sync_replay_project/docs/ROADMAP.md

Roadmap

Backlog and epics, in order. Done work lives in git history. Check an item off by deleting it in the same commit as the code. Wire changes also edit PROTOCOL.md.

Backlog

1. Auto-skip OP/ED (undecided): who decides and how (shared for the server, personal, per show) is open. Constraint: a skip is a seek and seeks are shared, and only real ranges (segments, OP/ED chapters) should ever be skipped.

2. Files: next episode from Files (by parsed episode, with the countdown). Later: tracking for file series.

3. yt-dlp follow-ups (see ARCHITECTURE "yt-dlp"): check that the bundled Windows libmpv has the ytdl hook (Lua) and plays edl:// URLs through media_kit; if not, resolve in the app and open the relay tracks' formats. YouTube: yt-dlp wants a JS runtime (deno) for full extraction. Formats that need yt-dlp's cookies.

   • Live streams through the relay (today refused: the sync model needs a fixed duration and seeking).
   • tool/relay_e2e.dart: a two-track case (bytes and pieces) over a shaped source link. Pieces on a slow source: a cold piece can take longer than media_kit's 5 s network-timeout; if it does, fetch the first pieces before setting relay.live.
   • Pieces, unverified so far: the 403/410 re-resolve against a real expiring HLS (signed segment URLs), HLS discontinuities / ad splicing, Windows' bundled ffmpeg with extensionless piece URLs (p/<i>; fine with ffmpeg 9 on Linux).
   • Thumbnails and scrubbing previews of a relayed media with tracks should open the video track's URL alone, not the EDL.

4. AniList account: sign in (OAuth via a localhost callback), "My list" filter on the Schedule; today's "Following" (AnimeFlow's monitored shows) becomes "On the server".

5. Ops: watch-together-server --upgrade (a VPS has no GTK for the app's updater); check shaders on Windows; the relay e2e "source drops uncleanly and resumes" fails about half the time under the full suite.

6. Windows: first real use. CI builds and publishes watch-together-<ver>-windows-x64.zip (libmpv bundled) and runs the updater tests on NTFS; a friend has joined from it. Still unchecked: fullscreen controls, hosting (firewall prompt), in-app update from one release to the next. The rest of the desktop tests are not in CI.

7. Relay follow-ups (see ARCHITECTURE "Relay"). First real use: owner's PC -> VPS -> friend, Jellyfin and a file. Then:

   • Source takeover: when the source leaves, another member with an account on that Jellyfin (or the same file: name, size, hash) takes over instead of the buffer running dry.
   • "Bob can't open this link — relay it?": offer the relay to whoever put a direct link up when a viewer's player fails to open it.
   • Show who is relaying and how fast in the member list; warn the source when its upload is below the media's bitrate.

8. Jellyfin (epic, below).

9. Smaller items

   • Video output robustness: if media_kit's hardware path regresses to software (see ARCHITECTURE, Media: render mode), vendor a media_kit_video fix that builds the EGL display from GDK's native display. The video freeze after GPU idle is not explained by this; next suspect is media_kit's context switching on the raster thread with NVIDIA.
   • Link conveniences: a link swap in session updates the remembered media; show the open link with an open-in-browser button.
   • Time UI: remaining time, scrubber preview.
   • mpv / mpv.net shortcut parity.
   • Chaos suite: host drop 5 s / 30 s, viewer stall, 20-seek storm, long outage with cache exhaustion (tool/shaper.dart --kill-after); assert no OOM, no stuck session, drift recovers.
   • Chat history pane (today: activity log only).
   • Images in chat (paste a screenshot; server memory only): possible, not wanted yet.
   • HTTP: move the app's clients (Jellyfin, AniList, AnimeFlow, updater) to dio from fox_utils when touching them, for retries/interceptors.
   • The state broadcast carries the full media URL, which can include an api_key (recognised Jellyfin links become refs; other links do not).
   • TLS: document a reverse proxy in front of the server.
   • Playlist: queue-add, queue-skip, auto-advance like a swap.
   • Sidecar subtitles.

Epic: Jellyfin

What is left (the rest is in ARCHITECTURE.md, "Jellyfin in a session"):

• Queue: put several library items (a season, a pick list) up as a playlist that advances like a swap (shares queue-add / queue-skip with the backlog's Playlist item).
• Auto-advance cancel for everyone: today Cancel is per screen (the designated swapper's Cancel stops the swap; a seek stops all). A shared cancel needs a wire message.
• Sidecar (external) subtitle streams of Jellyfin items: only embedded tracks are mapped to mpv today.

Deferred

P2P, Android. Never: transcoding, web clients.