fix(tv): show one buffering indicator, even when the controls are hidden + reconnect verbiage change - #222
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PlayerView's built-in centered spinner was still enabled alongside the top-right "Buffering" capsule that had been added to replace it, so any rebuffer drew both at once: a teal spinner mid-screen plus the capsule. The capsule landed in 2454-2546 with a comment saying it replaced the full-screen spinner, but setShowBuffering was never turned off. Behavior change: during playback buffering the centered ExoPlayer spinner no longer appears; the "Buffering" capsule is the sole indicator. The centered white Compose spinner is untouched and stays reserved for the lifecycle Reconnecting state, which the player cannot observe.
The "Buffering" capsule and the sleep-timer chip lived inside TvPlayerIdleOverlay, which is only composed while state.showControls is true. With the controls auto-hidden, D-pad Left/Right does a discrete seek (dpadHorizontalSeek gates on !showControls) without revealing the transport, so the rebuffer that seek triggers had no indicator at all once PlayerView's spinner was off. Moved both chips up into TvPlayerOverlays, which renders regardless of controls visibility, using the same precedent as the intro auto-skip banner and the transient skip-seek indicator. Rewrote the block's .align(TopEnd) as a fillMaxSize Box with contentAlignment, since TvPlayerOverlays' body is not a BoxScope. Both chips moved together; they share one Column at the same TopEnd offset, so splitting them would overlap. Behavior change: buffering and the sleep countdown now appear during hidden-controls seeks and hold-to-seek sessions, not just when the transport is up. Gated off in PiP, while the HUD is open, and while Up Next is showing, all of which provide their own feedback. When the controls are visible the result is unchanged. No collision with the Watch Together room indicator (also TopEnd, but still controls-gated) or the hold-seek chip (TopCenter).
A comment on the outage spinner claimed it only showed when the idle overlay wasn't already showing the Buffering chip, but shouldShowReconnectSpinner never checked that, and a player stalled by a server outage reports STATE_BUFFERING like any other stall. Reconnecting therefore drew the centered white spinner and the capsule at once. That already needed controls-visible to happen; moving the capsule out of the idle overlay widened it to every Reconnecting stall. Behavior change: the Buffering capsule is suppressed while the centered reconnect spinner is up. During a server outage the screen shows the centered spinner plus the "Reconnecting" notice toast, which say strictly more than "Buffering" does. Ordinary rebuffers are unaffected. The sleep countdown chip is not gated on this; it is unrelated to either signal. Also corrects the outage-spinner comment, which still described the capsule as living inside the idle overlay's statusColumn.
beginOutageRecovery fires on isGatewayOrTunnelFailureStatus (502, 503, 504, 520-527, 530) and on NetworkError, so the cause can be a crashed server, a restarting one, a dead tunnel or reverse proxy, or the client's own network dropping. The notice asserted one specific cause, "The server is updating", which is usually wrong and reads as a false explanation to anyone debugging their own setup. Its paired timeout message was already cause-agnostic, so this was the odd one out. Behavior change: the reconnect pill now reads "Reconnecting. Playback will resume automatically." No claim about why, and no promise about server readiness that the client cannot verify. Same wording on phone and TV, since both consume this constant from the shared lifecycle. Note this now differs from the Apple clients' copy, which lives outside this repo.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe TV player now routes buffering and sleep-timer indicators through ChangesPlayback UI and reconnection
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The capsule replaced PlayerView's spinner (SHOW_BUFFERING_NEVER), but it was gated on !hudOpen && !showNextUp, so those two surfaces had no buffering feedback at all. Neither owns a loading state: a HUD quality or version pick restarts the whole session with the HUD still open (closeOnSelect closes only the picker), and Up Next plays video behind the mini-player frame until the credits end. Keep the capsule up on both, dropping it below the HUD card so they don't overlap, and let the ambient sleep-timer chip keep yielding the corner. Gate the block on videoActive as well: it moved out of the streamUrl branch into TvPlayerOverlays, and fail() sets error without clearing isBuffering, so a spinning capsule could land on the error screen. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed 430cd1b addressing the review findings on the TV half of this change. The reconnect-message reword was already clean. The capsule now stays up wherever video is playing. Turning off
The capsule survives both now. To avoid colliding with the HUD's top-center card (≤680dp wide, ≤360dp tall at top 56dp — its right edge runs under the chip's 80dp end inset at typical TV widths), it drops to a 440dp top inset while the HUD is open, and takes The chip block is now gated on Also corrected the two comments that asserted the HUD and Up Next own their own loading feedback. Verified: |
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3384-3475: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winMove the status chips away from
TvRoomIndicator.When
roomActive,snapshotis non-null,showControlsis true, andhudOpenis false,TvRoomIndicatoroccupies the top-end area from Line 3373. The chip container starts at 64.dp, ends at 80.dp, and useszIndex(5f)at Line 3422. These regions overlap, so the buffering or sleep-timer chip can draw over the member count or join code. Place the chips below the room indicator or compose both elements in one measured top-end column.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 1751-1754: Update the videoActive calculation in TvPlayerScreen to
require mediaController and sessionPlayer availability in addition to the
existing streamUrl, loading, and error checks, matching the conditions that
mount and bind PlayerView. If sessionPlayer is referenced in a LaunchedEffect
for this flow, include it in that effect’s key set.
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- Around line 3384-3475: Adjust the status-chip placement relative to
TvRoomIndicator so buffering and sleep-timer chips do not overlap the room
indicator when it is visible. Place the chips below the indicator or compose
both in a shared measured top-end column, while preserving the existing
visibility conditions and chip styling.
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| // The video branch of the player's `when` below — the only state in which | ||
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| val videoActive = state.streamUrl != null && !state.isLoading && state.error == null | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Gate videoActive on the mounted player.
videoActive becomes true when state.streamUrl is non-null. The video branch mounts PlayerView only when mediaController is available at Line 1867, and PlayerView binds to sessionPlayer at Line 1908. TvPlayerOverlays still runs when those values are unavailable. A stale state.isBuffering value or active sleep timer can then draw over a blank surface. Include both availability checks in videoActive. Add sessionPlayer to the LaunchedEffect keys if you add that check.
Proposed fix
- val videoActive = state.streamUrl != null && !state.isLoading && state.error == null
+ val videoActive = mediaController != null &&
+ sessionPlayer != null &&
+ state.streamUrl != null &&
+ !state.isLoading &&
+ state.error == null
LaunchedEffect(
context,
mediaController,
+ sessionPlayer,
state.streamUrl,Also applies to: 1772-1772
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In
`@androidTvApp/src/androidMain/kotlin/org/siloserver/silo/tv/ui/screens/player/TvPlayerScreen.kt`
around lines 1751 - 1754, Update the videoActive calculation in TvPlayerScreen
to require mediaController and sessionPlayer availability in addition to the
existing streamUrl, loading, and error checks, matching the conditions that
mount and bind PlayerView. If sessionPlayer is referenced in a LaunchedEffect
for this flow, include it in that effect’s key set.
Resolves the TvPlayerIdleOverlay signature conflict with Silo-Server#224's timeline markers: keep main's creditsRange/recapRange/previewRange, and keep this branch's removal of isBuffering/sleepTimerState from the idle overlay (both moved to TvPlayerOverlays so the capsule survives hidden controls). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The wording of the reconnect banner
It used to read
Reconnecting. The server is updating. Playback will resume when it is ready.That names onespecific cause, and the code path it comes from fires on 502/503/504 and
520-527/530 gateway errors and on plain network errors, so the real cause is
just as likely to be a crashed or restarting server, a dead tunnel or reverse
proxy, or the viewer's own network dropping. Telling someone their server is
updating when it actually fell over sends them looking in the wrong place. It
now reads
Reconnecting. Playback will resume automatically.No guess at thecause, and no promise about server readiness the client cannot actually check.
The matching timeout message was already worded this way, so this brings the
pair in line.
Fix double loading spinners in the TV player
Playing a video on Android TV could put two loading indicators on screen at
the same time: a teal ring in the middle of the picture and a "Buffering"
pill in the top right corner. This branch gets it down to one indicator per
situation, and fixes a few things that fell out of doing that.
Confirmation
The "Buffering" pill was added a while back specifically to replace the big
centered spinner, but the line that turns the centered spinner off was never
written. ExoPlayer's
PlayerViewdraws its own buffering spinner when you askit to, and we were still asking. So both drew at once. The code comments next
to the pill even claimed it had replaced the centered spinner, which made the
leftover easy to miss on review.
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