Changeset e67828e in Klonkt for CHANGELOG.md

Timestamp:

07/01/2026 10:38:02 PM (2 months ago)

Author:

roboburr <roboburr@…>

Branches:

main

Children:

0877771

Parents:

5e52448

Message:

fix(media): poster frames for remote videos (News feed + Circle tiles)

A remote video (Loops/PeerTube/Mastodon attachment) rendered as a black box until
played: the image proxy refused non-image content, so the tile/feed poster 302'd to
the raw mp4 and never displayed. The proxy now extracts a poster frame from remote
video too — via a bounded range fetch (first 4MB, enough for a faststart mp4's first
frame; moov-at-end files fall back to the old 302). The News feed's <video> gets a
poster so long videos show a frame instead of black. (>30s keeping controls instead
of autoplaying is by design — that was the reported "didn't load like the others".)

• src/services/ThumbnailService.js — getRemoteThumbnail accepts video/* via a 4MB ranged fetch + single-frame extract; animated-buf guard scoped to images.
• src/views/pages/news.ejs — feed videos carry poster=thumb(url, 1280).
• CHANGELOG(.nl/.de).md — under Fixed.

Closes prutfolio-src-k1q.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@…>

File:

• CHANGELOG.md (modified) (1 diff)

CHANGELOG.md

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 ### Fixed
+- **Remote videos show a preview frame.** A video in the News feed or a Circle tile (e.g. from
+  Loops or PeerTube) used to appear as a black box until you pressed play; it now shows a real
+  poster frame. (Longer videos keep their player controls by design — only clips under 30 seconds
+  autoplay like a GIF.)
 - **Mentions, hashtags and links inside brackets now work.** A mention like `(@user@server)`, a
   `(#hashtag)` or a bracketed URL federated as plain text — and the mentioned person was never