A channel whose logo is an external URL never rendered a watermark, even
with an ImageSource=ChannelLogo watermark attached. WatermarkSelector
resolved the URL correctly and then existence-checked it on the
filesystem — File.Exists("https://…") is always false — so all three
precedence levels (playout item, channel, global) logged "Channel logo
no longer exists" and returned None. The channel editor advertises the
URL as winning over an uploaded logo, which was true for the guide
listing and silently false for the bug.
External artwork passes through rather than being downloaded into the
image cache: that is already the convention everywhere else (M3U, XMLTV,
SPA JSON all emit the raw URL), no fetch->SaveArtworkToCache glue exists,
and the render path does not need it — ImageElementBase.LoadImage already
fetches an http(s) path with HttpClient and decodes it for real pixel
dimensions.
A remote-URL watermark is therefore forced onto the graphics engine
instead of the ffmpeg-native shortcut, which would otherwise hand the URL
to ffprobe and ffmpeg as a bare -i argument, putting an unbounded network
fetch inside stream startup.
The three gated precedence levels now share one ChannelLogoWatermarkOptions
helper — the triplicated block is what let the defect exist three times
over. Scope held narrow: the generated-initials localhost fallback (#1)
stays disabled behind an explicit comment and a scope-guard test, and the
deco path keeps its own long-standing unchecked policy.
Verified by live-E2E against a real channel playout with an external-URL
logo: origin/main renders 0 logo pixels and logs the "no longer exists"
warning verbatim; this branch renders the logo in the expected region.
Whitespace-only reformatting in FFmpegLibraryProcessService.cs is the
fix-as-you-touch format gate on pre-existing violations, plus a BOM strip.
fixes #502
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).