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| author | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-10-10 15:26:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Christophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com> | 2026-10-10 15:26:45 +0200 |
| commit | 1521cc1ac0cca7ee8786056f84fa399d5cc268f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 00cc3132ee05894350db12e8e5cb94f81b1d4876 /docs | |
| parent | 1fd7bbcd038cddf40540bae7083b9adf4c728912 (diff) | |
| download | meshbay-1521cc1ac0cca7ee8786056f84fa399d5cc268f9.tar.gz | |
feat(photos): show a phone's clips in their albums
Videos in a photo folder are thumbnailed by the node, counted and marked in
the album, and played in the group's video player from the lightbox; the
slideshow passes them by.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/USERGUIDE.md | 8 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md index 5ba1980..4c376ea 100644 --- a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md +++ b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md @@ -3136,6 +3136,16 @@ An album browser over the image files in the group's configured folders. It is An **album is a directory**, exactly as a season is a folder in Videos. Thumbnails are node-side, orientation-corrected, and delivered through the same chunk path. +**A video in a photo folder belongs to its album**: a phone's clips, backed up +beside its photos (§9.12), are where they were on the phone. The node probes +and thumbnails them with the video enricher (duration and a frame, nothing +looked up anywhere: matching is the Videos app's, asked by its own pages). +The album card counts photos and videos apart, a clip's tile carries a play +mark and its length, and the lightbox shows its thumbnail with a play button +that hands it to the group's video player, so a clip of a gigabyte is streamed +like a film and never downloaded whole into the lightbox. A slideshow is of +photos: it passes a clip by. The television follows photos only. + **EXIF is read locally on the node** and narrowed on purpose: a capture time and a camera, and **never GPS**, anywhere, in any field a client receives. The claim this supports is precise, and the one it must not make matters more: @@ -3423,7 +3433,7 @@ most of it. A file is never whole in the page: the upload reads it a chunk at a time and each chunk is a ranged request to the phone (`Range: bytes=a-b`, answered 206 by `ByteRange.kt`), so a video of gigabytes costs the WebView one chunk of memory; the SHA-256 the ledger keeps is then read from the phone once -the node has the file. The Photos tab does not show videos yet; Files does. +the node has the file. The Photos tab shows them in their albums (§9.9). **Location.** The manifest does not ask for `ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION`, so a photo or video read through MediaStore has its location **redacted by the diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index dac1f9f..7434be2 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -372,6 +372,10 @@ is a folder**. Thumbnails come from the node, already rotated correctly. A photo opens full size, with a slideshow button that moves on every five seconds and stops at the album's last photo. +Videos in an album's folder, such as a phone's clips, show among its photos +with a play mark and their length; open one and press play to watch it. A +slideshow skips them. + A photo you uploaded can be deleted: right-click it, or use the bin in the bar above an open photo (the way in on a phone). The node's operator can delete any photo. Both ask first. @@ -410,8 +414,8 @@ backup at all. camera is ticked; screenshots and other albums are yours to add. - **Videos too** adds the videos of the same albums, beside the photos. It is off by default: videos are large, and the first backup can take a while. - They are sent on Wi-Fi like photos. For now they show in Files, not in the - Photos tab. + They are sent on Wi-Fi like photos, and show in their albums in the Photos + tab. - By default **the photos already on the phone are sent too**, newest first, then each new one. Choose "Only photos taken from now on" to skip the ones already there. Before the first send you are told how many photos and how |