed by the
 // coordinator's signals, so tests can pump them without the player.
 
-/// Previous / next episode in the video controls. Nothing when there is
+/// Floating "Next episode ›" from the ED (or the last two minutes), while
-/// no such episode or this viewer cannot put it up (no account).
+/// the controls are up (`PillGate`): faint at rest, lit on hover.
-class EpisodeSkipButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final EpisodeLink? episode;
-  final bool next;
-  final VoidCallback onPressed;
-  final FocusNode? focusNode;
-  const EpisodeSkipButton(
-      {super.key, required this.episode, required this.next, required this.onPressed, this.focusNode});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final e = episode;
-    if (e == null) return const SizedBox.shrink();
-    return Tooltip(
-      message: '${next ? 'Next' : 'Previous'}: ${e.label}  (${next ? '> or Shift+N' : '< or Shift+P'})',
-      child: IconButton(
-        key: ValueKey(next ? 'episode-next' : 'episode-previous'),
-        focusNode: focusNode,
-        color: Colors.white,
-        iconSize: 22,
-        visualDensity: VisualDensity.compact,
-        icon: Icon(next ? Icons.skip_next_rounded : Icons.skip_previous_rounded),
-        onPressed: onPressed,
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Floating "Next episode ›" from the ED (or the last two minutes):
-/// faint at rest, lit on hover. Lives outside the auto-hiding controls, so
-/// it shows in fullscreen and with the controls hidden.
 class NextEpisodePill extends StatelessWidget {
   final EpisodeLink episode;
   final VoidCallback onPressed;
@@ -70,27 +41,36 @@ class EndOfEpisodeCard extends StatelessWidget {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final t = Theme.of(context).textTheme;
     final c = countdown;
-    return Card(
+    // The same card as Up next's (`UpNextCard`): the app's glass, 400 wide.
+    return AppGlass(
       key: const ValueKey('end-of-episode'),
-      color: Colors.black.withValues(alpha: 0.85),
+      child: SizedBox(
-      child: Padding(
+        width: 400,
-        padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(16, 12, 12, 12),
+        child: Padding(
-        child: ConstrainedBox(
+          padding: const EdgeInsets.all(12),
-          constraints: const BoxConstraints(maxWidth: 380),
           child: Column(
             mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-            crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+            crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
             children: [
               Text(c == null ? 'Up next' : 'Next episode in ${c.secondsLeft} s',
-                  style: t.labelLarge?.copyWith(color: Colors.white70)),
+                  style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white60, fontSize: 12)),
-              const SizedBox(height: 4),
+              const SizedBox(height: 2),
               Text('Next: ${next.label}',
-                  maxLines: 2, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis, style: t.titleMedium),
+                  maxLines: 2,
+                  overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                  style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white, fontSize: 15, fontWeight: FontWeight.w600, height: 1.25)),
               if (c != null) ...[
-                const SizedBox(height: 8),
+                const SizedBox(height: 10),
-                LinearProgressIndicator(value: c.secondsLeft / autoAdvanceSecs),
+                ClipRRect(
+                  borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(2),
+                  child: TweenAnimationBuilder<double>(
+                    tween: Tween(end: c.secondsLeft / autoAdvanceSecs),
+                    duration: const Duration(seconds: 1),
+                    builder: (context, v, _) =>
+                        LinearProgressIndicator(value: v, minHeight: 3, backgroundColor: const Color(0x1FFFFFFF)),
+                  ),
+                ),
               ],
               const SizedBox(height: 10),
               Row(
@@ -166,25 +146,3 @@ class JellyfinBlockedCard extends StatelessWidget {
     );
   }
 }
-
-/// Small member-list badge: plays the Jellyfin item through the host.
-class ViaHostBadge extends StatelessWidget {
-  const ViaHostBadge({super.key});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return Tooltip(
-      message: 'No Jellyfin account here: watches through the host',
-      child: Container(
-        key: const ValueKey('via-host'),
-        padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 6, vertical: 1),
-        decoration: BoxDecoration(
-          color: Colors.white10,
-          borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(999),
-          border: Border.all(color: Colors.white24),
-        ),
-        child: const Text('via host', style: TextStyle(fontSize: 10, color: Colors.white70)),
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}

apps/desktop/lib/src/screens/session/player_controls.dart

@@ -1,534 +1,19 @@
-import 'dart:async';
-import 'dart:math' as math;
-
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
-import 'package:media_kit/media_kit.dart';
-import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show JellyfinStreamType;
 
-import '../../jellyfin/track_prefs.dart' show MpvTrack;
 import '../../playback/media_marks.dart';
+import '../../widgets/app_menu.dart' show AppGlass;
 
-// Session control-bar pieces built on the playback signals (chapters,
+// The player's floating action pills (Skip OP / ED / 1:30, Next episode):
-// tracks, skip offers): the seek bar with chapter marks, the chapter and
+// plain widgets fed by values and callbacks, so tests pump them without a
-// track menus, the 1:30 skip button and the floating skip pill. Plain
+// player. They live in the action area, outside the controls.
-// widgets fed by values and callbacks, so tests pump them without a player.
 
-/// Keeps media_kit's desktop controls shown, as a mouse hover would.
+/// The player's action pill (Next episode, Skip OP / ED / 1:30): the
-/// While a seek bar drag runs no hover events arrive, and the controls
+/// status pill's glass ([AppGlass.pill]) at [height], faint at rest, lit
-/// would hide (and unmount the bar) mid-drag. A guarded dynamic call on
+/// on hover. Lives in the player's action area, outside the auto-hiding
-/// the private controls state; nothing happens outside those controls.
+/// controls (also in fullscreen); `PillGate` shows it with them.
-void keepVideoControlsAwake(BuildContext context) {
-  context.visitAncestorElements((e) {
-    if (e is StatefulElement &&
-        e.state.runtimeType.toString() == '_MaterialDesktopVideoControlsState') {
-      try {
-        (e.state as dynamic).onHover();
-      } catch (_) {}
-      return false;
-    }
-    return true;
-  });
-}
-
-/// The seek bar: played / buffered track, a diamond at each chapter start
-/// (not the one at 0), and on hover the time with the chapter title above
-/// it. Like media_kit's bar it reports a seek on every drag move and on
-/// release ([onSeek]); the session routes those through the user-seek path
-/// (debounced, everyone follows).
-class ChapterSeekBar extends StatefulWidget {
-  final Duration position;
-  final Duration duration;
-  final Duration buffer;
-  final List<MediaChapter> chapters;
-  final ValueChanged<Duration> onSeek;
-  /// Any pointer activity on the bar (keeps the controls up).
-  final VoidCallback? onActivity;
-  const ChapterSeekBar({
-    super.key,
-    required this.position,
-    required this.duration,
-    this.buffer = Duration.zero,
-    this.chapters = const [],
-    required this.onSeek,
-    this.onActivity,
-  });
-
-  static const height = 28.0;
-
-  @override
-  State<ChapterSeekBar> createState() => _ChapterSeekBarState();
-}
-
-class _ChapterSeekBarState extends State<ChapterSeekBar> {
-  double? _hoverX;
-  bool _dragging = false;
-  double _dragFraction = 0;
-
-  double _fraction(Duration d) {
-    final total = widget.duration.inMicroseconds;
-    if (total <= 0) return 0;
-    return (d.inMicroseconds / total).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-  }
-
-  Duration _at(double fraction) => widget.duration * fraction.clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-
-  void _seekTo(double x, double width) {
-    if (widget.duration <= Duration.zero || width <= 0) return;
-    _dragFraction = (x / width).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-    widget.onSeek(_at(_dragFraction));
-  }
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final primary = Theme.of(context).colorScheme.primary;
-    return LayoutBuilder(builder: (context, constraints) {
-      final width = constraints.maxWidth;
-      final active = _hoverX != null || _dragging;
-      final barHeight = active ? 5.0 : 3.0;
-      final played = _dragging ? _dragFraction : _fraction(widget.position);
-      const mid = ChapterSeekBar.height / 2;
-      final hoverX = _hoverX;
-      final hoverAt = hoverX == null || width <= 0 ? null : _at(hoverX / width);
-      final hoverChapter = hoverAt == null ? null : chapterIndexAt(widget.chapters, hoverAt);
-      final hoverTitle = hoverChapter == null ? '' : widget.chapters[hoverChapter].title;
-      return MouseRegion(
-        cursor: SystemMouseCursors.click,
-        onEnter: (e) => setState(() => _hoverX = e.localPosition.dx.clamp(0, width)),
-        onHover: (e) {
-          setState(() => _hoverX = e.localPosition.dx.clamp(0, width));
-          widget.onActivity?.call();
-        },
-        onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hoverX = null),
-        child: Listener(
-          behavior: HitTestBehavior.opaque,
-          onPointerDown: (e) {
-            widget.onActivity?.call();
-            setState(() {
-              _dragging = true;
-              _dragFraction = width <= 0 ? 0 : (e.localPosition.dx / width).clamp(0.0, 1.0);
-            });
-          },
-          onPointerMove: (e) {
-            widget.onActivity?.call();
-            setState(() => _hoverX = e.localPosition.dx.clamp(0, width));
-            _seekTo(e.localPosition.dx, width);
-          },
-          onPointerUp: (e) {
-            _seekTo(e.localPosition.dx, width);
-            setState(() => _dragging = false);
-            widget.onActivity?.call();
-          },
-          onPointerCancel: (_) => setState(() => _dragging = false),
-          child: SizedBox(
-            key: const ValueKey('seek-bar'),
-            width: width,
-            height: ChapterSeekBar.height,
-            child: Stack(
-              clipBehavior: Clip.none,
-              children: [
-                Positioned(
-                  left: 0,
-                  right: 0,
-                  top: mid - barHeight / 2,
-                  height: barHeight,
-                  child: Container(color: Colors.white24),
-                ),
-                Positioned(
-                  left: 0,
-                  top: mid - barHeight / 2,
-                  height: barHeight,
-                  width: width * _fraction(widget.buffer),
-                  child: Container(color: Colors.white24),
-                ),
-                if (hoverX != null && !_dragging)
-                  Positioned(
-                    left: 0,
-                    top: mid - barHeight / 2,
-                    height: barHeight,
-                    width: hoverX,
-                    child: Container(color: Colors.white24),
-                  ),
-                Positioned(
-                  left: 0,
-                  top: mid - barHeight / 2,
-                  height: barHeight,
-                  width: width * played,
-                  child: Container(color: primary),
-                ),
-                for (final c in widget.chapters)
-                  if (c.start > Duration.zero && widget.duration > Duration.zero)
-                    Positioned(
-                      key: ValueKey('chapter-mark-${c.index}'),
-                      left: width * _fraction(c.start) - 4,
-                      top: mid - 4,
-                      width: 8,
-                      height: 8,
-                      child: IgnorePointer(
-                        child: Transform.rotate(
-                          angle: math.pi / 4,
-                          child: Container(
-                            margin: const EdgeInsets.all(1),
-                            decoration: BoxDecoration(
-                              color: Colors.white,
-                              border: Border.all(color: Colors.black54, width: 0.8),
-                            ),
-                          ),
-                        ),
-                      ),
-                    ),
-                if (active)
-                  Positioned(
-                    left: width * played - 6,
-                    top: mid - 6,
-                    width: 12,
-                    height: 12,
-                    child: IgnorePointer(
-                      child: DecoratedBox(
-                        decoration: BoxDecoration(color: primary, shape: BoxShape.circle),
-                      ),
-                    ),
-                  ),
-                if (hoverAt != null)
-                  Positioned(
-                    // Kept clear of the window edges (the tip is centred).
-                    left: hoverX!.clamp(math.min(60.0, width / 2), math.max(width - 60, width / 2)),
-                    bottom: ChapterSeekBar.height - 2,
-                    child: IgnorePointer(
-                      child: FractionalTranslation(
-                        translation: const Offset(-0.5, 0),
-                        child: _HoverTip(title: hoverTitle, time: formatClock(hoverAt)),
-                      ),
-                    ),
-                  ),
-              ],
-            ),
-          ),
-        ),
-      );
-    });
-  }
-}
-
-class _HoverTip extends StatelessWidget {
-  final String title;
-  final String time;
-  const _HoverTip({required this.title, required this.time});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return Container(
-      constraints: const BoxConstraints(maxWidth: 320),
-      padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 8, vertical: 4),
-      decoration: BoxDecoration(
-        color: Colors.black.withValues(alpha: 0.8),
-        borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(6),
-      ),
-      child: Column(
-        mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
-        children: [
-          if (title.isNotEmpty)
-            Text(title,
-                key: const ValueKey('seek-hover-chapter'),
-                maxLines: 1,
-                overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
-                style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white, fontSize: 12, fontWeight: FontWeight.w600)),
-          Text(time,
-              key: const ValueKey('seek-hover-time'),
-              style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white70, fontSize: 11)),
-        ],
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// [ChapterSeekBar] on a live player: position, duration and buffer from
-/// its streams. Seeks go to `player.seek`, which the session's
-/// `SyncPlayer` turns into user seeks.
-class PlayerSeekBar extends StatefulWidget {
-  final Player player;
-  final List<MediaChapter> chapters;
-  const PlayerSeekBar({super.key, required this.player, required this.chapters});
-
-  @override
-  State<PlayerSeekBar> createState() => _PlayerSeekBarState();
-}
-
-class _PlayerSeekBarState extends State<PlayerSeekBar> {
-  final List<StreamSubscription<Object>> _subs = [];
-  late Duration _position, _duration, _buffer;
-
-  @override
-  void initState() {
-    super.initState();
-    _listen();
-  }
-
-  @override
-  void didUpdateWidget(PlayerSeekBar old) {
-    super.didUpdateWidget(old);
-    if (!identical(old.player, widget.player)) {
-      _cancel();
-      _listen();
-    }
-  }
-
-  void _listen() {
-    final p = widget.player;
-    _position = p.state.position;
-    _duration = p.state.duration;
-    _buffer = p.state.buffer;
-    void set(VoidCallback f) {
-      if (mounted) setState(f);
-    }
-
-    _subs.addAll([
-      p.stream.position.listen((d) => set(() => _position = d)),
-      p.stream.duration.listen((d) => set(() => _duration = d)),
-      p.stream.buffer.listen((d) => set(() => _buffer = d)),
-    ]);
-  }
-
-  void _cancel() {
-    for (final s in _subs) {
-      s.cancel();
-    }
-    _subs.clear();
-  }
-
-  @override
-  void dispose() {
-    _cancel();
-    super.dispose();
-  }
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return ChapterSeekBar(
-      position: _position,
-      duration: _duration,
-      buffer: _buffer,
-      chapters: widget.chapters,
-      onSeek: (d) => widget.player.seek(d),
-      onActivity: () => keepVideoControlsAwake(context),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-RelativeRect _menuPosition(BuildContext context) {
-  final button = context.findRenderObject() as RenderBox;
-  final overlay = Navigator.of(context).overlay!.context.findRenderObject() as RenderBox;
-  return RelativeRect.fromRect(
-    Rect.fromPoints(
-      button.localToGlobal(Offset.zero, ancestor: overlay),
-      button.localToGlobal(button.size.bottomRight(Offset.zero), ancestor: overlay),
-    ),
-    Offset.zero & overlay.size,
-  );
-}
-
-/// Control-bar icon with a small count in the corner.
-class _BadgedIcon extends StatelessWidget {
-  final IconData icon;
-  final int count;
-  const _BadgedIcon(this.icon, this.count);
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return Stack(
-      clipBehavior: Clip.none,
-      children: [
-        Icon(icon),
-        if (count > 0)
-          Positioned(
-            right: -7,
-            top: -5,
-            child: Container(
-              padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 4, vertical: 0.5),
-              decoration: BoxDecoration(
-                color: Theme.of(context).colorScheme.primary,
-                borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(999),
-              ),
-              child: Text('$count',
-                  style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white, fontSize: 9, fontWeight: FontWeight.bold)),
-            ),
-          ),
-      ],
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Chapter list for the controls: current chapter checked, a pick seeks
-/// to its start. Nothing when the file has no chapters.
-class ChaptersControlButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final List<MediaChapter> chapters;
-  final int? current;
-  final ValueChanged<MediaChapter> onPick;
-  final FocusNode? focusNode;
-  final ValueChanged<bool>? onMenuOpen;
-  const ChaptersControlButton({
-    super.key,
-    required this.chapters,
-    required this.current,
-    required this.onPick,
-    this.focusNode,
-    this.onMenuOpen,
-  });
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    if (chapters.isEmpty) return const SizedBox.shrink();
-    return Tooltip(
-      message: 'Chapters (PgUp / PgDn)',
-      child: IconButton(
-        key: const ValueKey('chapters-button'),
-        focusNode: focusNode,
-        color: Colors.white,
-        iconSize: 20,
-        visualDensity: VisualDensity.compact,
-        icon: _BadgedIcon(Icons.format_list_bulleted, chapters.length),
-        onPressed: () => _open(context),
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-
-  Future<void> _open(BuildContext context) async {
-    final position = _menuPosition(context);
-    onMenuOpen?.call(true);
-    final pick = await showMenu<MediaChapter>(
-      context: context,
-      position: position,
-      popUpAnimationStyle: AnimationStyle.noAnimation,
-      constraints: const BoxConstraints(minWidth: 240, maxWidth: 420),
-      items: [
-        for (final c in chapters)
-          CheckedPopupMenuItem(
-            value: c,
-            checked: c.index == current,
-            height: 36,
-            child: Row(
-              children: [
-                Expanded(
-                  child: Text(c.title.isEmpty ? 'Chapter ${c.index + 1}' : c.title,
-                      maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis),
-                ),
-                const SizedBox(width: 12),
-                Text(formatClock(c.start), style: const TextStyle(fontSize: 12, color: Colors.grey)),
-              ],
-            ),
-          ),
-      ],
-    );
-    onMenuOpen?.call(false);
-    if (pick != null) onPick(pick);
-  }
-}
-
-/// A track pick from [TrackMenuButton]: audio id, subtitle id, or off.
-typedef TrackPick = ({int? aid, int? sid, bool subtitlesOff});
-
-/// Audio or subtitle menu for the controls bar (the count of tracks on the
-/// icon): "Japanese · E-AC3 2.0 · title", mpv's selection checked,
-/// subtitles with Off. The choice is remembered for the next Jellyfin item
-/// (per viewer).
-class TrackMenuButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final JellyfinStreamType type;
-  /// All tracks; only those of [type] are listed.
-  final List<MpvTrack> tracks;
-  final void Function(TrackPick pick) onPick;
-  final FocusNode? focusNode;
-  final ValueChanged<bool>? onMenuOpen;
-  const TrackMenuButton({
-    super.key,
-    required this.type,
-    required this.tracks,
-    required this.onPick,
-    this.focusNode,
-    this.onMenuOpen,
-  });
-
-  bool get _audio => type == JellyfinStreamType.audio;
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final list = tracks.where((t) => t.type == type).toList();
-    return Tooltip(
-      message: _audio ? 'Audio' : 'Subtitles',
-      child: IconButton(
-        key: ValueKey(_audio ? 'audio-button' : 'subtitles-button'),
-        focusNode: focusNode,
-        color: Colors.white,
-        iconSize: 20,
-        visualDensity: VisualDensity.compact,
-        icon: _BadgedIcon(_audio ? Icons.audiotrack_outlined : Icons.subtitles_outlined, list.length),
-        onPressed: () => _open(context, list),
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-
-  Future<void> _open(BuildContext context, List<MpvTrack> list) async {
-    final position = _menuPosition(context);
-    onMenuOpen?.call(true);
-    final pick = await showMenu<TrackPick>(
-      context: context,
-      position: position,
-      popUpAnimationStyle: AnimationStyle.noAnimation,
-      constraints: const BoxConstraints(minWidth: 280, maxWidth: 460),
-      items: [
-        if (!_audio)
-          CheckedPopupMenuItem(
-            value: (aid: null, sid: null, subtitlesOff: true),
-            checked: !list.any((t) => t.selected),
-            height: 36,
-            child: const Text('Off'),
-          ),
-        if (_audio && list.isEmpty)
-          const PopupMenuItem(enabled: false, height: 32, child: Text('None')),
-        for (final t in list)
-          CheckedPopupMenuItem(
-            value: _audio
-                ? (aid: t.id, sid: null, subtitlesOff: false)
-                : (aid: null, sid: t.id, subtitlesOff: false),
-            checked: t.selected,
-            height: 36,
-            child: Text(t.label, maxLines: 1, overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis),
-          ),
-      ],
-    );
-    onMenuOpen?.call(false);
-    if (pick != null) onPick(pick);
-  }
-}
-
-/// "1:30" in the controls: skip forward [fallbackSkip] (Shift+Right).
-class SkipForwardButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final VoidCallback onPressed;
-  final FocusNode? focusNode;
-  const SkipForwardButton({super.key, required this.onPressed, this.focusNode});
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    return Tooltip(
-      message: 'Skip 1:30 for everyone (Shift+Right)',
-      child: TextButton.icon(
-        key: const ValueKey('skip-forward-button'),
-        focusNode: focusNode,
-        style: TextButton.styleFrom(
-          foregroundColor: Colors.white,
-          padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 8),
-          tapTargetSize: MaterialTapTargetSize.shrinkWrap,
-        ),
-        onPressed: onPressed,
-        icon: const Icon(Icons.fast_forward_rounded, size: 16),
-        label: const Text('1:30', style: TextStyle(fontSize: 12)),
-      ),
-    );
-  }
-}
-
-/// Floating pill over the video (Next episode, Skip OP / ED / 1:30):
-/// faint at rest, lit on hover. Lives outside the auto-hiding controls, so
-/// it shows in fullscreen and with the controls hidden.
 class FloatingPill extends StatefulWidget {
+  /// Every action pill's height: the status pill's without avatars.
+  static const height = 44.0;
   final String label;
   final String tooltip;
   final IconData icon;
@@ -540,7 +25,7 @@ class FloatingPill extends StatefulWidget {
     required this.label,
     required this.tooltip,
     required this.onPressed,
-    this.icon = Icons.chevron_right,
+    this.icon = Icons.chevron_right_rounded,
     this.tapKey,
   });
 
@@ -553,38 +38,31 @@ class _FloatingPillState extends State<FloatingPill> {
 
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final primary = Theme.of(context).colorScheme.primary;
+    const fade = Duration(milliseconds: 150);
     return MouseRegion(
       cursor: SystemMouseCursors.click,
       onEnter: (_) => setState(() => _hover = true),
       onExit: (_) => setState(() => _hover = false),
       child: Tooltip(
         message: widget.tooltip,
-        child: AnimatedScale(
+        child: AnimatedOpacity(
-          duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 150),
+          duration: fade,
-          scale: _hover ? 1.06 : 1,
+          opacity: _hover ? 1 : 0.45,
-          child: AnimatedOpacity(
+          child: GestureDetector(
-            duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 150),
+            key: widget.tapKey,
-            opacity: _hover ? 1 : 0.45,
+            onTap: widget.onPressed,
-            child: GestureDetector(
+            child: AppGlass.pill(
-              key: widget.tapKey,
-              onTap: widget.onPressed,
               child: AnimatedContainer(
-                duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 150),
+                duration: fade,
-                padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 16, vertical: 9),
+                height: FloatingPill.height,
-                decoration: BoxDecoration(
+                padding: const EdgeInsets.only(left: 16, right: 12),
-                  color: Colors.black.withValues(alpha: 0.75),
+                color: _hover ? Colors.white12 : Colors.transparent,
-                  borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(999),
-                  border: Border.all(color: _hover ? primary : Colors.white24),
-                  boxShadow: _hover
-                      ? [BoxShadow(color: primary.withValues(alpha: 0.45), blurRadius: 16)]
-                      : const [],
-                ),
                 child: Row(
                   mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
                   children: [
-                    Text(widget.label, style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white, fontSize: 13)),
+                    Text(widget.label,
-                    const SizedBox(width: 4),
+                        style: const TextStyle(color: Colors.white, fontSize: 14, fontWeight: FontWeight.w600)),
+                    const SizedBox(width: 6),
                     Icon(widget.icon, color: Colors.white, size: 18),
                   ],
                 ),

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/app_events.dart

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+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show FeedMessage;
+
+// Everything that may become a toast, a sound, an attention request or an
+// activity-log line, as one sealed type. Code that has news emits an
+// event ([Notifier.notify]); only the notifier decides what the user sees
+// and hears. Pure Dart (no Flutter): it can move to core with the policy.
+
+sealed class AppEvent {
+  const AppEvent();
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------- feed
+
+/// A server `feed` line (see PROTOCOL.md, `feed.action`); every one lands
+/// in the activity log.
+sealed class FeedEvent extends AppEvent {
+  final FeedMessage feed;
+  const FeedEvent(this.feed);
+
+  String get actor => feed.actor;
+
+  /// [feed] as its typed event. [selfName]: this member's name (the feed
+  /// names members by name); [readyCount]: members ready in the latest
+  /// state (the pitch of a `ready` sound).
+  factory FeedEvent.of(FeedMessage f, {String? selfName, int readyCount = 0}) => switch (f.action) {
+        'join' => MemberJoined(f),
+        'leave' => MemberLeft(f),
+        'stale' => MemberStale(f),
+        'out' => MemberSatOut(f, atYou: f.target != null && f.target == selfName && f.actor != selfName),
+        'back' => MemberBack(f),
+        'ready' => ReadyChanged(f, ready: true, readyIndex: readyCount),
+        'unready' => ReadyChanged(f, ready: false),
+        'force-ready' => ForcedReady(f, ready: true),
+        'force-unready' => ForcedReady(f, ready: false),
+        'force-play' => ForcedTransport(f, play: true),
+        'force-hold' => ForcedTransport(f, play: false),
+        'swap' => MediaSwapped(f),
+        'seek' => Seeked(f),
+        'pause' => Paused(f),
+        'resume' => Resumed(f),
+        'finished' => Finished(f),
+        'chat' => ChatPosted(f, own: f.actor == selfName),
+        'rename' => MemberRenamed(f),
+        'avatar' => AvatarChanged(f),
+        'queue-add' => QueueAdded(f),
+        'queue-remove' => QueueRemoved(f),
+        'queue-skip' => QueueSkipped(f),
+        'fetch-fail' => FetchFailed(f),
+        _ => OtherFeed(f),
+      };
+}
+
+class MemberJoined extends FeedEvent {
+  const MemberJoined(super.feed);
+}
+
+class MemberLeft extends FeedEvent {
+  const MemberLeft(super.feed);
+}
+
+class MemberStale extends FeedEvent {
+  const MemberStale(super.feed);
+}
+
+/// Someone sat out (`target` sat out by `actor`); [atYou]: someone else
+/// sat this member out.
+class MemberSatOut extends FeedEvent {
+  final bool atYou;
+  const MemberSatOut(super.feed, {this.atYou = false});
+}
+
+class MemberBack extends FeedEvent {
+  const MemberBack(super.feed);
+}
+
+class ReadyChanged extends FeedEvent {
+  final bool ready;
+  /// Members ready when it came (pitch of the ready sound).
+  final int readyIndex;
+  const ReadyChanged(super.feed, {required this.ready, this.readyIndex = 0});
+}
+
+class ForcedReady extends FeedEvent {
+  final bool ready;
+  const ForcedReady(super.feed, {required this.ready});
+}
+
+/// Force play / hold.
+class ForcedTransport extends FeedEvent {
+  final bool play;
+  const ForcedTransport(super.feed, {required this.play});
+}
+
+class MediaSwapped extends FeedEvent {
+  const MediaSwapped(super.feed);
+}
+
+class Seeked extends FeedEvent {
+  const Seeked(super.feed);
+}
+
+class Paused extends FeedEvent {
+  const Paused(super.feed);
+}
+
+class Resumed extends FeedEvent {
+  const Resumed(super.feed);
+}
+
+class Finished extends FeedEvent {
+  const Finished(super.feed);
+}
+
+/// A chat message (`reason` carries the text); [own]: this member sent it.
+class ChatPosted extends FeedEvent {
+  final bool own;
+  const ChatPosted(super.feed, {this.own = false});
+}
+
+class MemberRenamed extends FeedEvent {
+  const MemberRenamed(super.feed);
+}
+
+class AvatarChanged extends FeedEvent {
+  const AvatarChanged(super.feed);
+}
+
+class QueueAdded extends FeedEvent {
+  const QueueAdded(super.feed);
+}
+
+class QueueRemoved extends FeedEvent {
+  const QueueRemoved(super.feed);
+}
+
+/// Up next skipped an item (`target` its title, `reason` why).
+class QueueSkipped extends FeedEvent {
+  const QueueSkipped(super.feed);
+}
+
+/// The server could not fetch the current media.
+class FetchFailed extends FeedEvent {
+  const FetchFailed(super.feed);
+}
+
+/// An action this app does not know (a newer server).
+class OtherFeed extends FeedEvent {
+  const OtherFeed(super.feed);
+}
+
+// -------------------------------------------------------------- session
+
+/// Someone poked this member.
+class Nudged extends AppEvent {
+  /// Their name; '' when unknown.
+  final String name;
+  const Nudged(this.name);
+}
+
+/// Another member's player cannot open the current media.
+class MemberCantPlay extends AppEvent {
+  final String name;
+  final String error;
+  const MemberCantPlay(this.name, this.error);
+}
+
+/// This member passes the video on slower than it plays.
+class SlowSource extends AppEvent {
+  final String text;
+  const SlowSource(this.text);
+}
+
+/// This member started passing the video on through the server.
+class RelayStarted extends AppEvent {
+  const RelayStarted();
+}
+
+class RelayFailed extends AppEvent {
+  final String error;
+  const RelayFailed(this.error);
+}
+
+/// Idle: auto-unready (or sit-out, [sitsOut]) in 2 minutes.
+class IdleWarning extends AppEvent {
+  final bool sitsOut;
+  const IdleWarning({required this.sitsOut});
+}
+
+/// The connection to the server dropped (once per drop).
+class ConnectionLost extends AppEvent {
+  const ConnectionLost();
+}
+
+/// It came back after [ConnectionLost].
+class ConnectionBack extends AppEvent {
+  const ConnectionBack();
+}
+
+/// Jellyfin progress reports fail (once per media).
+class JellyfinProgressFailed extends AppEvent {
+  final bool signInExpired;
+  const JellyfinProgressFailed({required this.signInExpired});
+}
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------ app
+
+/// The player's shader message (a preset change, shaders turned off).
+class ShaderMessage extends AppEvent {
+  final String text;
+  const ShaderMessage(this.text);
+}
+
+/// This app added an item to Up next.
+class AddedToUpNext extends AppEvent {
+  final String title;
+  const AddedToUpNext(this.title);
+}
+
+/// Putting something up or adding it to Up next failed ([text]: why).
+class ActionFailed extends AppEvent {
+  final String text;
+  const ActionFailed(this.text);
+}
+
+/// The Schedule tab's request results and errors.
+class ScheduleResult extends AppEvent {
+  final String text;
+  const ScheduleResult(this.text);
+}
+
+/// "Mark a problem" done; [inSession]: in the server's session log.
+class ProblemMarked extends AppEvent {
+  final bool inSession;
+  const ProblemMarked({required this.inSession});
+}
+
+/// Something went on the clipboard ([text]: the confirmation, e.g.
+/// "Link copied").
+class Copied extends AppEvent {
+  final String text;
+  const Copied(this.text);
+}
+
+class CopyFailed extends AppEvent {
+  const CopyFailed();
+}
+
+/// A newer release is out (the update band shows it).
+class UpdateAvailable extends AppEvent {
+  final String version;
+  const UpdateAvailable(this.version);
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/connection.dart

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+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart' show debugPrint;
+import 'package:signals/signals_core.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../screens/home/ui.dart' show appName, displayVersion;
+import '../state/settings.dart';
+import '../sync/sync_client.dart';
+import 'app_events.dart';
+
+/// Thrown when a connect is superseded by cancel/leave before it finished.
+class ConnectCancelled implements Exception {
+  const ConnectCancelled();
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'connection cancelled';
+}
+
+class ConnectParams {
+  final String host;
+  final int port;
+  final String secret;
+  final String name;
+  final String avatar;
+  final String mediaPath;
+  final String linkUrl;
+  /// Sent in hello by the hosting app's own client (see AppConfig.hostKey).
+  final String hostKey;
+  /// Put up with a `swap` right after joining (a Jellyfin ref or a link);
+  /// wins over [linkUrl].
+  final HelloMedia? media;
+  const ConnectParams({
+    required this.host,
+    required this.port,
+    required this.secret,
+    required this.name,
+    this.avatar = '',
+    this.mediaPath = '',
+    this.linkUrl = '',
+    this.hostKey = '',
+    this.media,
+  });
+
+  ConnectParams withMedia(HelloMedia? media) => ConnectParams(
+        host: host,
+        port: port,
+        secret: secret,
+        name: name,
+        avatar: avatar,
+        mediaPath: mediaPath,
+        linkUrl: media == null ? linkUrl : '',
+        hostKey: hostKey,
+        media: media,
+      );
+
+  ConnectParams withProfile({String? name, String? avatar}) => ConnectParams(
+        host: host,
+        port: port,
+        secret: secret,
+        name: name ?? this.name,
+        avatar: avatar ?? this.avatar,
+        mediaPath: mediaPath,
+        linkUrl: linkUrl,
+        hostKey: hostKey,
+        media: media,
+      );
+}
+
+/// Where the [Connection] is. Each change is a new value (a repeat is
+/// notified too).
+sealed class ConnState {
+  const ConnState();
+
+  /// The reconnect loop runs ([ConnLost] or [ConnReconnecting]).
+  bool get retrying => false;
+}
+
+/// Not connected and not trying: before the first connect, after leave,
+/// cancel or "stop reconnecting".
+final class ConnClosed extends ConnState {
+  const ConnClosed();
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'closed';
+}
+
+/// The first dial of a session (hello sent, waiting for welcome).
+final class ConnConnecting extends ConnState {
+  const ConnConnecting();
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'connecting';
+}
+
+/// Welcome received.
+final class ConnOnline extends ConnState {
+  const ConnOnline();
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'online';
+}
+
+/// Dropped (the socket closed, or no state for [Connection.silenceLimit]);
+/// the next attempt is scheduled.
+final class ConnLost extends ConnState {
+  const ConnLost();
+  @override
+  bool get retrying => true;
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'lost';
+}
+
+/// Reconnect attempt [attempt] (1 is the first after the drop) is
+/// dialling; after it failed it stays until the next one, unless the
+/// socket's close said [ConnLost] meanwhile.
+final class ConnReconnecting extends ConnState {
+  final int attempt;
+  const ConnReconnecting(this.attempt);
+  @override
+  bool get retrying => true;
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'reconnecting($attempt)';
+}
+
+/// The first dial failed; nothing retries. [code]: `version` or `secret`
+/// when the server said so, else empty (offline, timeout, anything else);
+/// [message]: in plain words ([connectErrorText]).
+final class ConnRefused extends ConnState {
+  final String code;
+  final String message;
+  const ConnRefused(this.code, this.message);
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'refused($code: $message)';
+}
+
+/// Another socket took this member over. Not produced yet (protocol 16
+/// adds the `replaced` refusal).
+final class ConnReplaced extends ConnState {
+  const ConnReplaced();
+  @override
+  String toString() => 'replaced';
+}
+
+/// A failed dial in plain words.
+String connectErrorText(Object e) {
+  final msg = '$e';
+  if (msg.contains('proto mismatch')) return 'host runs a different version — update the app';
+  if (msg.contains('wrong secret')) return 'wrong server password (401)';
+  if (msg.contains('SocketException') || msg.contains('Connection refused')) {
+    return 'host offline — check address and port';
+  }
+  return 'connect failed: $e';
+}
+
+ConnRefused _refused(Object e) {
+  final msg = '$e';
+  final code = msg.contains('proto mismatch')
+      ? 'version'
+      : msg.contains('wrong secret')
+          ? 'secret'
+          : '';
+  return ConnRefused(code, connectErrorText(e));
+}
+
+/// Builds the `hello` for [params]. Injectable so later protocol versions
+/// add fields without changing [Connection].
+typedef HelloBuilder = HelloMessage Function(ConnectParams params);
+
+/// Today's hello.
+HelloMessage defaultHello(ConnectParams params) => HelloMessage(
+      proto: RelayConstants.protoVersion,
+      secret: params.secret,
+      user: HelloUser(name: params.name, avatar: params.avatar),
+      media: const HelloMedia(name: '', size: 0, duration: 0),
+      hostKey: params.hostKey,
+    );
+
+/// The session's part of a reconnect: called right before an attempt
+/// dials (read what to restore then; the welcome's state replaces it). The
+/// function it returns runs once that attempt is online; [stale] turns
+/// true when a cancel, retry, leave or new connect superseded it. An error
+/// there counts as a failed attempt.
+typedef ReconnectHandler = Future<void> Function(WelcomeMessage welcome, bool Function() stale) Function();
+
+/// The link to the server: the [SyncClient] socket, the first connect,
+/// reconnects ([reconnectDelay] between attempts, the previous token
+/// offered as `resume`, epochs that make a cancelled attempt stale), the
+/// "no state for [silenceLimit] = lost" policy, the 1 s heartbeat (clock
+/// ping, diagnostics), the connection lost/back events and [state]. What
+/// a reconnect restores in the session is the [onReconnect] handler's.
+class Connection {
+  final SyncClient client;
+  /// Where [ConnectionLost] / [ConnectionBack] go (the Notifier).
+  final void Function(AppEvent event) _notify;
+  /// Builds each dial's hello.
+  final HelloBuilder hello;
+  /// Wait before each reconnect attempt.
+  final Duration reconnectDelay;
+  /// No state broadcast for this long means the connection is lost.
+  final Duration silenceLimit;
+
+  Connection(
+      {void Function(AppEvent event)? notify,
+      SyncClient? client,
+      this.hello = defaultHello,
+      this.reconnectDelay = const Duration(milliseconds: 1500),
+      this.silenceLimit = const Duration(seconds: 5)})
+      : _notify = notify ?? ((_) {}),
+        client = client ?? SyncClient() {
+    _subs = [
+      this.client.status.listen(_onStatus),
+      this.client.states.listen((_) => _lastStateAt = DateTime.now().toUtc()),
+    ];
+  }
+
+  late final List<StreamSubscription> _subs;
+
+  final _state = signal<ConnState>(const ConnClosed());
+  /// Every change is notified, a repeat too.
+  ReadonlySignal<ConnState> get state => _state;
+
+  /// Set by the session (see [ReconnectHandler]).
+  ReconnectHandler? onReconnect;
+
+  /// This app's log lines to the server's session log (Settings: "Share
+  /// diagnostics with the server"), and "Mark a problem". Runs from
+  /// [begin] to [close].
+  late final DiagUploader diag = DiagUploader(
+      target: _diagTarget, version: '$appName ${displayVersion()} on ${Platform.operatingSystem}');
+
+  DiagTarget? _diagTarget() {
+    final uri = client.wsUri;
+    if (client.token.isEmpty || uri == null || !client.clockSync.hasSample) return null;
+    return (base: DiagUploader.baseOf(uri), token: client.token, offsetMs: client.clockSync.offsetMs);
+  }
+
+  /// No state broadcast for [silenceLimit] (checked every second while not
+  /// closed): what the server said is stale. Synchronous, before [state]
+  /// goes lost.
+  Stream<void> get silence => _silence.stream;
+  final _silence = StreamController<void>.broadcast(sync: true);
+
+  ConnectParams? _params;
+  /// The last connect's parameters (with [updateProfile]'s changes); a
+  /// reconnect dials with them.
+  ConnectParams? get params => _params;
+
+  // Bumped by every connect/leave/cancel/retry: stale attempts no-op.
+  int _epoch = 0;
+  Timer? _reconnectTimer;
+  Timer? _heartbeat;
+  // Set by close/cancel: no reconnect, no lost detection.
+  bool _closed = false;
+  bool _everOnline = false;
+  /// The connection-lost sound played; the reconnected one answers it once.
+  bool _lostSounded = false;
+  // Token of the current connection, offered as `resume` on reconnect.
+  String _resumeToken = '';
+  DateTime? _lastStateAt;
+  int _attempt = 0;
+
+  // The socket and what the server said, read through.
+  Stream<StateBroadcast> get states => client.states;
+  /// Feed entries, chat included.
+  Stream<FeedMessage> get feeds => client.feeds;
+  Stream<NudgeNotice> get nudges => client.nudges;
+  /// `err` frames after the welcome.
+  Stream<String> get errors => client.errors;
+  String get token => client.token;
+  String get memberId => client.memberId;
+  /// This member's `/j/...` URL from `welcome`.
+  String? get relayUrl => client.relayUrl;
+  StateBroadcast? get lastState => client.lastState;
+  /// Now on the server's clock (the ping/pong clock offset).
+  DateTime serverNow() => client.serverNow();
+
+  void sendReady(bool ready, {String source = 'manual'}) => client.sendReady(ready, source: source);
+  void sendForce(String target, bool ready) => client.sendForce(target, ready);
+  void sendSeek(double position, {int seq = 0}) => client.sendSeek(position, seq: seq);
+  void sendSwap(HelloMedia media, {String? queueId}) => client.sendSwap(media, queueId: queueId);
+  void sendQueue(QueueIntent intent) => client.sendQueue(intent);
+  void sendReport({
+    required double position,
+    required double buffered,
+    required int eventId,
+    double duration = 0,
+    int mediaId = 0,
+    Map<String, bool>? jf,
+    String error = '',
+  }) =>
+      client.sendReport(
+          position: position,
+          buffered: buffered,
+          eventId: eventId,
+          duration: duration,
+          mediaId: mediaId,
+          jf: jf,
+          error: error);
+  void sendChat(String text) => client.sendChat(text);
+  void sendArt(int mediaId, {String? poster, String? banner}) =>
+      client.sendArt(mediaId, poster: poster, banner: banner);
+  void sendOut(String target, bool out) => client.sendOut(target, out);
+  void sendNudge(String target) => client.sendNudge(target);
+
+  /// Name and/or picture change for everyone now; reconnects send them too.
+  void updateProfile({String? name, String? avatar}) {
+    _params = _params?.withProfile(name: name, avatar: avatar);
+    client.sendProfile(name: name, avatar: avatar);
+  }
+
+  /// A new epoch: attempts in flight become stale, a scheduled reconnect
+  /// is dropped. Returns it.
+  int invalidate() {
+    _epoch++;
+    _reconnectTimer?.cancel();
+    _reconnectTimer = null;
+    return _epoch;
+  }
+
+  /// False once a cancel, retry, leave or new connect followed [epoch].
+  bool isCurrent(int epoch) => epoch == _epoch;
+
+  /// A new session with [params]: forgets the last one's resume token and
+  /// starts the diagnostics. [dial] connects.
+  void begin(ConnectParams params) {
+    _params = params;
+    _closed = false;
+    _everOnline = false;
+    _lostSounded = false;
+    _resumeToken = '';
+    _attempt = 0;
+    diag
+      ..share = AppSettings.instance.shareDiagnostics.peek()
+      ..start();
+  }
+
+  /// The first dial of the session [begin] started. Throws
+  /// [ConnectCancelled] when [epoch] went stale meanwhile (whoever bumped
+  /// it also closed the socket); any other failure leaves [state] refused.
+  Future<WelcomeMessage> dial(int epoch) async {
+    final params = _params!;
+    _set(const ConnConnecting());
+    try {
+      final welcome = await client.connectWith(wsUri: _wsUri(params), hello: hello(params));
+      if (epoch != _epoch) throw const ConnectCancelled();
+      _online();
+      return welcome;
+    } catch (e) {
+      if (epoch != _epoch) throw const ConnectCancelled();
+      debugPrint('connect failed: $e');
+      _set(_refused(e));
+      rethrow;
+    }
+  }
+
+  static Uri _wsUri(ConnectParams p) => Uri.parse('ws://${p.host}:${p.port}/sync');
+
+  /// [hello] offering the previous connection's token.
+  HelloMessage _resumeHello(ConnectParams params) {
+    final h = hello(params);
+    return HelloMessage(
+        proto: h.proto, secret: h.secret, user: h.user, media: h.media, hostKey: h.hostKey, resume: _resumeToken);
+  }
+
+  void _online() {
+    _attempt = 0;
+    _everOnline = true;
+    if (_lostSounded) {
+      _lostSounded = false;
+      _notify(const ConnectionBack());
+    }
+    _resumeToken = client.token;
+    _lastStateAt = DateTime.now().toUtc();
+    _set(const ConnOnline());
+    _startHeartbeat();
+  }
+
+  void _set(ConnState s) => _state.set(s, force: true);
+
+  void _onStatus(SyncStatus s) {
+    // Before the first welcome a close is just the dial failing.
+    if (s != SyncStatus.closed || _closed || !_everOnline) return;
+    _dropped();
+  }
+
+  /// Lost (said again while already retrying), the lost sound once per
+  /// drop, and a reconnect unless one is already scheduled or dialling.
+  void _dropped() {
+    if (_state.peek().retrying) {
+      _set(const ConnLost());
+    } else {
+      scheduleReconnect();
+    }
+    _soundLost();
+  }
+
+  void _startHeartbeat() {
+    _heartbeat?.cancel();
+    _heartbeat = Timer.periodic(const Duration(seconds: 1), (_) => _beat());
+  }
+
+  /// Every second while connected: a clock sample, the diagnostics, and
+  /// the silence check.
+  void _beat() {
+    final now = DateTime.now().toUtc();
+    if (client.token.isNotEmpty) client.sendPing();
+    diag
+      ..share = AppSettings.instance.shareDiagnostics.peek()
+      ..tick();
+    final last = _lastStateAt;
+    if (!_closed && last != null && now.difference(last) >= silenceLimit) {
+      _silence.add(null);
+      if (!_state.peek().retrying) _dropped();
+    }
+  }
+
+  void _soundLost() {
+    if (!_everOnline || _lostSounded) return;
+    _lostSounded = true;
+    _notify(const ConnectionLost());
+  }
+
+  /// Reconnect after [reconnectDelay] ([state] lost), unless closed,
+  /// never online (unless [manual]) or already retrying.
+  void scheduleReconnect({bool manual = false}) {
+    if (_closed || _params == null) return;
+    if (!manual && !_everOnline) return;
+    if (_state.peek().retrying) return;
+    _set(const ConnLost());
+    _armReconnect();
+  }
+
+  void _armReconnect() {
+    final epoch = _epoch;
+    _reconnectTimer?.cancel();
+    _reconnectTimer = Timer(reconnectDelay, () => _reconnect(epoch));
+  }
+
+  /// One reconnect attempt. An attempt from an older epoch must not touch
+  /// state (it would kill the newer connection and leave a ghost member).
+  Future<void> _reconnect(int epoch) async {
+    _reconnectTimer = null;
+    bool stale() => epoch != _epoch;
+    final params = _params;
+    if (stale() || params == null || _closed) return;
+    final after = onReconnect?.call();
+    try {
+      _set(ConnReconnecting(++_attempt));
+      final welcome = await client.connectWith(wsUri: _wsUri(params), hello: _resumeHello(params));
+      // Whoever bumped the epoch also closed (or replaced) the socket.
+      if (stale()) return;
+      _online();
+      if (after != null) await after(welcome, stale);
+    } catch (e) {
+      if (stale()) return;
+      debugPrint('reconnect failed: $e');
+      _retryAfterFailure(e);
+    }
+  }
+
+  void _retryAfterFailure(Object e) {
+    if (_closed) {
+      _set(const ConnClosed());
+    } else if (!_everOnline) {
+      // Only a manual retry before any welcome gets here.
+      _set(_refused(e));
+    } else {
+      if (!_state.peek().retrying) _set(const ConnLost());
+      _armReconnect();
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// "Stop reconnecting": no more attempts; one dialling is aborted.
+  void cancelReconnect() {
+    _halt();
+    unawaited(client.disconnect().catchError((_) {}));
+  }
+
+  /// Cancel during setup: aborts the dial.
+  Future<void> cancelConnect() async {
+    _halt();
+    try {
+      await client.disconnect();
+    } catch (_) {}
+  }
+
+  void _halt() {
+    _closed = true;
+    invalidate();
+    _heartbeat?.cancel();
+    _heartbeat = null;
+    _set(const ConnClosed());
+  }
+
+  /// "Retry": a reconnect after [reconnectDelay] whatever the state.
+  /// False without a session to retry.
+  bool retry() {
+    if (_params == null) return false;
+    invalidate();
+    _closed = false;
+    _set(const ConnClosed());
+    scheduleReconnect(manual: true);
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  /// No more reconnects or silence checks, [state] closed; the socket
+  /// stays until [close] (the session's last words still go out).
+  void stop() {
+    _closed = true;
+    _reconnectTimer?.cancel();
+    _reconnectTimer = null;
+    _heartbeat?.cancel();
+    _heartbeat = null;
+    _set(const ConnClosed());
+  }
+
+  /// [stop], the last diagnostics (before the token goes), the socket.
+  Future<void> close() async {
+    stop();
+    await diag.stop();
+    try {
+      await client.disconnect();
+    } catch (_) {}
+  }
+
+  Future<void> dispose() async {
+    stop();
+    for (final s in _subs) {
+      await s.cancel();
+    }
+    await _silence.close();
+    await client.dispose();
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/delivery.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,309 @@
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
+
+import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
+
+// Who fetches the current media and how it spreads, from the state alone:
+// the members card's source line and each member's route and buffer.
+
+/// "4.1 MB/s", "850 kB/s".
+String formatRate(int bytesPerSec) {
+  if (bytesPerSec >= 1000000) {
+    final mb = bytesPerSec / 1e6;
+    return '${mb.toStringAsFixed(mb >= 10 ? 0 : 1)} MB/s';
+  }
+  return '${(bytesPerSec / 1000).round()} kB/s';
+}
+
+/// How the current media reaches the party.
+enum DeliveryKind {
+  /// A link every app opens itself.
+  link,
+  /// The hosting app's file, read by everyone from its server.
+  hostFile,
+  /// A file the dedicated server was started with.
+  serverFile,
+  /// A member's machine passes it on through the server.
+  memberRelay,
+  /// The server reads the link itself.
+  serverFetch,
+  /// Jellyfin: own accounts, the server's login for the rest.
+  jellyfin,
+}
+
+/// How a member gets the bytes.
+enum DeliveryRoute {
+  /// It serves them (a relay source, the host's file).
+  source,
+  /// It reads them from the server.
+  server,
+  /// It fetches them itself (a link, its own Jellyfin account).
+  direct,
+}
+
+enum BufferHealth { good, low, starving }
+
+/// The relay source's condition.
+enum SourceState {
+  ok,
+  /// Measured slower than the media's bitrate.
+  slow,
+  /// Its channel is down (or the server has not read the link yet).
+  waiting,
+  /// It left the server.
+  left,
+}
+
+/// Members' names by id, kept after they leave: "Foxyz left" needs the
+/// name the state no longer has.
+class MemberNames {
+  final _names = <String, String>{};
+
+  void observe(StateBroadcast r) {
+    if (_names.length > 256) _names.clear();
+    for (final m in r.members) {
+      _names[m.id] = m.name;
+    }
+  }
+
+  String? operator [](String id) => _names[id];
+}
+
+/// The member [m]'s route and buffer.
+class MemberDelivery {
+  /// Null when unknown (a Jellyfin member that has not reported yet).
+  final DeliveryRoute? route;
+  final DeliveryKind kind;
+  /// Bytes per second the server sends it lately.
+  final int rate;
+  /// Null when it does not count: sitting out, reconnecting, cannot play.
+  final BufferHealth? health;
+  final double buffered;
+  /// The media is a Jellyfin item (direct = its own account).
+  final bool jellyfin;
+  const MemberDelivery({
+    required this.route,
+    required this.kind,
+    this.jellyfin = false,
+    required this.rate,
+    required this.health,
+    required this.buffered,
+  });
+
+  /// "via server · 3.2 MB/s", "direct", "passes it on"; empty when unknown.
+  String get short => switch (route) {
+        DeliveryRoute.source => kind == DeliveryKind.hostFile ? 'hosts the file' : 'passes it on',
+        DeliveryRoute.server => rate > 0 ? 'via server · ${formatRate(rate)}' : 'via server',
+        DeliveryRoute.direct => jellyfin ? 'own Jellyfin account' : 'direct',
+        null => '',
+      };
+
+  /// [short] and the buffer: "via server · 3.2 MB/s · 45 s buffered".
+  String get detail => [
+        if (short.isNotEmpty) short,
+        if (health != null) health == BufferHealth.starving ? 'buffer empty' : '${buffered.round()} s buffered',
+      ].join(' · ');
+}
+
+/// The current media's path for everyone: what the members card's source
+/// line says.
+class Delivery {
+  final DeliveryKind kind;
+  /// The member serving it ([DeliveryKind.memberRelay], [DeliveryKind.hostFile]); empty otherwise.
+  final String sourceId;
+  final String sourceName;
+  final bool sourceIsSelf;
+  final SourceState state;
+  /// `media.relay.rate` / `need` (0 unknown).
+  final int rate, need;
+  /// Members (not sitting out, not the source) reading from the server,
+  /// and fetching it themselves.
+  final int viaServer, direct;
+  const Delivery({
+    required this.kind,
+    this.sourceId = '',
+    this.sourceName = '',
+    this.sourceIsSelf = false,
+    this.state = SourceState.ok,
+    this.rate = 0,
+    this.need = 0,
+    this.viaServer = 0,
+    this.direct = 0,
+  });
+
+  bool get relayed => kind == DeliveryKind.memberRelay || kind == DeliveryKind.serverFetch;
+
+  /// Rate against bitrate, both known: 1 = exactly what the media needs.
+  double? get headroom => rate > 0 && need > 0 ? rate / need : null;
+
+  String get title {
+    final who = sourceIsSelf ? 'You' : sourceName;
+    switch (kind) {
+      case DeliveryKind.link:
+        return 'Everyone plays the link directly';
+      case DeliveryKind.serverFile:
+        return 'The server has the file';
+      case DeliveryKind.hostFile:
+        return sourceIsSelf ? 'You host the file' : '$who hosts the file';
+      case DeliveryKind.jellyfin:
+        return viaServer == 0 ? 'Everyone streams it from Jellyfin' : 'From Jellyfin';
+      case DeliveryKind.serverFetch:
+        return switch (state) {
+          SourceState.waiting => 'The server is getting the video…',
+          SourceState.slow => 'The server fetches it slower than it plays',
+          _ => 'The server fetches it',
+        };
+      case DeliveryKind.memberRelay:
+        return switch (state) {
+          SourceState.left => '$sourceName left: playing what the server has',
+          SourceState.waiting => sourceIsSelf ? 'Reconnecting you to the server…' : 'Waiting for $who to reconnect',
+          SourceState.slow => sourceIsSelf ? 'Your upload is slower than the video' : "$who's upload is slower than the video",
+          SourceState.ok => sourceIsSelf ? 'You pass it on through the server' : '$who passes it on through the server',
+        };
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// "3 through the server · 4.1 MB/s, needs 2.3 MB/s"; empty when
+  /// there is nothing to add.
+  String get detail {
+    final parts = <String>[
+      if (direct > 0 && (kind == DeliveryKind.jellyfin || kind == DeliveryKind.memberRelay))
+        '$direct with their own account',
+      if (viaServer > 0 && kind != DeliveryKind.link) '$viaServer through the server',
+      if (rate > 0 && state != SourceState.left) need > 0 ? '${formatRate(rate)}, needs ${formatRate(need)}' : formatRate(rate),
+    ];
+    return parts.join(' · ');
+  }
+
+  /// The hover text: what the numbers mean.
+  String get explain => switch (kind) {
+        DeliveryKind.memberRelay || DeliveryKind.serverFetch => [
+            if (rate > 0)
+              '${kind == DeliveryKind.serverFetch ? 'The server gets' : sourceIsSelf ? 'You send' : '$sourceName sends'} '
+                  '${formatRate(rate)} while the server asks for more.',
+            if (need > 0) 'The video averages ${formatRate(need)}.',
+            if (state == SourceState.slow) 'Slower than the video: the others will pause to buffer.',
+            if (rate == 0) 'The speed shows once bytes have flowed for a few seconds.',
+          ].join(' '),
+        DeliveryKind.hostFile || DeliveryKind.serverFile => 'Everyone else reads the file from the server.',
+        DeliveryKind.jellyfin => 'Members with an account on that Jellyfin stream it themselves; '
+            'the rest through the server.',
+        DeliveryKind.link => 'Each app opens the link itself; the server only keeps time.',
+      };
+}
+
+/// The current media's [Delivery]; null with nothing up or nobody else in
+/// the server. [names] remembers a source that left.
+Delivery? deliveryOf(StateBroadcast r, {required String selfId, MemberNames? names}) {
+  final media = r.media;
+  if (media == null || r.members.length < 2) return null;
+  final rel = media['relay'];
+  final relay = rel is Map ? MediaRelay.fromJson(Map<String, Object?>.from(rel)) : null;
+  final ref = refOfStateMedia(media);
+  final url = media['url'];
+  final kind = relay != null
+      ? (relay.fetch ? DeliveryKind.serverFetch : DeliveryKind.memberRelay)
+      : ref != null
+          ? DeliveryKind.jellyfin
+          : url is String && url.isNotEmpty
+              ? DeliveryKind.link
+              : r.members.any((m) => m.host)
+                  ? DeliveryKind.hostFile
+                  : DeliveryKind.serverFile;
+  final sourceId = switch (kind) {
+    DeliveryKind.memberRelay => relay!.source,
+    DeliveryKind.hostFile => r.members.firstWhere((m) => m.host).id,
+    _ => '',
+  };
+  final source = r.members.where((m) => m.id == sourceId).firstOrNull;
+  var via = 0, direct = 0;
+  for (final m in r.members) {
+    if (m.out || m.id == sourceId) continue;
+    switch (routeOf(m, kind, sourceId, ref, r.relay)) {
+      case DeliveryRoute.server:
+        via++;
+      case DeliveryRoute.direct:
+        direct++;
+      default:
+        break;
+    }
+  }
+  // A Jellyfin item that everyone streams with their own account: the
+  // relay stands by, nothing goes through it.
+  if (kind == DeliveryKind.memberRelay && ref != null && via == 0 && source != null) {
+    return Delivery(kind: DeliveryKind.jellyfin, direct: direct);
+  }
+  final state = relay == null
+      ? SourceState.ok
+      : kind == DeliveryKind.memberRelay && source == null
+          ? SourceState.left
+          : !relay.live
+              ? SourceState.waiting
+              : relay.slow
+                  ? SourceState.slow
+                  : SourceState.ok;
+  return Delivery(
+    kind: kind,
+    sourceId: sourceId,
+    sourceName: source?.name ?? names?[sourceId] ?? 'The member passing it on',
+    sourceIsSelf: sourceId.isNotEmpty && sourceId == selfId,
+    state: state,
+    rate: relay?.rate ?? 0,
+    need: relay?.need ?? 0,
+    viaServer: via,
+    direct: direct,
+  );
+}
+
+/// How [m] gets media of [kind] served by [sourceId]. Jellyfin: by its
+/// last `report.jf` for [ref]'s server ([jellyfinRelay]: the server can
+/// relay it); null before it reported.
+DeliveryRoute? routeOf(MemberView m, DeliveryKind kind, String sourceId, JellyfinRef? ref, bool jellyfinRelay) {
+  if (sourceId.isNotEmpty && m.id == sourceId) return DeliveryRoute.source;
+  switch (kind) {
+    case DeliveryKind.link:
+      return DeliveryRoute.direct;
+    case DeliveryKind.hostFile:
+    case DeliveryKind.serverFile:
+    case DeliveryKind.serverFetch:
+      return DeliveryRoute.server;
+    case DeliveryKind.memberRelay:
+    case DeliveryKind.jellyfin:
+      final own = ref == null ? null : m.jf[ref.serverId];
+      if (own == true) return DeliveryRoute.direct;
+      if (kind == DeliveryKind.memberRelay) return DeliveryRoute.server;
+      return own == false && jellyfinRelay ? DeliveryRoute.server : null;
+  }
+}
+
+/// [m]'s route and buffer for [d] (from [deliveryOf] on [r]).
+MemberDelivery memberDeliveryOf(MemberView m, StateBroadcast r, Delivery d) {
+  final counts = !m.out && !m.stale && m.error.isEmpty;
+  final need = r.bufferNeed;
+  final ref = refOfStateMedia(r.media);
+  final health = !counts
+      ? null
+      : m.buffered >= need
+          ? BufferHealth.good
+          : r.transport == 'playing' && m.buffered < 1
+              ? BufferHealth.starving
+              : BufferHealth.low;
+  return MemberDelivery(
+    route: m.out ? null : routeOf(m, d.kind, d.sourceId, ref, r.relay),
+    kind: d.kind,
+    jellyfin: ref != null,
+    rate: m.rate,
+    health: health,
+    buffered: m.buffered,
+  );
+}
+
+/// What the source is told once per media when it is too slow; null
+/// while it keeps up (or this member is not the source).
+String? slowSourceWarning(StateBroadcast r, String selfId) {
+  final rel = r.media?['relay'];
+  if (rel is! Map || selfId.isEmpty) return null;
+  final relay = MediaRelay.fromJson(Map<String, Object?>.from(rel));
+  if (relay.source != selfId || !relay.slow) return null;
+  return 'Your upload (${formatRate(relay.rate)}) is slower than this video needs '
+      '(${formatRate(relay.need)}): the others will pause to buffer now and then.';
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/media_art.dart

@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
 import 'dart:async';
 import 'dart:io';
+import 'dart:isolate';
 import 'dart:typed_data';
 
 import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+import 'package:image/image.dart' as img;
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../files/name_parser.dart';
 import '../schedule/anilist.dart';
 
 // Art for media this client swapped in (`art`, see PROTOCOL.md "Media
-// art"): Jellyfin images with this install's account, else an AniList
+// art"): Jellyfin images with this install's account, a web link's
-// title search. Everything here fails quietly to "no art".
+// thumbnail, else an AniList title search. Everything here fails quietly
+// to "no art".
 
 /// Poster and banner bytes; either may be null.
 typedef ArtBytes = ({Uint8List? poster, Uint8List? banner});
@@ -51,7 +54,8 @@ Future<ArtBytes> jellyfinArt(JellyfinClient client, String itemId,
 Future<ArtBytes?> aniListArt(AniListClient aniList, String name,
     {Future<Uint8List?> Function(Uri url, Map<String, String> headers, int maxBytes) fetch = fetchImage}) async {
   final series = parseReleaseName(name).series.trim();
-  if (series.isEmpty) return null;
+  // "1", "2026-10-09": nothing a show could be called.
+  if (!RegExp(r'\p{L}', unicode: true).hasMatch(series)) return null;
   final match = await aniList.searchMedia(series);
   if (match == null) return null;
   Future<Uint8List?> get(String? url, int maxBytes) async {
@@ -67,6 +71,31 @@ Future<ArtBytes?> aniListArt(AniListClient aniList, String name,
   return (poster: poster, banner: banner);
 }
 
+/// A web video's thumbnail at [url] as both cover and banner (the same
+/// bytes, so the same hash: what tells clients it is a thumbnail, see
+/// `NowPlaying.thumbnail`); shrunk to a JPEG under the cover cap when
+/// larger; null when it cannot be had.
+Future<ArtBytes?> thumbnailArt(Uri url,
+    {Future<Uint8List?> Function(Uri url, Map<String, String> headers, int maxBytes) fetch = fetchImage}) async {
+  var bytes = await fetch(url, const {}, 8 * 1024 * 1024);
+  if (bytes != null && bytes.length > RelayConstants.maxPosterBytes) bytes = await _shrinkApart(bytes);
+  return bytes == null ? null : (poster: bytes, banner: bytes);
+}
+
+// Its own function, so the isolate's closure holds nothing but [raw].
+Future<Uint8List?> _shrinkApart(Uint8List raw) => Isolate.run<Uint8List?>(() => _shrinkThumbnail(raw));
+
+Uint8List? _shrinkThumbnail(Uint8List raw) {
+  final decoded = img.decodeImage(raw);
+  if (decoded == null) return null;
+  for (final width in const [1280, 960, 640]) {
+    final small = decoded.width > width ? img.copyResize(decoded, width: width, interpolation: img.Interpolation.average) : decoded;
+    final jpg = img.encodeJpg(small, quality: 82);
+    if (jpg.length <= RelayConstants.maxPosterBytes) return jpg;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
 /// GET [url]: the bytes when 200, at most [maxBytes] and a known image
 /// type (see `avatarImageType`); else null.
 Future<Uint8List?> fetchImage(Uri url, Map<String, String> headers, int maxBytes) async {

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/notifier.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+import 'dart:async';
+
+import 'package:signals/signals_core.dart';
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show FeedMessage;
+
+import '../sfx/sfx.dart';
+import 'app_events.dart';
+
+export 'app_events.dart';
+
+class ToastItem {
+  final int id;
+  final String text;
+  final DateTime at;
+  /// The member a feed or chat toast is about (their name, as the feed
+  /// carries it; [text] starts with it); null for the app's own toasts.
+  final String? actor;
+  const ToastItem({required this.id, required this.text, required this.at, this.actor});
+}
+
+/// What one [AppEvent] does: a toast ([toast], about [actor]), a sound,
+/// the window asking for attention, an activity-log line.
+class Notice {
+  final String? toast;
+  final String? actor;
+  final SfxCue? sound;
+  final bool attention;
+  /// The feed line it goes into the activity log as.
+  final FeedMessage? log;
+  const Notice({this.toast, this.actor, this.sound, this.attention = false, this.log});
+
+  static const none = Notice();
+}
+
+/// The policy: what each event does.
+Notice noticeFor(AppEvent e) => switch (e) {
+      // The feed: everything is logged; joins, leaves, swaps and chat
+      // pop up; the social actions have a sound.
+      MemberJoined(:final feed) => Notice(
+          log: feed, toast: '${feed.actor} joined', actor: feed.actor, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.join)),
+      MemberLeft(:final feed) => Notice(
+          log: feed, toast: '${feed.actor} left', actor: feed.actor, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.leave)),
+      MediaSwapped(:final feed) => Notice(
+          log: feed, toast: '${feed.actor} changed media', actor: feed.actor, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.swap)),
+      ChatPosted(:final feed, :final own) => Notice(
+          log: feed,
+          toast: '${feed.actor}: ${feed.reason}',
+          actor: feed.actor,
+          // Your own message needs no sound.
+          sound: own ? null : const SfxCue(SfxKind.chat)),
+      MemberSatOut(:final feed, atYou: true) => Notice(
+          log: feed, toast: '${feed.actor} sat you out', actor: feed.actor, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.kick)),
+      ReadyChanged(:final feed, ready: true, :final readyIndex) =>
+        Notice(log: feed, sound: SfxCue(SfxKind.ready, readyIndex: readyIndex)),
+      ReadyChanged(:final feed, ready: false) => Notice(log: feed, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.unready)),
+      ForcedReady(:final feed, ready: true) => Notice(log: feed, sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.forceReady)),
+      QueueSkipped(:final feed) => Notice(
+          log: feed, toast: 'Skipped ${feed.target ?? 'an item'}${feed.reason.isEmpty ? '' : ': ${feed.reason}'}'),
+      FeedEvent(:final feed) => Notice(log: feed),
+      // The session.
+      Nudged(:final name) => Notice(
+          toast: '${name.isEmpty ? 'Someone' : name} nudged you',
+          actor: name.isEmpty ? null : name,
+          sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.nudge),
+          attention: true),
+      MemberCantPlay(:final name, :final error) => Notice(toast: "$name can't play this: $error", actor: name),
+      SlowSource(:final text) => Notice(toast: text),
+      RelayStarted() =>
+        const Notice(toast: 'Passing the video on through the server. Keep the app open while it plays.'),
+      RelayFailed(:final error) => Notice(toast: 'Cannot pass the video on: $error'),
+      IdleWarning(:final sitsOut) => Notice(
+          toast: sitsOut
+              ? 'idle — sitting out in 2 min unless you press Space'
+              : 'idle — auto-unready in 2 min unless you press Space',
+          sound: const SfxCue(SfxKind.warn)),
+      ConnectionLost() => const Notice(sound: SfxCue(SfxKind.lost)),
+      ConnectionBack() => const Notice(sound: SfxCue(SfxKind.back)),
+      JellyfinProgressFailed(:final signInExpired) =>
+        Notice(toast: 'Jellyfin progress not saved: ${signInExpired ? 'sign-in expired' : 'server unreachable'}'),
+      // The app.
+      ShaderMessage(:final text) => Notice(toast: text),
+      AddedToUpNext(:final title) => Notice(toast: 'Added $title to Up next'),
+      ActionFailed(:final text) => Notice(toast: text),
+      ScheduleResult(:final text) => Notice(toast: text),
+      ProblemMarked(:final inSession) =>
+        Notice(toast: inSession ? 'Marked in the session log' : "Marked in this app's log"),
+      Copied(:final text) => Notice(toast: text),
+      CopyFailed() => const Notice(toast: "Couldn't copy"),
+      // The update band shows it.
+      UpdateAvailable() => Notice.none,
+    };
+
+/// The one way news reaches the user: [notify] turns an [AppEvent] into
+/// toasts ([toasts]), sounds, an attention request and the activity log
+/// ([feedLog]) per [noticeFor].
+class Notifier {
+  final SfxService sfx;
+  final Future<void> Function() attention;
+  Notifier({this.sfx = const NoopSfxService(), Future<void> Function()? attention})
+      : attention = attention ?? _noAttention;
+
+  static Future<void> _noAttention() async {}
+
+  /// Toasts on screen (the shell shows them; [expire] drops old ones).
+  final toasts = signal<List<ToastItem>>([]);
+  /// The activity log: the last 100 feed lines.
+  final feedLog = signal<List<FeedMessage>>([]);
+  int _toastId = 0;
+
+  void notify(AppEvent e) {
+    final n = noticeFor(e);
+    final log = n.log;
+    if (log != null) {
+      final all = [...feedLog.peek(), log];
+      feedLog.value = all.length > 100 ? all.sublist(all.length - 100) : all;
+    }
+    final text = n.toast;
+    if (text != null) {
+      _toastId++;
+      toasts.value = [
+        ...toasts.peek(),
+        ToastItem(id: _toastId, text: text, at: DateTime.now().toUtc(), actor: n.actor),
+      ];
+    }
+    final sound = n.sound;
+    if (sound != null) unawaited(sfx.play(sound));
+    if (n.attention) unawaited(attention());
+  }
+
+  /// Drops toasts 4 s old or older.
+  void expire(DateTime now) {
+    toasts.value = toasts.peek().where((t) => now.difference(t.at).inSeconds < 4).toList();
+  }
+
+  /// A new session: no toasts, an empty log.
+  void clear() {
+    feedLog.value = [];
+    toasts.value = [];
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/now_playing.dart

@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ class NowPlaying {
   /// Portrait cover (2:3) and wide banner; '' when none.
   final String posterHash;
   final String bannerHash;
-  const NowPlaying({required this.title, this.episode, this.posterHash = '', this.bannerHash = ''});
+  /// A web video: its art is its thumbnail (the same picture as cover and
+  /// banner, or none yet), shown wide, under the video's own name.
+  final bool thumbnail;
+  const NowPlaying(
+      {required this.title, this.episode, this.posterHash = '', this.bannerHash = '', this.thumbnail = false});
 
   @override
   bool operator ==(Object other) =>
@@ -17,8 +21,9 @@ class NowPlaying {
       other.title == title &&
       other.episode == episode &&
       other.posterHash == posterHash &&
-      other.bannerHash == bannerHash;
+      other.bannerHash == bannerHash &&
+      other.thumbnail == thumbnail;
 
   @override
-  int get hashCode => Object.hash(title, episode, posterHash, bannerHash);
+  int get hashCode => Object.hash(title, episode, posterHash, bannerHash, thumbnail);
 }

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/now_playing_info.dart

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart' show hasMediaExtension;
+
 import '../files/name_parser.dart';
 import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
 import 'now_playing.dart';
@@ -17,12 +19,37 @@ NowPlaying? nowPlayingOf(Map<String, Object?>? media) {
   final poster = art['poster'] is String ? art['poster'] as String : '';
   final banner = art['banner'] is String ? art['banner'] as String : '';
   final ref = refOfStateMedia(media);
+  // A web video: its name as is, no episode guessing, its thumbnail as
+  // the art. Told by the art once it is up (the same picture as cover and
+  // banner), before that by the media itself, so it never changes layout.
+  final web = poster.isNotEmpty || banner.isNotEmpty ? poster == banner : ref == null && isWebVideo(media);
+  if (web) {
+    return NowPlaying(title: name, posterHash: poster, bannerHash: banner, thumbnail: true);
+  }
   final (title, episode) = ref != null
       ? jellyfinTitle(ref.title.isNotEmpty ? ref.title : name, ref.subtitle)
       : fileTitle(name);
   return NowPlaying(title: title, episode: episode, posterHash: poster, bannerHash: banner);
 }
 
+/// [media] (`state.media`, not Jellyfin) is a web page's video, whose art
+/// will be its thumbnail: a shared http(s) link that is no media file (the
+/// everyone-opens-it mode), or a relayed one (passed on by a member or
+/// fetched by the server: the URL stays private) named by the page's title,
+/// not a file name. A relayed file keeps its file name's extension.
+bool isWebVideo(Map<String, Object?> media) {
+  final url = media['url'];
+  if (url is String && url.isNotEmpty) {
+    final uri = Uri.tryParse(url);
+    return uri != null &&
+        (uri.isScheme('http') || uri.isScheme('https')) &&
+        uri.host.isNotEmpty &&
+        !hasMediaExtension(uri);
+  }
+  final name = media['name'] is String ? media['name'] as String : '';
+  return media['relay'] is Map && name.isNotEmpty && !_ext.hasMatch(name);
+}
+
 /// Jellyfin: [name] is the item's, [subtitle] "Series · S1E6" (or
 /// "Series - S01E02") for episodes, the year for movies. Episodes give the
 /// series and "S1 E6 · Name"; anything else the name alone.

apps/desktop/lib/src/session/switch_trace.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
+
+/// Timings of one media change on this client, from the `state` naming
+/// the new media to the server playing it (see ARCHITECTURE.md "Getting
+/// ready"). Printed when [enabled] (env `SYNC_RELAY_TRACE_SWITCH=1`);
+/// marks are always kept for the last few media, tests read them.
+class SwitchTrace {
+  /// Phases, in the order they usually happen.
+  static const state = 'state';
+  static const resolved = 'resolved';
+  static const open = 'open';
+  /// A fresh player is up for it (no preload held it).
+  static const player = 'player';
+  static const opened = 'opened';
+  static const preloaded = 'preloaded';
+  static const buffered = 'buffered';
+  static const playing = 'playing';
+
+  static bool enabled = (Platform.environment['SYNC_RELAY_TRACE_SWITCH'] ?? '').isNotEmpty;
+
+  final String who;
+  SwitchTrace([this.who = '']);
+
+  final Map<int, Map<String, int>> _marks = {};
+  final Map<int, Stopwatch> _clocks = {};
+
+  /// Milliseconds from [state] to each phase of media [mediaId].
+  Map<String, int> of(int mediaId) => Map.unmodifiable(_marks[mediaId] ?? const {});
+
+  /// Starts the clock for [mediaId] (its first `state`).
+  void start(int mediaId) {
+    if (_clocks.containsKey(mediaId)) return;
+    _clocks[mediaId] = Stopwatch()..start();
+    _marks[mediaId] = {state: 0};
+    while (_clocks.length > 4) {
+      final oldest = _clocks.keys.first;
+      _clocks.remove(oldest);
+      _marks.remove(oldest);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Records [phase] once for [mediaId]; [playing] ends the trace.
+  void mark(int mediaId, String phase) {
+    final clock = _clocks[mediaId];
+    final marks = _marks[mediaId];
+    if (clock == null || marks == null || marks.containsKey(phase)) return;
+    marks[phase] = clock.elapsedMilliseconds;
+    if (phase == playing && enabled) {
+      debugPrint('switch${who.isEmpty ? '' : ' $who'} m$mediaId: '
+          '${[for (final e in marks.entries) '${e.key} +${e.value} ms'].join(', ')}');
+    }
+  }
+}

apps/desktop/lib/src/sfx/sfx.dart

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ enum SfxKind {
   forceReady,
   join,
   leave,
+  /// Someone sat you out (played by the session, not from a feed action).
   kick,
   /// A new video or episode is put up.
   swap,
@@ -17,6 +18,8 @@ enum SfxKind {
   /// The connection to the server dropped / came back.
   lost,
   back,
+  /// Someone pokes you for attention; plays only on your end.
+  nudge,
 }
 
 class SfxCue {
@@ -29,7 +32,6 @@ SfxKind? sfxForFeedAction(String action) => switch (action) {
       'ready' => SfxKind.ready,
       'unready' => SfxKind.unready,
       'force-ready' => SfxKind.forceReady,
-      'kick' => SfxKind.kick,
       'join' => SfxKind.join,
       'leave' => SfxKind.leave,
       'swap' => SfxKind.swap,

apps/desktop/lib/src/sfx/sound_bank.dart

@@ -1,83 +1,254 @@
 import 'sfx.dart';
 import 'synth.dart';
 
-// The sound of the house: koto for readiness, the wind chime for people
+// The app's sounds come in presets; each action can take its sound from any
-// arriving and leaving, the shoji door for a new video, bamboo for chat,
+// of them. Every preset is quiet, short and on D, so sounds from different
-// clappers for a kick, the singing bowl for the idle warning, a string
+// presets still agree when they overlap.
-// going slack and re-tuned for the connection. All in the Yo scale on D
+//  - Cosmic: star bells, stardust, bubbles, soft pads, a space tail.
-// (D E G A B), so overlapping sounds agree; quiet and short.
+//  - Abyss: deep space and its dread. Far beacons, nebula washes, slow
+//    beating clusters and tritone sags, on D phrygian, with a vast tail.
+//  - Wood & glass: plucked strings, glass bells, wood knocks, a short room.
 
-const _d4 = -7, _a4 = 0, _b4 = 2;
+enum SoundPreset { cosmic, abyss, woodAndGlass }
-const _d5 = 5, _g5 = 10, _a5 = 12, _b5 = 14;
+
-const _d6 = 17, _e6 = 19, _g6 = 22, _a6 = 24, _b6 = 26;
+/// Shown in Settings: name and feel.
+const presetInfo = {
+  SoundPreset.cosmic: ('Cosmic', 'Star bells, stardust and a soft space tail'),
+  SoundPreset.abyss: ('Abyss', 'Deep space: far beacons, nebula, a vast dark tail'),
+  SoundPreset.woodAndGlass: ('Wood & glass', 'Plucked strings, glass bells and wood, close and dry'),
+};
+
+/// The preset used when nothing else is chosen.
+const defaultPreset = SoundPreset.abyss;
+
+const _d3 = -19, _ab3 = -13;
+const _d4 = -7, _eb4 = -6, _ab4 = -1, _a4 = 0, _b4 = 2;
+const _d5 = 5, _eb5 = 6, _e5 = 7, _f5 = 8, _fs5 = 9, _g5 = 10, _a5 = 12, _bb5 = 13, _b5 = 14;
+const _c6 = 15, _cs6 = 16, _d6 = 17, _e6 = 19, _f6 = 20, _fs6 = 21, _g6 = 22, _a6 = 24, _b6 = 26;
 
 double _p(int s) => semi(s);
 
-/// The ready pluck's answer climbs with each person ready.
+/// The ready sound's answer climbs with each person ready.
-const _readyLadder = [_g5, _a5, _b5, _d6, _e6, _g6];
+const _cosmicLadder = [_a5, _b5, _d6, _e6, _fs6, _a6];
+const _abyssLadder = [_f5, _g5, _a5, _c6, _d6, _f6];
+const _woodLadder = [_g5, _a5, _b5, _d6, _e6, _g6];
 
-SoundSpec readySound(int readyIndex) {
+SoundSpec readySound(int readyIndex, {SoundPreset preset = defaultPreset}) =>
-  final top = _readyLadder[(readyIndex - 1).clamp(0, _readyLadder.length - 1)];
+    soundFor(SfxKind.ready, readyIndex: readyIndex, preset: preset);
-  return SoundSpec([
+
-    Note(0, _p(_d5), 0.9, gain: 0.75, bright: 0.55),
+SoundSpec soundFor(SfxKind kind, {int readyIndex = 1, SoundPreset preset = defaultPreset}) {
-    Note(0.085, _p(top), 1.1, bright: 0.65),
+  final i = (readyIndex - 1).clamp(0, 5);
-  ], peakDb: -17);
+  return switch (preset) {
+    SoundPreset.cosmic => _cosmic(kind, i),
+    SoundPreset.abyss => _abyss(kind, i),
+    SoundPreset.woodAndGlass => _wood(kind, i),
+  };
 }
 
-SoundSpec soundFor(SfxKind kind, {int readyIndex = 1}) => switch (kind) {
+SoundSpec _cosmic(SfxKind kind, int i) => switch (kind) {
-      SfxKind.ready => readySound(readyIndex),
+      SfxKind.ready => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d4), 1.0, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.3),
+          Note(0, _p(_d5), 1.2, voice: Voice.star, gain: 0.8, bright: 0.4),
+          Note(0.09, _p(_cosmicLadder[i]), 1.5, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.5),
+        ], peakDb: -17, room: 0.3),
+      // The same bells, dimmed and stepping down.
+      SfxKind.unready => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_fs5), 0.6, voice: Voice.star, gain: 0.8, bright: 0.15),
+          Note(0.1, _p(_d5), 0.8, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.1),
+        ], cutoff: 3500, peakDb: -20, room: 0.25),
+      // Just the bell, left hanging in space: playback is the rest of the cue.
+      SfxKind.forceReady => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d6), 1.8, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.7),
+        ], cutoff: 7000, peakDb: -18, room: 0.35, tail: 1.6),
+      // A star arriving: dust rising into a bell.
+      SfxKind.join => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d6), 1.0, voice: Voice.dust, to: _p(_a6), gain: 0.5),
+          Note(0.15, _p(_a5), 1.4, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.35, gain: 0.6),
+        ], cutoff: 7000, peakDb: -19, room: 0.3),
+      // Dust drifting down, a low bell going out.
+      SfxKind.leave => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_a6), 0.9, voice: Voice.dust, to: _p(_d6), gain: 0.5),
+          Note(0.1, _p(_d5), 1.3, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.2, gain: 0.5),
+        ], cutoff: 5000, peakDb: -22, room: 0.3),
+      // Falling into the dark: a deep tone sinking an octave under a sagging pad.
+      SfxKind.kick => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d4), 1.0, voice: Voice.sub, to: _p(_d3)),
+          Note(0, _p(_a4), 0.9, voice: Voice.pad, to: _p(_d4), gain: 0.4),
+        ], cutoff: 3000, peakDb: -19, room: 0.25),
+      // Something new opens up: a rush of air, then a wide chord blooms.
+      SfxKind.swap => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, 300, 0.6, voice: Voice.slide, to: 2400, gain: 0.35),
+          Note(0.35, _p(_d4), 1.4, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.5, bright: 0.3),
+          Note(0.35, _p(_a4), 1.4, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.5, bright: 0.3),
+          Note(0.35, _p(_e5), 1.4, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.4, bright: 0.3),
+          Note(0.38, _p(_fs6), 1.2, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.3, gain: 0.3),
+        ], peakDb: -18, room: 0.3),
+      // Two bubbles rising: bloop-bloop, the second higher.
+      SfxKind.chat => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_a5), 0.18, voice: Voice.drop, gain: 0.8),
+          Note(0.08, _p(_e6), 0.22, voice: Voice.drop),
+        ], peakDb: -19, room: 0.15, tail: 1.0),
+      // Something huge drifting past: a slow, deep swell.
+      SfxKind.warn => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d4), 2.0, voice: Voice.pad),
+          Note(0, _p(_a4), 2.0, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.5),
+          Note(0.3, _p(_d3), 1.7, voice: Voice.sub, gain: 0.4),
+        ], cutoff: 3000, peakDb: -20, room: 0.2, tail: 1.0),
+      // The signal fading: a chord sagging down and dimming.
+      SfxKind.lost => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_a4), 1.2, voice: Voice.pad, to: _p(_d4), gain: 0.7),
+          Note(0, _p(_e5), 1.2, voice: Voice.pad, to: _p(_a4), gain: 0.4),
+        ], cutoff: 2500, peakDb: -19, room: 0.3, tail: 1.2),
+      // Re-acquired: a bell gliding up into tune, landing with dust.
+      SfxKind.back => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_a4), 0.6, voice: Voice.star, to: _p(_d5), bright: 0.3, gain: 0.5),
+          Note(0.22, _p(_a5), 1.2, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.5),
+          Note(0.25, _p(_d6), 0.6, voice: Voice.dust, to: _p(_a6), gain: 0.3),
+        ], peakDb: -18, room: 0.25),
+      // A poke: two quick bright bubbles flicking up, a glint on the second.
+      // High and dry so it cuts through a video and stays a patter when spammed.
+      SfxKind.nudge => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d6), 0.12, voice: Voice.drop, to: _p(_fs6), gain: 0.8),
+          Note(0.09, _p(_a6), 0.16, voice: Voice.drop),
+          Note(0.09, _p(_cs6) * 2, 0.3, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.6, gain: 0.2),
+        ], cutoff: 7000, peakDb: -18, room: 0.05, tail: 0.6),
+    };
+
+SoundSpec _abyss(SfxKind kind, int i) => switch (kind) {
+      // A beacon pinging far out, the void humming under it.
+      SfxKind.ready => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d3), 1.2, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.35),
+          Note(0, _p(_d5), 1.4, voice: Voice.star, gain: 0.8, bright: 0.25),
+          Note(0.12, _p(_abyssLadder[i]), 1.6, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.3),
+        ], cutoff: 5000, peakDb: -18, room: 0.4, tail: 1.8),
+      // The beacon answering itself a tritone down, dimmer.
+      SfxKind.unready => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_a4), 0.7, voice: Voice.star, gain: 0.8, bright: 0.1),
+          Note(0.12, _p(_eb4), 0.9, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.1),
+        ], cutoff: 2500, peakDb: -21, room: 0.35, tail: 1.6),
+      // One bell, huge and very far away.
+      SfxKind.forceReady => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d5), 1.7, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.5),
+        ], cutoff: 5000, peakDb: -18, room: 0.45, tail: 1.8),
+      // Something emerging from the nebula: a dark wash brightening into a bell.
+      SfxKind.join => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, 150, 1.2, voice: Voice.slide, to: 900, gain: 0.4),
+          Note(0.05, _p(_d4), 1.2, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.3),
+          Note(0.3, _p(_a5), 1.3, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.3, gain: 0.5),
+        ], cutoff: 4500, peakDb: -19, room: 0.4, tail: 1.6),
+      // Swallowed back into it: the wash darkening over a fading bell.
+      SfxKind.leave => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, 900, 1.1, voice: Voice.slide, to: 150, gain: 0.4),
+          Note(0.1, _p(_d5), 1.2, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.15, gain: 0.4),
+        ], cutoff: 3500, peakDb: -22, room: 0.4, tail: 1.6),
+      // Pulled under: a deep fall with a tritone sagging over it.
+      SfxKind.kick => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d4), 1.3, voice: Voice.sub, to: _p(_d3)),
+          Note(0, _p(_ab4), 1.2, voice: Voice.pad, to: _p(_d4), gain: 0.35),
+        ], cutoff: 2000, peakDb: -19, room: 0.35, tail: 1.6),
+      // A door into the dark: low air, then an unresolved chord opens.
+      SfxKind.swap => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, 120, 0.8, voice: Voice.slide, to: 1200, gain: 0.35),
+          Note(0.45, _p(_d4), 1.3, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.5, bright: 0.2),
+          Note(0.45, _p(_a4), 1.3, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.45, bright: 0.2),
+          Note(0.45, _p(_eb5), 1.3, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.3, bright: 0.2),
+          Note(0.5, _p(_bb5), 1.1, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.2, gain: 0.25),
+        ], cutoff: 4000, peakDb: -19, room: 0.35, tail: 1.4),
+      // Bubbles rising from deep water.
+      SfxKind.chat => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d5), 0.25, voice: Voice.drop, gain: 0.8),
+          Note(0.1, _p(_a5), 0.3, voice: Voice.drop),
+        ], cutoff: 4500, peakDb: -19, room: 0.3, tail: 1.4),
+      // Something vast drawing near: a slow swell of two notes rubbing.
+      SfxKind.warn => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d4), 2.0, voice: Voice.pad),
+          Note(0, _p(_eb4), 2.0, voice: Voice.pad, gain: 0.35),
+          Note(0.3, _p(_d3), 1.7, voice: Voice.sub, gain: 0.45),
+        ], cutoff: 2200, peakDb: -20, room: 0.25, tail: 1.0),
+      // The signal drowning: a chord sagging by a tritone into static.
+      SfxKind.lost => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_a4), 1.3, voice: Voice.pad, to: _p(_eb4), gain: 0.7),
+          Note(0, _p(_d4), 1.3, voice: Voice.pad, to: _p(_ab3), gain: 0.5),
+          Note(0.2, 600, 1.0, voice: Voice.slide, to: 200, gain: 0.2),
+        ], cutoff: 2000, peakDb: -19, room: 0.35, tail: 1.4),
+      // Found again: a bell climbing out of the tritone into tune.
+      SfxKind.back => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_ab4), 0.6, voice: Voice.star, to: _p(_d5), bright: 0.25, gain: 0.5),
+          Note(0.25, _p(_a5), 1.3, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.4),
+          Note(0.28, _p(_d5), 0.6, voice: Voice.dust, to: _p(_a5), gain: 0.25),
+        ], cutoff: 5000, peakDb: -18, room: 0.35, tail: 1.6),
+      // A poke from the dark: two quick bubbles flicking up, a pale glint.
+      // Still high and fairly dry so it cuts through a video when spammed.
+      SfxKind.nudge => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_a5), 0.13, voice: Voice.drop, to: _p(_c6), gain: 0.8),
+          Note(0.1, _p(_d6), 0.18, voice: Voice.drop),
+          Note(0.1, _p(_a6), 0.35, voice: Voice.star, bright: 0.5, gain: 0.2),
+        ], cutoff: 6000, peakDb: -18, room: 0.1, tail: 1.0),
+    };
+
+SoundSpec _wood(SfxKind kind, int i) => switch (kind) {
+      SfxKind.ready => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_d5), 0.9, gain: 0.75, bright: 0.55),
+          Note(0.085, _p(_woodLadder[i]), 1.1, bright: 0.65),
+        ], peakDb: -17, room: 0.14, tail: 0.5),
       // The same strings, muted and stepping down.
       SfxKind.unready => SoundSpec([
           Note(0, _p(_a5), 0.35, gain: 0.8, bright: 0.2),
           Note(0.09, _p(_g5), 0.45, bright: 0.15),
-        ], cutoff: 3800, peakDb: -20, room: 0.1),
+        ], cutoff: 3800, peakDb: -20, room: 0.1, tail: 0.5),
       // Just the bell: playback starting is the rest of the cue.
       SfxKind.forceReady => SoundSpec([
           Note(0, _p(_d6) * 2, 1.6, voice: Voice.chime),
-        ], cutoff: 7000, peakDb: -18, room: 0.18),
+        ], cutoff: 7000, peakDb: -18, room: 0.18, tail: 0.5),
-      // Wind through the furin: three uneven tinkles.
+      // Wind through glass: three uneven tinkles.
       SfxKind.join => SoundSpec([
           Note(0, _p(_a6), 1.3, voice: Voice.chime, gain: 0.8),
           Note(0.11, _p(_d6) * 2, 1.2, voice: Voice.chime, gain: 0.55),
           Note(0.26, _p(_e6) * 2, 1.4, voice: Voice.chime, gain: 0.45),
-        ], cutoff: 7000, peakDb: -19, room: 0.18),
+        ], cutoff: 7000, peakDb: -19, room: 0.18, tail: 0.5),
       // The wind settling: two softer, lower tinkles.
       SfxKind.leave => SoundSpec([
           Note(0, _p(_b6), 1.0, voice: Voice.chime, gain: 0.6),
           Note(0.17, _p(_e6), 1.3, voice: Voice.chime, gain: 0.5),
-        ], cutoff: 5000, peakDb: -22, room: 0.18),
+        ], cutoff: 5000, peakDb: -22, room: 0.18, tail: 0.5),
-      // Hyoshigi: clack… clack, then a low muted string.
+      // Two hardwood clacks, then a low muted string.
       SfxKind.kick => SoundSpec([
           Note(0, 1900, 0.09, voice: Voice.clack),
           Note(0.16, 1750, 0.11, voice: Voice.clack, gain: 0.9),
           Note(0.3, _p(_d4), 0.7, bright: 0.15, gain: 0.7),
-        ], cutoff: 5000, peakDb: -19, room: 0.12),
+        ], cutoff: 5000, peakDb: -19, room: 0.12, tail: 0.5),
       // The door slides open on something new: air, then a fifth.
       SfxKind.swap => SoundSpec([
           Note(0, 500, 0.42, voice: Voice.slide, to: 1700, gain: 0.5),
           Note(0.33, _p(_d5), 1.1, bright: 0.6, gain: 0.8),
           Note(0.36, _p(_a5), 1.1, bright: 0.6, gain: 0.7),
-        ], peakDb: -18),
+        ], peakDb: -18, tail: 0.5),
-      // Bamboo: a hollow tok-tok, the second higher.
+      // A hollow wooden tok-tok, the second higher.
       SfxKind.chat => SoundSpec([
           Note(0, _p(_g5), 0.13, voice: Voice.bamboo, gain: 0.85),
           Note(0.075, _p(_d6), 0.16, voice: Voice.bamboo),
-        ], cutoff: 5500, peakDb: -19, room: 0.1),
+        ], cutoff: 5500, peakDb: -19, room: 0.1, tail: 0.5),
-      // The singing bowl: one soft strike that hums.
+      // A bowl: one soft strike that hums.
       SfxKind.warn => SoundSpec([
           Note(0, _p(_d5), 2.6, voice: Voice.rin),
-        ], cutoff: 4500, peakDb: -20, room: 0.1),
+        ], cutoff: 4500, peakDb: -20, room: 0.1, tail: 0.5),
       // A string going slack: plucked, its pitch sagging away.
       SfxKind.lost => SoundSpec([
           Note(0, _p(_a5), 1.1, to: _p(_d5), bright: 0.4),
           Note(0.05, _p(_d5), 1.0, to: _p(_a4), bright: 0.3, gain: 0.6),
-        ], cutoff: 3500, peakDb: -19),
+        ], cutoff: 3500, peakDb: -19, tail: 0.5),
       // Re-tuned: a quick bend up that lands, and a tinkle.
       SfxKind.back => SoundSpec([
           Note(0, _p(_b4), 0.9, to: _p(_d5), bright: 0.5),
           Note(0.2, _p(_a5), 1.0, bright: 0.6, gain: 0.7),
           Note(0.3, _p(_d6) * 2, 1.0, voice: Voice.chime, gain: 0.2),
-        ], peakDb: -18),
+        ], peakDb: -18, tail: 0.5),
+          // Two quick wooden taps, the second flicking up, with a glint.
+      SfxKind.nudge => SoundSpec([
+          Note(0, _p(_a5), 0.12, voice: Voice.bamboo, gain: 0.8),
+          Note(0.09, _p(_e6), 0.16, voice: Voice.bamboo),
+          Note(0.09, _p(_b6), 0.35, voice: Voice.chime, gain: 0.3),
+        ], cutoff: 6500, peakDb: -18, room: 0.04, tail: 0.5),
     };
 
 /// Shown in Settings → Notifications & sounds: name and when it plays.
@@ -87,10 +258,11 @@ const soundInfo = {
   SfxKind.forceReady: ('Everyone ready', 'Someone marks everyone ready'),
   SfxKind.join: ('Joined', 'Someone joins the server'),
   SfxKind.leave: ('Left', 'Someone leaves'),
-  SfxKind.kick: ('Removed', 'Someone is kicked'),
+  SfxKind.kick: ('Sat out', 'Someone sits you out'),
   SfxKind.swap: ('New video', 'A different video or episode is put up'),
   SfxKind.chat: ('Message', 'A chat message from someone else'),
   SfxKind.warn: ('Idle warning', 'Auto-unready soon unless you press Space'),
   SfxKind.lost: ('Connection lost', 'The server stopped answering; reconnecting'),
   SfxKind.back: ('Reconnected', 'Back in the server after a drop'),
+  SfxKind.nudge: ('Nudge', 'Someone nudges you; always plays (volume still applies)'),
 };

apps/desktop/lib/src/sfx/synth.dart

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import 'dart:math' as math;
 import 'dart:typed_data';
 
-// A tiny offline synthesizer for UI sounds, voiced as a Japanese house:
+// A tiny offline synthesizer for UI sounds. The current palette is
-// koto strings (Karplus-Strong), a glass wind chime (furin), a singing
+// spacious: FM star bells, bubble drops, slow pads, a sub that falls away,
-// bowl (rin), bamboo knocks, wooden clappers (hyoshigi) and the air of a
+// stardust and a long dark space tail. Older voices (plucked string, glass
-// sliding door (shoji). Renders to 16-bit mono WAV bytes. Pure Dart.
+// and bowl bells, wood) stay available. Renders to 16-bit mono WAV bytes.
+// Pure Dart.
 
 const sampleRate = 44100;
 
@@ -22,6 +23,19 @@ enum Voice {
   /// Breathy air sweeping up (a sliding door); [Note.hz]→[Note.to] is the
   /// sweep of its band.
   slide,
+  /// FM bell: strikes glassy, settles to a pure hanging tone; [Note.bright]
+  /// scales the strike, [Note.to] glides it.
+  star,
+  /// A bubble: the pitch rises into the note fast; [Note.to] flicks it on.
+  drop,
+  /// Slow detuned swell (in over a third of its length, then out);
+  /// [Note.bright] adds overtones, [Note.to] glides it.
+  pad,
+  /// Deep round tone that falls from [Note.hz] to [Note.to].
+  sub,
+  /// A scatter of tiny pings on the scale above [Note.hz], drifting
+  /// towards [Note.to].
+  dust,
 }
 
 class Note {
@@ -44,12 +58,15 @@ class SoundSpec {
   final double cutoff;
   /// Peak level after normalising, dBFS (quiet by design).
   final double peakDb;
-  /// Room tail mix (0..1): the veranda, not a hall.
+  /// Space tail mix (0..1).
   final double room;
-  const SoundSpec(this.notes, {this.cutoff = 6000, this.peakDb = -17, this.room = 0.14});
+  /// Space tail decay to -60 dB (s); the sound keeps about half of it.
+  final double tail;
+  const SoundSpec(this.notes,
+      {this.cutoff = 6000, this.peakDb = -17, this.room = 0.14, this.tail = 1.4});
 
   double get length =>
-      notes.fold<double>(0, (m, n) => math.max(m, n.at + n.len)) + (room > 0 ? 0.25 : 0.02);
+      notes.fold<double>(0, (m, n) => math.max(m, n.at + n.len)) + (room > 0 ? tail * 0.55 : 0.02);
 }
 
 /// Semitones from A4 (440 Hz) to Hz.
@@ -69,13 +86,18 @@ Float64List render(SoundSpec spec, {int seed = 7}) {
       Voice.bamboo => _bamboo(n, rnd),
       Voice.clack => _clack(n, rnd),
       Voice.slide => _slide(n, rnd),
+      Voice.star => _star(n),
+      Voice.drop => _drop(n),
+      Voice.pad => _pad(n, rnd),
+      Voice.sub => _sub(n),
+      Voice.dust => _dust(n, rnd),
     };
     for (var i = 0; i < s.length && start + i < total; i++) {
       out[start + i] += n.gain * s[i];
     }
   }
   _lowpass(out, spec.cutoff);
-  if (spec.room > 0) _room(out, spec.room);
+  if (spec.room > 0) _space(out, spec.room, spec.tail);
   // 1 ms in, 10 ms out: no clicks at either end.
   final fadeIn = (0.001 * sampleRate).round();
   for (var i = 0; i < fadeIn && i < total; i++) {
@@ -276,20 +298,149 @@ void _lowpass(Float64List out, double cutoff) {
   }
 }
 
-/// A few feedback delays: wood and paper walls, a short tail.
+/// Space: four damped feedback combs and two allpasses (a dark, smooth
-void _room(Float64List out, double mix) {
+/// tail decaying to -60 dB in [tail] s) after a short pre-delay.
-  const taps = [0.029, 0.041, 0.059];
+void _space(Float64List out, double mix, double tail) {
-  final dry = Float64List.fromList(out);
+  const combs = [0.0297, 0.0371, 0.0411, 0.0437];
-  for (final d in taps) {
+  const damp = 0.35;
+  final len = out.length;
+  final pre = _n(0.018);
+  final dry = Float64List(len);
+  for (var i = pre; i < len; i++) {
+    dry[i] = out[i - pre];
+  }
+  final wet = Float64List(len);
+  for (final d in combs) {
     final delay = _n(d);
-    final buf = Float64List(out.length);
+    final g = math.pow(0.001, d / tail).toDouble();
-    for (var i = delay; i < out.length; i++) {
+    final y = Float64List(len);
-      buf[i] = dry[i - delay] + 0.42 * buf[i - delay];
+    var lp = 0.0;
-    }
+    for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
-    for (var i = 0; i < out.length; i++) {
+      final back = i >= delay ? y[i - delay] : 0.0;
-      out[i] += mix / taps.length * buf[i];
+      lp = back * (1 - damp) + lp * damp;
+      y[i] = dry[i] + g * lp;
+      wet[i] += y[i] / combs.length;
     }
   }
+  for (final d in const [0.005, 0.0017]) {
+    final delay = _n(d);
+    final x = Float64List.fromList(wet);
+    for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+      final xd = i >= delay ? x[i - delay] : 0.0;
+      final yd = i >= delay ? wet[i - delay] : 0.0;
+      wet[i] = -0.5 * x[i] + xd + 0.5 * yd;
+    }
+  }
+  for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+    out[i] += mix * wet[i];
+  }
+}
+
+/// [Note.hz] gliding to [Note.to] over the first ~60% of the note.
+double _glide(Note n, double t) =>
+    n.to == null ? n.hz : n.hz * math.pow(n.to! / n.hz, _smooth(math.min(1, t * 1.6))).toDouble();
+
+Float64List _star(Note n) {
+  final len = _n(n.len);
+  final out = Float64List(len);
+  final k = math.log(100) / len;
+  final attack = _n(0.004);
+  final index0 = 0.3 + 3.0 * n.bright;
+  final idxTau = _n(0.09 + 0.12 * n.bright);
+  const ratio = 3.5;
+  var c1 = 0.0, c2 = 0.0, m1 = 0.0, m2 = 0.0;
+  for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+    final hz = _glide(n, i / len);
+    final w = 2 * math.pi * hz / sampleRate;
+    c1 += w;
+    c2 += w * 1.0017;
+    m1 += w * ratio;
+    m2 += w * ratio * 1.0017;
+    final idx = index0 * math.exp(-i / idxTau);
+    final env = math.exp(-k * i) * (i < attack ? _smooth(i / attack) : 1);
+    out[i] = env * 0.5 * (math.sin(c1 + idx * math.sin(m1)) + math.sin(c2 + idx * math.sin(m2)));
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+Float64List _drop(Note n) {
+  final len = _n(n.len);
+  final out = Float64List(len);
+  final k = math.log(100) / len;
+  final attack = _n(0.002);
+  final riseTau = _n(0.016);
+  var ph = 0.0;
+  for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+    final t = i / len;
+    final base = n.to == null ? n.hz : n.hz * math.pow(n.to! / n.hz, _smooth(math.min(1, t * 2.5)));
+    final hz = base * (0.62 + 0.38 * (1 - math.exp(-i / riseTau)));
+    ph += 2 * math.pi * hz / sampleRate;
+    final env = math.exp(-k * i) * (i < attack ? _smooth(i / attack) : 1);
+    out[i] = env * (math.sin(ph) + 0.15 * math.sin(2 * ph));
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+Float64List _pad(Note n, math.Random rnd) {
+  final len = _n(n.len);
+  final out = Float64List(len);
+  const detune = [-9.0, -3.0, 4.0, 10.0];
+  final ph = [for (var j = 0; j < detune.length + 1; j++) rnd.nextDouble() * 2 * math.pi];
+  final ratios = [for (final c in detune) math.pow(2, c / 1200).toDouble(), 0.5];
+  final amps = [for (final _ in detune) 1.0, 0.45];
+  const a = 0.33;
+  for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+    final t = i / len;
+    final env = t < a ? _smooth(t / a) : math.pow(1 - _smooth((t - a) / (1 - a)), 2).toDouble();
+    final vib = 1 + 0.002 * math.sin(2 * math.pi * 0.3 * i / sampleRate);
+    final hz = _glide(n, t) * vib;
+    var v = 0.0;
+    for (var j = 0; j < ratios.length; j++) {
+      ph[j] += 2 * math.pi * hz * ratios[j] / sampleRate;
+      v += amps[j] * (math.sin(ph[j]) + n.bright * (0.25 * math.sin(2 * ph[j]) + 0.1 * math.sin(3 * ph[j])));
+    }
+    out[i] = env * v / ratios.length;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+Float64List _sub(Note n) {
+  final len = _n(n.len);
+  final out = Float64List(len);
+  final k = math.log(100) / len;
+  final attack = _n(0.025);
+  var ph = 0.0;
+  for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+    final t = i / len;
+    final hz = n.to == null ? n.hz : n.hz * math.pow(n.to! / n.hz, _smooth(t));
+    ph += 2 * math.pi * hz / sampleRate;
+    final env = math.exp(-k * i) * (i < attack ? _smooth(i / attack) : 1);
+    // Overtones so it still reads on small speakers.
+    out[i] = env * (math.sin(ph) + 0.35 * math.sin(2 * ph) + 0.12 * math.sin(3 * ph));
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+Float64List _dust(Note n, math.Random rnd) {
+  final len = _n(n.len);
+  final out = Float64List(len);
+  const steps = [0, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14];
+  final count = math.max(4, (n.len * 14).round());
+  for (var g = 0; g < count; g++) {
+    final tg = (g + rnd.nextDouble() * 0.6) / count * 0.75;
+    final start = _n(tg * n.len);
+    final centre = n.to == null ? n.hz : n.hz * math.pow(n.to! / n.hz, tg);
+    final f = centre * math.pow(2, steps[rnd.nextInt(steps.length)] / 12);
+    final glen = math.min(_n(0.1 + 0.15 * rnd.nextDouble()), len - start);
+    if (glen <= 0) continue;
+    final amp = (1 - tg) * (0.5 + 0.5 * rnd.nextDouble());
+    final k = math.log(100) / glen;
+    final w = 2 * math.pi * f / sampleRate;
+    for (var i = 0; i < glen; i++) {
+      out[start + i] += amp * math.exp(-k * i) * (i < 88 ? i / 88 : 1) * math.sin(w * i);
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
 }
 
 /// 16-bit PCM mono WAV.

apps/desktop/lib/src/sfx/synth_sfx.dart

@@ -1,77 +1,60 @@
 import 'dart:async';
-import 'dart:io';
+import 'dart:math' as math;
 
 import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
-import 'package:media_kit/media_kit.dart';
-import 'package:path_provider/path_provider.dart';
 
+import '../platform/audio/sound_engine.dart';
 import 'sfx.dart';
 import 'sound_bank.dart';
 import 'synth.dart';
 
-/// Plays [SoundSpec]s: each is rendered once to a WAV in the temp dir and
+/// Plays [SoundSpec]s on a [SoundEngine]: each is rendered once (off the
-/// played on a small pool of audio-only mpv players (so two sounds can
+/// UI isolate) to WAV bytes and loaded into memory; sounds overlap.
-/// overlap). [volume] (0..1) is read per play and applied on a square
+/// [volume] (0..1) is read per play and applied as v^6: the square curve
-/// curve (ears are log); [enabled] filters cues.
+/// (ears are log) the app always used, times mpv's own cubic volume it
+/// used to play through, so the slider sounds as it did; [enabled]
+/// filters cues.
 class SynthSfx implements SfxService {
   final double Function() volume;
   final bool Function(SfxKind kind) enabled;
-  SynthSfx({required this.volume, bool Function(SfxKind kind)? enabled}) : enabled = enabled ?? ((_) => true);
+  /// Which sound set each sound plays from.
-
+  final SoundPreset Function(SfxKind kind) presetFor;
-  static const _poolSize = 3;
+  final SoundEngine engine;
-  final List<Player> _pool = [];
+  SynthSfx(
-  var _next = 0;
+      {required this.volume,
-  final Map<String, Future<String>> _files = {};
+      bool Function(SfxKind kind)? enabled,
-  Directory? _dir;
+      SoundPreset Function(SfxKind kind)? presetFor,
+      SoundEngine? engine})
+      : enabled = enabled ?? ((_) => true),
+        presetFor = presetFor ?? ((_) => defaultPreset),
+        engine = engine ?? SoundEngine();
 
   @override
-  Future<void> play(SfxCue cue) async {
+  Future<void> play(SfxCue cue) {
-    if (!enabled(cue.kind)) return;
+    if (!enabled(cue.kind)) return Future.value();
-    await playSpec('${cue.kind.name}-${cue.readyIndex}', soundFor(cue.kind, readyIndex: cue.readyIndex));
+    return _play(cue.kind, cue.readyIndex, presetFor(cue.kind));
   }
 
-  /// Plays [kind] even when it is switched off (Settings' preview).
+  /// Plays [kind] even when it is switched off (Settings' preview), always
-  Future<void> preview(SfxKind kind, {int readyIndex = 1}) =>
+  /// freshly rendered: an edited spec plays after a hot reload.
-      playSpec('${kind.name}-$readyIndex', soundFor(kind, readyIndex: readyIndex));
+  Future<void> preview(SfxKind kind, {int readyIndex = 1, SoundPreset? preset}) =>
+      _play(kind, readyIndex, preset ?? presetFor(kind), fresh: true);
 
-  /// Plays [spec], cached under [key] (same key = same sound).
+  /// One slot per sound and ready step: a new preset replaces it.
-  Future<void> playSpec(String key, SoundSpec spec) async {
+  Future<void> _play(SfxKind kind, int readyIndex, SoundPreset preset, {bool fresh = false}) {
     final v = volume();
-    if (v <= 0) return;
+    return engine.play('${kind.name}-$readyIndex', '${preset.name}-${kind.name}-$readyIndex',
-    try {
+        () => renderWav(soundFor(kind, readyIndex: readyIndex, preset: preset)),
-      final path = await (_files[key] ??= _write(key, spec));
+        volume: math.pow(v, 6).toDouble(), fresh: fresh);
-      final player = await _player();
-      await player.setVolume(100 * v * v);
-      await player.open(Media(path));
-    } catch (e) {
-      _files.remove(key);
-      debugPrint('sfx $key: $e');
-    }
   }
 
-  Future<String> _write(String key, SoundSpec spec) async {
+  /// Opens the audio device ahead of the first sound.
-    _dir ??= await Directory('${(await getTemporaryDirectory()).path}/watch_together_sfx').create(recursive: true);
+  Future<void> warmUp() => engine.warmUp();
-    final f = File('${_dir!.path}/$key.wav');
-    await f.writeAsBytes(wav(render(spec)));
-    return f.path;
-  }
 
-  Future<Player> _player() async {
+  Future<void> dispose() => engine.dispose();
-    if (_pool.length < _poolSize) {
-      final p = Player(
-        configuration: const PlayerConfiguration(vo: 'null', osc: false, libass: false, title: 'sfx'),
-      );
-      await (p.platform as NativePlayer).setProperty('audio-display', 'no');
-      _pool.add(p);
-      return p;
-    }
-    return _pool[_next++ % _poolSize];
-  }
-
-  Future<void> dispose() async {
-    for (final p in _pool) {
-      await p.dispose();
-    }
-    _pool.clear();
-  }
 }
+
+/// [spec] as WAV bytes, rendered on a worker isolate.
+Future<Uint8List> renderWav(SoundSpec spec) => compute(_renderWav, spec, debugLabel: 'sfx render');
+
+Uint8List _renderWav(SoundSpec spec) => wav(render(spec));

apps/desktop/lib/src/shaders/shader_menu.dart

@@ -8,50 +8,6 @@ import 'shader_presets.dart';
 /// A shader pick from the menu; a null quality keeps the saved one.
 typedef ShaderPick = (ShaderPreset, ShaderQuality?);
 
-/// Compact shader button for the video controls bar (normal and
-/// fullscreen). Opens a small menu: Off, the six Anime4K modes with
-/// HQ / Fast, Custom. The menu is a route, so it outlives the controls
-/// bar hiding under it; [onPick] runs on the caller's side.
-class ShaderControlButton extends StatelessWidget {
-  final FocusNode focusNode;
-  final ReadonlySignal<RenderMode> renderMode;
-  final void Function(ShaderPreset preset, ShaderQuality? quality) onPick;
-  final ValueChanged<bool>? onMenuOpen;
-  const ShaderControlButton({
-    super.key,
-    required this.focusNode,
-    required this.renderMode,
-    required this.onPick,
-    this.onMenuOpen,
-  });
-
-  @override
-  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
-    final s = AppSettings.instance;
-    return SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
-      final preset = s.shaderPreset.value;
-      final quality = s.shaderQuality.value;
-      final short = shaderShortLabel(preset, quality) ?? 'Shaders';
-      return Tooltip(
-        message: 'Video shaders (Ctrl+1..6, Ctrl+0 off)',
-        child: TextButton.icon(
-          focusNode: focusNode,
-          style: TextButton.styleFrom(
-            foregroundColor:
-                preset == ShaderPreset.off ? Colors.white : Colors.amberAccent,
-            padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 8),
-            tapTargetSize: MaterialTapTargetSize.shrinkWrap,
-          ),
-          onPressed: () => showShaderMenu(context,
-              renderMode: renderMode, onPick: onPick, onMenuOpen: onMenuOpen),
-          icon: const Icon(Icons.auto_awesome, size: 16),
-          label: Text(short, style: const TextStyle(fontSize: 12)),
-        ),
-      );
-    });
-  }
-}
-
 /// "A HQ", "C+A Fast", "Custom"; null when shaders are off.
 String? shaderShortLabel(ShaderPreset preset, ShaderQuality quality) =>
     switch (preset) {
@@ -61,7 +17,8 @@ String? shaderShortLabel(ShaderPreset preset, ShaderQuality quality) =>
     };
 
 /// The shader menu, anchored on [context]'s box (the button that opens
-/// it): Off, the six Anime4K modes with HQ / Fast, Custom.
+/// it; the controls' ⚙): Off, the six Anime4K modes with HQ / Fast,
+/// Custom. A route, so it outlives the controls hiding under it.
 Future<void> showShaderMenu(
   BuildContext context, {
   required ReadonlySignal<RenderMode> renderMode,

apps/desktop/lib/src/shaders/shader_presets.dart

@@ -85,3 +85,11 @@ String shaderListSeparator({bool? windows}) =>
 /// The `glsl-shaders` value for [paths].
 String joinShaderPaths(List<String> paths, {bool? windows}) =>
     paths.join(shaderListSeparator(windows: windows));
+
+/// Whether mpv's read-back [got] of `glsl-shaders` is the list [paths].
+/// Recent mpv prints a path list joined with [shaderListSeparator]; older
+/// mpv (0.37 and before, the bundled Windows libmpv among them) joins it
+/// with ','. Matched against each joined form rather than split: a path
+/// may itself hold ':' (a Windows drive letter) or ','.
+bool shaderListMatches(List<String> paths, String? got) =>
+    got != null && const [',', ';', ':'].any((sep) => paths.join(sep) == got);

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/app_shell.dart

@@ -3,16 +3,17 @@ import 'dart:io' show File;
 
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
-import 'package:fox_utils/fox_utils.dart' show ClipboardX, DesktopDropX, DropTarget;
 import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
-import 'package:window_manager/window_manager.dart';
 
+import '../controls/frame.dart' show DoubleClickListener;
 import '../files/folder_store.dart';
 import '../files/ui/files_page.dart' show showFilesFolder;
 import '../jellyfin/accounts.dart';
 import '../jellyfin/browse_scope.dart' show BrowseStart;
 import '../jellyfin/session_media.dart';
 import '../screens/home/connect_flow.dart';
+import '../session/app_events.dart' show ActionFailed, ScheduleResult;
+import '../session/session_coordinator.dart' show ConnectParams;
 import '../screens/home/health_probe.dart';
 import '../screens/home/media_picker.dart';
 import '../screens/home/profile.dart';
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ import '../update/update_controller.dart';
 import 'chat_panel.dart';
 import 'connect_cards.dart';
 import 'handoff.dart';
+import 'library_link.dart' show LinkProber, defaultLinkProber;
 import 'library_tab.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
 import 'party_strip.dart';
@@ -31,6 +33,7 @@ import '../schedule/ui/schedule_page.dart';
 import 'session_player.dart';
 import 'settings_tab.dart';
 import 'toasts.dart';
+import 'welcome.dart';
 
 /// The one window: the party strip over a body that fades through between
 /// the tabs and the full player, the floating mini player, the chat panel
@@ -55,6 +58,9 @@ class AppShell extends StatefulWidget {
   final JellyfinAccounts? jellyfin;
   /// Stand-in for media_kit's `Video` (tests).
   final VideoViewBuilder? videoBuilder;
+  /// What the Library's Link page asks about a link (tests: a fake, so no
+  /// network or yt-dlp runs).
+  final LinkProber linkProbe;
   const AppShell({
     super.key,
     this.updates,
@@ -63,6 +69,7 @@ class AppShell extends StatefulWidget {
     this.healthGet = defaultHealthGet,
     this.jellyfin,
     this.videoBuilder,
+    this.linkProbe = defaultLinkProber,
   });
 
   @override
@@ -112,16 +119,27 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   /// The next media to come up opens full (just joined, or put up here).
   bool _autoFull = false;
   int _lastMediaId = -1;
-  double? _mutedVolume;
   bool _dialogOpen = false;
-  String? _lastKickShown;
   final _stops = <void Function()>[];
   // Rebuild the shell on these flips, not on every state broadcast.
   final _online = computed(() => SessionState.instance.route.value == AppRoute.session);
+  /// Nobody else watches: offline, solo, or solo becoming a server.
+  final _alone = computed(() {
+    final s = SessionState.instance;
+    return s.route.value != AppRoute.session || s.solo.value || s.switching.value;
+  });
   final _hasMedia = computed(() =>
       SessionState.instance.route.value == AppRoute.session &&
       SessionState.instance.coordinator.serverState.value?.media != null);
 
+  /// A video is on in the session (not finished): the update bar stays
+  /// off the full player.
+  final _watching = computed(() {
+    final s = SessionState.instance;
+    final r = s.coordinator.serverState.value;
+    return s.route.value == AppRoute.session && r?.media != null && r?.transport != 'finished';
+  });
+
   PlayerMode get mode => _mode;
   PlayerMode get shownMode => _shown;
   bool get fullscreen => _fullscreen;
@@ -140,7 +158,6 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     // Reads linked servers and checks their tokens in the background.
     _jellyfin.ensureLoaded();
     if (widget.autoUpdateCheck) _autoCheck();
-    _flow.onKicked = _showKicked;
     HardwareKeyboard.instance.addHandler(_onKey);
     final session = SessionState.instance;
     final coord = session.coordinator;
@@ -181,17 +198,28 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
             if (!_chatOpen) setState(() => _unread += chats);
           }));
     }));
-    // Kicked: back offline, and say so.
+    // Back from sitting out with the player closed: show it (the media
+    // plays again).
+    var wasOut = false;
     _stops.add(effect(() {
-      final kick = coord.kickReason.value;
+      final out = coord.selfOut.value;
-      if (kick == null) {
+      if (wasOut && !out && session.route.peek() == AppRoute.session) {
-        _lastKickShown = null;
+        _later(() {
-        return;
+          if (_mode == PlayerMode.none) _show(PlayerMode.mini);
+        });
       }
-      untracked(() {
+      wasOut = out;
-        if (session.route.value == AppRoute.session) session.route.value = AppRoute.home;
+    }));
+    // Solo becoming a hosted server: the player closes while the media
+    // moves over and comes back the way it was once it is up again.
+    _stops.add(effect(() {
+      if (!session.switching.value) return;
+      _later(() {
+        _lastMediaId = -1;
+        _autoFull = _mode == PlayerMode.full;
+        if (_fullscreen) _toggleFullscreen();
+        _show(PlayerMode.none);
       });
-      if (kick.isNotEmpty) _later(() => _showKicked(kick));
     }));
     // The hosted server died mid-session (SessionState leaves): say so.
     _stops.add(effect(() {
@@ -210,9 +238,12 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
       stop();
     }
     HardwareKeyboard.instance.removeHandler(_onKey);
+    _updateTimer?.cancel();
     _fade.dispose();
     _online.dispose();
+    _alone.dispose();
     _hasMedia.dispose();
+    _watching.dispose();
     _flow.dispose();
     _join.dispose();
     _host.dispose();
@@ -228,9 +259,17 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
         if (mounted) f();
       });
 
+  Timer? _updateTimer;
+
+  /// At start, then every [updateCheckEvery] while the app runs (when the
+  /// auto-check setting is on).
   Future<void> _autoCheck() async {
     final s = AppSettings.instance;
     await s.ensureLoaded();
+    if (!mounted) return;
+    _updateTimer = Timer.periodic(updateCheckEvery, (_) {
+      if (s.autoCheckUpdates.peek()) unawaited(runUpdateCheck(widget.updates, true));
+    });
     if (s.autoCheckUpdates.peek()) await runUpdateCheck(widget.updates);
   }
 
@@ -242,7 +281,6 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   }
 
   void _wentOffline() {
-    _mutedVolume = null;
     if (_fullscreen) _toggleFullscreen();
     setState(() {
       _chatOpen = false;
@@ -258,7 +296,6 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   Future<void> _show(PlayerMode m) async {
     if (m == _mode) return;
     final seq = ++_modeSeq;
-    if (m != PlayerMode.none) _unmute();
     setState(() {
       _from = _shown;
       _mode = m;
@@ -282,33 +319,21 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     _show(PlayerMode.mini);
   }
 
-  /// Mini's ×: stop watching but stay in the server (muted until shown).
+  /// The player's ×: sit out (stay in the server, nothing loaded; the
+  /// player shows the join-back card). Once out, × closes the player.
   void _closePlayer() {
-    final playback = SessionState.instance.coordinator.playback;
+    final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
-    if (playback.alive.peek()) {
+    if (coord.selfOut.peek()) {
-      try {
+      _show(PlayerMode.none);
-        _mutedVolume = playback.player.state.volume;
+    } else {
-        playback.player.setVolume(0);
+      coord.sitOut();
-      } catch (_) {}
     }
-    _show(PlayerMode.none);
-  }
-
-  void _unmute() {
-    final v = _mutedVolume;
-    if (v == null) return;
-    _mutedVolume = null;
-    final playback = SessionState.instance.coordinator.playback;
-    if (!playback.alive.peek()) return;
-    try {
-      playback.player.setVolume(v);
-    } catch (_) {}
   }
 
   Future<void> _setWindowFullscreen(bool on) async {
     if (!widget.windowControls) return;
     try {
-      await windowManager.setFullScreen(on);
+      await SessionState.instance.ports.shell.setFullScreen(on);
     } catch (_) {
       // No window manager.
     }
@@ -360,7 +385,8 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     _selectTab(ShellTab.library);
   }
 
-  /// Library → "Put it up for everyone"; the player opens full.
+  /// Library → "Put it up for everyone"; the player opens full. Offline
+  /// it starts a solo session first (just you, on this computer).
   Future<String?> _putUp(PickedMedia media) async {
     final session = SessionState.instance;
     if (media is JellyfinMedia) {
@@ -371,6 +397,14 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
       }
       unawaited(_jellyfin.rememberPick(media));
     }
+    if (!_online.peek()) {
+      final error = await _startSolo();
+      if (error != null || !mounted) return error;
+    }
+    // Alone, a link plays direct: there is nobody to pass it on to.
+    if (media is LinkMedia && session.solo.peek()) {
+      media = LinkMedia(media.url, relay: LinkRelay.direct, anyway: media.anyway);
+    }
     final error = await session.coordinator.swapPicked(media);
     if (error != null || !mounted) return error;
     final f = session.lastForm;
@@ -383,10 +417,33 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     return null;
   }
 
+  /// Starts a solo session; returns an error text, or null.
+  Future<String?> _startSolo() async {
+    final profile = Profile.instance;
+    try {
+      await profile.ensureLoaded();
+      final name = profile.name.peek().trim();
+      await SessionState.instance.startSolo(ConnectParams(
+        host: '127.0.0.1',
+        port: 0,
+        secret: '',
+        name: name.isEmpty ? 'Me' : name,
+        avatar: profile.avatarBase64(),
+      ));
+      return null;
+    } catch (e) {
+      return "couldn't start playing: $e";
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Library's "Watch solo": somewhere to pick from (Jellyfin when linked,
+  /// else Files).
+  void _watchSolo() => _openLibrary(_jellyfin.isEmpty ? MediaKind.file : MediaKind.jellyfin);
+
   // --------------------------------------------------------------- handoff
 
   /// Nothing (a dialog, a popover) is over the shell.
-  bool get _onTop => !_handoffOpen && (ModalRoute.of(context)?.isCurrent ?? true);
+  bool get _onTop => !_handoffOpen && handoffHolds == 0 && (ModalRoute.of(context)?.isCurrent ?? true);
 
   /// Ctrl+V outside a text field (a focused field pastes on its own).
   bool _onKey(KeyEvent e) {
@@ -404,17 +461,8 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
   /// Clipboard files first, then text (a link or absolute paths). A pasted
   /// image has no taker yet, so the clipboard's image data is not read.
   Future<void> _paste() async {
-    var files = const <String>[];
+    final clip = await SessionState.instance.ports.shell.readPaste();
-    String? text;
+    await _handOff(classifyHandoff(paths: clip.files, text: clip.text), _pointer);
-    try {
-      files = await ClipboardX.readFiles();
-    } catch (_) {}
-    if (files.isEmpty) {
-      try {
-        text = await ClipboardX.readText();
-      } catch (_) {}
-    }
-    await _handOff(classifyHandoff(paths: files, text: text), _pointer);
   }
 
   Future<void> _handOff(Handoff item, Offset? at) async {
@@ -423,11 +471,11 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     final align = at == null || size.isEmpty
         ? Alignment.center
         : Alignment((at.dx / size.width * 2 - 1).clamp(-1, 1), (at.dy / size.height * 2 - 1).clamp(-1, 1));
-    final online = _online.peek();
     _handoffOpen = true;
     final HandoffAction? action;
     try {
-      action = await showPopover<HandoffAction>(context, at: align, child: HandoffCard(item: item, online: online));
+      action = await showPopover<HandoffAction>(context,
+          at: align, child: HandoffCard(item: item, solo: _alone.peek(), queue: _online.peek()));
     } finally {
       _handoffOpen = false;
     }
@@ -436,15 +484,27 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
       case (HandoffVideos(:final paths), HandoffAction.putUp):
         final error = await _putUp(FileMedia(paths.first));
         if (error != null) {
-          SessionState.instance.coordinator.showToast(error);
+          SessionState.instance.coordinator.notify(ActionFailed(error));
         } else {
           await FolderStore.instance.ensureLoaded();
           FolderStore.instance.addRecent(paths.first);
         }
-      case (HandoffVideos(:final paths), HandoffAction.openInFiles):
+      case (HandoffVideos(:final paths), HandoffAction.queue || HandoffAction.playNext):
-        await FolderStore.instance.ensureLoaded();
+        // In order: with Play next, the last one added goes first.
-        FolderStore.instance.addRecent(paths.first);
+        final next = action == HandoffAction.playNext;
-        _openFiles(null);
+        for (final p in next ? paths.reversed : paths) {
+          final error = await SessionState.instance.coordinator.queue.add(FileMedia(p), next: next);
+          if (error != null) {
+            SessionState.instance.coordinator.notify(ActionFailed(error));
+            break;
+          }
+        }
+      case (HandoffLink(:final url), HandoffAction.queue || HandoffAction.playNext):
+        // In the Link page's mode, probed and refused like there.
+        final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
+        final error = await coord.queue
+            .add(LinkMedia(url, relay: _picker.linkRelay), next: action == HandoffAction.playNext);
+        if (error != null) coord.notify(ActionFailed(error));
       case (HandoffVideos(:final paths), HandoffAction.addFolder):
         await _addFolder(File(paths.first).parent.path);
       case (HandoffFolder(:final path), _):
@@ -474,12 +534,14 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     _selectTab(ShellTab.library);
   }
 
-  Widget _dropTarget(Widget child) => DropTarget(
+  // Off on Settings: its own drop targets (cookies) take the files there.
-        onDragEntered: (_) => setState(() => _dragging = _onTop),
+  Widget _dropTarget(Widget child) => SessionState.instance.ports.shell.dropTarget(
-        onDragExited: (_) => setState(() => _dragging = false),
+        enable: _tab != ShellTab.settings,
-        onDragDone: (d) {
+        onEnter: () => setState(() => _dragging = _onTop),
+        onExit: () => setState(() => _dragging = false),
+        onDrop: (paths, at) {
           setState(() => _dragging = false);
-          _handOff(classifyHandoff(paths: DesktopDropX.pathsOf(d.files)), d.localPosition);
+          _handOff(classifyHandoff(paths: paths), at);
         },
         child: Stack(
           fit: StackFit.expand,
@@ -501,7 +563,13 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
 
   // --------------------------------------------------------------- dialogs
 
+  /// Leave asks first; a solo session just stops.
   Future<void> _confirmLeave() async {
+    final session = SessionState.instance;
+    if (session.solo.peek()) {
+      await session.leave();
+      return;
+    }
     final ok = await showDialog<bool>(
       context: context,
       builder: (context) => AlertDialog(
@@ -520,12 +588,6 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     if (ok == true) await SessionState.instance.leave();
   }
 
-  Future<void> _showKicked(String reason) async {
-    if (reason == _lastKickShown) return;
-    _lastKickShown = reason;
-    await _alert('You were removed', reason.isEmpty ? 'The host removed you from the server.' : reason);
-  }
-
   Future<void> _alert(String title, String text) async {
     if (!mounted || _dialogOpen) return;
     _dialogOpen = true;
@@ -565,7 +627,9 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
         backgroundColor: _fullscreen ? Colors.black : scheme.surface,
         body: SignalBuilder(builder: (context) {
           final online = _online.value;
+          final alone = _alone.value;
           final hasMedia = _hasMedia.value;
+          final onPlayer = _shown == PlayerMode.full && _watching.value;
           return Column(
             children: [
               if (!_fullscreen)
@@ -579,16 +643,22 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
                   onJoin: () => _connect(ConnectMode.join),
                   onHost: () => _connect(ConnectMode.host),
                   onLeave: _confirmLeave,
+                  onInvite: () => _connect(ConnectMode.host),
                   onProfile: () => showProfileCard(context, onOpenSettings: _openSettings, updates: widget.updates),
                   onShowPlayer: hasMedia && _mode == PlayerMode.none ? () => _show(PlayerMode.mini) : null,
-                  updates: widget.updates,
                   windowControls: widget.windowControls,
                 ),
+              AnimatedSize(
+                duration: easeTime,
+                curve: ease,
+                alignment: Alignment.topCenter,
+                child: _fullscreen || onPlayer ? const SizedBox(width: double.infinity) : UpdateBar(controller: widget.updates),
+              ),
               Expanded(
                 key: const ValueKey('body'),
                 child: Row(
                   children: [
-                    Expanded(child: _body(online)),
+                    Expanded(child: _body(online, alone)),
                     AnimatedSize(
                       duration: easeTime,
                       curve: ease,
@@ -612,23 +682,44 @@ class AppShellState extends State<AppShell> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin
     );
   }
 
-  Widget _body(bool online) {
+  /// No Jellyfin account, no server joined or hosted yet, band not
+  /// dismissed: the welcome band explains the three ways in.
+  bool get _newcomer =>
+      !AppSettings.instance.welcomeDismissed.value &&
+      _jellyfin.isEmpty &&
+      SessionState.instance.recents.value.isEmpty;
+
+  Widget _body(bool online, bool alone) {
     final coord = SessionState.instance.coordinator;
     final tabBody = switch (_tab) {
       ShellTab.library => LibraryTab(
           key: ValueKey('library-$_libraryGen'),
           controller: _picker,
           accounts: _jellyfin,
-          online: online,
+          solo: alone,
-          isHost: coord.hostFile != null,
+          // Offline, a put-up starts a solo session, which hosts.
+          isHost: !online || coord.hostFile != null,
+          // Only for newcomers: the strip has Join and Host for everyone else.
+          banner: online || !_newcomer
+              ? null
+              : WelcomeBand(
+                  onJoin: () => _connect(ConnectMode.join),
+                  onHost: () => _connect(ConnectMode.host),
+                  onSolo: _watchSolo,
+                  onDismiss: () => setState(AppSettings.instance.dismissWelcome),
+                ),
           jellyfinStart: _libraryStart,
           onPutUp: _putUp,
+          // Up next needs a server (a solo session has one).
+          onAddToQueue: online ? coord.queue.add : null,
           onOpenIntegrations: () => _openSettings(SettingsSection.integrations),
+          probe: widget.linkProbe,
         ),
       ShellTab.schedule => SchedulePage(
-          online: online,
+          solo: alone,
           onPutUp: _putUp,
-          onToast: coord.showToast,
+          onAddToQueue: online ? coord.queue.add : null,
+          onToast: (text) => coord.notify(ScheduleResult(text)),
         ),
       ShellTab.settings => SettingsTab(
           section: _section,

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/avatar.dart

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import 'package:signals/signals_flutter.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../screens/home/profile.dart';
+import '../session/delivery.dart';
 import '../session/session_coordinator.dart';
 import '../state/session_state.dart';
 import 'motion.dart';
@@ -17,6 +18,14 @@ class AvatarInfo {
   final Color color;
   final ImageProvider? image;
   final bool ready, buffering, relaying, stale, host, self;
+  /// Sitting out: dimmed, with an "away" mark.
+  final bool out;
+  /// Why their player cannot open the media (`members[].error`): an error
+  /// mark; empty when it can.
+  final String error;
+  /// How it gets the media and its buffer ([MemberDelivery.detail]), for
+  /// the hover; empty when unknown.
+  final String delivery;
   const AvatarInfo({
     this.id = '',
     required this.name,
@@ -28,6 +37,9 @@ class AvatarInfo {
     this.stale = false,
     this.host = false,
     this.self = false,
+    this.out = false,
+    this.error = '',
+    this.delivery = '',
   });
 }
 
@@ -66,7 +78,7 @@ MemoryImage _memo(Object key, Uint8List bytes) {
 /// Callers rebuild on [SessionCoordinator.avatars] and [Profile.picture]
 /// (see [PartyWatch]).
 ImageProvider? memberAvatarImage(MemberView m, SessionCoordinator coord) {
-  if (m.id.isNotEmpty && m.id == coord.sync.memberId) {
+  if (m.id.isNotEmpty && m.id == coord.connection.memberId) {
     final own = Profile.instance.picture.value;
     if (own != null) return _memo('self', own);
   }
@@ -75,7 +87,7 @@ ImageProvider? memberAvatarImage(MemberView m, SessionCoordinator coord) {
 }
 
 /// Your own avatar from the profile (also offline).
-AvatarInfo selfAvatarInfo({bool ready = false, bool host = false}) {
+AvatarInfo selfAvatarInfo({bool ready = false, bool host = false, bool out = false, String error = ''}) {
   final p = Profile.instance;
   final png = p.picture.value;
   final name = p.name.value;
@@ -86,27 +98,33 @@ AvatarInfo selfAvatarInfo({bool ready = false, bool host = false}) {
     ready: ready,
     host: host,
     self: true,
+    out: out,
+    error: error,
   );
 }
 
 /// [m] as the party strip, toasts and the chat show it.
 AvatarInfo memberAvatarInfo(MemberView m, StateBroadcast? r, SessionCoordinator coord) {
-  final self = m.id.isNotEmpty && m.id == coord.sync.memberId;
+  final self = m.id.isNotEmpty && m.id == coord.connection.memberId;
   final relay = r == null ? null : stateMediaRelay(r);
   final playing = r?.media != null;
+  final delivery = r == null ? null : deliveryOf(r, selfId: coord.connection.memberId, names: coord.memberNames);
   return AvatarInfo(
     id: m.id,
     name: m.name,
     color: self ? Profile.instance.color.value : colorForName(m.name),
     image: memberAvatarImage(m, coord),
     ready: m.ready,
-    buffering: !m.stale && m.ready && playing && m.buffered < r!.bufferNeed,
+    buffering: !m.stale && m.ready && m.error.isEmpty && playing && m.buffered < r!.bufferNeed,
     relaying: relay != null && relay.source.isNotEmpty && relay.source == m.id,
     stale: m.stale,
     // The state marks the host (`members[].host`); your own app also
     // knows before the first state.
     host: m.host || (self && coord.hostFile != null),
     self: self,
+    out: m.out,
+    error: m.error,
+    delivery: delivery == null ? '' : memberDeliveryOf(m, r!, delivery).detail,
   );
 }
 
@@ -132,7 +150,8 @@ class PartyWatch extends StatelessWidget {
 
 /// Circle avatar with a status ring outside it and a gap in the background
 /// colour, so overlapping neighbours never hide the status. Crown = host,
-/// tower = passing the video on, spinner = buffering, dimmed = stale.
+/// tower = passing the video on, spinner = buffering, dimmed = stale,
+/// dimmed with a moon = sitting out, red "!" = cannot play the media.
 class StatusAvatar extends StatelessWidget {
   final AvatarInfo info;
   final double size;
@@ -176,7 +195,7 @@ class StatusAvatar extends StatelessWidget {
                 decoration: BoxDecoration(shape: BoxShape.circle, color: bg),
                 padding: EdgeInsets.all(stroke),
                 child: Opacity(
-                  opacity: info.stale ? 0.4 : 1,
+                  opacity: info.stale || info.out ? 0.4 : 1,
                   child: CircleAvatar(
                     radius: size / 2,
                     backgroundColor: info.color,
@@ -205,6 +224,28 @@ class StatusAvatar extends StatelessWidget {
                 ),
               ),
             ),
+          if (info.out)
+            Positioned(
+              key: const ValueKey('away-mark'),
+              left: -3,
+              bottom: -3,
+              child: Container(
+                padding: const EdgeInsets.all(2),
+                decoration: BoxDecoration(shape: BoxShape.circle, color: bg),
+                child: Icon(Icons.bedtime, size: (badge * 0.8).clamp(10.0, 24.0), color: Colors.blueGrey.shade200),
+              ),
+            ),
+          if (info.error.isNotEmpty)
+            Positioned(
+              key: const ValueKey('error-mark'),
+              right: -3,
+              top: -3,
+              child: Container(
+                padding: const EdgeInsets.all(1),
+                decoration: BoxDecoration(shape: BoxShape.circle, color: bg),
+                child: Icon(Icons.error, size: (badge * 0.8).clamp(10.0, 24.0), color: Colors.redAccent.shade200),
+              ),
+            ),
           if (badges && info.relaying)
             Positioned(
               right: -3,
@@ -240,7 +281,7 @@ class _AvatarStackState extends State<AvatarStack> {
   @override
   Widget build(BuildContext context) {
     final size = widget.size;
-    int rank(AvatarInfo m) => m.host ? 0 : (m.ready ? 1 : 2);
+    int rank(AvatarInfo m) => m.host ? 0 : (m.out ? 3 : m.ready ? 1 : 2);
     final sorted = [...widget.members]..sort((a, b) => rank(a) - rank(b));
     final visible = sorted.take(widget.shown).toList();
     final extra = sorted.length - visible.length;
@@ -270,7 +311,12 @@ class _AvatarStackState extends State<AvatarStack> {
                   left: i * step,
                   top: 0,
                   child: Tooltip(
-                    message: visible[i].name,
+                    message: [
+                      visible[i].error.isEmpty
+                          ? visible[i].name
+                          : "${visible[i].name} can't play this: ${visible[i].error}",
+                      if (visible[i].delivery.isNotEmpty) visible[i].delivery,
+                    ].join('\n'),
                     child: StatusAvatar(info: visible[i], size: size),
                   ),
                 ),

apps/desktop/lib/src/shell/chat_panel.dart

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
 import 'package:sync_relay_core/core.dart';
 
 import '../state/session_state.dart';
+import '../widgets/app_menu.dart';
+import '../widgets/copy_open.dart';
 import '../widgets/text_focus.dart';
 import 'avatar.dart';
 
@@ -158,34 +160,59 @@ class ActivityRow extends StatelessWidget {
     final scheme = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
     final time = _clock(item.at);
     if (item.action == 'chat') {
-      return Padding(
+      final link = firstLinkIn(item.reason);
-        padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 6),
+      // Right-click on the text: its selection menu plus the whole message
-        child: Row(
+      // and its link; beside it, the same as the app's menu.
-          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+      final message = SelectableText(
-          children: [
+        item.reason,
-            StatusAvatar(info: avatarForName(item.actor), size: 34, badges: false),
+        contextMenuBuilder: (context, state) => AdaptiveTextSelectionToolbar.buttonItems(
-            const SizedBox(width: 10),
+          anchors: state.contextMenuAnchors,
-            Expanded(
+          buttonItems: [
-              child: Column(
+            ...state.contextMenuButtonItems,
-                crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+            for (final (label, action) in _messageActions(item.reason, link))
-                children: [
+              ContextMenuButtonItem(
-                  Row(
+                label: label,
+                onPressed: () {
+                  state.hideToolbar();
+                  action();
+                },
+              ),
+          ],
+        ),
+      );
+      return Builder(
+        builder: (context) => GestureDetector(
+          onSecondaryTap: () => _messageMenu(context, item.reason, link),
+          child: Padding(
+            padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 6),
+            child: Row(
+              crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
+              children: [
+                StatusAvatar(info: avatarForName(item.actor), size: 34, badges: false),
+                const SizedBox(width: 10),
+                Expanded(
+                  child: Column(
+                    crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
                     children: [
-                      Flexible(
+                      Row(
-                        child: Text(item.actor,
+                        children: [
-                            maxLines: 1,
+                          Flexible(
-                            overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                            child: Text(item.actor,
-                            style: const TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w700)),
+                                maxLines: 1,
+                                overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
+                                style: const TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.w700)),
+                          ),
+                          const SizedBox(width: 6),
+                          Text(time, style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 11)),
+                        ],
                       ),
-                      const SizedBox(width: 6),
+                      message,
-                      Text(time, style: TextStyle(color: scheme.onSurfaceVariant, fontSize: 11)),
                     ],
                   ),
-                  SelectableText(item.reason),
+                ),
-                ],
+              ],
-              ),
             ),
-          ],
+          ),
         ),
       );
     }
@@ -206,6 +233,28 @@ class ActivityRow extends StatelessWidget {
   }
 }
 
+/// The first http(s) link in [text], if any.
+String? firstLinkIn(String text) => RegExp(r'https?://[^\s<>"]+', caseSensitive: false).firstMatch(text)?.group(0);
+
+/// What a chat message offers: Copy message, and its link's Copy link and
+/// Open in browser.
+List<(String, VoidCallback)> _messageActions(String text, String? link) => [
+      (ReuseText.copyMessage, () => copyToClipboard(text, done: 'Message copied')),
+      if (link != null) ...[
+        (ReuseText.copyLink, () => copyToClipboard(link, done: 'Link copied')),
+        (ReuseText.openInBrowser, () => openLink(link)),
+      ],
+    ];
+
+/// Right-click beside a chat message: [_messageActions] in the app's menu.
+Future<void> _messageMenu(BuildContext context, String text, String? link) async {
+  final actions = _messageActions(text, link);
+  final pick = await showAppMenu<int>(context, items: [
+    for (final (i, (label, _)) in actions.indexed) AppMenuItem(value: i, label: label),
+  ]);
+  if (pick != null) actions[pick].$2();
+}
+
 /// Icon, colour and wording of a member's feed action.
 (IconData, Color, String) feedStyle(FeedMessage f, ColorScheme scheme) {
   switch (f.action) {
@@ -232,9 +281,20 @@ class ActivityRow extends StatelessWidget {
       return (Icons.swap_horiz, scheme.primary, 'changed the media');
     case 'stale':
       return (Icons.cloud_off, Colors.orange, 'lost signal');
-    case 'kick':
+    case 'out':
-      final reason = f.reason.isEmpty ? '' : ' · ${f.reason}';
+      final who = f.target;
-      return (Icons.gavel, Colors.red, 'kicked ${f.target ?? ''}$reason');
+      return (Icons.bedtime, Colors.blueGrey, who == null || who.isEmpty ? 'is sitting out' : 'sat $who out');
+    case 'back':
+      return (Icons.login, Colors.green, 'joined back');
+    case 'queue-add':
+      return (Icons.playlist_add_rounded, scheme.primary, 'added ${f.target ?? ''} to Up next');
+    case 'queue-remove':
+      return (Icons.playlist_remove_rounded, Colors.grey, 'removed ${f.target ?? ''} from Up next');
+    case 'queue-skip':
+      final why = f.reason.isEmpty ? '' : ' · ${f.reason}';
+      return (Icons.redo_rounded, Colors.orange, 'skipped ${f.target ?? ''}$why');
+    case 'fetch-fail':
+      return (Icons.cloud_off, Colors.red, "couldn't fetch ${f.target ?? 'the video'}");
     default:
       final target = f.target == null || f.target!.isEmpty ? '' : ' ${f.target}';
       return (Icons.info_outline, Colors.grey, '${f.action}$target');