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JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 93b1fbd5a9 Give this project the lint and formatting setup LibreMail already has
There was none: no .editorconfig, no static analysis, and CI ran only tests.
Style was whatever the IDE happened to do, which is fine until two of them
disagree.

The split is LibreMail's, because it is the one that avoids arguments between
tools: ktlint owns formatting, detekt owns static analysis with its formatting
ruleset left off. Neither can contradict the other about the same line.

Adapted rather than copied. LibreMail is Gradle 9.6 / JDK 21 with the
configuration cache off; this is Gradle 9.5 / JDK 17 with it on, and Kotlin
lives under src/main/java rather than src/main/kotlin -- so its plugin versions
were evidence, not proof. Verified here before committing: both plugins
resolve, ktlint reads src/main/java, and the run stores a configuration cache
entry rather than tripping over it.

detekt.yml carries only what applies. The Compose relaxations transfer intact
-- a @Composable function is legitimately long, PascalCase, and full of dp
literals no matter which app it is in. LibreMail's ForbiddenImport guard and
its LargeClass exclusions do not: they name an AppLog facade and two test
files that exist over there and nowhere here, and config that guards nothing
is worse than no config, because the next reader has to work out that it is
dead.

detekt 2.0 is an alpha. That is not a preference: stable 1.23.x stops at
Gradle 8.12 and this project is on 9.5, so there is no other line to be on.

Coverage is reported, not gated. A floor needs a measured baseline, and the
JVM test stack here is still junit-only -- a number picked before measuring
would either fail on day one or mean nothing.

Android lint gets warningsAsErrors because the other two tools fail on any
finding, and a gate that stays green while its report fills up is not a gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 14:09:31 -05:00
Jason Ross 20a8049719 Merge pull request #4 from JMR-dev/feat/remux-and-codec-matrix
feat(media format) - Let the user pick a container and codecs independently and remux without re-encoding
2026-08-22 13:38:41 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 b5d5fcfeff Merge Media3's MP4-only correction into the remux branch
CI on the parent branch proved that four of the five containers the router
claimed for Media3 cannot be written by Transformer at all: WebmMuxer, OggMuxer,
WavMuxer and AacMuxer each throw UnsupportedOperationException from
addMetadataEntry, which MuxerWrapper calls for every metadata entry on the track
format.

Consequences here beyond the merge itself:

- MEDIA3_MUXABLE_VIDEO and MEDIA3_MUXABLE_AUDIO drop to a single MP4 entry.
  Every other container is already on its way to FFmpeg before those maps are
  consulted.
- Reason.WEBM_CODEC_UNSUPPORTED is removed. WebM now fails the container check
  first, so nothing could ever produce that reason, and a routing reason no code
  path can reach is worse than no reason at all.
- Media3Muxers gains null branches for the six containers this branch adds. MOV
  is among them despite being MP4's own family: Mp4Muxer exposes no QuickTime
  file format.
- The README no longer claims Media3 writes five containers.

The remux behaviour this branch exists for is unaffected: MKV -> MP4 was always
the hardware direction, because Media3 reads Matroska but has never been able to
write it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 07:28:59 -05:00
Jason Ross 1294439602 Merge pull request #2 from JMR-dev/fix/media3-honours-output-format
Make Media3 write the container and codec it was asked for
2026-08-22 07:23:57 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 92b7395ba9 Media3 can only write MP4, so stop claiming otherwise
CI proved the WAV and Ogg exports this branch added cannot work, and the reason
generalises further than those two.

media3-muxer 1.11.0 ships WebmMuxer, OggMuxer, WavMuxer and AacMuxer, which is
why MEDIA3_CONTAINERS listed the matching containers. But all four throw
UnsupportedOperationException from addMetadataEntry, and
MuxerWrapper.addTrackFormat calls it for every metadata entry on the track
format. Any real recording carries at least a creation timestamp, so the export
dies partway through:

    Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
        at androidx.media3.muxer.OggMuxer.addMetadataEntry(OggMuxer.java:123)
        at androidx.media3.transformer.MuxerWrapper.addTrackFormat(MuxerWrapper.java:488)

They are standalone muxers, not Transformer-compatible ones. WAV fails a second
way before even reaching that: DefaultEncoderFactory has no PCM encoder, so
Transformer reports "No MIME type is supported by both encoder and muxer"
instead of passing raw samples through.

Both observed on an API 35 emulator in CI, not inferred. The tests that found
them were written on the assumption these containers worked.

So MEDIA3_CONTAINERS becomes {MP4}. That the set was wrong went unnoticed
because the engine ignored the container and wrote MP4 regardless — the set
being wrong and the engine being wrong cancelled out. WAV, Opus and raw AAC move
to FFmpeg, which already produces all three with instrumented coverage asserting
the produced files.

WEBM_VP9's routing reason changes from NO_PLATFORM_ENCODER to
CONTAINER_UNSUPPORTED. Both were always true; the container is the more
fundamental, since even given a VP9 encoder the file could not be written.

The audio-only regression guard this branch exists for passed on API 35: M4A
output now carries exactly one AAC track and no video.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 07:17:11 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 2e0cf2f5d6 Let the user pick a container and codecs independently, and remux without re-encoding
OutputFormat was a closed enum of twelve (container, videoCodec, audioCodec)
triples, defended on the grounds that a closed set was what made routing
decidable. Two things it could not express: changing the container while copying
the streams, and choosing codecs per track.

OutputSpec replaces it as the vocabulary; OutputFormat stays as presets over it.
Decidability moves to ContainerCapabilities, which is explicit and unit-tested
rather than implicit in whichever combinations somebody enumerated.

The matrix is indexed by (container, codec, trackType, mode), not one boolean.
"Can MP4 carry AV1" and "can this app encode AV1" have different answers, and
copy is where the difference shows: a single flag would refuse a legitimate
remux or promise an encode neither engine can deliver.

COPY is a codec value rather than a flag, so every exhaustive `when` in the
codebase had to say what it does about copying. CopyPlanner resolves it before
anything else reads the request, and inherits ConcatPlanner's rule that an
unproven match is never a copy — a needless re-encode costs time, a wrong stream
copy costs a file that will not play.

Container now drives -f, the extension and the SAF MIME type, so Matroska
without video is .mka and MP4 without video is .m4a without a preset for each.
FLAC was declared as Container.MKV with a .flac extension, inert only while
nothing read the container; it now has its own. Six containers added: MOV, MKV
audio, MPEG-TS, AVI, FLV and WMV/ASF.

Routing asks the plan, never the request. COPY belongs to none of the capability
sets, so testing the request directly sends every remux to FFmpeg on the first
check — and nothing notices, because -c copy produces a correct file, just on
the CPU. The router also learns what Media3 can *carry* as opposed to encode:
its MP4 muxer takes AAC, Opus, Vorbis and PCM but neither MP3 nor FLAC.

MediaProbe now separates "no video track" from "could not parse" and reports the
source container, which MediaExtractor cannot supply at all. FFprobe runs on
every pick for that reason, not as a fallback.

The Advanced picker shows the whole matrix and lets an impossible combination be
selected on purpose, then explains it and offers alternatives. Convert is what
blocks the job. ConversionWorker validates too, so a stale queued spec fails with
the reason rather than being coerced into something else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 07:07:52 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 00c422f317 Make Media3 write the container and codec it was asked for
Media3Engine never called setMuxerFactory or setAudioMimeType, and built a bare
EditedMediaItem, so it always produced MP4 with an H.265 video track. The router
meanwhile sends it WebM, Ogg, WAV and AAC-ADTS jobs, plus audio-only M4A, Opus
and WAV — and ConversionWorker.media3MimeType() mapped VideoCodec.NONE through
its else branch to VIDEO_H265.

The visible result: "extract audio to M4A" transcoded the video to HEVC and
named the file .m4a. Nothing failed, and nothing caught it, because
Media3EngineTest had no audio-only case at all.

media3-muxer already ships WebmMuxer, OggMuxer, WavMuxer and AacMuxer; only the
MP4 ones come pre-wrapped as a Muxer.Factory. Media3Muxers supplies the rest.
Their reported sample MIME types are read from each muxer's own support check
rather than assumed, because Transformer uses those lists to decide whether a
track needs re-encoding.

HardwareTranscoder.transcode now takes the OutputFormat instead of a video MIME
string, which is what gives the container, the audio codec and "this output has
no video" somewhere to travel.

MEDIA3_CONTAINERS stops being private so a test can assert it agrees with the
factories. Those two drifted once already: the router's set was right the whole
time the engine was ignoring it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 07:07:06 -05:00
Jason Ross 243e7ec03d Merge pull request #1 from JMR-dev/feat/media3-conversion-pipeline
Media3 + FFmpeg conversion pipeline
2026-08-21 21:44:12 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 edd6385bf7 Record that the suite passes on real API 37 hardware
The doc reasoned that the WorkManager and lateinit failures in CI were
downstream of the broken framework rather than real defects, but said so as
inference and flagged that only a healthy API 37 device could settle it.

One was available. The full instrumented suite runs green on a Pixel 10 Pro XL
on Android 17 -- a release build, not a preview -- with 40 tests, 0 failures,
2 skipped, both skips being benchmarks that assume sample files present.
ConversionWorkerTest and ConcatWorkerTest drive a real WorkManager round trip
and are among the tests that failed that way in CI; they pass on hardware.

So the bug is confined to the emulator image, and the gap left by the missing
matrix row is automated coverage rather than confidence in the app. Noted that
the suite should be run on a physical API 37 device before each release while
the row is absent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 21:37:49 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 4e6fe6b75a Drop API 37 from the E2E matrix and write down why
The android-37.0 emulator image crash-loops surfaceflinger inside its own
gralloc mapper: RegionSamplingThread calls GraphicBuffer::lock, which reaches
GoldfishMapper::readFromHost, which asserts that the host has not negotiated
ReadColorBufferDma. It has, so surfaceflinger aborts, restarts, and aborts
again. Nothing this app does can survive that, and it reproduces on a GitHub
runner under swiftshader_indirect and on a workstation under -gpu host alike.

There is no ATD image at android-37.0 to fall back to, and -feature -GLDMA is
accepted by the emulator but does not prevent the assertion.

Correcting the previous commit, which is already pushed so its message stands:
ram-size was not the cause of that failure. Setting it did move the job from
failing at install to failing during the test run, which is how the real
crash became visible, but at 2560M the guest had 1.5 GB free when it died.
The setting is kept because the emulator's own floor varies by API level --
2048M at 33, 2560M at 34 to 36 -- and pinning it makes the matrix uniform.

Also corrected: a comment claiming this could not be reproduced locally. It
can, and the local crash was the same one all along.

Dropped the dmesg probe. adb shell is not root, so klogctl is denied and it
only ever printed a permission error -- which a later reader would reasonably
misread as "no OOM kills".

docs/api-37-emulator-crash.md carries the evidence, the ruled-out fixes, the
reproduction, and how to file it upstream, so re-adding the row later starts
from what is already known rather than from scratch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 21:35:04 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 2fe1aa9f9c Stop the memory probe from being able to fail the run
The probe line runs before the tests and its exit status is grep's, so a run
where adb returned nothing would have exited 1 on the first line and reded the
job before Gradle started -- on all five levels, four of them currently green.
The action passes no ignoreReturnCode, so exec throws straight into
setFailed.

A diagnostic must never be the thing that turns a run red.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 21:12:43 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 a79ff62b61 Give the API 37 emulator the RAM every other level already gets
API 37 was the only red job in the matrix, and the last two fixes each
corrected a real problem only to reveal the next one. This is the cause of
the third failure.

The emulator raises an undersized guest to 2560M on its own, but only for API
levels it recognises, and it does not recognise "37.0". Comparing the two CI
logs from the same emulator binary (37.1.11.0) shows the asymmetry directly:
the API 36 job logs "Increasing RAM size to 2560MB" and the API 37 job has no
such line. So four levels were quietly running at 2560M while API 37 ran at
the pixel_6 default of 1536M, lost system_server partway through installing
the 82 MB APK, and surfaced it as "Can't find service: package".

2560M is not a guess at a sufficient value -- it is the value the other four
levels already pass at, so this makes the matrix uniform rather than
introducing a fifth configuration.

Verified that the setting actually lands: the action appends hw.ramSize to a
config.ini that already has one from the profile, so the fix only works if the
later key wins. Appending a distinctive 3072M to an API 36 AVD produced
MemTotal 3047924 kB and suppressed the automatic bump, confirming it does.

This failure cannot be reproduced locally -- API 37 will not boot on a
workstation under either GPU mode, aborting surfaceflinger in the goldfish
mapper under -gpu host and segfaulting the emulator under swiftshader_indirect
-- so the job now reports guest memory on every run and dumps OOM kills and
native crashes on failure. That makes the next run conclusive either way
instead of producing another bare "Can't find service: package".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 21:10:38 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 97cddea973 Pin build.yml's actions and verify what it publishes
Brings the release workflow in line with the status check. It matters more
here, not less: these jobs publish the artifacts people install, so running
whatever a mutable tag points at on the day is a worse bargain than it is on
a pull request.

Every action is pinned to a commit with its release in a trailing comment,
and each hash was checked to resolve to the tag it claims. gradle/actions is
dropped for the same reason as before -- its v6 caching component is closed
source and carries separate terms -- with Gradle running through the
committed wrapper, which verifies its own distribution against
distributionSha256Sum.

The release job now checks what it is about to publish. A release that
shipped a single ABI, or that lost 16 KB alignment in a rebuild, installs
fine on a test device and then fails for users or at Play submission. Both
are cheap to assert and expensive to discover afterwards. It deliberately
does not pass -PabiFilters: that override exists so emulator jobs skip
libraries they cannot execute, and a released artifact must carry every ABI.

The contents permission is declared explicitly rather than inherited from the
repository default, so the token's reach is visible in the file that uses it.

The corresponding-source tarball now includes bin/README.md as PREBUILT.md,
so the GPL source drop carries the shipped binary's SHA-256 and configure
line rather than only the recipe that produces it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 19:08:51 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 5b47764c70 Build only the emulator's own ABI for instrumented tests
API 37 got as far as running the suite this time and then failed to install:

  'package install-create ... -S 117817978'
  java.io.IOException: Requested internal only, but not enough space

The 117 MB debug APK did not fit on the emulator's data partition. The
DELETE_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR that followed was the same exhaustion, not a
second problem.

It surfaced on API 37 because that system image is the largest and leaves the
least free userdata. The margin was thin at every level, so this was never
really an API 37 bug -- the others were simply further from the edge and would
have caught up as the APK grew.

Roughly half that APK is arm64-v8a FFmpeg libraries that an x86_64 emulator
can never load. abiFilters is now overridable, so a test run builds only what
it will execute: 114 MB becomes 80 MB. Release builds ignore the property and
still ship both ABIs, so nothing about what gets distributed changes.

disk-size is raised to 8G for every level rather than only the one that
failed, since fixing just API 37 would leave the rest waiting their turn.

Verified locally on an API 36 emulator with an x86_64-only APK: 40
instrumented tests, 0 failures, and the installed APK contains lib/x86_64
only. 66 unit tests still pass, and a release build still carries both ABIs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 19:04:07 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 2d2687aa3c Pin CI actions to commit hashes and fix the API 37 emulator run
The API 37 job failed after 23 seconds, before an emulator ever started. The
CI log names the cause exactly:

  sdkmanager --install 'build-tools;37.0.0' platform-tools 'platforms;android-37'
  Warning: Failed to find package 'platforms;android-37'

There is no platforms;android-37. The release is published as android-37.0,
alongside 37.1 and the 37.2 betas. The earlier attempt to fix this with
system-image-api-level was aimed at the wrong package: that input only names
the system image, while the platform is installed from api-level directly.
Setting api-level to 37.0 resolves all three packages, and build-tools is a
hardcoded constant in the action rather than derived from api-level, so it is
unaffected. A separate label field keeps the job name reading "API 37".

Every action is now pinned to a commit hash with its release in a trailing
comment. A tag is mutable: the owner can repoint v4 at new code whenever they
like, so a tag reference amounts to running whatever that repository contains
tomorrow. Each hash was verified to resolve to the tag its comment claims,
because a wrong hash is worse than a tag -- it looks deliberate.

Versions moved a long way in the process: checkout v4 -> v7.0.1, setup-java
v4 -> v5.7.0, upload-artifact v4 -> v7.0.1.

gradle/actions is gone rather than upgraded. Its v6 release moved the caching
component closed-source and states that upgrading accepts Gradle's Terms of
Use for it. That has no bearing on the project's own licence -- a CI tool is
never combined with or distributed alongside the app, unlike the FFmpeg
libraries that make the APK GPL -- but it is a component in the build path
that cannot be audited or forked. Gradle now runs through the committed
wrapper, which verifies its own distribution against distributionSha256Sum,
and caching is a handful of lines of actions/cache.

The rest of the matrix passed on this run: API 33, 34, 35 and 36 all green,
along with the unit tests and the FFmpeg archive check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 18:48:09 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 dd2fcf0a19 Rename the project to LibreMediaConverter
Done now rather than later: the application ID is permanent once published --
Play treats a change as an entirely different app -- so this is the last
cheap moment to choose it.

  applicationId / namespace  dev.jasonmross.mediaconverter -> org.libremediaconverter
  source tree                java/dev/jasonmross/mediaconverter -> java/org/libremediaconverter
  gradle project             AndroidMediaConverter -> LibreMediaConverter
  theme                      Theme.MediaConverter -> Theme.LibreMediaConverter
  compose theme              MediaConverterTheme -> LibreMediaConverterTheme
  display name               "Media Converter" -> "LibreMediaConverter"

org.* rather than dev.jasonmross.* because "Libre" signals a project rather
than a personal app, and a project-owned namespace lets maintainership move
later without the identifier contradicting reality.

The source trees moved with git mv so history follows the files instead of
showing 42 deletions beside 42 additions.

Verified after the rename: 66 unit tests, and 40 instrumented tests on an
API 36 emulator, 0 failures. The built APK reports org.libremediaconverter,
and no stale jasonmross, AndroidMediaConverter or MediaConverterTheme
identifiers remain anywhere in the tree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 18:31:43 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 128763e99c Commit the FFmpeg binary so test runs stop depending on a rebuild
CI rebuilt FFmpeg on every cold cache, which made results ambiguous: a red run
could mean the code was broken or that a forty-minute cross-compile of FFmpeg,
x264, x265 and SVT-AV1 had hiccuped. Those are not the same signal, and only
one of them is worth a developer's attention. The archive is now checked in
under bin/, so a failing run points at code.

It also removes roughly forty minutes from a cold run and lets a fresh clone
build without a container toolchain.

bin/README.md records provenance -- upstream tag, FFmpeg version, NDK, ABIs,
SHA-256 and the full configure line read back out of the shipped libavutil --
so the binary is auditable rather than opaque. The recipe in tools/ffmpeg
remains the authority: this archive is its output, and is also what satisfies
the GPL corresponding-source obligation.

The status check is now seven independent runners: one validating the archive,
one for the JVM tests, and one per API level from 33 to 37. The FFmpeg job
verifies rather than builds. It asserts native libraries are present for both
ABIs and that every one is 16 KB aligned, which is a Play requirement that is
easy to lose in a rebuild and expensive to discover at submission. Checking
for file existence alone would not do: a Git LFS pointer checked out without
LFS passes that and then surfaces as an obscure linker error much later.

It is a separate job rather than a step in each emulator run so a bad archive
reports once, clearly, instead of five confusing emulator failures.

build.yml no longer builds FFmpeg either, and keeps only its post-merge and
release duties.

Two costs, deliberately accepted. The repository goes from about 1 MB to
35 MB, and every future rebuild adds another 35 MB blob to history
permanently, so bin/README.md says to regenerate only when the FFmpeg version
or the configure flags actually change. And F-Droid's scanner flags checked-in
native libraries, so submitting there needs a scandelete entry for bin/ --
noted in bin/README.md, and nothing prevents a from-source build.

Verified against the relocated archive: 66 unit tests, and 40 instrumented
tests on an API 36 emulator, 0 failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 13:18:10 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 54d6e9c57b Add a pull-request status check across API 33-37
Runs the JVM tests and the instrumented suite on every pull request to main,
with one emulator job per supported API level.

The matrix is the whole range rather than a single level because the
foreground-service type differs across it -- none below 34, dataSync at 34,
mediaProcessing from 35 -- so testing one level would leave two thirds of that
branch unexercised. Running the range locally is what caught a test that had
baked in an assumption about the host's encoders.

API 37 needs its image level stated separately. It is published as
android-37.0, not android-37, so a plain integer resolves to nothing and the
image download silently finds no package.

FFmpeg is built once and shared. The AAR is not committed -- 35 MB of native
code, and F-Droid strips checked-in binaries -- but every job needs it, since
the app compiles against it and the instrumented tests exercise it for real.
Building it is a full cross-compile of FFmpeg, x264, x265 and SVT-AV1, so it
is cached on the contents of tools/ffmpeg, which is what actually determines
the output. The job also asserts the AAR carries native libraries for both
ABIs: a truncated or stub archive would otherwise pass a file-exists check and
send the matrix off to fail confusingly five times over.

fail-fast is off. Knowing whether a failure is universal or specific to one
API level is most of the diagnosis.

build.yml no longer runs on pull requests. It triggered on every PR with no
branch filter, so both workflows would have run, and its unit job falls back
to a stub AAR -- a weaker check that could mask a compile break the real one
would catch. It keeps its post-merge and release duties.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 13:08:06 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 a172cb137f Pin the fallback test's device profile so it is not machine-dependent
Running the suite across API 33, 34, 35 and 36 emulators failed the same test
on all four, while it passed on a Pixel 10 Pro XL. The assertion was "the
hardware path should have been attempted", and the routing was correct in both
cases: those emulators expose no hardware H.264 encoder, so the router sent the
job straight to FFmpeg and Media3 was never called.

That is the same mistake made earlier with routesAFastMp4JobToMedia3 -- baking
an assumption about the host's encoders into a test. A result that flips with
the machine says nothing about the code.

This test is about the fallback mechanism rather than about routing, so it now
pins DeviceCodecs.PERMISSIVE through the existing seam and the router's choice
becomes deterministic. Routing itself is covered separately, by tests that
derive their expectation from the device.

Verified on emulators for API 33, 34, 35 and 36: 40 instrumented tests each,
0 failures, 2 skipped, with the only skips being the opt-in benchmark. That
also exercises all three foreground-service regimes for the first time -- no
type below 34, dataSync at 34, mediaProcessing from 35 -- which had previously
only ever run at API 37.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 13:01:42 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 99bd961022 Force the last five failure branches
The previous commit called five branches unforceable. That was wrong on all
five, and the reasoning behind it was lazy rather than investigated.

Three were described as needing a SAF grant revoked mid-job. They do not: a
content URI whose authority does not exist reaches exactly the same null
branch as one whose permission was withdrawn, and constructing one is a single
line. That now covers the conversion input, the join inputs, and the publish
destination.

One was described as unreachable through ConcatWorker.request(). True, but
irrelevant -- a worker is just input Data, and WorkManager will run one built
without the input array. That is also what a version-skewed queue entry would
look like after an app update, so it is worth covering rather than dismissing.

One was described as Media3-internal. An output path whose parent directory
does not exist makes Transformer.start() fail synchronously, and the engine
has to surface that as a rejected suspension. The test asserts specifically
that it is not a timeout: hanging would be far worse than throwing, because
the worker would sit holding a foreground service indefinitely.

The assertions check outcomes rather than exception types. Whether a resolver
returns null or throws is a provider implementation detail; what matters is
that the job fails cleanly and carries a message, instead of taking down the
worker.

Every failure branch in the conversion and join paths is now forced.
40 instrumented tests on a Pixel 10 Pro XL and 66 unit tests, 0 failures, with
the only skips being the opt-in benchmark.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 10:02:36 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 83fb55515b Add a seam for forcing failure paths, and force thirteen of them
Error handling was the least-tested code in the app. It only runs when
something goes wrong, which is exactly what a healthy test run avoids, so the
branches a user meets on a bad day were the ones that had never executed. An
audit put it at 4 of 18 fallback branches actually forced by a test.

There was also no mechanism to do better: ConversionWorker constructed
Media3Engine and FFmpegEngine directly, so no test could make either of them
fail. Media3Engine and FFmpegEngine now implement HardwareTranscoder and
SoftwareTranscoder, and ConversionDependencies holds the factories. Workers
are built by WorkManager and the app deliberately carries no DI framework, so
a small settable holder is the least machinery that does the job.

The foreground-service timeout needed different treatment. Its trigger is the
six-hour-per-day budget expiring, which no test can reach, so the decision
moved out of the worker into FailureOutcome. The rule is now verified on the
JVM across every WorkInfo stop reason, including that only the timeout earns a
retry -- retrying a user cancellation would ignore the user, and retrying a
constraint failure would spin.

Thirteen branches are now forced, including both free-space prechecks, both
engines failing, a missing input, and the router bypassing hardware entirely
for MP3. The dynamic fallback is covered twice over: once by injection, and
once by HardwareFallbackTest driving it with genuinely undecodable 4:4:4
footage. Injection alone would prove the plumbing without proving the
condition ever arises in reality.

Five remain unforced and are listed in ConversionDependencies' documentation.
They need a SAF grant to be revoked mid-job, which is not something a test can
arrange.

Media3EngineTest now asserts against the muxed file rather than the engine's
own ExportResult, which is a stronger check anyway: a result object can report
success for a file that will not play.

35 instrumented tests on a Pixel 10 Pro XL and 66 unit tests, 0 failures.

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2026-08-20 09:54:06 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 356c04d137 Make the 4:4:4 fallback regression run without manual setup
The test covering the runtime fallback read its input from the app's internal
storage, which only ever contained a file because it had been piped in by hand
with run-as. On a fresh checkout it hit assumeTrue and skipped -- silently,
while still counting toward the suite total. A regression test that skips is
worse than no test, because the number reads as coverage.

It now ships its own fixture: three seconds of H.264 High 4:4:4 Predictive,
76 KB. Producing it needed x264, which the host toolchain cannot supply --
Fedora's ffmpeg carries openh264, which is Constrained Baseline only and
cannot even decode 4:4:4 -- so it was generated with ffmpeg-full inside the
existing FFmpeg build container. The command is recorded in the test's own
documentation so the fixture can be regenerated rather than trusted blindly.

Verified by deleting the hand-staged files first and running the suite clean:
the fallback test executes, Media3 fails to decode as expected, and the worker
completes the conversion through FFmpeg. It is no longer among the skips.

The benchmark stays opt-in and is now documented as such. It needs real
long-form media that does not belong in the repository, and its numbers should
not be mistaken for something the suite verifies.

29 instrumented tests on a Pixel 10 Pro XL: 0 failures, 2 skipped, and both
skips are the benchmark by design.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 09:45:48 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 ec6e37ad08 Stop selecting FFmpeg's MediaCodec encoders, and pin the pixel format
Testing on a Pixel 10 Pro XL with real footage found two defects that neither
the emulator nor any unit test could surface.

The sample is H.264 High 4:4:4 Predictive (avc1.F4001F). Media3 cannot decode
it on any device: hardware AVC decoders implement High 4:2:0, and Android's
software c2.google.avc.decoder does not cover 4:4:4 either, so the export dies
with a codec exception. The static routing rules cannot predict this -- the
container is MP4, the codec is "h264", and the device reports AVC decode and
encode -- so it is exactly the case the runtime fallback exists for. Until a
file like this was tried on hardware, that fallback had never actually fired.

Following it through exposed the two bugs behind it.

First, only one video encode path named a pixel format. FFmpeg decodes 4:4:4
to yuv444p and hands those frames to encoders that cannot accept them; naming
yuv420p makes it insert the conversion instead. Every path now does.

Second, and not fixed by that: hevc_mediacodec still failed with "Error
submitting video frame to the encoder". That is the second distinct failure
from FFmpeg's MediaCodec wrappers in one session -- the first being that on a
device with no hardware encoder they silently bind to the platform software
codec and crawl while presenting as the fast path. They are undocumented,
per-device flaky, and duplicate badly something Media3 already does properly.
A job only reaches FFmpeg because Media3 could not handle it, which is itself
evidence hardware encode is unlikely to work for that input.

So FFmpeg now always encodes in software, and Fast means a fast preset rather
than a different encoder: libx264/libx265 at veryfast against medium, both
with CRF. With that, the fallback completes and the file converts.

Measured on the Pixel: AV1 1080p through the hardware path runs at 7.9x
realtime, confirming the figure the two-engine design was based on; software
x264 CRF at 720p runs at 4.4x. Hardware encoders present are av01, avc and
hevc -- AV1 encode included, which is still rare.

29 instrumented tests pass on device, 63 unit tests on the JVM.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 09:39:43 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 64e146ce5d Cover the join path with device tests
The join flow was implemented but had never run end to end: unit tests covered
the planner and the argument shapes, neither of which can tell you what FFmpeg
actually does with real files.

Three fixtures make the strategy decision testable. clip_a and clip_b match in
codec, resolution and frame rate; clip_c deliberately differs in both
resolution and frame rate. Without a genuinely mismatched input there is no way
to prove the re-encode branch is ever taken.

The tests assert which strategy ran, not merely that output appeared. That
distinction is the whole point here: the concat demuxer does not reliably
reject mismatched inputs, so a naive implementation produces a file whose later
segments are garbled while still exiting successfully. Each test also checks
the output is long enough to contain both inputs, since a truncated join is
exactly what a wrong stream copy looks like.

Also covered: the list file is cleaned up, fewer than two inputs is refused,
the probe distinguishes the clips the planner depends on, and the chosen
strategy reaches the UI through WorkManager -- it is what tells the user
whether their files were copied losslessly or re-encoded.

Measured on an API 37 emulator, the two paths differ by roughly thirty times
on the same pair of clips: 0.026s to stream copy against 0.829s to re-encode.
That gap is itself evidence the planner is not quietly re-encoding everything.

25 instrumented tests now pass, up from 17. 65 unit tests unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 09:12:12 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 e5f274183c Match the Join tab to the converter's empty state
Applies the same treatment to the Join tab: label and button centred on both
axes, button filling the width at 56dp tall, and the same asymmetric screen
padding. An empty state that looks different depending on which tab you are
on reads as a bug rather than as variety.

The two shared dimensions move into ui/Dimens.kt rather than being duplicated
per screen, so the tabs cannot drift apart later.

Verified on an API 37 emulator: both tabs now present an identical empty
state. 65 unit and 17 instrumented tests still pass.

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2026-08-20 09:09:33 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 a8fa3aecdf Centre the empty state and widen its primary button
Splits the converter screen into a fixed header and a body region that
behaves differently per state. The empty state centres its label and button
on both axes in whatever space is left; the working states keep scrolling,
since format pickers and progress can exceed the screen and centring content
that overflows would push it out of reach.

The primary button now fills the width and stands 56dp tall rather than the
Material default of 40dp, so it reads as the main affordance instead of a
small control adrift in an otherwise empty screen. Horizontal screen padding
drops to 16dp while vertical stays at 24dp, which is what lets a full-width
button sit close to both edges.

Both dimensions are named constants rather than inline numbers, because the
same treatment is applied to the primary action in every other state.

No theme changes were needed. Dark mode already tracked the device: the
Compose theme reads isSystemInDarkTheme() and the activity theme has a
values-night variant. Verified on an API 37 emulator by toggling
`cmd uimode night` and capturing both -- mean luminance 245/255 in light
against 18/255 in dark, with the button recolouring and status bar icons
inverting correctly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 09:06:09 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 2fcacd199c Use a real software encoder when the device has none in hardware
Running the device suite for the first time surfaced a defect the unit tests
could not: FFmpeg's *_mediacodec wrappers do not fail on a device without a
hardware encoder. They quietly bind to the platform's software codec
(c2.android.hevc.encoder on the test emulator) and encode far slower than
libx264 or libx265 would, while still presenting as the fast path. A three
second 320x240 clip did not finish inside a three minute timeout.

The Fast tier now checks whether a hardware encoder actually exists for the
target codec, and falls back to libx264/libx265 on -preset veryfast when one
does not. That is both quicker and honest about what it is doing, and the
distinction between Fast and Best survives the fallback: veryfast against
medium, rather than both collapsing to the same slow path.

The routing itself was already correct. The capability probe rightly rejects
c2.android.* as software-only, so the job was correctly sent to FFmpeg -- the
test asserting Media3 was encoding an assumption about the machine it ran on.
It now derives its expectation from the device, so it means the same thing on
hardware with a real encoder and on an emulator without one.

Verified on an API 37 emulator: 17 of 17 instrumented tests pass in 4.2s,
against six minutes of timeouts before. 65 unit tests still pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-20 08:21:37 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 438f21783f Make the foreground-service test read the running API level
The three foreground-service-type regimes (none at 33, dataSync at 34,
mediaProcessing at 35+) are the reason ConversionForegroundType exists, so
the test derives its expectation from Build.VERSION rather than pinning one
value. The same test then means something on any device in the supported
range instead of only on the one it was written against.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 22:47:37 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 bb969ece64 Enable R8 and add release, store and F-Droid infrastructure
Turning on R8 immediately surfaced a latent runtime bug: the ffmpeg-kit-next
wrapper references com.arthenica.smartexception.java.Exceptions from
AbstractSession.fail() in eighteen places, but a local .aar carries no
transitive dependencies, so nothing was pulling it in. Debug builds tolerate
this through lazy class loading -- the class is only touched on an error
path -- so it would have shipped as a crash the first time an FFmpeg
conversion failed. Declared explicitly now.

Keep rules cover the JNI boundary. The native library resolves classes and
methods by name, which R8 cannot see, so without them the FFmpeg calls fail
with NoSuchMethodError in release builds only. Workers are kept too, since
WorkManager reconstructs them reflectively from a class name persisted in its
database, and a rename breaks jobs enqueued before the update.

Verified on the produced artifacts rather than assumed: all 22 native
libraries survive minification and every one is still 16 KB aligned inside
the APK. Release is 82 MB against 115 MB for debug; the AAB is 40 MB and Play
splits it per ABI.

The privacy policy lists every permission, including the three WorkManager
adds automatically (WAKE_LOCK, RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE).
Checking the merged manifest showed those, and a policy that omitted them
would look dishonest to anyone who inspected the app. INTERNET is genuinely
absent, so "files stay on the device" is enforced by the OS rather than a
promise.

CI runs unit tests on every push and builds the FFmpeg AAR only for release
tags, since that is a full cross-compile. Releases attach the FFmpeg
corresponding source next to the APK: GPL-3.0 requires it, and FFmpeg's
instruction to host it "on the same webserver" cannot be satisfied by a Play
listing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 22:45:40 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 0c352cdcfb Route conversions between hardware and software engines
Adds the second engine and the rules that choose between them, turning a
video transcoder into a converter.

The router encodes capability boundaries, not preferences. Media3 handles
what it genuinely can and FFmpeg takes the rest:

  MKV, and any container Media3 cannot mux
  MP3, which Android cannot encode at any API level -- a platform gap
    rather than a Media3 limitation
  GIF and PNG frame sequences, which have no Media3 muxer
  VP9 and AV1 targets: Transformer.setVideoMimeType accepts only
    H.263/H.264/H.265/MP4V, so the WebM muxer has no encoder behind it
  inputs with no platform decoder, since Transformer ignores ExoPlayer's
    bundled software decoders and the dav1d extension does not rescue it
  the Best quality tier, because CRF and two-pass come from x264/x265 and
    no Android hardware encoder exposes either

Rule order matters and is deliberate: specific reasons are checked before
general ones because the reason is shown to the user. "Android has no
encoder for this format" is actionable for MP3; "this container needs
FFmpeg" is not. A test caught the original ordering getting this backwards.

Hardware support is vendor-declared and, per the platform's own docs,
"cannot be tested for correctness", so the static rules are backed by a
dynamic fallback: a Media3 export that fails is retried on FFmpeg rather
than surfaced as a failed conversion.

Joining files chooses between a stream copy and a re-encode by inspecting
the inputs. The concat demuxer requires matching codec, resolution and
timebase, and does not reliably fail when they differ -- it can emit a file
whose later segments are garbled. Unknown properties count as a mismatch,
because two nulls are not evidence of agreement.

The UI surfaces the routing decision rather than hiding it, so a slow job
explains itself, and offers a per-job engine override.

Navigation is adaptive: a bottom bar on phones, a side rail on wider
screens. Not cosmetic -- from targetSdk 37 Android ignores screenOrientation
and resizableActivity on displays at least 600dp wide, with no opt-out, so
the app is resized whether or not it is ready.

62 unit tests cover the routing matrix, the FFmpeg argument builder and the
concat planner on the JVM, against fabricated device profiles so branches
like "this device cannot encode HEVC" are reachable without that hardware.
Device-level tests for the FFmpeg formats are written but not yet run; the
emulator in this environment will not stay up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 22:39:19 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 e84ab6a89d Run conversions as durable foreground work
Conversions now go through WorkManager instead of a viewModelScope coroutine,
so a job outlives the ViewModel, survives process death, and keeps running
when the user leaves the app.

The foreground service type needs three branches across the supported range,
which is why ConversionForegroundType exists rather than a constant:

  API 33  no type is required at all
  API 34  a type is mandatory, but mediaProcessing does not exist yet, so
          dataSync is the only sensible fit
  API 35+ mediaProcessing, whose own documentation describes it as
          "converting media to different formats"

The manifest declares both types on WorkManager's SystemForegroundService
via tools:node="merge" -- setForeground runs *that* service, not one of
ours, so declaring the type on an app-owned service would have no effect.
The manifest cannot branch on API level, so the runtime picks which type is
actually passed.

Both types share a budget of six hours per twenty-four across the whole app.
When it runs out WorkManager reports STOP_REASON_FOREGROUND_SERVICE_TIMEOUT,
which the worker translates into Result.retry() rather than a failure: the
work is still valid, there is simply no budget right now. The UI surfaces
that as a distinct Waiting state that explains the pause instead of showing
an error.

Expedited work is deliberately not used. It maps to JobScheduler expedited
jobs with a short quota, which is the wrong shape for a multi-minute
transcode.

POST_NOTIFICATIONS is requested when the user taps Convert, not on first
launch, so the ask arrives with visible justification. The conversion starts
either way -- without the permission the foreground service still runs, but
its progress notification is confined to the Task Manager rather than the
shade. Notification updates are throttled to roughly one per second because
progress updates arrive far faster than the system UI can absorb.

Tests run against the real WorkManager rather than a test double,
specifically so setForeground and the declared service type are exercised on
a device that enforces them. Verified on an API 37 emulator: the service
starts, and logcat shows no type or permission exceptions.

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2026-08-19 21:27:03 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 b082cea889 Add containerized FFmpeg build producing a 16 KB-aligned GPL AAR
There is no usable prebuilt FFmpeg for Android any more. arthenica/ffmpeg-kit
is archived and its binaries were deleted from Maven Central, so every
com.arthenica:ffmpeg-kit-* coordinate 404s and all of its release tags have
zero assets. Maven Central's search index still lists the old versions, which
misleads; the files behind those entries are gone. The successor,
ffmpeg-kit-next, is source-only by design. Building it ourselves is the only
remaining option, not a preference.

ffmpeg-kit-next is Nix-only -- there is no plain android.sh, only
nix-android.sh and a flake -- so the toolchain lives in a container rather
than on the developer's machine. The recipe doubles as the reproducibility
artifact F-Droid expects and as the GPL corresponding-source obligation.

Four problems this path hits, none of them documented upstream:

- The nixos/nix base image already ships bash, coreutils and git; installing
  them collides with the existing profile entries and fails the image build.
- Upstream scripts use #!/bin/bash but the image provides only /bin/sh, so
  start-android.sh dies with "cannot execute: required file not found" after
  the entire toolchain has been built.
- Gradle's AAPT2 comes from Maven as a prebuilt binary linked against FHS
  paths that do not exist under Nix, failing with "Daemon startup failed"
  after the whole native build succeeds. Nixpkgs' Android SDK ships an
  already-patched aapt2, so Gradle is pointed at that.
- A bare '*.aar' find also collects every AAR Gradle unpacked into its own
  caches, so the copy is scoped to the ffmpeg-kit outputs.

The NDK stays at r27d as the flake pins it. Do not "upgrade" to r28+:
android/jni/Android.mk applies -Wl,-z,max-page-size=16384 manually precisely
because r27 predates automatic alignment, and the result is verified 16 KB
compliant as-is.

Verified against the produced artifact: every .so on both ABIs reports LOAD
align 0x4000, libraries are separate rather than a static monolith as the
GPL relinking obligation requires, and the embedded configure line confirms
--enable-gpl --enable-version3 with x264, x265, SVT-AV1, LAME, libass and
the MediaCodec wrappers. Note that --enable-small and --enable-lto
internalize symbols, so absence from strings output proves nothing; check
the configure line instead.

The 35 MB AAR itself is gitignored. F-Droid strips checked-in prebuilt
native libraries, and the recipe is the artifact of record.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 21:19:01 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 e4efa8a74a Add Media3 hardware conversion path with end-to-end tests
First working conversion: SAF input -> hardware transcode -> staged cache
file -> SAF export, driven from a Compose screen.

Media3 Transformer is the engine for this path rather than FFmpeg. It is
Apache-2.0, needs no native build, consumes content:// URIs directly, and
runs MediaCodec decode -> GL surface -> MediaCodec encode without frames
round-tripping through the CPU. FFmpeg remains necessary for the long tail
(MP3, GIF, MKV, exotic containers) but is not the right tool here.

Two hazards are designed against rather than discovered later:

Transformer must be driven from a single thread that has a Looper, and
start()/cancel() throw IllegalStateException from anywhere else. The Looper
it binds to is whichever the Builder saw, silently falling back to the main
one. A WorkManager Worker runs on a Looper-less executor thread, so the
naive arrangement builds against the main Looper and then throws on start.
Media3Engine owns a dedicated HandlerThread, passes its Looper explicitly,
and marshals every call onto it, so callers get a plain suspending function
and cannot reintroduce the bug. Media3EngineTest covers this directly by
driving a conversion from a Looper-less thread.

Output never goes through a SAF file descriptor. MP4 faststart rewrites the
moov atom at the end and needs to seek backwards, which a SAF fd does not
reliably support. OutputPublisher stages to app-private cache, a real POSIX
path, and copies out afterwards. That costs transient double disk usage, so
it checks free space before starting.

Input uses ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT rather than the photo picker: the picker is
images and video only, offers no audio at all, and does not reliably
surface .mkv/.flac/.webm. SAF needs no runtime permission.

Tests run on an API 37 emulator and assert the output codec by reading the
muxed file with MediaExtractor, so a silent fallback to H.264 fails rather
than passing. Progress reporting is deliberately not asserted as non-empty:
a 3 s fixture can finish inside one 250 ms poll tick, which would be an
intermittent failure rather than a real defect.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 21:18:44 -05:00
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5 48f65f0941 Replace scaffold with Compose/Material 3 base and project identity
The generated scaffold was a Views-based Material 2 shell with no activity,
no Kotlin sources, and a placeholder package. Replace it with the real base
the conversion work builds on.

Build configuration, with three AGP 9 specifics that contradict most
tutorials still in circulation:

- AGP 9 has built-in Kotlin. Applying org.jetbrains.kotlin.android now fails
  the build, so the absence of that plugin is deliberate, not an oversight.
- The Compose compiler plugin is still separate and must be applied, pinned
  to 2.2.10 to match the kotlin-gradle-plugin AGP 9.3.1 brings transitively.
  Pinning it to the newest Kotlin release instead would mismatch.
- android.kotlinOptions {} was removed; jvm configuration moves to a
  top-level kotlin { compilerOptions {} }.

Java compatibility goes 11 -> 17 (AGP 9 requires JDK 17), abiFilters
restrict packaging to arm64-v8a and x86_64, and jniLibs packaging is set
uncompressed so the APK zip-aligns native libraries on 16 KB boundaries.

Every dependency version in the catalog was checked to resolve against
Google Maven rather than copied from documentation. Note that KSP has moved
to standalone versioning (2.3.11) and no longer uses the old
<kotlin>-<ksp> scheme; it is catalogued but left unapplied until Room lands.

Set applicationId to dev.jasonmross.mediaconverter. com.example.* is
rejected by the Play Console, and the application ID is permanent once
published, so it has to be right before the first upload. The display name
is just a string resource and stays changeable.

Document the split license posture: source is MIT, but the distributed
binary will be GPL-3.0 because it bundles FFmpeg built with x264/x265.
LICENSES/README.md records why, including that libass is ISC rather than
GPL, so subtitle burn-in is not what forces the GPL choice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 21:18:28 -05:00
JMR-dev 18ae2cff80 initial commit 2026-08-19 17:29:15 -05:00