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feat(web): richer stats for nerds with a recent player event log - #214

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Web parity with smarttv #116 for the player's Stats for nerds overlay.

Added rows

  • Player: stream path (query stripped, so no st=/token in screenshots), planner decision reason, quality preference, short session id
  • Video Info: buffer health (seconds ahead of the playhead), hls.js bandwidth estimate
  • Playback Stream Info: delivered resolution @ fps + dynamic range, target bitrate, channel layout, transformations, applied quirks, runtime corrections, degradation warnings
  • Current Source File: the audio track actually selected (language · codec · layout · title), not the source default

Recent events: PlaybackEventLog (ring buffer, 8 entries, burst-collapsing) records media events (metadata, playing, buffering, stalled, seek, ended, errors with MediaError names), hls errors (fatal and non-fatal), level switches and plan changes from mount, so opening the overlay after a failure shows the lead-up.

Also adds two Prairie-invariant anchors for the overlay/event log.

Tests: playback-events.test.ts (new) and additions to playback-info.test.ts.

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  • New Features
    • Added a playback diagnostics overlay with recent playback events, including delivery decisions, media activity, errors, and quality changes.
    • Expanded playback details to show stream, session, quality, audio track, recipe, buffer health, and available bandwidth information. Recent events are shown newest first, with a “None yet” state when there are no entries.

Brings the web overlay to parity with the smart TV clients: the planner's
decision reason, applied quirks, corrections and degradation warnings,
the delivered resolution/frame rate/target bitrate/channel layout, the
transformations applied, the quality preference, the session id, the
stream path (query stripped so signed grants never land in a
screenshot), buffer health and the hls.js bandwidth estimate. The audio
row now reflects the track the viewer picked instead of the source's
default.

A PlaybackEventLog records the last eight media/hls events (buffering,
stalls, seeks, level switches, errors, plan changes) for the whole
session, so opening the overlay after a failure still shows the lead-up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The player now records playback and HLS diagnostics in a bounded event log. The stats overlay displays recent events and expanded playback information, including buffer, bandwidth, stream, recipe, planner, and audio-track details.

Changes

Playback diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Playback event log and descriptions
web/src/player/playback-events.ts, web/src/player/playback-events.test.ts
Adds a bounded playback event log, timestamp formatting, and descriptions for selected media events. Tests cover retention, repeated messages, clearing, and event descriptions.
Playback information sections
web/src/player/playback-info.ts, web/src/player/playback-info.test.ts
Adds runtime buffer and bandwidth values, audio-track and quality inputs, and formatted stream, recipe, planner, and audio details. Tests check displayed values and formatting helpers.
Player instrumentation and overlay display
web/src/player/components/VideoPlayer.tsx, web/src/player/components/PlaybackInfoOverlay.tsx, scripts/prairie-invariants.txt
VideoPlayer records plan, media, and HLS events and passes diagnostics to the overlay. The overlay polls runtime stats and displays recent events. Prairie invariants check for the event log construction and overlay section.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HTMLVideoElement
  participant VideoPlayer
  participant HlsInstance
  participant PlaybackEventLog
  participant PlaybackInfoOverlay
  HTMLVideoElement->>VideoPlayer: Emit selected media events
  HlsInstance->>VideoPlayer: Emit error and level-switch events
  VideoPlayer->>PlaybackEventLog: Add plan and playback event messages
  VideoPlayer->>PlaybackInfoOverlay: Pass event log and runtime inputs
  PlaybackInfoOverlay->>PlaybackEventLog: Read event snapshot during polling
  PlaybackInfoOverlay->>PlaybackInfoOverlay: Render recent events and playback details
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Suggested reviewers: quick104

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ee279

The diagnostics overlay gains richer playback details, but repeated events can change timestamps in previously captured history. This is a bounded diagnostics defect suitable for a small fix or explicitly accepted follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ee279

The added diagnostics remain local to the player, exclude signed URL query values, and render content as text. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns browser-generated error text and historical entries retained during session replacement.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is playback metadata and recent activity within the current browser player, including content visible in screenshots. The inspected diagnostics path adds no credential authority, server mutation, or cross-service propagation.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The new media-error formatter includes browser-provided MediaError.message without local redaction. HLS history instead selects type and details, omitting explicit URL fields. No inspected example establishes a credential leak through these messages; browser-dependent contents remain a coverage gap.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The client derives streamUrl from the server plan and appends an access-token query parameter before passing it through WatchPage and VideoPlayer. Diagnostics project that URL to pathname only. This resolves the client propagation portion of the supplied URL proof gap, but does not establish the sensitivity of every backend-generated pathname.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — History intentionally survives plan changes and can also survive successful session replacement: the parent renders an unkeyed VideoPlayer, replacement adopts new state without first removing the player, and the log is initialized once per mount. Entries carry timestamp and message rather than session identity. This can mix diagnostic history, but no cross-user disclosure or security-control dependency was established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — For a stronger screenshot-privacy guarantee, use stable media-error categories or redact credential-bearing URLs in free-form diagnostic messages, and bound message length independently of entry count. This is preventive hardening, not a verified leak.
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- Line 29: Update the duplicate-event branch in the playback event addition
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// A stalling stream fires the same event repeatedly; one line per burst
// keeps the older, more telling entries on screen.
if (last && last.message === trimmed && at - last.at < 1000) {
this.entries[this.entries.length - 1] = { at, message: trimmed };

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve existing snapshots when collapsing duplicate events.

snapshot() returns this.entries. This assignment therefore changes snapshots that consumers already hold. For example, capture a snapshot after add("buffering", 1000), then call add("buffering", 1500). The captured timestamp changes from 1000 to 1500, contrary to the snapshot contract.

Replace the array in this branch, as the normal addition branch does. Add a snapshot test for duplicate events.

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-      this.entries[this.entries.length - 1] = { at, message: trimmed };
+      this.entries = [...this.entries.slice(0, -1), { at, message: trimmed }];
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this.entries[this.entries.length - 1] = { at, message: trimmed };
this.entries = [...this.entries.slice(0, -1), { at, message: trimmed }];
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Review comment at @web/src/player/playback-events.ts at line 29:
Update the duplicate-event branch in the playback event addition method to
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after adding an event, adds a duplicate, and verifies the captured timestamp
remains unchanged.

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