fix(media): cache the transcode a seek abandons

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Summary

Closes #185. A client that seeks inside a live transcode on a track's first play never got that transcode cached, so every later play was a live transcode again, seeked through offset_ms again, abandoned again.

The loop came from two behaviours that are each right on their own:

• A consumer that leaves kills its encoder and deletes the partial cache file, so an abandoned play holds no process and no slot.
• A stream from offset_ms is never cached, because it is not the whole track.

A seek into a live transcode is the act that abandons the offset-0 stream. The only stream allowed to fill the cache was therefore the one the seek killed.

The fix

This is the issue's second direction: a seek also transcodes the whole track into the cache behind it. It runs at the lowest priority there is.

• Live stream first. The fill starts only after the live stream has its slots.
• Never the last slot. It takes a global slot only when another stays free. That is done atomically, by acquiring two permits and returning one, so no gap exists for a second fill to take the last. It can never turn a live request into a 429.
• Outside the account's own limit. The seek itself is holding that one.
• No room, no fill. A later seek asks again. There is one fill per cache key at a time.
• Outside the cache lock, deliberately. The play a seek abandons still holds that lock for the moment it takes to notice its consumer left, and the seek lands exactly there. Waiting for the lock or giving up on it would both miss the case. A second writer of one key costs one encode and nothing more: each writes its own staging file, and a fill that finds the cache already committed discards its own.

The FFmpeg arguments now live in one builder, shared by the live stream and the fill, and the staging name lives in one helper. The API guide says what a seek leaves behind, and that a server with a single transcode slot never has one to spare.

Direction 1, and why not

Keeping the abandoned stream alive when a seek follows would need a waiting window before every kill, which delays freeing the slot of a genuine skip. It would also race against the order in which the close and the new request reach the server. The fill needs neither.

Verification

• cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -D warnings, cargo test --all-features
• Tests drive MediaService directly, with no login, on a three-minute track, long enough that an abandoned play is still encoding when it is dropped:
  • the issue's sequence: a play dropped at its first chunk, checked to have left no cache, then a seek; the next play answers a seeking byte range from the cache;
  • headroom: on two slots, with the seek holding one, no fill starts;
  • per-account limit: with a limit of one, the fill still runs;
  • cache lock (module test): the test holds the lock the way a dying play does, and the fill still commits.
• Proven by inversion, one at a time, each restored and checked:
  • no fill call → the issue's sequence and the per-account test fail
  • taking the last slot → the headroom test fails
  • giving up on a held cache lock → the module test fails
• The existing cancellation test (abandoned FFmpeg was not cancelled) still passes. Its server has two slots, so its seek starts no fill.

Not covered

• The deduplication of fills per key. A burst of seeks on one track is not exercised.
• The adjacent note in the issue: transcoding_available is always true, by design, since startup aborts without FFmpeg. Nothing is changed there.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Nouvelles fonctionnalités

  • Le transcodage à la demande peut désormais préremplir le cache en arrière-plan après une recherche dans un flux en direct.
  • Le préremplissage est lancé uniquement lorsqu’une capacité de transcodage est disponible et respecte les limites du compte.
  • Les opérations sont dédupliquées et préservent une capacité pour les requêtes actives.
  • En cas de saturation, le préremplissage est ignoré et peut être retenté lors d’une recherche ultérieure.

• Documentation

  • Le guide de l’API décrit le comportement du transcodage et du préremplissage du cache lors des recherches.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Le service média remplit désormais le cache en arrière-plan après une recherche dans un transcodage live. Le remplissage est dédupliqué, limité par la capacité globale, écrit atomiquement et validé par des tests dédiés. Le guide API documente ce comportement.

Changes

Remplissage du cache après recherche

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Déclenchement et commande FFmpeg src/media.rs, docs/api-v2-guide.md	Après une requête avec offset_ms, le flux est renvoyé immédiatement. Le service peut lancer un transcodage complet en arrière-plan. La commande FFmpeg est mutualisée. Le guide décrit les limites applicables.
Exécution et écriture atomique src/media.rs	Les remplissages sont dédupliqués par clé. Ils réservent une capacité globale supplémentaire, utilisent un fichier temporaire, puis effectuent un renommage atomique. Le suivi des remplissages est libéré automatiquement.
Tests des recherches et des limites src/media.rs, tests/media.rs	Les tests couvrent l’abandon après recherche, l’attente d’une capacité disponible, l’utilisation d’une capacité au-delà de la limite par compte et l’expiration d’un remplissage.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant MediaService
  participant FFmpeg
  participant Cache
  Client->>MediaService: Requête de lecture avec offset_ms
  MediaService->>Client: Retour du flux transcodé
  MediaService->>FFmpeg: Démarrage du remplissage complet si une capacité est disponible
  FFmpeg->>Cache: Écriture du fichier temporaire
  MediaService->>Cache: Renommage atomique vers le cache final

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Media tests can fail on environments without compatible FFmpeg and FFprobe installations. Use repository-controlled fixtures and test executables before relying on these tests as a portable release check.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Description check	✅ Passed	La description présente un résumé clair, les changements substantiels, la stratégie de vérification, les tests exécutés et les éléments non couverts. Elle n’utilise pas exactement les rubriques « Chan…
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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Pour l’issue #185, le flux offset_ms lance un remplissage complet après l’obtention des créneaux du flux actif. Le remplissage réserve un créneau global tout en laissant un créneau libre. Il n’utili…
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