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fix(player): keep video visible through next-up transitions - #290

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Next Up can expose a black surface while the next episode loads. Phone replaces the mounted player with a loading screen, and TV disposes the player route. The existing preview is only a border over full-screen video, and phone landscape can push the episode information out of view.

This change keeps the player mounted, resizes it into the Up Next preview, and restores full-screen playback when the successor renders. The panel shows series title, episode, runtime and synopsis. Phone landscape places those details beside the preview; portrait keeps a scrollable stack.

Choosing Keep Watching dismisses further credits prompts. When the episode finishes, Next Up reopens with Play Now available and the cancelled countdown stopped.

The transition gate tracks the successor's media mount, including an intro-skip or subtitle remount before its first frame. It rejects stale callbacks and duplicate advances. Phone fallback signals carry their generation, and TV honors the outgoing session's stop result and sequenced final-position delivery. Failures and exit cancel the handoff.

Updated against main at 3993d2b. Related issue: N/A. Related Apple change: Silo-Server/silo-apple#227.

Validation of d66468a0d6a45dca8b579328e7a6782b70eea448:

  • Both debug APKs built and installed through Device Hub on Android 14 phone and TV emulators.
  • Visually checked actual video placement inside the preview and visible series/episode/runtime/synopsis on both devices. TV Keep Watching restored full-screen video.
  • Phone automatic S1E1 to S1E2 handoff completed with intro skipping enabled. Reproduced the stuck-card remount defect before the fix; verified full-screen successor playback after it.
  • TV Play Now, duplicate presses during loading, successor full-screen playback and Back to Home passed. External subtitles were off because unchanged main independently crashes in NonGatingSidecarPeriod while loading them.
  • Phone and TV: opened Next Up, chose Keep Watching, and confirmed Next Up returned at the episode's end. On phone it remained unchanged for another 12 seconds, then Play Now started S1E6 successfully. The current phone build is installed on the P11 Pro; its APK hash and foreground launch were verified.
  • All 4,763 local unit tests and five debug/release-vital lint tasks passed. The Keep Watching regression covers repeated credits signals, reopening at playback end, waiting for an explicit choice, and playing the successor. The new remount regression test failed before the repair and passed afterward. An existing TV detail identity-transition test failed once; its focused rerun and subsequent full run passed without changes to that test or its production code.
  • Supply-chain policy checks passed during this review; dependency files are unchanged.
  • CI for this head is running.

Physical HDR and audio passthrough were not tested. The existing TV subtitle crash needs a separate fix.

AI disclosure: the original implementation disclosed GPT-5 through the Codex desktop app. This revision used GPT-6 through the Codex agent harness, GitHub CLI, Gradle, and Device Hub's agent-device CLI for review, implementation, and validation.

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The player now performs Next Up episode changes in place. A transition gate matches the successor content and mount token, retains the outgoing frame and card, filters stale callbacks, and completes the handoff on the successor’s first rendered frame.

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Next Up transition

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transition gate contract
android-shared/src/androidMain/..., android-shared/src/androidUnitTest/...
Adds a synchronized gate that accepts one successor mount and completes only on its matching first frame. Tests cover stale mounts, duplicate starts, cancellation, and completion.
Android player handoff integration
androidApp/src/androidMain/.../PlayerScreen.kt, androidApp/src/androidMain/.../PlayerViewModel.kt
Threads media generations through playback callbacks, retains the outgoing frame during reset, preserves Up Next state during loading, and clears it after the successor frame or failure.
TV in-place episode orchestration
androidTvApp/src/androidMain/.../TvPlayerViewModel.kt
Replaces route navigation with in-place session finalization, state reset, handoff replacement, successor loading, stale-resolution guards, and transition cancellation on failure or exit.
TV player wiring and handoff validation
androidTvApp/src/androidMain/.../TvPlayerScreen.kt, androidTvApp/src/androidMain/.../TvAppNavigation.kt, androidTvApp/src/androidUnitTest/...
Uses ViewModel content state and transport nonces, retains player content, removes auto-advance navigation wiring, and tests replacement of stale handoff leases.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Player
  participant PlayerViewModel
  participant NextUpTransitionGate
  participant Media3Player
  Player->>PlayerViewModel: advanceToNextEpisode()
  PlayerViewModel->>NextUpTransitionGate: begin(nextContentId)
  PlayerViewModel->>PlayerViewModel: finish outgoing session and load successor
  PlayerViewModel->>NextUpTransitionGate: expectMount(contentId, mountToken)
  Media3Player-->>Player: render successor first frame
  Player->>PlayerViewModel: onFirstVideoFrameRendered(mountToken)
  PlayerViewModel->>NextUpTransitionGate: completeOnFirstFrame(mountToken)
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androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerViewModel.kt (1)

1908-1908: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bind a recovery mount to the active transition.

If the successor fails before its first frame, this replan creates a replacement mount token but does not update nextUpTransitionGate. The gate retains the failed mount token. The replacement first-frame callback then cannot complete the handoff, so the outgoing Up Next state remains active.

Proposed fix
 val mountGeneration = expectNextMediaMount()
+nextUpTransitionGate.expectMount(
+    contentId = state.contentId,
+    mountToken = mountGeneration,
+)
 _uiState.update { current ->
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In
`@androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerViewModel.kt`
at line 1908, Update the recovery mount flow around expectNextMediaMount so the
replacement mount token is also assigned to nextUpTransitionGate. Ensure the
first-frame callback for the replacement mount can complete the active handoff
and clear the outgoing Up Next state.
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Inline comments:
In
`@androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerScreen.kt`:
- Line 941: Update the first-frame callback flow around PlayerScreen and
PlayerViewModel.onFirstVideoFrameRendered to carry the rendered media item’s
identity or generation with the event, rather than reading the mutable
mountedMediaGeneration when the callback executes. Only complete
NextUpTransitionGate when that identity matches the media item currently
awaiting first-frame completion, and add a regression test covering a queued
callback arriving after the mounted generation changes.

In
`@androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/player/TvPlayerScreen.kt`:
- Around line 1495-1501: The onRenderedFirstFrame callback in the
MediaController listener must use the mount token captured when that listener is
registered or the player is mounted, rather than reading mutable
mountedTransportNonce at dispatch time. Pass that captured token to
ViewModel.onFirstVideoFrameRendered while preserving stall-detector
notifications, and add a regression test covering a queued predecessor callback
during a Next Up handoff to ensure it cannot resolve the successor before its
own first frame.

In
`@androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/player/TvPlayerViewModel.kt`:
- Around line 4151-4163: Reset autoTextSubtitleSelectionAttempted to false
alongside the other successor-specific selection state in the per-episode reset
block, so resolveAutoPreferredTextSubtitle can run for the new episode.
- Around line 2373-2375: Require a transport mount nonce in
onUnsupportedPlayback and update every caller, including the base-layer mismatch
collector and startup-stall detector in TvPlayerScreen, to pass
mountedTransportNonce. Preserve successor-transition failure handling after
Ready publication so valid startup-stall signals are not filtered out by a
missing nonce.

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Outside diff comments:
In
`@androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerViewModel.kt`:
- Line 1908: Update the recovery mount flow around expectNextMediaMount so the
replacement mount token is also assigned to nextUpTransitionGate. Ensure the
first-frame callback for the replacement mount can complete the active handoff
and clear the outgoing Up Next state.

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  • android-shared/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/player/video/NextUpTransitionGate.kt
  • android-shared/src/androidUnitTest/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/common/player/video/NextUpTransitionGateTest.kt
  • androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerScreen.kt
  • androidApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/android/ui/screens/player/PlayerViewModel.kt
  • androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/navigation/TvAppNavigation.kt
  • androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/player/TvPlayerScreen.kt
  • androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/player/TvPlayerViewModel.kt
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CodeRabbit outside-diff recovery-mount finding: valid and fixed in 7197e1a. When phone playback recovery creates a replacement media generation, I now assign that token to the active Next Up transition gate before publishing the remount. The replacement stream can therefore complete the handoff on its own first frame, while callbacks from the failed mount remain stale. The same replacement-mount binding is applied centrally on TV. The exact commit passed Unit tests (5m11s) and Lint (11m01s): https://github.com/Silo-Server/silo-android/actions/runs/33829401143

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Updated in d66468a. Keep Watching now suppresses additional credits prompts, then Next Up reopens when playback finishes with Play Now available and the cancelled countdown stopped. The preview placement, metadata and earlier transition fixes remain included.

Both debug APKs, all 4,763 local unit tests and five lint tasks pass. The new regression covers credits dismissal, repeated credits signals, reopening on end, no unattended advance, and playing the successor. Device Hub confirmed the phone and TV flow. The reopened phone card remained unchanged for another 12 seconds; Play Now then started S1E6 successfully. The updated phone APK is installed on the P11 Pro, with matching binary hash and successful foreground launch. The PR body records the existing TV external-subtitle limitation. No pictures or recordings are attached.

Mergeability: 8/10 — conditional. Reviewed head: d66468a. The changes fit the existing playback lifecycle. CI on this head must finish successfully before merge.

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Quick104 merged commit 4ea7fd1 into Silo-Server:main Sep 21, 2026
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