fix(playback): ignore unchanged output route replans

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What I changed

I added a compatibility guard for legacy output_route_changed replans. When every planning input is unchanged and the request differs only in the opaque output-context ID and Spatializer state, the server returns 409 output_route_unchanged and keeps the mounted plan and attempted-route history intact.

A real sink, HDR capability, passthrough codec, channel limit, delivery capability, quality, track, bandwidth, or other planning change still follows the normal replan path.

Why

I traced a live Android session that repeatedly cycled through direct play, remux, and transcode. Media3 remounts triggered Spatializer callbacks, the installed client advanced its output-route generation, and the server treated each generation as a new route. That cleared the failed-plan history and reopened routes that had already failed. FFmpeg transports were healthy and were being replaced by later replans rather than crashing.

The client-side fix removes the false route change at its source. This server guard protects already-installed clients and keeps the protocol safe when an opaque route token changes without any recipe-relevant capability change.

Validation

Passed against current upstream main:

go test ./internal/api/handlers -run 'Test(HandleReplanPlaybackV3RejectsUnchangedOutputRoute|SameLegacyOutputRouteReplanV3RequiresEveryOtherInputToMatch)' -count=1
ok github.com/Silo-Server/silo-server/internal/api/handlers 0.980s

The production fork also passed its complete Go, Web, and docs GitHub Actions gates before deployment.

Scope and risk

The equality check is intentionally strict: any material planning difference disables the guard. No schema, migration, configuration, Jellyfin compatibility, or media transport behavior changes are included.

Source implementation and production validation: blurbery/silo-server#50.

Related issue: N/A — narrow fix reproduced on a live deployment.

AI Disclosure

• Tool(s): OpenAI Codex desktop
• Model(s): gpt-5.6-sol
• Involvement: AI-assisted; I reproduced the fault, chose the compatibility boundary, reviewed the final diff, and validated the deployed behavior
• Adversarial review: Compared every mutable planning field to ensure the guard cannot swallow a real output, capability, quality, track, bandwidth, or delivery change. Focused tests cover accepted opaque-token/Spatializer drift and rejection when any material input differs.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented unnecessary playback transport remounts when an output-route replan changes only route metadata or runtime state.
  • Such requests now return a clear 409 output_route_unchanged response while keeping the active playback plan mounted.
  • Replanning still proceeds when meaningful playback inputs—such as capabilities, bandwidth, or track selections—have changed.

• Documentation

  • Documented the new response status for the playback replan endpoint.

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• internal/api/handlers/playback_v3.go
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Walkthrough

The playback v3 handler now suppresses replans when an output-route request changes only ignored route metadata or Spatializer state. It compares normalized planning inputs, returns 409 output_route_unchanged, and adds regression tests and protocol documentation.

Changes

Playback output-route replan handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Output-route equivalence guard internal/api/handlers/playback_v3.go	The handler compares normalized replan inputs while ignoring OutputContextID and SpatializerEnabled. It returns 409 output_route_unchanged before lease acquisition or plan execution when the route is unchanged.
Route-replan validation and protocol contract internal/api/handlers/playback_v3_test.go, docs/architecture/playback-protocol-v3.md	Tests cover ignored route metadata and Spatializer changes, while capability and bandwidth changes remain significant. The protocol documents the new status response.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ea4e3

Some legacy playback callbacks can still be treated as route changes when they omit unchanged track selections, causing unnecessary remounts and potentially repeating the replanning loop this PR is intended to prevent. Merge should wait for the comparison to ignore omitted unchanged tracks or for the bounded behavior to be explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant HandleReplanPlaybackV3
  participant sameLegacyOutputRouteReplanV3
  participant executeReplanV3
  Client->>HandleReplanPlaybackV3: output_route_changed replan request
  HandleReplanPlaybackV3->>sameLegacyOutputRouteReplanV3: compare durable normalized request
  sameLegacyOutputRouteReplanV3-->>HandleReplanPlaybackV3: route unchanged
  HandleReplanPlaybackV3-->>Client: 409 output_route_unchanged
  HandleReplanPlaybackV3->>executeReplanV3: execute when planning inputs differ

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: ignoring replans when the output route is unchanged.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/api/handlers/playback_v3.go`:
- Around line 3427-3431: Update the track-change comparison in the handler
around sameSelectedTracksV3 so omitted audio or subtitle selections from a
failure replan are treated as unchanged. Compare only explicitly supplied track
identities in next.SelectedTracks against record.CurrentPlan.SelectedTracks,
preserving the existing remount decision for genuinely changed selections.

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Companion client fix: Silo-Server/silo-android#250. The separate verified Android E-AC-3 Direct Stream fallback is #790. This PR handles false output-route invalidation; #790 handles a genuine decoder failure after route identity is stable.