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`-readrate 1.05` paces input reading at wall clock so a channel behaves like live TV, but it applies from the very first read. With 4s HLS segments and the segmenter waiting for the first one, the playlist could not appear sooner than ~4/1.05 = 3.8s, so every tune-in that did not win a work-ahead slot paid a multi-second wait. Add `-readrate_initial_burst` (FFmpeg >= 6.1) next to `-readrate` on the normal playback path, gated on runtime capability detection via the existing `FFmpegKnownOption`/`HasOption` machinery, whose option list had simply been empty. Measured on real prod media: time-to-first-playlist 5369/5344ms -> 648/649ms. Root cause detail: the cold-start bimodality earlier rounds could not explain was never about the media. `HlsSessionWorker` grants an unthrottled start only while `_workAheadCount < work_ahead_limit` (prod: 1), so concurrent tune-ins fall back to the throttled path. Confirmed on prod with three concurrent tunes: firstGop 866ms for the slot winner vs 3845ms and 6357ms. This also falsifies the issue's ranked #1 driver — accurate-seek decode-discard measures 30-100ms on real media, and probe caps 20-50ms; neither can account for seconds. Still images are excluded: their video input is paced by the realtime filter and takes no readrate, so a burst would only run a song's separate audio input ahead of the video. Concat/WrapSegmenter keep the unburst single-arg constructor. fixes #350
docs/ — reading order
Purpose: index of docs/ so a fresh contributor/agent knows what to read and in what order.
Update this doc in the same PR that adds, removes, or retitles a doc below.
Read in this order at session start:
CLAUDE.md(repo root) — project intro: architecture, layout, dev commands, conventions.docs/contributing.md— established code patterns (CQRS/MediatR, LanguageExt, the ChicoryTV SPA, EF Core dual-provider migrations, FFmpeg pipeline, analyzers, testing). Read before any non-trivial change.docs/domain-model.md— what the app IS: entity glossary, channel→playout→schedule/block concept map, where each concept is edited in the SPA.docs/api-conventions.md— checklist for adding/changing a/api/*endpoint (controllers, DTOs, error mapping, auth, OpenAPI regen, tests).docs/spa-conventions.md— playbook for adding a screen to the ChicoryTV React SPA.docs/e2e-local.md(+scripts/e2e-local.sh) — how to run a live local instance for manual or Playwright-MCP verification.docs/testing.md— testing map: what each*.Testsproject /websuite covers, golden-file nets, the timezone-independence rule, how to run subsets, the per-PR verification gate.docs/blazor-route-parity.md— historical record of the completed #91 phase (b) cutover: the Blazor Server UI is removed and every legacy route now 302-redirects to its SPA equivalent (or falls through to the catch-all →/app). Read it for the full legacy→SPA route inventory.docs/decisions.md— append-only "why" log. Check here before challenging an existing convention. Start from its Index, which links the four topic files underdocs/decisions/(large same-topic clusters) and lists the remaining in-file entries.docs/ci-cd.md— build/test/release pipeline, versioning, dependency management.
Also present in docs/:
docs/rest-api.md— REST API design doc for ersatztv#2 (goals, conventions, per-slice plan). Largely superseded day-to-day bydocs/api-conventions.md; read this for the original rationale.docs/channels.md— Channel entity field reference.docs/m3u-xmltv.md— M3U/XMLTV generation overview (ChannelPlaylist,GetChannelGuideHandler).docs/fork-strategy.md— divergence policy vs upstream ErsatzTV.docs/design-sync.md— Claude Design ↔ repo screen workflow (#92).docs/endpoint-index.md— generated REST endpoint index (method/path/operationId/summary per OpenAPI tag). Do not edit by hand; regenerated byscripts/generate-endpoint-index.py/scripts/update-openapi.sh.docs/handoffs/chicorytv-issue-queue.md— static session kickoff prompt + workflow lore. Queue state (goal, arc, what's in flight/next) lives in the pinned Gitea tracker ersatztv#237 — read that, not this file, for current state (protocol: decisions.md 2026-07-11).docs/handoffs/rest-api.md— original handoff prompt for kicking off the REST API work (#2).